What I've learned from making over 1000 beats! (10,000 hours) 

If you ever had any questions for me ask them here, I'm responding to EVERYTHING

😂 Knowing that Kanye asked the pizza guy what he thought of his beat, make me feel less crazy.. a few weeks ago I was making beats on my break at work, I asked this one girl what she thought of the beat I was making. (didn’t know her at all) I let her listen and asked her to be VERY critical on what she doesn’t like and not what she does. She said the beat sounds, Very “Christmas-y” gave her Christmas vibes, Lmao and she didn’t like the how loud the open hats and rim shots were were💔😭.. but I took that criticism and sat on it. A few days later I went back into that beat, pitched the chords down lower, took out a few keys, took the BPM down a few notches, added base lines, mixed it all over again, and added a sample to compliment the beat. (She didn’t get to hear the final result, because I got a new job) so I don’t know if it sounds better or worse lol.. but I’m always open to criticism. I don’t care if you know music or you don’t. Doesn’t even matter what genre you like. Like you said Dilly, people don’t gaf abt the process of making a beat. They wanna hear something tht moves them or touches the soul 💯.. but Appreciate these videos tho bro. Much love 💪🏾

sorry for taking a while with this one, I'm working on my workflow, I'm hoping I can get the next one out within a week

Dilly you're such an inspiration. Thank you for these videos!

Thank you very much for this! 🙏 You deserve much love when you try to help people like you do. Hope you will have all the success that you want in your life, you deserve it!

Thanks Dilly. This content is really valuable to me and goals.

This video has some gold info. I'll be rewatching this from time to time! Thanks!

Dilly… you are the reason I will start my Beatstars journey soon! Making Beats / Songs since 15 years! I am more than ready to take over! Thank you for the inspiration!!! Much love and Greetz from Germany ❤️

dayum bro your content is FKING AMAZING

Great content fella!!

These are some incredible videos you've been putting out. You can tell you have experience involved with everything you say. 100% relatable and thats why I'm commenting on this. Thank you for the high quality content.

Thank you for these videos! Keep doing more of these🙏🏾🙏🏾

Can't tell you how much I've appreciated you as inspiration Dilly. It's so cool to see how far you've come, and it inspires more patience in me 👊

Your videos are some of the most helpful I've found so thanks! I have tried on and off this music thing without sucess. Now it's the time to crush it

Super helpful, Dilly thank you🙏

Great tips Dilly, keep it up.

this whole thing is gems

You’re awesome dude

Dilly! I had to put this vid on pause and had to say you really improved the editing on this one. The cc's the whole vid, the little cuts to show clips about what you saying, everything was leveled up on this one. Also very much informative video. thanks!!

You just gave me motivation

Great video bro can always count on you for good advice!

Dilly you’ve seriously inspired me so much thank you

I resonated so much with what you said about getting stuck in a routine and just uploading for the sake of it. Happy to hear that other producers have been in that situation and that we instead should focus on making the best ideas possible. Thanks bro! 🙏🏼

Dilly always dropping gems 💎 ✨️ 💯💯⚡️

very inspiring 🤝 I appreciate the effort u give in your content. Solid.👊

Really been loving these videos Dilly, been helping me out alot, keep it up 🙏

Love your channel. Learning a lot of from you.

Appreciate the time you took to share.

No doubt your videos are the best on this beat selling game bro, thanks for share this many details... always watching !!!

Every video on this producer style channel just gets better and better !

i ain’t ever heard lessons or tips like this fr inspiring

Great vid. Super insightful 👏

Thank you for sharing your experience man 💚💚💚

You really have helped me out a lot with this

These videos are really helpful and inspiring bro💯

Everything you said on point!

Dilly for president. You are so right about feeling and emotion, it's something I know to be true but it's so easy to lose perspective and forget how important that is. I think the same goes for importance of actually having a great song vs having a great beat

I'm inspired brother, keep uplifting 🙏

Fire tips!

Thanks for sharing your experience 🔥 That motivated me to start again 💪

love the vids bro keep it up

Great video bro! Nice touch on the Hungarian minor scale over an altered dominant ninth chord

Bruv I’ve been listening to your stuff for a couple of years now. With that being said, I’d be very happy to see you earn mainstream Fame soon

I love your music bro keep at it

So much gems in this video im glad i subbed 🔥💪🏽

Thank you for sharing

very solid advice here!

