3 Things that changed my Beats Production
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damn.. "you're always trying different things and not focusing on what works.." that needs to be tatt'd on my hands so i never forget
that one cut deep.
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Seeing one of my UA-cam music teachers learn a lesson...priceless 😎
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And also the balance between these two is what really opens up possibilities to create unique but also fantastic music!
My drums helped :) keep going brother , the evolution has been trully great !
goat drums 🗣
For sure 💯
the bundle truly helps, suuu!
Which pack would that be?
Matt Milne His pack legit, Foreal i use crash from jetlife pack on almost every beat
"I believe in hard work" that's the key, great words!
I discovered you a few weeks ago and I love how your videos transmit peace and calm and not like that 'hype' type of videos that show you nothing but how to make money instead of learning and enjoying the process.
Thanks a lot for doing that, keep going!
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This is spot on. Well said!
blacks taught them how to say peace
@@MentalPistol damn hippies 🤔
Gems homie 💎
Repetition legitimizes - Adam Neely. Can't stress this enough. Love your videos
Hard work is the ultimate and best teacher bro👊🏾
That´s what my dad also says : Putting time into things automaticaly make you better in a spezific skill. I think it´s also a bit about talent , but If you do nothing with your talent if you not living your talent and excersise it´s near nothing you have . ( sorry for my english xD )
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Skill beats talent when talent fails to work hard
I've been slacking lately with making beats stuck in the world of repetitiveness
I think conversations like these are needed
That's what i needed to hear. I'm currently doing a 100 days beat challenge. Mainly because of 2 points you mentioned here - repetition and putting in hours. It's only day 8 but I already see some interesting phenomenons happening.
go for it, it's gonna pay off
How’d that challenge go for you?
challenge update?
What is a 100 days beat challenge?
@@kenanbajric1776 make at least 1 beat every day for 100 days. No breaks
Facts bro ! I’ve produced for 22 years now and I 100 percent agree. Helped my game a ton as well. You are also saving your ears if you mix at lower levels. 🤙
Don't work hard--work SMART. That will occasionally mean "hard work" is involved, but only if that's the SMARTEST approach.
Life fact!
There is no way to evade the “process”. Talent, shortcuts and cheat codes will take you only so far, you still have to put in work. OG status is not for play play.
So true. And it's not just for music. I've been an artist and designer all my life and the one thing I've learned is that talent is only relevant at the beginning. Hard work and focusing on your craft is the only way to become good at something. There ain't no magic.
Thanks for this.
A lot of what you talked about here is right where I am on the journey, thank you! Also, thanks for being the first hip hop producer to encourage me to turn my drums down lol
Took me a long time to turn my drums down
Every beginner in producing beats should hear this video. He is 100% correct. I struggled with ALL 3 of these things for years.. especially with mixing volume levels and picking good drums. Always remember, just because it sounds good in your mpc or your DAW doesn’t mean it’s gonna sound the same after u bounce it. If it sounds sh_tty in the car but good in your Mpc then u need to work on these things. Velocity levels in kicks and especially hi hat rolls is a plus also. The more time you invest, the better you get. If you know you know
Time is what makes us better in everything we do in life.
Your suggestion of repeating a beat you've made is intriguing. There's an unspoken rule I live by in being diverse. Mastering will take much longer if I'm switching sounds and styles every beat. There's a benefit to both approaches. I am recognizing the benefit of repeating a beat and thoroughly understanding how to achieve that sound.
All about patience and practice. I think copying is a good way to learn too, obviously not identically, but structure of the track and the type of samples used. Studying timing helps ie listening to a favorite track and noting length of intro, verse chorus, drop, outro etc to improve your own structure (and bpm of that track too) . That helped me a lot when I was producing dance music.
Yeah I agree, referencing tracks is a good way to learn.
