Fisher Take It Off Makes No Musical Sense and That's OK!
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- Опубліковано 25 лип 2024
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00:00 - Intro
00:30 - Chord Cleverness
01:50 - Storytime
04:03 - Rule Of Thumb
06:33 - Fisher Take It Off Analysis
11:25 - Press 'n' Guess
12:37 - Free Sounds!
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I am a professional musician, songwriter and sample creator who brings the world of music theory into electronic music. I help and collaborate with producers, djs, musicians, rappers, singers and songwriters creating new music and I also create instrumentals & sample packs of musical licks, guitar stems and melodies
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No 'tricks' no 'BS' just pure facts makes this one of my go to channels to learn more about the craft - Thank you for all the effort you put in
I make your words mine if it's royalty free. 😅
It makes sense to me. It's a Dmin key and he took liberties with the flat 9 and playing the major 3, both are techniques that harken back to blues/be-bop jazz. It adds funk and bounce to it.
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Right? Nothing so strange imho. I'm used to do this often, maybe because i like jazzy/funky sound i don't know it's like "natural" to listen to the track in this video, maybe that arpeggiated reverberated stab it's a bit out but seems like it fits so...
I'm confused, isn't the tonal center D#?
Bthelick, you've seriously elevated my production skills in the short time I've found your videos, since the vid "Why your songs don't sound like westend". I'm eternally grateful. Making a new house song every day has become a ritual, it's so much fun and they're coming out super clean. super grateful and would love to donate to you if you have that option. Also, wanted to ask if there's any way you can kinda explain how Eli Brown made "Be The One" , I really like what he did with the bassline, and also he seems to have done something unique with the kick, as it hits harder every 1-2 kicks, idk if that's just the sidechaining he did or something else. thanks so much man truly!
The request list for specific track break downs is pretty big right now. I initially wanted to do them mid week but I'm just not getting time right now.
( i do mention a donation link at the end of videos 👊😉)
Great to hear the tracks are improving keep it up 🤟
Thank you so much for all these classes! I'm from Brazil and I've been learning so much from you these past days... Spectacular
Man you are one of the absolute best production channels on youtube. Absolutely wonderful videos, keep it up!
So I glad I found your channel, top production, super educational and so knowledgable! I absolutely adore the explanation format of running the songs/examples in the DAW while explaining the topics
i think you make the best production music videos that i ever saw!!!! you give a lot of insight of how house/dance music works!!! a lot of stuff that i learned but can not tell how cuz i'm working on feeling; it works you give it the words!
What a great video. Thank you for your work. I'm grateful I found this channel!
I really love following this journey. Thank you so much for daring to share your knowledge with us :)
I've been wanting to make my own music for about 10 years now, and every time I try to get into it, I get so SO overwhelmed with what to do. Not only in learning DAWs, but also in general ideas around music. I also have an incredibly short attention span and so that adds to my frustration. Imagine how overjoyed I am to find your videos. It's by far the best way I could ever learn about making the music I want to make. Thank you SO much!
thank you for posting these every week ! so helpful
Impressive knowledge and skill. I really appreciate the work you put into your presentation and videos.
Found your channel a few months back and pretty sure i got you your first coffee on ko-fi! Super happy to see others encouraging others to do so as your channel really is a gold mine and you deserve it! Your videos are way above the rest in any topic you cover! Keep up the great work Ben, you inspire lots of us with your knowledge !
I think you did get the first coffee yes!🙏👊 I'm forever thankful thanks for the support seeroy!
@@Bthelick no problem!! Keep making great videos 😁
I have such an appreciation for your channel man. I haven’t put out anything in years because I felt like my production style was stuck in 2009 but your videos have given me so much confidence to start producing again and it’s so much fun flexing that creative muscle again. Cheers from Detroit!
Thanks Austin welcome back! 👊🤟
Appreciate all the awesome videos! Thank you!
This video was such a thrill to watch. I love your format. Thank you for blessing us with insight. I’m so inspired to hear to speak with such authority on music theory and music decomposition. Absolutely in awe. Thank you for making your UA-cam channel.
i love these videos. so much knowledge, so accessible. keep on going man!