Thank you 🙏🏽 I deleted all my old stuff and now starting all over again. This definitely helps.

this an awesome video dilly :)

Thank you for your insight

Great advice

OK I HEAR YOU DILLYYYYY THAT FIRST BEAT GOT ME SO TICKLED 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 I like that lol

Great vid, keep them coming! Cooking up with the Limitless pack a little later today 🙌

dilly u the man

King dilly 👑

I just finished watching KXVIs vid and now im here, please upload more

Great content man! When you talk about being consistent and posting daily, were you posting a new beat everyday? How many beats would you create in a day?

I sent you messages thanking you for each video on Instagram, but I'm just stopping by to thank you here for all your videos that have helped me so much to fulfill my dream! Thank you so much for everything! Greetings from Chile

"How can people selfishly use my music" Wow Dilly, you have such great insights and explain them so clearly, amazing video

Your an inspiration no cap

This whole video was perfectly well said

i love this guy

Solid points - Thanks :) A video about balancing between "too little vs too much" would be nice. Meaning how to make a beat feel full but still leave room for the singer to fit in. Also maybe a video about song structure aka how many Verses and Choruses? How long they should be? Hooks, and etc.. Great stuff Im following for a while now :)

hungarian soloed over an altered dominant chord hahaha great video bro love it

Actual gems instead of generic advice!

Love these…

gems!

Bro ya beats are fire. Do you use pre-cleared samples for your beats or just create your own?

6:00 so when you listen to samples and stuff you just go by feeling and clear them later? love your channel, bro, thx! 🔥🔥

Hi Dilly! My name is Bryan. I'm one of your many subscribers and I love your drum sound so much it got this grimey sound and it's heavy, especially your kick and 808 are so fire🔥 And I'm just speechless how you optimized your business. And your strategy is my go-to route I'm gonna make when I get better. I'm actually Korean, 20 years old, a college student. My major has nothing to do with music but I want to be a producer like you. I've been making beats for 2 years but I was just messing around back then and now I started to take this path seriously. I was hoping if you could let me know in what year you started making beats and how long it took for you to actually upload your first song from then. It would be an honor to hear from you Dilly! Thanks for your time :)

so true

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found your channel today and I feel like it's time for me to go back making beats.

🔥🔥

Thank you for genuinely helping others in the music community. In your early days as a music creator, how did people find your beats on RU-vid? With so many excellent creators, it seems easy to get “lost” in the sea of content. To be specific, would you mind sharing what you did to attract viewers to your videos? Much gratitude!

Great content, at what point did you decide to go fulltime into making beats, and what made you take the jump?

Hey man amazing content 💣! I have bunch of questions - I hope it's Ok to ask a few ^^ I'm coming from another genre, and many things are quite different: 1) Can you tell a bit about humanising vs quantising. How far can you go off the grid, are there elements you humanise more e.g. maybe pianos and others which you keep more on the grid maybe some drums which make the main rhythm? E.g. in my main genre everything is 100% dead quantised. 2) Can you tell a bit about your mixing concept and the process. I analysed one beat of yours and it was like -10-12LUFS loudness and -0.1 TP so I assume once you put them out there the beat comes already "mastered"/limited. Do you have some levels you keep while producing e.g. for the kick, bass, main percussive elements. Are you applying limiting afterward or produce into the limiter? 3) Can you tell a bit about the low-end, as far as I saw it in R&B it's also reserved for kick &bass, so I got it right, that the elements like vocals, pads, drums don't go lower then let's say 80-100Hz, right? What about if kick & bass hits simultaneously, is it acceptable to have them summing, or is it e.g. side-chained, the lows removed from the bass or such things? i hope I didn't ask too many questions, but it's really great how you explain and you have a lot of inside knowledge.

Great video Dilly! Got any thoughts on what to do to get out of/through burn out?

