Beat makers I’m so garbage but I don’t want to quit

[Rozay Oro]

Breh, just thought of something jean-yuhs.



You should market/advertise yourself as the garbage beatmaker. YES!!!



Just for being ironic and self depricating... at least you'll get inquiries.



It's a breaf of fresh air from all the superfluous braggadocio that comes with hiphop.



You've got it.



The right stuff.



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No but I will work on it as soon as Im done eating

 

[Rozay Oro]

So this song is in the key of B major.

Here is the B major scale. These are the ONLY notes you need to play around with and worry about, whether you're looking for chords or finding a melody/bass line. Forget all other notes on the keyboard.

But I'm gonna take it a step further:

This is the B major pentatonic scale. Now it's been broken down to just 5 notes (penta meaning five): 4 black keys in consecutive order, just one white key, B. Pentatonic scales are SUPER important to all black music, the blues, and pop music melodies.

You can remember this scale without even taking advantage of your DAWs features, easy. But chances are your DAW has a "chord mode" or "scale mode" or something that allows you to set a key and scale so you can see it from there.

Here what I want you to do: play around with the pentatonic scale along with the song. Dont play any chords yet (your sample fulfills your rhythmic section anyway). You can try improvising a bass line or you can try improvising a lead melody. But play along with the song using JUST THESE FIVE KEYS.

Come back and tell me what you think.

Thank you so much. Will get to it

 

[Rozay Oro]

Post a song you're trying to sample and I'll walk you through the process of putting a beat together. You might be picking songs that don't have anything you can use and are trying to force a beat out of it.

Do not focus on making drums. Get a drum loop or a break beat, loop 1-2 bars, and put your sample over that. Once you figure out sampling you can create your own drum patterns by mimicking loops and breaks.


One thing I learned is not to overcomplicate things. Stop looking for 4-8 bar loops and grabbing a bunch of loops from the song. You don't need a bunch of beat switches, choruses, intros, and outros. Find a 2 bar loop, put it over a drum loop, and that will get you started. Make the beat about 60 seconds long so you won't notice the repetitions.

Shouldn't take more than 10 minutes and making simple beats will help you get your confidence up. If you can find a good soul loop it might not even need drums.

Another thing is don't create the beat in your head use your hands. Just load the sample into your DAW and start playing with it. Hit the pads and see what sounds good.

You DO NOT need to know music theory if you're 100% sample based. Don't let that confuse you early. You can pick up the basics as you go so don't focus on it.

Will do this and brotha Velvet’s suggestion

 

[Rozay Oro]

Well shyt. If this is what OP is aspiring too then

Just take the song, chop it up by the beat, maybe join together separate but similar parts of the song so it sounds interesting, transpose it, layer a drum pattern on top, process it so it sounds hollow and lo-fi or whatever you going for.

Ship it.



I thought breh was going for Trap or J Dilla type shyt or something

I’m going for it all. I don’t want to limit myself

 

[Unknown Poster]

Kanye was really onto something when he made 5 beats a day for several summers.

2020 when I quit my job was making 8 tracks a day.



If you wanna get good at something do it everyday. Listen to those Madlib and Dilla Beattapes from the early 2000s too. They would make one beat and move onto the next one.

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

 

[Rozay Oro]

Kanye was really onto something when he made 5 beats a day for several summers.

2020 when I quit my job was making 8 tracks a day.



If you wanna get good at something do it everyday. Listen to those Madlib and Dilla Beattapes from the early 2000s too. They would make one beat and move onto the next one.

I want to prove these nikkas wrong especially the nikka said that my sample of choice isn’t necessarily a good start. I run into a roadblock with not knowing how to execute it lol

 

[Rozay Oro]

After watching tutorials FL not letting me chop the sample how I want as far as on the vsts that are supposed to mimic an MPC. Gon get a drink from the gas station and relearn Reason instead.

 

[Rozay Oro]

Don't tell me that im the only one that leveled up

Its good you don't want to quit tho, shyt takes time & practice.

You won't make heat all the time, but that's ok. First figure out what kind of beats you tryna make.

None of that 4 bar shyt like father Quincy said

So how do I make some shyt with a bounce like this?

 

[Rozay Oro]

@The Velvet Soul
@Supa
How do learn music theory and apply it to beat making?

 

[Supa]

@The Velvet Soul
@Supa
How do learn music theory and apply it to beat making?

Where's your beat?

I can help you out more if you upload something.

Don't worry about music theory.

Learn to loop, chop, and lay down drums. Get the fundamentals of beat making down and then you can learn basic music theory. Really if you can get your sounds in key that's all you need.

So how do I make some shyt with a bounce like this?

The bounce is coming from the drums. The sample is just a 2 bar loop. Beats like that are fairly simple which is why I was telling you to sample 2 bars.

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

Where's your beat?

I can help you out more if you upload something.

Don't worry about music theory.

Learn to loop, chop, and lay down drums. Get the fundamentals of beat making down and then you can learn basic music theory. Really if you can get your sounds in key that's all you need.



The bounce is coming from the drums. The sample is just a 2 bar loop. Beats like that are fairly simple which is why I was telling you to sample 2 bars.

Breh ain’t making no damn beats

 

[MollyGalaga]

So how do I make some shyt with a bounce like this?

exactly how @Supa described


you're making it harder than it needs to be, i speak from experience

 

[Genos]

Learn music theory

 

[Rozay Oro]

Breh ain’t making no damn beats

You’re technically right cause I ain’t posting garbage. I want to show something decent. Been busy with work.