POLARIS STUNS ME with his SONGWRITING SECRETS | Liquid DNB Tutorial 

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its pretty random for me. i want to start writing all my stuff at 432hz though (A4) healing frequency.

that sub knocks in Fm

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@@kelceyo832 yep, most bangers are written for that exact reason. It just hits soooo good

It's refreshing to see other producers experimenting with their sounds. You usually only see the exact steps in a tutorial and less of the tinkering parts. Thank you

Cheers

Good stuff. I really enjoyed that. I think I’m gonna go make some beats now

Thanks for the amazing tutorial Polaris! I would love to know what bass patch you used in this tutorial, it sounds so nice.

Thank you Polaris!

Glad you enjoyed it.

welcome!

Thank you!

Glad you enjoyed

Glad to hear that

Respects my man

most welcome!

@@STRANJAH hope you will do more with him in the future

Most welcome, hope you got some value in there

I'm glad you could appreciate the learning experience here. I understand some of the music theory parts were a bit advanced, but hopefully there were some nuggets of information around arrangement and composition that helped.

Glad you do!

agreed!

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Could do

@@STRANJAH I'm always looking to speed up my workflow, and am currently refining my own templates to this end - always keen to get fresh ideas for how templates can be set up to enable FAST songwriting, but doesn't necessarily lock you into writing certain kinds of music.

That is very unheard of 🤔

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@@STRANJAH Thank you! I've learned so much from your channel!

Disagree man!

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Yes unfortunately I think it was recorded at a lower bitrate. I'll make sure next time its better!

@@STRANJAH No problem) Your sound quality is always high so it was pretty obvious that something went wrong. Cheers, bro!

Don't be - there are tools around this such as Scale 2, or Captain Chords. Also you can bypass that by using MIDI packs, no shame in doing so.

i felt like that at one point in my life, ive been producing for 15+ years but i never put enough time into it. Recently im starting to learn key elements that are tying everything together and its starting to get really fun again. my recommendation is to learn sidechain compression asap, its so much easier than i made it out to be.

(sorry in advance for a long post, but I think a lot of people can relate to this topic) I don't think you're alone feeling like this man. There's never going to be less things to do in life to free up time to play with this stuff , personally will be tackling some huge things myself soon, and will be learning to juggle everything. I've only been making beats a little while and just feel like I'm hitting a stride , and will have to learn to balance big life things , and and finding ways to deal with "it not getting in the way" of progressing with production/learning I've found it to be equally helpful as watching specifically targeted tutorials on particular techniques/methods or inspiration/writing techniques, as watching the occasional 'track breakdown' vids. They're typically longer and drier, and personality in the past haven't cared too too much about the 'back story' of tunes. However, by doing so I've learned some sort of Easter egg, let's call it, techniques or tricks that might be glossed over in other vids or simply just not thought about by the producer to mention. Like Stranjah (God bless you bro) mentioning using sample packs and midi packs etc I just watched Tyr Kohout vid where he used even a Stranjah sample, once tweaked to achieve his own sound you'd never know. And even then you'd have to know the pack. And even then, who cares.... Whatever makes it fun bro! It's the biggest, most horrible cliche , but it's so true... It's supposed to be fun ! Really sorry for the long post, hope you do read it if you have time, and maybe it helps.

I would still recommend a cursory review of theory: Learn what the circle of fifths is about, learn what enharmonic keys are, and learn some simple scales to understand how they work (c minor for example). Other than that train your ear to hear what's out of key. I'd also throw in understanding of chord progressions but that's more advanced IMO. Good luck!

I started learning classical piano at age 30, currently studying for grade 6. Anything is possible.

I think it’s just to make it easier to arrange. Since it’s in nice blocks.

@@STRANJAH Probably - although each time you consolidate, it creates a new instance of a sample in your project folder. No big deal, but if you did this over hundreds of projects it would start filling your HD.

It depends on your workflow. If you use drum racks or anything where there's midi notes, you can easily use ableton's warp markers and editing to play with groove, timing, pitch, etc. It's not possible to do this if you arrange your samples in the arrangement view if you lay down every hit in its own "container". You can't select multiple drum hits and apply groove or timing changes, if you desired to. Pitch is still accessible, but sometimes with many tiny edits, it's real easy to miss a sample or two. Consolidating fixes that. It's still the pattern or run you've laid out, but in a nice little file of its own. Which allows you to treat it like any other loop you'd import into ableton. Easier to apply edits or whatever weirdness you come up with. Hope this helps a bit.

good, now get out the comments and off the channel with your negative vibes and energy, this is a seriously good video that is very in depth and informative. Big ups stranjah and polaris.