Your concervative easy to digest style full of clever and non boring subtle humor and your great knowlege makes your channel number one!
...without any overestimation!
Thanks, every time exellent content!
Man, I can't emphasize enough how much I enjoy your videos every time I watch them. Best in class in entertainment and knowledge. Well done!!!! EVERYBODY BUY THIS MAN A COFFEE!!!!!
Nice video Prof! Keep up the good work! 🙏
Beautifully explained ! You are the new age guru for everybody who wants to reach their music production enlightenment 🙌🕺🏿👊😎👍
Ill always love your way to teach us, thx Bthe!
I appreciate you so much 💛
This channel is amazing.
I'm blown away with how good your videos are. Thank you!
youre a great teacher!! and this video was special in the way that you also teach people that music is universal.
That was a great video and a truly amazing remake. Love your sense of humor!
Commenting because I want the algo to keep recommending your videos and promote them to others. I aspire to make music, but it's also just entertaining to watch you explain everything.
Thanks for your videos mate, real gold for the beginners. Playing music has been my hobby for 20 years. Lacking the proper music education I always just 'pressed and guessed' and what you say about having a good ear training is def true. If you consume a lot of the same music over and over again, you start dissecting it to the bone, you know how it sounds, you know how it feels. It's been about a year since I actually started learning musical theory for real after going DAWless. It explains a lot of things I have developed an ear (or a taste lol) for, but so much is still out of the scope of a formal definition, it just sounds good, it feels good.
Anyway, keep up with the good work 💙
So thankful for your channel! I really struggle with music theory but I know its the aspect that my production lacks most.
you're certainly not alone, that's what I noticed with all the producers I work with so that's why I started the channel 👊
Thanks for the support
Incredible videos! So awesome
True legend. 👍 ❤Thank you
love this and also thank you for introducing me to Vital 😍 I'm really impressed by it and I can see it being a big player in the synth game within a couple years
Love these videos! I think this is the only UA-cam channel I am subscribed to
I'm honoured thankyou 🙏
Great job mate!
yoooo! spent the last couple weeks in ibiza.. happy to get back and see new vids. saw fisher drop this at Hi. yeeeesh.
That's so interesting! Subscribed! :)
Awesome video!
From what I can tell music came first, rules came second, to, well, explain, train and entertain…so as far as creating tunes goes, particularly pop tunes, it just is whatever someone thought sounded dope…and so happens many others did too;) Your “outcome explanations” are awesome…thanks 😎🖤🍭
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Hi Bthelick. Thanks for the video. My favourite video of yours so far is the bass processing video. It was immensely helpful from a theoretical and technical standpoint. If I may suggest new video ideas: lead processing tutorial (similar to mau p / dom dolla tracks) or drums/perc processing tutorial.
Cheers from Canada
- Sam
Usually anything above the bass is down to sound selection, for leads; other than aesthetic preferences of delay/verb I don't do anything.
For drums check out my "secret to my drum sound" short video.
(Spoiler it's the same deal; sound selection and no processing)
I am pretty new to music production and have been taking what you say as hard rules to follow. I’ve been having to remind myself that these are just new ideas to try out.
There is no right or wrong way to make music.
yeah it's easy to forget with music. Always follow you ears and heart (and in the case of dance music follow the movement of your bum and shoulders too!!!) .
IMO my rules of thumb are still a great starting point though obvs 😁👍👊
@@Bthelick Yes of course, it was not a diss at your videos. They are amazing quality!
Another fantastic, video. 💯
Man, your channel is great. Let me do your job here and break down what you are doing best.
In a world of endless content telling us “short cuts” and how do things “industry standard”, you are finding a great way of relating everything back to the measured common sense you have developed through your experience. Keep going, even in the videos where I already know the stuff you’re saying, I am still enjoying them. This video is great! Keep it up!
Much appreciated thanks for the support Jason
@@Bthelick pleasure’s all mine. I subscribed after the first video of yours I found. Your deep dives are fantastic, I wish we’d had a channel like this 16 years ago 😂
Your statements are so well weighted in put into context, great video!