All my music is not quantize all my music is not looped I play everything out from beginning to end plus most of my music is original, good video Dude it's a sacrifice when it comes to making music,time, effort, and work ethic!
i love your videos. very inspiring and calming. Thank you ❤
Thanks 🙏🏼
They say it take 10,000 hours to master a skill. Good luck beatmakers 💯
The one thing that helps Practicing
Man I learned so much from you, and I don't even own an MPC; the concepts and knowledge you share helped me with my beat making and I know I'm not where I wanna be yet but you've made the process more bearable and given me hope that I can achieve that goal. Please keep doing what your doing and know that you're helping beginners like me grow, peace brutha!
I really like how your sound is like a perfectly decorated room with cozy, low level light. I can't make it sound like that, even after decades.
Over the weekend I watched some of your videos. I went in search of technical tips, but what helped me most was reorganizing my ideas and knowing which path to take. For the first time, I considered letting go of equipment that was stationary and actually using what was necessary. I would like to thank you for your tips.
The more I make music the more I understand it is about ideas and not techniques or gear. Is about listening and understanding where you want to go.
@@mpchead indeed, thank you for reminding me that.
Great advice. When it comes to learning most of it can be simplified down to two things - repetition and combination. There is also selection and rejection which precedes those two, where rejection is the most important of the two by far, which consists of rejecting sounds and techniques, as well as whole genres that are irrelevant to making the type of music you want to hear. Apply those principles to anything in your life and you'll start seeing results. Reject the bs, don't get distracted.
Having said that, given the dualistic oppositional nature of our reality, you can't stay laser focused on one thing forever. So it's an ongoing process of expanding and contracting, expanding and taking in new influences and experimenting, then key in on the tiny number of things that work while throwing away the mass of distracting uselessness, then repeatedly do those good things first in isolation then in combination with each other.
UnQuantize within the pocket is the trick, long as the snare is locked on the 5th & 13th and the kick land on the 1, you’re good money. The “talent” come from the years of acquiring the knowledge and having a tasteful ear on what make people move.
With regards to unquantized recording, I feel as though the reason behind this sensibility has gotten somewhat lost-in-translation in the era of machine music. Kids, a sloppy performance is just a sloppy performance. Period. Being off time is not what makes something sound good or "human". Great drummers put in countless hours playing to a metronome, all in an effort to play as close to perfect as humanly possible; but no man is a machine, so there will always be a subtle (and hopefully meaningful) feel to what they play. When grid-based drum machines first started to appear in pop music, they were widely criticized for being too rigid. As such, much attention was put into programming them to sound more "human". Later sequencers started allowing for unquantized recording, to make this tedious process easier and less time consuming (*provided you could actually play). That’s irony for you... Ahem! Anyway, fast forward a few generations of the blind-leading-the-blind online, and the modern beat-smith is often misguided into believing that anything nudged off-grid or poorly played is somehow better or more “human”. Not true. If you're going to turn the quantize off, you'd better be able to play, else you will be capturing nothing more than a subpar performance. The same could be said of oscillator "drift" in modern synthesis: i.e., out of tune oscillators are not more "analog", they're just out of tune; and that's rarely a good thing. ;) Cheers!
Are you trying to end all music production forum wars? Because every fight is exactly over these issues.
Real talk unquantizing ain't every thing .
damn some good points in here, appreciate it
You are absolutely correct. Playing on perfect time is what musicians do or try to achieve what makes it feel human is how it's played and very much associated with velocity aka volume. When hitting a snare or a kick or a hat or strings whatever youre playing the attack is never the same every note which makes it feel and sound more natural.
You're are correct it's subtle because if it's not it'd be too far off grid or off tempo and sounding like ass.
You can quantinize all day and still have it sound human by panning and adjusting velocity add in some automation and the human sounding problem is solved with out getting all stupid about it.
If you want to sound more human, play the drums like a human. If you're making electronic music who cares
Really great advice and your beats are beautiful. Very glad I found your channel.
I appreciate that! 🙏🏼
It's early days on my new MPC one and now
I'm totally hooked. But I'm going to have to disciplined and work with intention and goals otherwise I'll drift into cliches and derivative beats.
Although I am an old-timer with hip hop (saw Public Enemy and Run DMC in Brighton 1988) it was J Dilla's, RZAand Premier who have shown me the rhythmic and harmonic genius of hip hop to create glorious grooves from found sounds.
