What's up, guys?! It's Will from EDM Tips and today i'm going to show you how to
remix a song. The tune i'm going to be remixing today
is by one of my EDM Accelerator students "Conwai" and he's written this awesome
track and i've got the stems from him and i'm going to be creating my own
version. If you want more information about my
EDM Accelerator program you can find out about
it below this video, too, but it basically helps people become professional quality
producers in between eight to ten weeks. I'm going
to be using Ableton Live 10 but you can follow along in
any DAW – the same principles apply. You can also download all the samples and
the project file below this video for free,
so don't forget to do that. If you dig this video give it a big fat thumbs up...
don't forget to subscribe to my channel and without further ado let's hop into
the DAW and get it done... Okay so the first thing you got to do is
obviously choose a tune to remix i'm going to remix a tune by one of my
edm accelerator graduates his name is conway you can get the link
to the track below this as well and when you get stems for a tune
you get basically a folder full of audio files and they are called stems
so we want to pick the ones that make this tune most recognizable you know
what's the hook what really makes this tune stand out
and in this instance it's the vocals and it'll usually be the vocals
or an instrumental hook or something like that and they're the elements that
we want to take and put in our own remix so let's grab
the drop vocals from from conway's track and the next thing
we need to know is know what the tempo of the track is now
i know that the original track is 110 bpm so i
can just put 110 in my ableton project i can walk these
vocals make sure they're on 110 and then choose
complex pro because it's the nicest uh warp algorithm for vocals
the reason i'm warping it is because i don't want my remix to be 110 bpm
there's already a future bass tune on the package it's the original
so i want to choose a genre that's going to complement that and also fit well
with the label that it's being made for so i think kind
of a house version of this tune would be a
really nice complementary tune that djs can play in the clubs and
you've still got the main vocals so let's just kind of choose a nice
house tempo so which is 125 and now because we've walked the vocal
it's gonna have sped up and still be in time with our track
let's give it some more volume
now we're going to work out some chords and i want to work out the vibe of this
track um and the way that you need to do that
really is to know which key this track is in
if you don't know and you want to work out what key your track is in
then you can click one of the videos there or there and it's going to show
you how to work the key out of any song but i know that this tune is in c sharp
minor so that makes things easy i'm just going
to loop this and then we're going to jam out some
chords so i'll choose a piano or pianpo
as i like to misspell it and we'll stick that there
and if i hit c sharp on the piano you'll hear that it will work
with those vocals
so let's work out some bass notes for this uh tune first and then we'll build
the chords up around them in fact i'm just going to jam it and
then i'll show you how you can do it afterwards because
so that's c minor that chord so let's just kind of riff
well i do anyway because that's how i roll so now i'm gonna kind of
smash out some stabs on this in the
piano
awesome okay that is going to be the chord sequence i'm going to use for this
track if you don't know how to play the piano
at all but you know which key the track is in
and in this case it's c-sharp minor you can just draw in
if you're using fl studio you can use the keys
the template scales i think they've got scale templates something like that
but if you're using ableton you can draw them in manually
so
if you draw in every note in the in fact i'll tell you what this is much easier
if we do it this way if you draw in all the white notes from
a up that is the key of a minor natural
and if you select them all and just notch them up using the cursor until the
first one is c sharp that is now the key of c
sharp minor so that's the really really easy way to do it
i'm just going to duplicate that up by holding alt
and dragging it and i'm going to duplicate it down one octave
as well there we go and i'm going to select them all press
left cursor and then press fold and now we've got
three octaves of c sharp minor so if you can't play the
piano you can just use the notes here and you're not going to go wrong it's
going to sound really good so let's kind of try and replicate what i
just done there
in fact i'm going to grab these all and shift them all down an octave
so you can see i'm just using the notes in this template when after i press fold
and i can't go wrong but what i'm going to do is i'm going to duplicate one more
octave down so we can do the bass notes too so
rumble bramble gramble there we go
so these are the notes that i was jamming
and now how do we build those chords well you can just
i'd probably do it an octave up so i'd start an octave up
