- Hello, I'm Mike Russell from MusicRadioCreative.com.
In this tutorial, I wanna show you how to make
some simple beats in Audacity.
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(upbeat music)
- Okay, here we are.
And I've imported a loop from our production libraries.
You can access them at mrc.fm/sfx.
Loads of loops, beds and beats
that you can manipulate in there.
Go to mrc.fm/sfx.
Now I'm gonna start playing a bit of this.
So that's already got a beat and I'm gonna actually take
out some stuff from this to use in my own beat creation.
First of all, I wanna isolate this particular sound.
Let's loop it.
It's pretty good.
Just need to dial that in a bit.
That's what I want. Control+I to split it out.
And the same with this bit as well.
I want that click.
Let's Control+I to split that out.
And we can actually get rid of the rest of this audio
and focus simply on what we are working with here.
Which is very simply just those starting bits right here
at the very beginning here.
So let's actually focus in on that and play it.
Okay. And we can actually go ahead
and get rid of that segment as well, I think.
So we've got just those two segments there
that we're gonna use.
Now I'm gonna import a metronome.
I've got a little metronome here.
It's a simple clicking metronome.
Like that. Helps me to keep time.
And I can actually go ahead and zoom in a little bit
on this and really cut it down to size.
So in this case,
what I wanna do is I wanna use my selection tool
and I wanna cut off the start
of this so it's right down to the very top.
And then I'm gonna place some cuts
just before each metronome bit.
So I've kind of got a grid to work to in Audacity.
Again, zooming out a little bit
and placing that on with the selection tool,
every time just before the metronome.
Control or Command+I to place a little cut
and that will snap my stuff to this metronome
later on when I create new tracks.
Let's add a new stereo track
and let's actually add two new stereo tracks.
So we can now go ahead and copy over
some of the stuff we've got here.
So I'm gonna copy this first
and I'm gonna go this track, place it here, here.
And now you see how the snapping works
'cause I can snap this beat exactly
to the metronome and get it right on the time that I want.
Obviously, you'll get or create a metronome to your bpm.
Whether that's 120, 100, 135, whatever it is.
Copy this click as well.
And we can place this at the end
of my beat here, so we can create basic beats
now here in Audacity.
Very simply laid out to a grid.
Okay, let's mute this out.
Play just the beat we've created.
Pretty simple beat, but now I can go ahead
and go to this track and I can go to effect
and I can add some reverb to make this a little more spacey.
Let's listen to that.
And of course, if I want to
I can go ahead and do the same on this track as well.
Effect. Reverb.
I could do this.
And we can make that reverb even more and even bigger.
So therefore, we're creating our own beats.
If I fancy something different, I could go for echo instead.
So brilliant way to create your own beats simply.
And then if I wanna take it up a notch,
I can actually change the pitch on some
of these beats to make them sound a little bit different.
So rather than change speed them
I'm gonna go for change pitch.
And I'm gonna go ahead and take this down a semitone
and take this one down another semitone.
Let's do this.
So this will go down minus two
and then maybe I'll make this one go down minus three.
Effect. Change pitch, minus three
That's minus two. Minus three, click okay.
And we got something that sounds like this.
And of course we can go ahead more reverb, more echo
we can space it out a bit.
And very quickly you can see how we're snapping beats
to a grid and creating our own beats in Audacity.
Just a few tips for you there, but there are plenty more.
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