Be good to see a house beat creation, it's difficult to get certain drums to feel like they are rolling or shuffling towards the clap like in deep house
@@decapitateallcops3214 substitute ableton with daw and you will see what I mean. and btw, everyone knows FL studio ain't really good for anyone above rookie level. I notice it is mostly used by trap artists, and trap music being obviously low IQ music. At most, a gateway to real limitless daw's like ableton and bitwig.
Man, just love you. I'm 54, from Buenos Aires. Started using a bit deeper Ableton 2 years ago. A Beatstep called a miniLab and then the SQ-64. Then came the volca Sample , TR-6S and the Roland S-1 Well, now is time to learn. I never subscribe myself to any channel. But your deserve it. Thanks a lot. You make the universe be nice Que sea Rock
I’m just starting in ableton and the poly meter advice REALLY helped me understand why everything was sound so repetitive and flat. I feel like I just learned more in 15 minutes than I have after hours of tutorials.
I produce for a while now, like 6-7 years and I always love how your videos explain me everything I've self-taught myself, difference is, I finally understand technically what I'm actually doing. Keep up the fantastic work! Really love your teaching method!
it's crazy how much useful information you put in these 18 minutes. Basically a guideline for developing an electronic music track in general, helped me a lot!
Watched hundreds of hours of UA-cam videos over the last couple of years but learned more in 20 mins from this video than all the others!! Can't wait to see the others! Great work.
Ableton shortcuts are pretty intuitive and easy to learn. I appreaciate that he doesn't include them they make tutorials boring and take away from musical making
Pan Modulation is a favorite trick of ours for adding extra movement and groove - works great on midrange dotted basslines for creating bouncing plucked basses that make the mix feel more expansive and interesting without affecting stereo phase or cause sub bass clashes. Prophet Rev2 and Virus TI are superb for these kinds of sounds!
Cheers Oscar, I really to appreciate your consistently interesting, inspiring and actionable videos. You always find some original approach or subject that nobody else seems to be talking about.
What I really like about it is: i almost never use any DAW, so when watching his videos, my mind always messes with how to implement this with my hardware. And most of the times, i find solutions, so I'm learning new things, but also am "forced" to get to know my gear better - double win. 👍 Thanks, Oscar.
This might be my favorite video of yours yet. Would love to see a video about how you take something like this and hold that interest for a full 7 minute track, especially in this minimal style. I feel like it's kind of touched on here as you show how to create the tension and "make them wait," but would still love to see a video on expanding ideas like this out even further. Great stuff. About to go try some of these techniques to a track I'm currently working on to see if I can improve it.
Love this idea. I'm all about the "track in 90 minutes" style videos and think Oscar would make a great one to show the start to finish decision making.
When talking about minimalism in techno. There is one thought which also gets its fair share of support. Once you delve more into minimalism you often encounter songs that don't utilize breakdowns or drops at all. There are some percussive elements dropped of and brought back and synths an other components faded in and out but any major anticipations of big changes are absent. I get the appeal of risers and huge drops and how they work on a dancefloor. Also you need that release of energy in form of breakdown to actually build that energy again for that big drop so in that sense breakdown and drop goes hand in hand. Then again people who are not that much into a big breakdowns and drops say that they interfere with that repetitive and hypnotic nature of techno and therefore prefer minimal techno which just makes more subtle changes to carry song forward. There is still that common ground that I think almost all of the people across genres agree that there needs to be movement in the sounds to keep it interesting. That is of course up to debate how fast it should be e.g. compare some glitchy dub step or hardcore to ambient and you might find some different opinions how fast things should evolve.
Agreed! Music generally needs some form of tension and release too keep the interest driving forward. How much tension you build depends on taste and genre, as you say!
Another stellar 'tutorial'! In that it totally IS a tutorial but it's you producing at the same time and in a groove. Love it. Great minimal track aswell, fair play.
Your videos are absolutly great! Just booked you course "Industrial Techno" and can not stop watching,... so many little ideas I got,... and I'm currently at Chapter 3!
Thank you for this. Just for the sake of adding info for the guys in the comment section: On simple hardware sequenzers or grooveboxes these polymeters can be achieved by using the "Active Step"-function
ploymeters is my word of the week: that’s what makes dance music interesting and, for me at least, what is regularly missing in pop music that makes it’s boring to listen to after 4-16 bars
One of your best, if not your BEST video ! Thanks a lot for all these pieces of advice, learned a lot, and now I just want to go in the DAW to experiment that!!
7 minutes in to the first video iv explored from underdog. So much to learn from playing upright piano for years to now taking this to an electronic platform - from how the fx work alone to the ability of working together - when discussing new pieces or ideas of the track. It has been so difficult to process the reasons for some Fx. Most instruction will only tell you what and do it. If you want a full definition or understanding of why and how to use certain Fx. so far so good. expecting ill continue to learn more from underdog than iv gained anywhere else. Very informative - already know ill buy in here over anyoother.