Hey man just found your content and I had been submitting a track to Spotify playlists and the feedback is so mixed man ! Some love some hate … but that quote on something wrong but not having the correct critique hits !!! Have to keep hitting the drawing board to come up with something better ! Appreciate it man

Great video. Any tips on arrangement? Like how long the intro, hooks and verses should be

So i see where i been lacking...an upload schedule. Wow. Man you my coach lol

Great advice, thank you! I gotta say, the only beat I've sold is the one I didn't make as a 'beat'. I was just inspired to make music and did one, originally, for myself but I decided to post it and say "what the hell", let's see if I could actually sell a beat. I sold the exclusive not long after that. Since then, I tried to sell more beats but I couldn't, I think it's because I made them with a "beat selling" mentality and not to make something great.

letsssss goooooo

Ohhh shit!!

can you do a video about tax and all that legal stuff as soon as you stared getting a regular paycheck on beatstars . And great video too bro, keep em coming 🔥🔥

Lol dude (where's my car) every time it shows you listening to your music with your mouth agape...you low-key look like a version of Matthew McConaughey...."alright alright alright" 😅. Awesome info man, love it! Learning gems 💎 👀✍️ Thanks a million 🙌

Could you explain how to master a beat for youtube/beatstars to make it louder without distorting it or compress it too much? What is best, clippers, compressors, limiters?

What’s your Favorite piano and string VST ?

Dropout is my favorite album

the lesson 3 is golden key

Hi Man, just discovered your channel. It's been a while I have been thinking about starting a youtube channel and starting on my beatstars profil. So far, I was just interested in getting placement, which to me was "the only way" but I realise that I can actually explore different ways. Your business seems to be established now, but what about people who get started now? Is it too late, due to the business being over saturated ? What would your advice be ? Thanks a lot, hoping to read from you soon. Cheers. Pat.

Hey Dilly, superb content brother. I am considering building a revenue stream with beats and sample packs. I have a question if I may. I'm OK with posting beats on RU-vid, yet I am still trying to figure out how you manage to keep track of anything used that has not being bought - do you use Beatstars to track that? What's the process to wrap all that sort of stuff up? And one more question if a beat is for sale for 1000 people lets say, can that essentially mean 1000 songs are then produced, what happens with the RU-vid Content ID etc...? I may be over thinking it? Got any resources for that side of stuff?

What are some music theory tips for dummies. I just started making beats two months ago and I’m stumped when it comes to playing the piano.

Hi Dilly, thanks for the tips. In a recent video, you said that if you want to be a professional producer, "''Make the music you are inspired to make' is the worst career advice I have ever heard" "You have to make what works." But you also say that you have to create music that you really feel. Am I correct? When you create beats, how do you reconcile creating what you believe the audience will like with what comes from the heart?

I’m trying to start making beats and eventually make money. Got caught up with an idea that I need to perfect piano skills, music composition skills, etc. I mean that could go on forever. I hear that beat makers use samples as the main melodic pad. For example the one you show in this video. So is this beat making more like LEGOing using samples, or more like composing from scratch? I mean I kinda don’t get this ratio. Could you comment on that? And also how much in depth I need to learn say FL studio to start? BTW, I’ve seen your collegues such as Servida and KyleBeats, which are amazing as they are. But what I admire in you, is that consistency stuff. This is just crazy to me! Thank you for sharing all this.

super random - I flipped the same sample of the background beat playing and would love to send it to you to hear your take on it! always love seeing the similarities/differences

When you sit down to make a beat or a loop or sample from scratch, do you already have the exact idea of how you want it to sound or do you just play around on the keys and make whatever comes to mind?

Where do you typically sample from and what are your most used tools for making beats?

Can you talk abit about using soul samples and if you’ve had any bumps using soul samples while on BeatStars. I understand if you can’t if it could seem as legal advice so if that’s the case can you talk about: how you export and organize your beats for sale ? Thanks man been listening for ages to your stuff. Would definitely collab one day if I ever had the chance 🔥

I'm so lost on the business side of putting my music out. As a producer, do I need to upload to upload my beats through platforms like distrokid or copyright them before I post them? And also, what are the steps that I need to take in creating a music business. I've been watching videos from numerous producers and I'm very unclear on this. Do you have anywhere that you can point me to figuring this out. Sry I'm late to this video, I'm newly subscribed. Thx