What's hannin guys. Welcome to my first video. Sorry if my chair makes a bunch of squeaky sounds, but I mean
There's nothing I can really do about that.. its kind of pissing me off too, but yeah, this is my first video
I'm planning on dedicating this channel to just music stuff like
Producing beats or maybe even rapping I don't know but I mean like people change their mind
So we'll just have to see about that, but for now I'm just planning on just sticking to music on this channel.
Music is my hobby. I've been religiously doing music ever since I was a little kid
It wasn't until like after I graduated high school where I kind of took a long break
I guess it kind of just lost inspiration passion for it
It's been about like three years since I went MIA with this whole music stuff
But recently one of my homies hit me up and he kind of just like put some inspiration in me so so yeah
I think it's been about like two weeks since I started making beats again. within those two weeks
I've just been trying to get familiar with
The whole like program and all that. Back then I used to use Fruity Loops but I didn't really make beats hardcore like that
Right now I have Logic Pro X, so I've been getting familiar with that program.
Now I don't consider myself a pro or anything
I actually consider myself an amateur. So yeah, at the end of this video if you think this beat sucks. Well, that's cause
I'm a noob.
The reason why I started channel is because
I guess I want to consider it like a log. Something I can use to keep track of my progress
Let's say like after a year I'll look back to this video and be like man I improved a lot.
Today I'm not planning on making like a super complicated beat or anything like that
I'm just gonna stay pretty simple. Also like the title says I'm not going to be using a midi keyboard or a Midi controller
And that's because I honestly don't have one right now
I kind of want to prove to myself that I'm going to be consistent with you know making beats
I don't want to go out and buy like a really nice Midi controller
And end up not using it after a few months because I lost inspiration or something like that
So yea for the time being I'm going to be making beats without a midi keyboard or anything like that
I honestly thought it was gonna be really hard to do it first, but after a while. I mean you just kind of get used to it
It's just really uncomfortable to use the virtual keyboard sometimes especially if you're trying to play like a bunch of chords, but yeah
I guess this video is also for those of you who can't afford You know like expensive equipment
If you're trying to practice or learn making beats or if you're just doing it as a hobby honestly you don't really need like super expensive equipment.
Oh yeah by the way. I'm not using like super nice speakers right now. I'm using like these really old like
Speakers
I don't know how well the speakers are gonna deliver the sound to the camera
Especially when I start playing like 808s or something like that. bear with me, once I edit the video I'll kind you know
Realize what I need to use or get to kind of improve my video and sound quality so yeah
Let's get started with the first video. Let's get it
Okay, so I have logic loaded up on my screen right now
I kind of don't know where start because I'm pretty much making this from scratch so
I don't know what kind of beat
It's gonna turn out to be but I'm thinking of I think I'm going to start off with a synth
Maybe like a kinda you know like a fat synth. You know because
Gotta keep thick you feel me. Nah, I'm just playin I don't know what I'm saying
Actually, I think I am gonna start off with a synth
I'm not going to be using like you know like those expensive plugins or anything like that
I'm just going to stick to what logic has given me and maybe some like outside
You know sound kits so. Oh and by the way it really does take me a while to
Find a sound that I really like so I'm not going to have you guys
Watch me go through that process because honestly this video is going to end up like really long
So I'll just cut all the portions out. All right guys
So I found a synth. So I got the tempo set to 110 uh let's see how fast that is
All right so right off the bat, I can tell that I wasn't playing you know like in sync to the tempo
I mean it was kind of like offbeat. I think so
I'm gonna you know quantize the melody. So I quantized the melody let's go have a listen
Nothing too complex. I'm just keeping it real simple
I'm thinking about like adding like a bell or something. alright guys. I found this bell sound that I kind of like
Let's get it
I'm just gonna go ahead and quantize and loop that. So this is how it sounds
Ima go ahead and add an 808
Where the 808s at.. alright guys, so I found an 808 that I like. I added some distortion
And I compressed it a little bit. This is how it sounds like
Just going to layer the 808 with Kick
I'ma lower the sound of the 808 and the kick
Just because I feel like the camera's not gonna catch that sound really well. So this is what we have so far
thank God for the quantizing feature Yeah, I've been feeling really offbeat today
Alright, so I'm gonna use this snare to kind of layer the clap, maybe add like an extra hit somewhere in there
Time for them hi hats. Alright so this is the hi hat sound
I'm going to be using the note repeat function because I'm just you know I just don't want to
keep tapping this button. For those of you who don't know what Note Repeat is, pretty much you can choose a rate and
Pretty much hold the key down, and it'll play whatever sound at that rate. Ah, that's a little too fast
Ima go a little slow
Yeah something like that
what the....
Hold up dude that synth turned into something just pathetic
Alright, so I change the synth back to the original one. Ima use note repeat for the hi-hat like I mentioned
let's get it
All right, so I kind of messed with the hi-hats a little bit not too much. This is how it sounds now
So honestly, I was thinking about just cutting off the beat like this. I just wanna keep it simple
I don't want to add like a bunch of sounds. I don't want the beat to feel too crowded or anything like that
But I decided I'm going to add one more sound it's going to be like
Kinda similar to a flute. Something Ima use for like the hook when I arrange u know everything. Aight this is the flute
I quantized that to how I like umm kind of loop that once. This is how it sounds.
Kinda leave it in the background like real quietly
Kinda for like the hook
I might not use it at all idk we'll see. So Ima add like this one last finishing touch. it's a surprise
All right, so this is the final product. I mean it's not finalized or anything like that
I gotta mess with the volume um I gotta mix it
Definitely have to mix this. But I mean like here's a little rough draft
Kind of reminds me of like a DJ mustard, TYGA
Maybe like yg
Or something like that - I don't know it's like a mix of all of em
So here's what I'm gonna do I'm about to take my time and kind of like
Arrange it kind of like mix it a little bit maybe change the color of these little things
I think it's honestly like pretty fun changing the colors of these things
Yeah, I'm going to kind of like tweak the beat a little bit and then
I'll kind of show you like the arranged version?
I added like you know like drop effects and all that. So this is how I ended up arranging all this
Let's have a listen
So that's the beat I'm going to play like a higher quality version in the background like maybe in the outro of this video
I don't consider myself a pro or anything like that
Still got like a lot more to learn with this whole music production stuff. If you liked the video make sure you give it a thumbs up
if you didn't just still give it a thumbs up. Make sure to subscribe because I will be posting at least once a week
I got a lot more beats coming for you guys so stay tuned. I'll see you in my next video
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