all right in today's video we're gonna see if I can make it through without my
camera dying let's jump into it
hey guys welcome back to another episode of nice-looking lights homeboy
I'm your host weed repeats and today we'll be making a pretty light style
type beat this is a subject I've been thinking about for a while and if you
guys don't know pretty lights an organic glitch hop producer on a house you can
really describe his music step for that I've listened to him on and off for a
very long time and I never really could decipher how he made his music
until recently I started analyzing it and I figured out the formula for it so
here's the formula guys it's soul samples plus bass music plus organic
drum brakes plus 100 BPM plus lots of instrument variation plus rap acapellas
equals pretty lights I know I know very complicated formula here's my pretty
lifestyle beat and I'll explain you guys how I went about making it
okay so first things first I picked the song sample I pick something with some
cool trippy chords and a nice little melody in it this is the sample right
here all right some things that are gonna be your best friend while making
the style of music some sort of key analysis software like no dime and also
Ableton's tuner two things you're gonna want it very handy because we're gonna
be meshing lots of shit information lots of shit we're gonna want it to be in
tune right now put some basic glitch shot drums to it just to make sure we're
on the right drawn right here and make sure we're on the right track before we
just go all out on it and yet this is the right John row a little basic glitch
hop beat here program they didn't real quick with reason you can do with l1 if
you want just click just click on the arrangement wherever and you should have
basically the same thing as me now that we just have chords and drums the world
is our oyster really so we can start building on this we're gonna record lots
of leads we're gonna record lots of bass lines and lots of just FX sounds and
throw anything we can on this not all at once obviously we're just gonna find
stuff that works and then um mute them for later if our bass lines similar to
pretty lights I suggest either taking bass samples
putting them in the drum rack and pitching them or writing a bass line
with a bass guitar or a sub bass and then taking that to another synth may be
a few different since and splitting apart the notes on them that way you can
get the exact sound you're looking for while creating this project I had to use
the tuner in Ableton pretty religiously like pretty much more than I probably
had to in my entire youth production career for a single song what I would do
is I would go into these drum racks I had with bass samples and I would tune
them all to the key I was in and I went into them only to the root note I would
tune them to different notes in the scale that way we can play some sort of
cool melody or bass line with it that's not just a basic D you know over and
over also make sure to keep in mind all songs have a diatonic chord progression
we could be changing keys our scales as we go from chord to chord
so make sure to keep that in mind while analyzing your song so what I end up
doing is I made a bunch of melodies and basslines to this chord progression here
I got it up a ton of them and then I muted them all and then I started
arranging them and in a way that I thought sounded good
climax would be then obviously and something I'll break down section in the
middle got a nice little intro and last step is uh rap acapellas that's right
guys when you rap acapellas so I'm gonna find a brat pocket pillow days everybody
when it's up there mine the vocals on my track guys maybe it'll work on yours but
like that you can always layer more samples or riffs as well just remember
that I know there's quite a few songs by pretty lights that have multiple samples
in the same song on top of each other so that's very possible okay so the
mixing of mastering I feel like is really like mixing mastering any other
song only main differences you might want to use more compression or parallel
compression on your drums or your bass line those are gonna be some of the
hardest hitting elements in our mix so we're gonna want to beat them up
okay now that you guys got it down stat maybe you guys can make your own pretty
wife's mixtape and send it to me and I'll review them all speaking of
mixtapes have you guys heard of this flu mixtape more like flame mixtape am i
right it was alright
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