I want to sample my guitar playing and bass and use it for beats and possibly song arrangements. I've been wanting to extract played phrases from Jazz standards and use them with in a 4/4 funk template like Premier has done with jazz samples. I need to focus on the drum paterns right now and your sound is awesome and exactly what I've been looking for in beats. I will be following your channel and grabbing your packs avidly. many thanks @@mpchead
My man. Your upload schedule is nuts.
Thanks for the awesome content and for getting me through the workday.
Thanks for tuning in 🙏🏼
Man, you are spreading Peace and Love without even trying!
I agree bro! People get so obsessed with the no quantization method but sometimes being on the grid & adding swing just fits better. Great video!
Definitely, I get that a lot, sometimes drums on the grid feel better. Is important not to get obsessed with technics.
Marlow? You should do an in depth tutorial video on how to show novice beat makers how you properly sample and process drums. There are literally no videos anywhere that properly explain how to do it. Drums are the key to a beat, as far as I'm concerned.
Love your music and video content.
I used to record everything unquantized & my friend that produces EDM & House kept complaining. A technique that helps for recording midi unquantized is to slow the tempo down, record it at the slower tempo, then speed the tempo back up. I also used to do lots of manual editing shifting midi notes closer to the grid (I still do this on some tracks to retain human feel). But I just got better at picking at right quantization settings for the song & this helped alot too. The default quantize settings for FL studio shifted half the notes in the wrong direction & made everything sound way worse. I find 1/4 beat (which is 16th notes) to be a good starting point for recording quantized, and for certain genres or soloing, recording certain instruments unquantized & manually editing afterwards, is what works for me.
Yeah I do the same thing to get the unquantized hitd to feel right. Slowing it down is the key 👍🏿
I usually record my drums un quantized then add the swing after. It mixes your natural swing w the mpc’s own.
I feel like I was getting stuck at the same point with experimenting with a lot of different things. even over saturating my beats. Definitely glad to hear that I’m not the only one that felt the same way
It's overwhelming to have the world as your sound library
Dude me too, I’m very scatterbrained in general and either sample way too much or mess with my beats so much I will do too much and ruin it. This is so clutch right now.
This is the story of my life ! I ALWAYS seem to get carried away with looking for more and BETTER sounds , samples ect . and never finishing or prolonging the process with completing a beat. I recently discovered "saving my favorite drums" and reusing them over and over and that one thing alone has streamlined my work flow tremendously. Thanks for the great video brother.. Stay up. HIP HOP DON'T STOP
I feel this, it’s so easy to have a massive sample library, and loads of cheap or free VSTs - but you ultimately end up crippled by the choice, and generally make that is either uncohesive, or just lacks a specific character. Consciously selecting my tools and sound source has helped immensely.
@@johncitizen8828 and Cracked vsts lol
Appreciate you uploading a video like this solely to help other people out. Many thanks!
More than anything is putting in the time and work. 100%. Work can be undervalued and gear and other things can over valued if one is not careful. Work is where the big changes happen and it takes time. Great video.
This video has helped me so much today, it's like it unlocked a something in my mind especially the point about repeating a process and being over experimental. My issue it I make so many genres and have so many drum packs and vsts, I've now move like 90% of my drum library and vsts to an external hard drive and limiting my options.
I needed to hear everything in this video, so thanks a bunch.
Hard work will always beat talent that doesn't work! Having said that, hard work by itself isn't enough - we should put effort into the things we have a basic aptitude for and a strong interest in.
I agree, if your trying to make beats just because it's cool but have no love for the craft then hard work is a bit pointless
@@mpchead I'd like to add that even though hard work and passion gets you long way, referencing and being analytical about what works and WHY it works (or doesn't) takes you to the next level.
Talent is nothing without dedication!
Mixing at lower volumes is the way. Great channel, Marlow. Really appreciate your insights and explanations of beat making.
16th note 67% swing for me, great points here Marlow, hard work over talent definitely.
For those who don't use unquantized production or creation, there is alot being missed. Once you go unquantized, going quantized feels abnormal. Awesome food for thought overall! One thing I learned from Dilla, 'just flow'. No planning, just turn on the MPC and go!