Great Commandments any music would benefit to follow! While watching clearly see what I do next in my new Electronic track.it is based on repetition of massive, or at least centric to the track, analogue lead playing. Now I have 4-5 underlaying drum, bass, fx, elements, that will apply the commandments :)
Keep in mind though that quite some listeners absolutely hate polymeter or things that are 'out of the rythm'. Luckily I'm not one of them but it's something to keep in mind
Oscar this is what i'm waiting for. After so many videos this is the right one. Please do more in this regard and share it via pattern sheet. Thank you!
Thank you so much for all your youtube videos ( i have not seen them all already i am not even close to...) but even the fact that i use a diffrent DAW then you do, watching the videos makes me switch between programing something new, watching the next part and so on. Your enthusiasm is really pushing me to go on an on - thanks for that. You are a real good teacher all the "How-To-Stuff" and also the most Videos " exclusive " for My DAW and the controller i bought with arent that fresh sparkling and inspiring to me. i come from djing, than i got father , than my job just ate me up (btw i was Patissier in Frankfurts Cocoon-Club) with even 3000 Watts in The Kitchen so i got rid of all this electronic Music Stuff ....untill Bands Gorrilaz, Hot Chip, Djuma- and LCD Soundsystem got me back on track and i decided to jump into the cold water and try to do some tracks on my own. I never played an instrument (guess Turntables dont count) , but you are a HUUUUGE help getting closer and closer to shrink the gap between my ideas and my musically output! (I am really low on money, otherwise i'd Get the whole course. But if you need some cooking, baking or pastry help i think i could give something back ;) P.S. Please excuse my bad english
So much useful information packed into a single video! These techniques would likely be applicable to other styles of music entirely. Great stuff, many thanks.
Simply awesome! Now i hopefully can implement my own produnction styles i developed over the years into something consistent and useable for the audience 🙏🏼
even looonger tension, sneak in acid sequence (polymeter dancepartner) and boom! Drops with -1oct acid sequence and polypartner gets spicier over time 😎
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Be good to see a house beat creation, it's difficult to get certain drums to feel like they are rolling or shuffling towards the clap like in deep house
You always make me wanna get up and go straight into the DAW. Thank you.
Yeah, I can never get through an episode without having to bust Ableton open mid video.
But do you? I sure dont
@@decapitateallcops3214 Good motivation is to realise that if you don't open up ableton and follow your dream, you will regret it before you die.
@@jocee2257 I open Ableton and every time regret that it isn’t FL Studio that Im working in
@@decapitateallcops3214 substitute ableton with daw and you will see what I mean.
and btw, everyone knows FL studio ain't really good for anyone above rookie level.
I notice it is mostly used by trap artists, and trap music being obviously low IQ music. At most, a gateway to real limitless daw's like ableton and bitwig.
Man, just love you.
I'm 54, from Buenos Aires. Started using a bit deeper Ableton 2 years ago.
A Beatstep called a miniLab and then the SQ-64. Then came the volca Sample , TR-6S and the Roland S-1
Well, now is time to learn. I never subscribe myself to any channel.
But your deserve it.
Thanks a lot.
You make the universe be nice
Que sea Rock
This information is far more important than some people realize. I'm guilty of the "amateur" and "underproduced"
I'd wager a tidy sum a lot of folks who watched this are gonna make the tune they're currently working on sound a whole heap better.
I hope you’re right 🤞
@@OscarUnderdog you are def helping me with my track and album!
I agree
I love the look of excitement in his eyes...he's like a little kid! Nothing like passionate teachers!
I have been watching tutorials more than 10 years about grooves, techno, edm, etc. and honestly this is the best one I have ever watched!
❤️
There isn't enough love for techno out there.
These are the rules not only for techno but for life
Groove at every level 🌊
Decades of experience condensed in a few sentences. This is golden.
I’m just starting in ableton and the poly meter advice REALLY helped me understand why everything was sound so repetitive and flat. I feel like I just learned more in 15 minutes than I have after hours of tutorials.
I produce for a while now, like 6-7 years and I always love how your videos explain me everything I've self-taught myself, difference is, I finally understand technically what I'm actually doing. Keep up the fantastic work! Really love your teaching method!
I don't usually make Techno, but these are solid tips for composition.
it's crazy how much useful information you put in these 18 minutes. Basically a guideline for developing an electronic music track in general, helped me a lot!
Watched hundreds of hours of UA-cam videos over the last couple of years but learned more in 20 mins from this video than all the others!! Can't wait to see the others! Great work.