As always. Great stuff.
this is insane, thankyou
I was classically trained and you just blew my mind about the 5ths thing 😂
You are among the best for learning anything useful! Even for pro producers! Not that I'm one :D
Great video! Now I'm just thinking of all the cool sounding leads and basslines I've made that aren't in key and then ruined by 'fixing' them to be in key.
Amazing
I beleive this is what Ive always referred to as a Happy Accident, Sometimes they are awesome!
You are the best!
I learn so much from these videos
i very much respect your attitude and approach good sir. definitely earned a sub from me
9:13 sounds amazing lol you got real talent
After 12 years in music school i work this way... 😊 No meter wher i start...always i get there where i want. But i use much much more noise 😅. Cool ❤ video.
Found your channel by chance and i’m learning so much. Would love your take on bass house genre, more specifically knock2. I think his sound is quite unique and I can’t figure out what i’m listening to
I touched on bass house in the video "genres that don't use chords" but I do intend to get round to a proper video on it.
It's not easy reverse engineering those sounds, there's heavy use of non-standard oscillators through distortion, which makes it very much a trial and error affair.
The paradox at the end is so true like wtf 😂 i also watch this atleast once a week for some reason
Best channel I’ve found for house music so far. Hoping to see you break down klaus veen soon!!! Dude is the Goat of house tracks in my opinion
1. subconsciously incompetent ( you don't know that you're bad)
2. consciously incompetent ( you know that you're bad)
3. consciously competent ( you know that you're good)
4. Subconsciously competent ( you don't know how good you are)
The stages of learning. Deadmau5 and other people that are legendary without formal training are in 4.
Thanks B for the video. Love your way of teaching!
Interesting video, I have a simple view on all of this: If it sounds good, it works out fine. That is and should be the main core of any music production or any artistic pursuit. Some artists use the complete music theory system as much as they can, and cannot come up with something new because they are so engrained to create something out of a preexisting formula injected into a "Genre" or something. But some other artists use different sources of theory that has nothing to do with the medium and it works because its a translation from the inner world into a materialized form. Both approaches work as so many I am not aware of.
Thanks!
Thanks so much Mike!
This beat wild. Smashed.
I love this guy!
brilliant video mate. super on point and well explained
Would love to see a deep dive on Keinemusik (Rampa, &ME, Adam Port) - especially their pianos and Melodies
Yeah I've been looking at &ME and black coffee recently.
Are they classed as "Acoustic house"?
@@Bthelick Yeah I guess so! Their keys sounds very 'live', especially in their songs like 'Muye' and 'The Rapture III' and even Rampa's Remix of Bind by RY X
I love these track breakdowns. Everyone of them makes me think about heading back to the Mac and starting a new track. One track that keeps getting to me is Desko-Ascend. The trick fluttering sound is just amazing. Is there a reason why this sound is so engaging?
Probably because it's off grid. Not much is traditionally so it sounds fresh. Well it did until everyone and their dog started doing it for the last year!
It stops people dancing so you can't really fit more than 1 in a set too, you gotta be careful about what crowd it's for.
@@Bthelick I totally understand, it’s an interesting effect that peaks your interest. More engaging for those who listen rather than dance. But it might make an interesting subject for a video (I’m sure the list is already long). “Things that you don’t expect, why they work and when to use them.” I also want to know how it’s done! Time to upgrade from playing around on GarageBand and switch to Albeton 😊
12:18 how philosophical of you! 🔥
smashed it again
Amazing Channel do you do mentoring ? project reviews?
Re mentoring, The music and videos take all my time right now sorry.
Why would you want my feedback?
lmao you're the shit man, obsessed w your videos
BIG BIG BIG Bthelick fan
Is it like modal jazz if there are different modes built from d# ?