Thanks for droppin gems Marlow, much appreciated.
Thanks for following up 🙏🏼
Spending time, getting better = "Talent!"
Not born talent, acquired talent!
Love the honest conversation and insight. I started in 2019 and had a ton of questions, and you took time to answer them, and it's helped me tremendously. I love these type of videos when you share your views and opinions on beat making, very VERY Dope my friend. Keep doing your thing bro, God bless!!🙏🏾✊🏾
Ok wow, this was special. I really appreciate the way you are very open, calm and clear in this (and your other videos) without the usual youtube exaggerations etc. Also some very good points here. I do a lot of experimentation and love that, but your video motivated me to stick just a little bit more to kind of proven recipes (if that is the way you say it in english). Thank you for this!
Hey man :) just wanted to let you know that you completely changed my attitude towards hiphop music.i was always a indie/synth/electronica person,but when i bought mpc and started learning and trying to make beats while watching your vids for the guidance,you showed me that this type of music CAN be tasteful and interesting.the whole vibe you have here is amazing,really... :) And you're the best mpc teacher in whole youtube world ,so big thanks for all of that,and would be really cool to get some private mentoring on my music from you some time.. take care! :)
Brilliant. No waiting for inspiration! Just show up every day.
Nice to hear that you use quantazing. I use too. The mpc is known for its quantanization. Use it.
Fans or Audience only cares how hard your working ...very true and I do quantize everything .....kick 4 and 8s ....snare 16 and 8s .....hihats 8,16 32,32t . I quantize them according to the timing of the sound
Thanks for coming into my life with your advice, all the things I have had suspicions about your talking about - thank you
I completely agree with your perspective ... respect!
Great knowledge and insight for free🔥. Enjoyable channel, top shelf content, as always.❤
Thanks brother! You just dropped 20years of wisdom on those who are listening. I value your channel 🤙🏼🙏💥👊🏼💥
Picking the right drums is crucial. Not just picking them out, but designing them and (saving them) for future reference. I definitely keyed into velocity, too... from watching your channel when I first found you. I have a new Ebook about Drum Programming like a Drummer, and I'm learning this technique to better my drum programming in 2021. Thanks again! and WOW, your views have SPIKED recently. So cool . :-)
PS: You also reminded me about using LP 2 filter in order to make my mixes sit easier.Two things I learned in Music School: 1) Mix at a LOW level so you can hear what sticks out and b) Quantize is for robots, not always for musicians. Much respect to you, friend! #PracticeMakesBetter
Man thanks so much for what you do. I can go on forever but I genuinely thank you for your time talents and work you put in and share.
Peace fam, this is my first time seeing your page and I subscribed 3 mins into this video. So much great insight man. That comment about focusing on a genre and getting good at it helps! and the insight about mixing drums too. Thanks. Would love to see more videos like this.
Thanks for tuning in, welcome ✌🏼
Naaaaaa not at alll u ain’t talk too much everything u said was spot on. !!!
Great video again. Drums brings a beat to live. I have to say honestly: Your beats doesn't sound quantized and I think that is the thing why I like your beats :) Everyone has a different workflow and unique style. That's great. When it comes to my own productions I have to admit that I got better results when I do not quantize but that is just my habit as a drummer. It is allways only a subjective thing.
I normally record quantized and then shift notes that's why they're off
The training on one type of drums is a point that I reached one month ago.. I will appreciate your other tips too
i respect you saying unquantized is over-rated. i personally do what u do, quantize and then shift after, it's just preferences. also, mixing at a low volume definitely has improved my mixing and understanding of how to be able to hear all the elements. learning how to do your own style and repeating the process improved my sound a lot too, practice and doing small experiments help when you feel stagnant.
long comment, but i love your videos and music, thanks for dropping these videos.
Brings me right back to early Common, J Dilla. Great work.
Thank you just got my first mpc.Very motivated fl studio for years but this is game changer
I have been binge watching your stuff for a few days man. Huge inspiration and I have learned so much to become a better producer :)
Thanks Juan 🙏🏼
love the gold nuggets my friend. This is good advice.
