- [Daysix] I knew about Rod Wave's music
and his kind of sound.
And this was like super different from what he usually does.
He went with like a different tempo
and like,
just a different sounding beat
and still, like, sang beautifully on it.
- [Zypitano] He hit me up one night and he's like, yo,
I need your details, we got one on Rod Wave's next album.
And I just, I just lost it.
I was like, "Whoa."
- [Zypitano] In the middle of 2019, um,
I was going through YouTube
and I found Daysix's channel.
And I heard his beats and they were like extremely hard.
His 808s just be slapping in your feels.
They just slap you left, right, left, right.
I hit him up and I was like, "Yo, I'm a graphic designer.
And if you want
let me do your next producer kit art for free."
- So yeah, the first thing that stood out
to me was that Zypitano like
offered to do this artwork for me for free, you know?
So it was like hard to say no at that point
what do I have to lose?
- [Zypitano] A couple of months after that,
I was like, let me send you some melodies.
Let's try to get some collabs in.
I sent him a pack of my melodies
and then we made the beat in August.
- [Daysix] When he sent this pack of melodies over
I was like more inclined to work on it.
You know, I just found this one, dope melody,
actually more than one, we made like
a bunch of beats from that pack. Rod Wave
or someone from his team, I guess, found
this beat on YouTube.
I didn't really have that many views.
So I guess that might've been why they chose it.
I just got like this
this text from someone from Rod Wave's label
and they said like, "Yo,
let me get your lawyer info.
You got one his next project."
- [Zypitano] Daysix messaged me one night
And he was like, yo, we got one on Rod Wave's
next album that's dropping next week.
I was in complete shock, so I ran to my sister.
She was here on vacation. I was like, "Dude."
And she was like, "Dude." This is my first placement,
I've not had a major placement before with a major artist.
The best part was I was listening to Rod Wave at the time.
And I was like, "Yo, this guy is hard."
He's one of the very few rappers out right now
that actually like sing, sing, not like rap-sing.
If you know what I mean
- How I always go around my melodies is
I think of the bass notes first.
I lay them down
and then I multiply them up to higher octaves.
And then I build chords around them.
- [Zypitano] Only thing I did was here.
I didn't use the hardness
of the piano because the piano was too harsh.
You could hear the hammer noise of the actual piano.
This is a free VST known as ambience.
And I use it in almost every sample in every beat of mine.
I use this preset called the Pady-Piano Bright
and it just gives it like a little bit of echo.
So the first sound was the piano.
And the second sound, what I did was
I added another piano.
It was the same sound, same MIDI
all I did was I just pushed it up one octave higher.
I added another EQ.
I cut off some of the highs
and some of the lows, quite harsh.
- [Zypitano] When you have a sound that plays
over and over again, the listener can get tired of it.
So that's the whole point of having counter melodies
and stuff that just accents, the actual main melody.
So I have these two pads.
So the next sound I added was this bell.
It is actually a bell preset from Palace 808 Mafia's
omnisphere bank.
So there is a sound that not many people have noticed
or know about.
So it's basically another piano.
It's from this VST known as piano V2, the same I've used
in the other two piano melodies.
And this is a melody that's in the back.
You can't really hear it.
It just plays like around two or three times
throughout the whole sample.
So the last sound in the melody is the sub bass.
It's uh, it's from my friend Ezra Lake.
When I send out samples, I like to put a bassline on it
'cause many of the producers that I send out to
they don't know how to keep their 808s on key.
Another thing in the melody is that there is this one
part where I've automated the piano melody to
like glitch
it's a gross beat preset from Nick Mira's bank
- [Daysix] Zypitano sent this pack over um,
and I hear this melody and I liked it immediately.
I slowed it down all the way from 154 BPM to 118.
And then I pitched it down two semitones
I gotta give a shout out to my boy Kyle Junior, man.
He's been doing these like, slow piano beats,
with hard hitting drums a lot.
We share a studio together.
So I heard that like fast piano melody
and when I slowed it down and heard how it sounded
like I knew all I had to do was put some hard drums on it
and then it was going to go, man.
Like I slowed it down
and chopped it up into these little sections.
So it like changes throughout.
And really then I just started adding the drum sounds
from the first sound.
Usually is the clap.
The next thing I did was the 808 it's
the infamous DJ Spins 808 that everybody has
everybody used it a thousand times.
Like it's no kinda secret sound.
The real secret, quote on quote, is like,
you just turn it up, man.
As you can see, I have the volume up all the way up.
And when I laid down the 808 melody
I took the velocity of every note all the way up.
Next I think I went to the hi-hats.
I just started out as a simple two-step hi-hat.
And then I added like rolls
in different parts to kind of like spice it up a little bit.
One thing I did to the hi-hat was turn the out knob
like up a little bit.
From there, I just went ahead
and added two more snare samples to add to percussion.
I added one more snare.
I actually put a delay effect on it.
It plays a bunch of times like, like right
after each other, you know,
the last things I added
to the drums was these open high hats
just like a open hat and a triangle together.
This is one of my favorite sounds ever.
The last sound that I kind of added once I had the beat
laid out was this
transition that me and my boys use.
It's like a wave sound, you know?
So I added that into the intro
and whenever like the beat goes from the hook to the verse
this is what it sounds like with the melody attached.
I first heard the track that Rod Wave did,
I felt like I knew the words, like,
before I even heard the whole thing
for the first time. He just says stuff
that like, it just resonates.
My favorite part of the beat is when like,
Rod really hits the super high notes, you know.
And just really sings his ass off.
- [Zypitano] (sings) Rags to riches...
That, that part is amazing.
Whenever I listen to the song
I just forget about everything and I
just start jamming to the song.
One day, one of my friends just sent me a post.
He was like, "Dude, your song is blowing up on TikTok."
And then like I'd scrolled through and see
my song pop up so many times and I'd be like,
"Wow, I'm a part of that song."
It's just, it's just really...
itt just makes me really happy, you know?
Ever since I was a child
I've always wanted to play live drums.
When I was in third grade
I asked my dad to get me a live, actual
complete drum set for my birthday.
But the night before my birthday
he went out and he bought me a keyboard instead.
And then I spent the next three years learning
Indian Kanata classical music that helped me
out a lot because I know what sounds right.
what doesn't sound right,
what sounds go well together,
what does not.