Dotted 8th note for me, thanks for this. This is really going to help me with my productions now. Been at it around 7 years now, sort of getting there now. Cheers
The first one, dunno, always liked the simplicity of a single, sustained note. Also that one displaced by 1/8 as you were showing, thats Teddy Killers - Noir, beautiful track
I feel like a lot of the people knocking this video for being too basic have forgotten what it's like to be a beginner, everybody starts from square one and I'm sure plenty of people will get a lot of value from this video even if it's something that a lot of us already know
I appreciate you for saying this. Maybe I should have included a "beginner alert" at the start so more advanced users wouldn't be so upset lol I'm try to give knowledge to all levels here. And hey even sometimes I need a reminder on these basic principles. Also as basic as these are, some of these I didn't figure out till a handful of years down the road, especially the combos and reggaeton rhythm.
Such videos are also helpful to experienced producers, cause sometimes we're just too much in our heads about how a bassline should be that we forget the basic stuff.
Yes, this is right. My approach here is make a sound as simple as possible, then add your own spice to it. This gives a basic foundation for you to build your own interesting and complex sounds. Without this foundation to start, you'll have a hard time getting the best sound you want to make, because you don't know where to start. For example; make a growl as simple as possible: grab a Vital synth, just frequency modulate the sine wave with brown noise, and just scroll the fm knob up and down, here's your super basic growl. After that, just do whatever you want to make it unique, feel free.
I'm from Russia and don't speak English. But I have to say...) I've seen "a million" videos about the creation of Drum and Bass. And only in your videos I get the necessary information. Videos in my native language are not clear to me, but yours are clear. I didn't watch everything. I would like to know more about the structure of the drum and bass mix. Mix structure: Time segments (intro, drop, etc.) Thanks BRO!
Thank you! A successful painter once told me "always stick to the basics, no matter how advanced you are must master the basics and use the basics as your foundation" this advice empowered me. You're videos are a gift 🎁
Excellent video! Shows that simplicity is key. Over-complicating things so easy to do when starting out from scratch. Thank you for this great content!
This is actually a great exercise for bass guitar players (like me) in any genre, great stuff to think about for getting out of a rut and spicing up your riffs.
EZ mate, long time no speak! Just wanted to say that these tutorials are ace, I'd have killed to have had this kind of info and teaching freely available when I was trying to find the difference between my arse and my elbow as a kid using sequencers for the first time... :) Really nicely explained and demonstrated too - gotta admit that messing about with 808 patterns (and completely chancing on stuff by simply moving notes back and forth until I find a vibe) is one of my favourite parts of making jungle/dnb tbh, so it's cool seeing you put that across so clearly and also that you're kind of encouraging people to not overthink it.... just kind of move bits around until your ears prick up innit :) Good stuff Alan, been meaning to check these for ages but I'm a bit rubbish. Will be getting on the others ASAP. Hope all's well mate, Maff
Hi Maff good to hear from you again, and that's right, once you have the fundamental you can play around and find new melodies and patterns. Keep at it!
Fantastic video. I was listening to it when I was walking the dogs. Quite a few ideas came to me so I 'bass boxed' them into my field recording app. Gonna see how they sound with some beats!
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Love your teaching style ... very systematic and easy to understand and helps put all the patterns into context. I've been searching for something like this for awhile!
@@linguineignota It's not that different, just lower slower and less distorted. TUrn off your sub osc in serum and just use 2 normal osc's, let them wobble with LFO automating your LP filter cutoff
Started teaching myself ableton when quarantine started and even tho dnb has been my first love musically I’ve been nervous to start making my own until watching this, kinda made things click! Thank you!
you have the best tutorial vids, absolutely love the knowledge and music love youre preaching. My deepest gratitudes to you for this, really has helped me step up my production game, but also has led me to have fun doing it again! fave rythym has to be the 1/4 notes to 5 8th notes, such a cheeky one
This is great stuff. I'm a bass player. Used to rock/funk/disco/house/jazz. Tried to put together a DNB pattern I've hit a wall.. LOL. Requires different thinking.. This was def helpful.