You just resume my whole career as a producer wow!, things like mix at low volume and put drums not too high, definitely change my mind.
Marlow you're the best dude on UA-cam in regards to all things sampling that I've seen. Always have something interesting to say and you don't act like someone you're not. Keep doing your thing man. I just subbed to you the other day.
You’re content is awesome and very inspiring. I play these videos while I’m at work all day then practice making beats during my lunch. Thanks for making these 🙏🏽
Thanks for tuning in 🙏🏼
You are spot on man. I agree, find the sounds that work for you best and work from there. peace
For sure!! Everything you have said is pivotal for making beats that sound funky. I use the same method. Velocity and swing can transform a beat into something special. All of the original music I sample has these ingredients. I’m trying to emulate what I hear, that inspires me to make the beats in the first place. In the voice of James Brown, “it’s got’s to be FUNKY” Great video bro!💯😎
True dat! True dat! 😉💯
Inspiration is crazy and you share it my friend
While I don’t make this style of hiphop myself, I learn SO much from your videos man
Good to hear 🙏🏼
I’ve learned so much fr u bro… I appreciate your videos 💯🦾
The way you quantitize makes it sound real
Much appreciation for sharing your experience and motivation!
That was very key and well said, i appreciate the way you express these experiences.
Thank you.
You have made me think about specific kicks and dedicate time to what works, I think it will help me in my life in general. Thanks a lot
Clever advice with quiet and vibrant words. It will inspire my next beats for sure.
I am a beginner and i have to protect me from this ocean of VSTs and samples and sounds etc ...
Amen brother, create beats daily.
Really really needed to hear this, thank you so much!!!
Word. Good stuff👊🏻
That's IT !!!
We can become a talented beat maker by hard working and try / error process, just like we can to become a better anything else. But a talented newbie sounds like a newbie.
i watch this like more than 10 times, thx u sir 🖤🖤🖤
Love this advice. I have been experimenting for years and not focusing my energy enough
This video was wicked insightful. Thanks for making it, Marlow.
I didnt know about quantization until I made music on the roland x6 back in 2008
This type of content is VITAL 🔥👊🏿🇨🇦🙏🏿
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Thanks so much for these tips Marlow it really helps. Much appreciated
Best beatmaking advice on UA-cam!
Best advide, thank you! When you speak about getting better at making beats, i can always feel some sort of honesty, like you really wanna give a good advice and not -only- for more likes and subscribers etc.! Much love ✌🏻
haha, i just realised that i already commented on this video 11 month ago hahaha
Desde niño me decia a mi mismo que no tenia talento para la musica, hoy en dia me di cuenta que solo es entrenar y amar lo que haces aunque no seas bueno ello
Good stuff! Very true about the talent part. There are some cases I witnessed though where people have straight up cut some corners to progressing extremely quickly. These people have all been DJs and dancers - which makes sense. You can "passively" train yourself to be better equipped so it's just a matter of learning the technical stuff, and these people knew exactly what they wanted to do, it was just a matter of learning the language to find the information they needed. Still pretty shocking, from just hanging around on the couch in the studio to "hey let me try" "ok I can do this" haha. I think for most people it's just the constant experimentation and like you say it's not overnight. So many beginners want that instant fix, to where you can question the motives a little bit. I think when you love to do something it's not a chore, it's more of an obsession. Experimenting with stuff just because the act itself is a thrill.
I see what you're saying some people will have that connection with music. I wish I was one of them, took me ages to get good at this 😂 I kinda always had the ears for samples but to put it all together was hell.
@@mpchead Ye I mean they practiced the musical intuition in their other crafts, plus I think (generalizing a little) DJs might already be into technical stuff and pick things up quicker. Its probably rare and still - it's nowhere near as much talent at play, as it is putting in the hours!
dope...I agree repeat & FIND your sound..I'm elevating just by hearing you confirm...my brotha!
Appreciate you sharing the knowledge.
This is the coolest UA-cam channel I have ever seen
I appreciate you the beat culture needs you
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I needed this advice at this exact point of my life.. Thank you
Straight Gold,thanks man.