The four magic ingredients:
BOM BOMM BOMMMM BOOOOOOOOOMMM!!!!!
You're a genius, Oscar!!
😁❤️
A tip for ya! You can reverse any audio clip by simply pressing R (so you don't need to menu dive!)
Came to say the same, so much faster, I need a chart for all the shortcuts
@@lecoughskiofficial you can get a keyboard overlay
❤️ u angel
@@omnifvck2596 ?
Ableton shortcuts are pretty intuitive and easy to learn. I appreaciate that he doesn't include them they make tutorials boring and take away from musical making
Pan Modulation is a favorite trick of ours for adding extra movement and groove - works great on midrange dotted basslines for creating bouncing plucked basses that make the mix feel more expansive and interesting without affecting stereo phase or cause sub bass clashes. Prophet Rev2 and Virus TI are superb for these kinds of sounds!
I love how these great tutorials can be aplied to so many more genres than techno
4:51I didn't fully get how flat the "no groove" was until you switched back to it... the "yes groove" has a sort of heartbeat to it, a rolling.
Best tutor,ever. Period!
Cheers Oscar, I really to appreciate your consistently interesting, inspiring and actionable videos. You always find some original approach or subject that nobody else seems to be talking about.
What I really like about it is: i almost never use any DAW, so when watching his videos, my mind always messes with how to implement this with my hardware. And most of the times, i find solutions, so I'm learning new things, but also am "forced" to get to know my gear better - double win. 👍
Thanks, Oscar.
Your videos cover the parts of production that really push people from amateur to professional. Thanks for all your work!
The tip with dealing too much movement is again a hidden gem. Love this channel
Keep it up Oscar
Bro, that posters free. Mind-blown 🤯
This tutorial is good for more than just techno. It's a good fundamental tool for understanding how to engineer your drum patterns
This might be my favorite video of yours yet. Would love to see a video about how you take something like this and hold that interest for a full 7 minute track, especially in this minimal style. I feel like it's kind of touched on here as you show how to create the tension and "make them wait," but would still love to see a video on expanding ideas like this out even further. Great stuff. About to go try some of these techniques to a track I'm currently working on to see if I can improve it.
Love this idea. I'm all about the "track in 90 minutes" style videos and think Oscar would make a great one to show the start to finish decision making.
One of the most comprehensive and understandable cookbook for techno I found so far.
When talking about minimalism in techno. There is one thought which also gets its fair share of support. Once you delve more into minimalism you often encounter songs that don't utilize breakdowns or drops at all. There are some percussive elements dropped of and brought back and synths an other components faded in and out but any major anticipations of big changes are absent. I get the appeal of risers and huge drops and how they work on a dancefloor. Also you need that release of energy in form of breakdown to actually build that energy again for that big drop so in that sense breakdown and drop goes hand in hand.
Then again people who are not that much into a big breakdowns and drops say that they interfere with that repetitive and hypnotic nature of techno and therefore prefer minimal techno which just makes more subtle changes to carry song forward.
There is still that common ground that I think almost all of the people across genres agree that there needs to be movement in the sounds to keep it interesting. That is of course up to debate how fast it should be e.g. compare some glitchy dub step or hardcore to ambient and you might find some different opinions how fast things should evolve.
Agreed! Music generally needs some form of tension and release too keep the interest driving forward. How much tension you build depends on taste and genre, as you say!
one of the best channels on youtube
It is about time someone pointed out these facts. Well done.
Thanks for teaching groove, movement, polymeters and tension & release. Brilliant Lesson in minimalist electronic music production.
YES. Agree with comments below, this was very clear and very instructive. I want to get something like Tomas Novoa style. This will help a lot.
Another stellar 'tutorial'! In that it totally IS a tutorial but it's you producing at the same time and in a groove. Love it. Great minimal track aswell, fair play.
I've been waiting for this video for years
Oscar, thank you very much.
This is genius! Something that I’ve been looking for for a very long time.
I’m a dawless guy, but your tips are just as effective when using hardware. Thanks 🙏 for the helpful tips.
Best video in the history of music production tutorials. Thank you sir!
Your videos are absolutly great! Just booked you course "Industrial Techno" and can not stop watching,... so many little ideas I got,... and I'm currently at Chapter 3!
Yeeeeah happy to hear it!
Using polyrhythmic alone, bring you far with minimalistic music.
One of the best trick for techno music ☝️
Good video.
Greetings from berlin
Love that your videos, while based in the DAW, give inspiration and advice on music theory that can be applied to DAWless music too 👍🏼
Thank you for this.
Just for the sake of adding info for the guys in the comment section: On simple hardware sequenzers or grooveboxes these polymeters can be achieved by using the "Active Step"-function
Love your channel and only realized now that you are Torc, love your music as well. Thank you for sharing.
that was an absolute groove
Like budsticky says: also my favourite Video from Oskar😀!
