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@KingCobraJFS I agree with you that Navie is something else. He has this literary quality about him, you see structure all around in his work and discourse. Most people that can do stuff can't teach for shit. You can learn from them in a monkey see, monkey do way. Navie can do it, and he also messages his info like a baseball player would throw a ball into the glove. I've learned from a lot of people, but if someone asks me for some producing related content, it's Navie that I'll recommend to them for sure.
A technique I tend to use in my solo music when I'm sampling is using portions of a sample and creating a "Stop & Start" melody. Basically it means using a sample, stopping it abruptly when the snare hits and just continuing to do that to create a 4 bar loop. But I fill that open space between the sample chops with instruments, drums etc. Hope this helps someone And thanks Navie for the weekly lesson🔥❄
I like the third beat because it starts with a little moment of flute that made me go, oh, this lofi shit. But then the vibe quickly turn into somewhat industrial, yeezus like
That last tip about finding combined sounds from a sample to make a new one is dope! I usually find small loops and whatnot, but this is gonna be a game changer! Thanks, Navie! Also, love the Discord. I just jumped on and I'm already getting helpful tips from the other members!
@@ChrsGotFourEyes yup. I believe the link is in the description of either this vid or the previous one. Come and hang out and give some feedback on beats and get feedback on yours!
@@MvnStn is it good for learning new things as well? I just started getting serious about making beats but there’s sum things I wanna learn so I can do more.
Solid tip on sidechaining. Using a dedicated midi trigger - and tuning the length of the trigger note to shape the pump is something I hadn't really tried. Good stuff!
I’m so glad you mentioned Apollo Brown! He is my favorite producer… Love your videos, and the way you break things down is done really well. Keep going sir 🙏🏽💯
Im following music-making channels for 1.5 year now and recently came across your channel. Only thing what can I say is that is the best channel for beat production Ive ever watched. Keep it up please!
Amazing video as always! The pump and stab approaches are going to be huge for me! Lol. Somehow never thought of side chaining my sample to create more variation and to cut unwanted sounds out instead of butchering it with EQ and making it thin. And the stab flip is now going to become my go to when sampling for sure. I think I take too long of phrases from samples and it just doesn't work for me personally. Appreciate the knowledge as always my friend!
Wow more great help. Im gonna have to watch this over and over to catch on to some of this im gonna have to check out your other sampling videos. Great share
A bit late for this one but I like to share something about the first technique that you're talking about. I call this "swimmnig chops" and the best way to achive great resoults is with fades not sidechain. I never worked with FL Studio and not sure about the steps you have to take, but in the end you want your chops in audio (not midi) in 1/4 note lenght on the grid. Then you start to play with the fade ins and the fade outs on every 1/4 chop. This way you can do variations in certain chops and add more to the groove and the feel of it. The chops start to "swim" around the drums and the "pump" feels more natural. When you do it with sidechain you add way more factors like ratio, tresh, attack time, release time, plus the kick is always striktly on grid and you end up with robotic groove to it. I stumbled upon a video of Apollo Brown cooking and you can see clearly that he uses fades also. This technique works wonders when you use soul samples with typical for the genre sustain brass, strings, organs notes on 1 and 3 more often found in the intro of the orginal songs. In my opinion this actualy is the "secret souce" of Apollo Brown which makes his beats sounds unique. In the end, another great example of how a very simple but clever thing, makes huge impact when is used on point and also how we can go way around the corner to try to achive it when the answer is right in front. ...of course I tried with sidechain also for a few beats and then just touched the fades and it just clicked haha
The pumping effect can be achieved really easily with plugins like kickstart or free alternatives like TAL filter 2 or flux mini. I also like to do it with the fruity peak controller on the kick mixer track and linked to the volume of the melody
@@NavieD thanks for asking. i have been thinking more about your video you made about it being okay to use samples. Also, i just got serato sampler recently along with collabing with a live drummer. Making more bboy breaks.
sidechaining like this is also just basic mixing technique.. if you ever do any mixing, you'll need to know how to do this in about 30 different ways.. but it's cool to using mixing techniques creatively like this. I should do that more! particularly when the sample has drums i can't eq out to my liking
I mostly sample the last way. I get bird chopping quarter notes. To me it’s easier to chop phrases , pitch up or down to fit drum or vice verse. Get a lot of different sounds 👍🏽
Hey this one is pretty cool and creative, love it! Could you make a video on mastering and mixing though? I really can't comprehend all the nuances of this process. I've tried every possible way and either my beats sound quiet but pretty clean or loud and distorted with some audio artifacts. Also different people say different things and none of them seem to give me the result I want, I'm confused :(
Long read but if you're still having this issue or if someone who sees this is then this should hopefully help you out (basically a few tips/tricks/general rules I've learned and still use or used to use until I improved my ear). What I recommend is turning your volume to 25-30% putting a limiter on your master channel with thr ceiling set to -3 to -6 yo help give an artist room to put there vocals on and then putting each sound you want to use on the mixing rack and open up an eq on each channel you have a sound assigned to. As a general rule you don't want sounds taking up the same sound frequencies and you'll want each sound to take up it's own frequency range in the mix so that nothing clashes with each other. So if you have a kick that's hitting around 80hz you'd want to avoid an 808 that hits in this frequency and hits either lower or higher. Also if you notice the decibel level for your sound is in the red on the mixer it's best to lower the volume in your channel rack instead of the mixer to make sure it's not clipping and causing the audio distortion since lowering the volume on the mixing channel is just going to quite down the already clipping sound. I also recommend having a track with a similar sound to yours to use as a reference point for how loud all your sounds should be in comparison together. It's much better to use your ears then say that in each track your 808 has to hit at -3db your kick at -1 and hihats around -12 to -24 since some sounds will have a lot more body to them and will sound more prominent or less than they should be even if you have them set to specific levels however that doesn't mean you can't have a certain level you like to use for each sound when you start the mixing process that you can use as a starting point to see what needs adjusting. BIG TIP if you are mixing each sound individually you're limiting yourself to what it's going to sound like in the big picture and I highIy recommend looping the busiest section of your track and get your levels and eq where the need to be while everything's playing together so you can see how one change is going to effect your end product. I personally also like to mix my beats the next day with a fresh ear in case somethings not as fire as I thought it was in the moment and needs swapped out which happens often it'll be easy to catch with that fresh ear then I'll wait a few hours after I'm done to give it a final listen.
instead of making a ghostkick for the pumping effect, you can use the plugin Sidekick by Nicky Romero for example. It does the same, but it speeds up your workflow. Nice video btw Navie. Cheers man!