Yes that's right 👊
If you find the time to breakdown a HiLo (Oliver Heldens alias) track, maybe something like Kronos or Mercury i would be very appreciative! They are so well produced and when seeing him play live the track ripples through your body it was insane 😂 love the videos mate
Hilo is just crazy. Ever since his track renegade master i was in love. It was also crazy finding out he was actually oliver heldens, my favourite future house artist back then haha. Kronos is just something else
Great video as always! Will these projects files be available at any stage?
It's not legal to re distribute other's samples. If I ever get round to making my own drum sample library it might be possible to legally share projects of my own tracks, but I will still have to wait until after release to prevent copyright complications.
@@Bthelick ah I see thank you for the explanation
Press and guess baby!!!
Great video- funny enough a friend and I were discussing what rule of thumb meant last night. Apparently the etymology is unconfirmed so people shouldn't take your purported origin of the phrase as gospel :-) case in point.
Pretty sure Deadmau5 uses Xfer's Cthulhu. The chord/music theory plugin from Steve Duda, a very good friend of Deadmau5. Definitely some great software for those of us with 'a lot of room for improvement' with our music theory knowledge.
Yeah that's likely for sure . It is a great plug Steve makes some great tools 👊
Can you do a break down of slick city,dua lipa - electricity
This song is great
Hi. Don't know if many of your followers know Shingo Nakamura, but I am a huge fan of his music. He played at Tomorrowland this year. I would be delighted to see a video that teaches how to make melodic/progressive house in the style of Shingo.
can we get a full guide to vital ? that would be amazing.
Have you seen my 2 synth videos ?
Broski, you’re sick with it. Can we get these presets for vital 🙏
Watch the full video...
Buy this man a coffee ☕️
Mr. Lick, i have a slightly unrelated question (unrelated to the video but to do with music). Idk if you dj but I want to start and want to know what I should start out with. Was thinking about cdjs because they're the standard but if I want to save money what about a pioneer xdj xz?? Or something by denon?
I can't answer that one sorry, in the studio guy behind the djs but rarely get to DJ myself.
@Bthelick if you ever see your dj mates please ask but if you can't no biggie the production stuff is already gold
Most likely produced by Chris Lake as is most of Fisher's stuff. He has some production streams from a couple years ago, well worth the watch! Great video as always 😎
He's credited on the ones he does, doesn't appear to be part of this one. Everyone is confused as what a producer does though so I might have to a rant on that too by the looks of it 🤣
@@BthelickI probably belong to one of those ignorant people so please do! 😂
@@Bthelick It's hardly no secret he's the man behind Fisher's biggest track Losing It even though he's not credited. Also on this particular track it's actually Chris Lakes wife Gita speaking just using an alias :)
Oh gita is his wife? Ok thanks.
Still though, people need to understand what a producer does in music.
@@Bthelick I'm pretty sure when anyone mentions Chris Lake "producing" Fisher (as they always do) it's more of a Maarten Vorwerk way than Rick Rubin way! Awesome channel, please keep them coming :-)
i knew it sounded off! i didn’t like it bc of this reason and i thought i was the only one hearing the off notes
press n guess, undress, success.
I was kinda thinking that after I made the vid haha
Oh wow
I love you ❤
The magic of the chromatic scale is that you can express a musical sensation in any way shape or form and at any time.
So you ARE processing your bass actually!) More power to the "rule of thumb" rule haha
where? apart from 1 eq bump to match the reference there is no processing I didn't mention in the bass processing video. its high pass into stereo faker into sidechain! 👊
@@Bthelick I'm speaking about this highpass filter indeed. I'm yet to figure how to use those things without ungluing kick from bass too much)
I show it in the bass processing video
If it sounds good, it sounds good 💪
absolutely. Although I stopped using that particular saying as it used to be behringer's slogan back when their stuff sounded terrible 🤣🤣
7:47 "not n easily definable scale" it's a harmonic minor.
Harmonic minor doesn't have a flat 2, major 3rd or major 6 it's just minor with a major 7th.
None of that lines up with this.
Is there a reason you think it's harmonic minor?
You gotta do a lesson on how you worked out those difficult notes.
I slowed the original to half to give me a chance, and I slowed it without time stretching to bring that high sound down an octave also.