Respect for such a quality channel! Maybe chopping amen break and mapping onto pads for live drumming dnb like Spinscott is doing? As a next idea for a video
Stranjah this is bang on mate.. this should be essential watching for all drum and bass heads.. producers, DJs and consumers will get a lot from these fundamentals. Big up and thank you. Keep it coming
Thanks man! This is a badly needed tutorial on the mysteries of dnb production for sure. I didn't realize people had developed these patterns, but they make sense. Another killer dnb production tutorial. Keep these tuts going! Sorry I'm like 2 years late on this video. There was a hodge podge of different uninformative tutorials when I started producing in like 2008, it was really a guessing game with dnb production back then. I rarely produce or take it seriously but when I have time to kill it's great to watch these, especially this particular tutorial. It's weird because I've used dotted 1/4 notes without realizingi it was a thing. But yeah I will def be using these examples to build off of.
Hey, brother! I just wanted to tell you that your work is incredible! I've been trying to learn music production for a while to very little success. With your masterclasses I finally feel I get some traction. So thank you very much! :) I understand that you're mainly into d'n'b. But I'm just curious if you have something to say on producing deep dub. If you do, I'd love to see a video on that!
STRANJAH, drum & bass grew on me because your videos are so cool. Drum & bass is quickly becoming my favorite genre. I enjoy the style that Spor brought to the scene, can you possibly do a bass tutorial in that direction of things?
The video is excellent as usual, I've come to expect great things from you! Pattern 4 is my favourite, but they all kici major ass. Many times we try and do complex stuff, which ain't bad obviously, but going back to the basic basslines is always a pleasure, like meeting an old friend you haven't seen in a long time!
I got so much value from this! I see some comments saying this was kinda obvious, it wasn’t for me. Guess I have a lot to learn. Thank you bro, gonna get to it now!!
Thanks we are all coming from different levels. It took a few years for me to figure out some of these patterns, because during those times the resources to learn weren't there
@@STRANJAH absolutely hope you do that. I think the kick and snare dynamic is often discussed, but the hats and shakers are a necessary part of the groove.
With the one note pattern, my preference is on the first or the secound snare whene theres 4 snares in a loop, the second snare really mimics that hardness of etrap
I think this is a very important topic. To think of generically, that we should and can experiment with different patterns, try new styles, or many patterns using the same timbre. Excellent video, thank you for bringing this to my attention Stranjah!
This was so good! I've always been a little confused about how to make reese basslines so that the notes flow into each other and is less clunky and hard changes in notes, would you be able to go over it in a tutorial at some point? Also been using the Gnarly pack, soo worth my money!
You’re a great teacher. My initial reaction to your videos was that these basics were learned by my generation by listening to records and absorbing these rhythms organically. To try and learn them in an academic way seems almost ridiculous at first, but then I realised that any other musician would learn by practising fundamentals and to be expected to learn everything by ear would be insane! I’m learning a lot about things I thought I already knew. Thank you 🙏
Your videos are amazing mate I can’t help but thinking people are taking this as the law don’t know what it was like in the USA but we set the tone of this music there was never any thought about spot on musical timing we had dat and if you was posh mini disks is what it was best thing I can say is take this video as a start but do what you want play your favourite track mix your loop into it if it sounds good to you and the group of people you play it too well that’s how genres are born
I just stumbled on your channel a few days ago and man i am so damn grateful for your explaination style and the insight u give. Its teachin me so much (i am currently steppin into/exploring Uk Garage as an Musical influence and i had no idea where to start so your Videos are sooo helpful). Thank you!!!!!
Great video. And just wanted to say the gnarly pack is very good. I been using it everyday. Other producers, ya'll need to get this serum pack, it's seriously such a awesome kit to have in your toolbox and collection of sounds.
I know I’m not Stranjah, but a very very basic tip for “warming up” pads and making them larger is to add in some noise. I use Vital personally and add some White or Pink noise in there, then lower the mix so it’s just adding a bit of hiss to the sound and often link it to the LFO so it “moves” with the sound I’m using, it fills out the frequency spectrum a bit more and adds depth to the sound and you don’t have to have the mix too high at all to achieve the effect, a lot of what helps to warm up sounds is achieved in the more discreet effects that you don’t hear as much but will feel in the overall mix.