and then you can just miss one note and then write another
so miss one note miss another note
and then you can get a seventh in there as well
and that's how you can make chords really quickly and easily that sound
awesome again go up an octave
skip a note skip a note skip a note
so that is nice so let's listen to this and then we're going to
do in my stab sequence as well
nice cool okay let's hop into the next project where i'm actually processing it
okay so here's one i made earlier these are the chords
with the vocals these are the chords that we just programmed in
but now i've kind of made a stab sequence out of them
oh and i've also done my special processing on the vocals because i
didn't like the sound of them before um and now we can use these bass notes
from the chords to draw to actually write our bass notes
our bass line in sorry so if we go to our bass line
we go to the drop here actually and i've actually grouped them up here which
we'll look into in a second
so these bass notes you see i've layered up two notes here
and a sub bass and blur them up together and i've just
used the same uh notes from the chords from the piano
chords and then i've put them with a nice fat
kick so let's see how that sounds kick and bass together
piano vocals
so next we want to put some drums in as well and
because i'm going for this kind of classic piano house vibe
i'm going to use a classic piano house clap
so i've got this little ride symbol to just add some more
atmosphere on the kick i've got this dance clap nice
a couple of toms hand left and right and then a reverse clap
and then we have got in our next section just more drums really and then we're
adding in another layer so using the same notes from the
baseline but a couple of octaves up we've got this mallet
actually it's just using some of the notes from the chords but keeping them
close and that's more for rhythm and kind of to give the bass line a bit
of more staccato energy so let's have a listen to the bass with it
just adds an extra bit of percussion
and i've added this stab thing and this is literally
just an analog synth with a saw saw wave
that i'm opening the filter up to with automation and that just follows the
piano chords exactly
and you can see i've added some sidechain compression as well
so for side chain compression that gives it that pumping sound
when the kick is playing um and the bass duck slightly as well
and the way i've done that is i've got a side chain channel here with the sampler
playing just a hi-hat i've made it so it's set to sends only
and we're just going to be using that to give it that sidechain ducking effect
which is what we've done so in a piano
you can see it's ducking that's off
and with it on
it kind of ducks it slightly so the kick can breathe through more and i've done
that on pretty much all of the elements
so let's have a listen and i will explain things as we go
we've got the chords and the vocals
and i switched up the chord progression slightly
but it's still all in c minor natural the key and you can see i've done quite
a lot of processing on this
and a few effects like sweeps
and then we've got a snare intro coming in
with a with a uh what's it called pitch bend
we see the pitch pen going up here we go i wanted to keep this drop really
minimal and like halsey so i chose that halsey bass sound
and this is where everything comes in
but i've also used lots of um auxiliary channels you can see here
so i've got a bit of bass line um reverb so this is the base without the reverb
and then i've just added a bit of reverb on the auxiliary channel
just to give it a bit more character and stereo width
and i've done the same with the um the piano that's got reverb and delay on the
auxiliary channel and i do it on the auxiliary channel so we can
filter out some of the other frequencies like the low end that we don't want in
there the most important auxiliary channel is
this let it go delay and this is what we use on the build up
so what we do is we just feed some of the vocal you can
see i've automated the auxiliary send control to just send it
to that reverb to that delay channel sorry so let's
have a listen what that does
and that's to that's to really kind of build the energy
and similarly here i use the same idea
this this is getting finished for sure
so that is basically how you remix and super quick
super quick tutorial that choose the vocal of the track choose a vibe that's
going to complement the original so you don't really want two future bass tunes
on one release it doesn't really make sense
get the tempo of the acapella get the key of the tune
jam out some chords something that really speaks to you and you know makes
your heart melt if that's the genre you're going for or
makes your face scrunch up like an absolute filth bag if you're going for
something really nasty and bassy either way make sure
that it speaks to you and it gets you emotional in the way that you want i
hope you've enjoyed this let me know if you want me to kind of go
through how i made everything in this because there's a lot
of processing it's quite involved so yeah let me know
in the comments below give me a hell yeah and have a fantastic week