Then it's a case of make a similar sound , and then play-stop-repeat x1000 on every single change until you find the notes!
Years of ear training means but this point I have near perfect relative pitch so that speeds things up , but the process is the same regardless.
Felix Da Housecat & Soulwax - Rocket Ride from NFS-U2 had a similar vibe with the alternating minor/major thingie. Also The Crystal Method - Born Too Slow from NFS-U1 had something similar in the vibe. You see, it's all about getting that NFS feel lol. Jokes aside, it sounds good than it is good. The Chemical Brothers - The Salmon Dance has that too. Kiss From A Rose anyone? If you guys know any other songs with this "feel" reply here, let's make a playlist!
Everyday is the same - NiN
@@Bthelick talking rock, Pearl Jam - Even Flow, Limp Bizkit - My Way 🤪
Please don't bring Pearl Jam into this. They used the so-called "Devil's interval" which should obviously be banned. Eddie Vedder should be in prison for making such awful atonal music.
There are no rules only good practice 🖐
If you can find a general rule for 'sounds good', you'd be a millionaire. I think you are right about the audio samples, it seems to be in the old early 90's rave style - anything that fits, like when using the old Amiga trackers.
I've tried a little experiment (although I'm no way a good musician), with how to do transitions without effects, changing from obviously abrupt, to less so, by distraction technique right before a transition. Might explain why the two sets of rising notes not in a matching scale passes ok, as it's short, and draws your attention, although this sounds more of an 'effect' rather than programmed like you say. I wonder what it's perceived musical centre is?
"an instrument is anything that can make a sound, a musician is anyone that can make the instrument make that sound " - Genesis P-Orridge
Mr. Lick i have another question. When it comes to posting your music how do i get more engagement? Im less than a year in and i know my music isnt top tier yet but i would still like to get views and feedback. Maybe its sad to want this kind of validation but thats kind of my goal in the end. To have a fanbase.
Anywho, is it really just about posting it and letting the people decide?
It's lots of things, but mostly it's consistency. Consistency in output, schedule and story. Knowing what your own story is, helps with all of those.
Understanding what a brand is, what your identity is , helps a lot in obtaining an audience, I suggest watching a bunch of Seth Godin videos on UA-cam.
It's easier for people to like you if they understand what you are, and if they know how often they can come back to find out what's new with you.
Don't worry about not being top tier. Someone is always better than someone else, and it's not a barrier to obtaining an audience because you can bring the audience with you. Audiences like to watch an artist grow and improve, and love to boast that they were there at the beginning!
So for example in my case for this channel, the story I picked was a more music theory approach to dance music because that is an area that is not covered well and I think it can help people , It's not my only talent and it's not the only thing I like to do, but I had to pick something to make it easy for people to understand what I am as opposed to just trying to do everything.
Also, this is not my first time doing things like this. I knew that I could only manage one video a week, and it would take around 2 years to reach my first 1000 subscribers.
But that only works if you never miss a week, the consistency is the key part so whatever schedule you choose you have to commit to it and stick to it.
@Bthelick thanks. Going to keep annoying you with questions before you inevitably get to 1 mil and can't respond to everyone anymore. Appreciate it m8
Will you post the project file ?? , i'm so tired trying follow every move in your videos by drag and pull and pause the video ...
Until I find time to make my own sample libraries i can only give away midi only project files.
(It's illegal to redistribute samples and software that aren't mine)
@@Bthelick hope you will make it soon
how about the drum , the fx T__T , which videos i should watch next ...
@@dunglamnhuthe sorry I don't understand the question. What is fx T__T?
@@Bthelick T__T is just the cry emotion icon haha sorry . by fx I mean the uplifter and downlifter that would work well for this track. Also, I had a question about the mixing stage. ., sorry for asking too much . Maybe you should make contents on your donate site .. idk .
By the way, I think your Vital presets and everything else are fantastic! The only exception might be the Bass 1 preset, which sounds a little different from the original.
anyway thank you so much for everything
everything is chromatic and its just about finding tension and release in a coherent way.