Thank you so much for the education and inspiration!
Enjoyed this,especially the polymeter solo'd tip
You're a genius, man. Thank you!
Oscar dropping the knowledge on us again! Thanks for sharing! ✌
Essential video for the minimalist in me :-)
Man. Thank you. No more words needed. Just: Thank you!
These tips are golden! Real fundamental stuff that is so easy to forget...
Another triumph, Oscar, thank you for sharing!
Always a pleasure my good man
luky ive found you! i use to make songs FULL of EVERTYHING... now, i will try to relax and do as you showed... thknx
ploymeters is my word of the week: that’s what makes dance music interesting and, for me at least, what is regularly missing in pop music that makes it’s boring to listen to after 4-16 bars
I like it. I'll be transposing these techniques for my dawless setup! 😆
One of your best, if not your BEST video ! Thanks a lot for all these pieces of advice, learned a lot, and now I just want to go in the DAW to experiment that!!
Great content as always - you never fail to inspire me your insights and technical elements.
I immediately like this guy
Great video, thanks. I love minimal techno
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Thank You!! You are Awesome !!!
This is awesome! It answers a question I always had but never consciously asked it.
7 minutes in to the first video iv explored from underdog. So much to learn from playing upright piano for years to now taking this to an electronic platform - from how the fx work alone to the ability of working together - when discussing new pieces or ideas of the track. It has been so difficult to process the reasons for some Fx. Most instruction will only tell you what and do it. If you want a full definition or understanding of why and how to use certain Fx. so far so good. expecting ill continue to learn more from underdog than iv gained anywhere else. Very informative - already know ill buy in here over anyoother.
Cheers max 🤗
💎💎💎 dropping some GEMS! 🤯
5:04 ... I really enjoy switiching between the amateur and not so amateur version.
Polyrhythm technique ... clutch. 👍
THX Oscar! Very valuable video as always :)
Turkey great video.. thanks for sharing.
Great Commandments any music would benefit to follow! While watching clearly see what I do next in my new Electronic track.it is based on repetition of massive, or at least centric to the track, analogue lead playing. Now I have 4-5 underlaying drum, bass, fx, elements, that will apply the commandments :)
Keep in mind though that quite some listeners absolutely hate polymeter or things that are 'out of the rythm'.
Luckily I'm not one of them but it's something to keep in mind
Oscar this is what i'm waiting for. After so many videos this is the right one. Please do more in this regard and share it via pattern sheet. Thank you!
Amazingly explained.
Short and efficient
So cool, thank you for these gems. God bless 😊❤
Omg your explanations are so fun!) The groove is spreading through you)))❤
Thank you so much for all your youtube videos ( i have not seen them all already i am not even close to...) but even the fact that i use a diffrent DAW then you do, watching the videos makes me switch between programing something new, watching the next part and so on. Your enthusiasm is really pushing me to go on an on - thanks for that. You are a real good teacher all the "How-To-Stuff" and also the most Videos " exclusive " for My DAW and the controller i bought with arent that fresh sparkling and inspiring to me. i come from djing, than i got father , than my job just ate me up (btw i was Patissier in Frankfurts Cocoon-Club) with even 3000 Watts in The Kitchen so i got rid of all this electronic Music Stuff ....untill Bands Gorrilaz, Hot Chip, Djuma- and LCD Soundsystem got me back on track and i decided to jump into the cold water and try to do some tracks on my own. I never played an instrument (guess Turntables dont count) , but you are a HUUUUGE help getting closer and closer to shrink the gap between my ideas and my musically output!
(I am really low on money, otherwise i'd Get the whole course. But if you need some cooking, baking or pastry help i think i could give something back ;)
P.S. Please excuse my bad english
Great tips, thank you
Pure gold.
Thank you very much, Oscar :)
Fantastic
Magic!
that tune is a banger!
So much useful information packed into a single video! These techniques would likely be applicable to other styles of music entirely. Great stuff, many thanks.
super helpful for a beginner as myself. Thank you!
@4:20 Bless you!
bless you!
Great tips. Have a nice weekend.
Simply awesome! Now i hopefully can implement my own produnction styles i developed over the years into something consistent and useable for the audience 🙏🏼
even looonger tension, sneak in acid sequence (polymeter dancepartner) and boom! Drops with -1oct acid sequence and polypartner gets spicier over time 😎
Thank you so much!!! Greetings from Germany
4:19 bless you
Thank you for sharing this tutorial
This is pure gold. Thanks 👍
Brilliant!!!
love the new poster thanks
U ARE A GENIUS IN EXPLAINING THAN U SO MUCH
this is insanely good, thanks Oscar!
Very concise and informative tutorial. Highly appreciated!