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1. Intro: Ladies and gentlemen,
welcome back to another course with
yours truly key Orion, the man who is
obsessed with making great music in teaching
you how to make your own. Today's course, I'm teaching
you how to make this beat. That sounds fun to you and you want to learn how to
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2. Building Out The Drums: I wanted to, I wanted to
make this be on a remake, this beat, this was super cool. First we want to find the BPM. So I'm gonna come in here,
I'm going to warp it and let's see what
we're working with. Let's go way up like that, Bob. So I'm just going to
steal these drums because that's what we do. Teach them how to
steal around here. So typical fashion. Let's see what
we're working with. It's cool. We'll just
kind of a bumpy kick. Going to come in, grab a
kick, Something dumpy. That works for me. All right. Let's get in kind of a cool little kick all
that they have there. I'm not sure I'm gonna do that. Same thing though. I do like this. Is this just a red beet? I liked that a lot.
Okay. Excuse me. It's actually going to come
in here and now let's see. It's, I think it's
just straight hi-hats. What kind of snare? The reason I was trying to listen to what they're using and get something maybe similar. It's the OG clap
medicine has on it. Those are like the
little drops down on it. Blue ones who got a lot of different
hi-hats going on by the first one is
we're just going to get Do I have a blip?
Do I have any blips? Yeah, we do have some blips, so I'm going to add
this as a blip, blip. And we'll come back to that. And then we're going to
just get a straight up. It sounds like a
E28 high haggling. 16th notes. Then have
someone with a progression. Let's do where are the hi-hat? Sounds about right? It sounds about right.
Let's get these going. Bring this down a little
bit more dynamic. It might roll off some of the high-end
on those in the EQ, but we'll get to
that in a minute. Let's listen to
the other hi-hats. They've gone on to have an open hi-hat over here, so I'm going to steal that. Let's come in here,
grab that open hat. Some sort of little, little, I don't know. It's like a little chip sound. It's like, you know
what, That could work. Maybe just one of those. I don't know. Let's try it. That's what this is about
is just try and stuff. My work that might be more work. Let's do another open that. Because I like Open
House for real. So let's bring that down and go. Sorry. All right. Yeah. I think it might be
good to have a pad over here like that. Like that snare roll at the
end. That's really cool. But let's just have fun
actually, let's do some open, Let's do some other hats
and see if you can do something at around a BPM,
other hats and stuff. So I'll just grab
it like some sort of a top line really go hi-hat loop or somewhere else and then just throw
it in there and see if we can get
something going there. So let's see, maybe go like one hundred thirty,
one hundred forty. Some sort of a hi-hat loop. Good work. That could work. Let's
see what we got going on. That's not super cool, but what we could do is
let's go back to this reset, this loop, and just
come in here and see if we can find something
in here with maybe something,
something like that. The answer I wanted something that was something
that would be cool. Okay. There it is. Those lessons. We're getting there. We're
definitely getting there. Now, I'm going to hop out
of this recording and go grab a sample and then come back and we're going to
this what we have so far. We have so far helps if you have everything turned,
everything turned out. I'm going to find
the sample and come back and we're
gonna get into it.
3. Melody & 808s: I'm back and I got some
guitars and he had some vocals and we're going to make this a complete
different things. So here's the deal. This is what I mean. You change the track,
you make it your own. This is, there's their version
assuming much more trapped Bob, which I think is cool. But we've found these guitars that I thought were really
cool and they're so full since the vibe I'm
gonna go for recording. All right, So check this out. We're going to
Doo-doo-doo-doo blue. That sounds a little weird
that I'm cutting this off, but I want to add some reverb and effects to kind of
give it a more of a vibe. Going to go into your
Retro color these out. First of all, first of all, we're gonna go to maybe you
don't want boring pads. I'm gonna come in here and drag all the drums off a little bit because I wanted you
to have some balance. Let's come in here and drag
these terms off a little bit, a little, just a little bit. I also think these
snares might be good to have a little
bit more snail-like. I feel like I went
these snare still be a little more snappy. Snappy than just
the, just the clap. I want to load
balance different. This is the way I
do my 808 years. I'll come in here to my base. I'll make a midi
track and I play my figure out what notice
my Ada weights or in from playing out, playing
them up and obese. So let's go mini B3. Unless come in here
and go to this is, this is, this is BC will use. Then I place it in here
like that, like so. And then I'm going to place
that in there like so. And we're going to
see that sounds. We're gonna, we're gonna bring
in this instrument rack. Anyway, simpler. Day trip. Have any day trip it awaits. No. And we're gonna go in here to swatch. Let's check this out. I actually want that
to go back up again. I think it's good to
take that back to f. He's line up with the kick. But if we would have he bounced
up to bump, bump, bump. That's a joint. That's above up.
Actually, let's do it. Let's do it like
that. Let's do it like that. Let's
do it like that. Now we're going to
pitch them down so they actually sound. We're going to drag them us
that they actually rock. Now we need a grid
them out a little bit, beat him up a little
bit actually, let's see, there's
another iterate that sounds better than that. Let's just see what these other sound like just to try it. No. Loan was it? That's hard. I want them to be present, but I don't want to
like be overbearing my best anyway pattern, but I think it works
at least for now. Now we're gonna add
those vocal chops. We get something like
spacey, cool vocals. Let's see what we
could do with these.
4. Adding Textures: Vocal chops back in action. That's gonna be a killer. What if what if he
pitched it to work? I did not go as planned. I'm going to pitch it. I'm
going to pitch it after all. All right, so I wanted to get a couple more vocal
chops in here, so I want to have these
and let's come in here. Let's see Ross, regarding
these vocal chops. I actually loved this loop. I'm seeing if there's maybe
somebody who can work it in, although it sounds
like I may not. Definitely not. I just wanted to take
some of these and just to get a couple of
chops out of them, you almost like a cool loop. I think a couple of jobs
would do the trick. It might be crowding to
be IV doing too much. I think this actually I
didn't crowd in the beat, so I'm gonna actually make
a duplicate just so we don't lose those. Then
we take all this out. So it's just this. That's the beat.
5. Arranging The Beat: Mix it down and track that out. And I wanted to just show
you a couple of things in terms of really easy
ways to arrange a beat. I started just with the
guitar in the vocals. I think it would be cool
here is just to start it with just a little bit
different song arrangement. And so it's gonna have this, this little intro part in, just again, take out the
drums or the low end, and all the other snares are
than just the main clap. Then that's going
to lead into the main hook with everything. Then we'll get into like a
regular sort of a verse. And again, I'm going
to take out all of the different snare
elements in some of the high hats and then just
add some back in as we go. Taken out this open hat. I've taken out all the snares. Here. I've switched to the kick for the 808, at
least report of it. Do you mean I brought
the blip back in for the snare as well as
these open hi-hats again. Might even drop that up.
6. Conclusion: That is in a nutshell, how I would go about
stealing drums. You repurpose them for yourself, and then you make your
own joint out of it. So hopefully that was helpful. Thank you for watching. Thank you for checking
in as always, not checking on the
next one piece.
Kia Orion, Artist & Music Producer
