My bro, DT, a.k.a. a producer named SIDEPCE.
He found him on Twitter.
He was like, "Yo, this kid from Chicago.”
He's got 250 Soundcloud followers.
He has mad talent and nobody knows about him.
Let's work on him.
Let's get hands-on.
Let’s make him a bigger artist or just work with him.”
Make dope music first off.
I put it in a folder and I texted this beat to Juice.
Two days later, he was on Periscope.
He's like, "I'm working on this beat, Nick, come through."
He had, I don't know, maybe 50 people in there.
We were just watching him make the song live.
I’d say the number one most important thing to me when I’m making a beat is always my melody.
Like if I don’t have my melody right, or like the actual musical components of the
beat then I just can't focus from there on out.
Alright so first off, I had this main keyboard I played out.
Everybody knows Grow Speed.
Everybody’s done a Genius Deconstructed with Grow Speed on this.
Usually when I make my beats, I’ll have the first sound and then I’ll go in and
I’ll add a secondary sound to compliment that main sound.
And add just a bunch of different layers.
So after I had that keyboard, I added this Electra X bell right here.
Shout out Based Gutta.
And always after my melodies, I go straight to my drums.
Headed in this rim.
You know, for some more bounce.
And then lastly, I think this song…
The most bounce was the hi-hats.
So I turned the release down.
Chopped it so it sounds like a shaker.
Like a chka chka.
And then after I had all that, the main thing that tied it all together…
It’s just a simple, really simple 808 pattern.
It followed the bass notes of the melody.
That’s always what I do with my 808s.
The second half of the hook…
The last component I had on there was this bell cause I felt like the melody was kind
of filtered out and it needed some high end noise so I got this plug, VZ Bells 2.
One of my favorite sounds in Nexus.
And I got this pattern right here to compliment the main one.
Everything together right here for the second part of the hook.
I took that main first piano sound I had and then I just copied it over another instance
of Omnisphere.
And that’s just one sound but it sounds like there’s a bunch of different sounds
cause I added a bunch of effects.
One of the effects was this Grow Speed right here.
You know, just half speed again.
But I added this gate.
It kind of reminded me of like Drake, ‘If You’re Reading This, It’s Too Late’
How he does the bells like 40 did on that.
And then I added this plug in called Effect Rack.
This basically made it sound like less of like a keyboard and more of like a pad.
Without the effect, this is what it sounded like.
And then with the effects.
So I know if I want like a really soft ambient sound, Omnisphere’s my go to.
If I want like a really mainstream sounding sound that other people know, I’ll go to Nexus.
Cause everybody uses Nexus.
Or Electra if I want something different that not everybody has or not everybody’s using.
When I structure my beats really, I always like to have something different progressing
so it doesn't get really repetitive.
You obviously don't want to have an 808, all these drums playing for three minutes just
straight blasting bass in your ear.
So it’s nice to give the listeners a good ear break.
Now if you don’t do it right, some people lose all energy with the whole song.
But I feel like Juice…
When he was on here and he added the hook a little early right here, it just kept all
the energy and kept everything going.
Even if you go on YouTube today and you look up "Juice Wrld type beat" on YouTube, it'll
be like, "Nick Mira type beat,” “SIDEPCE type beat." Like all those Juice Wrld type
beats and it just sounds like our beats because we crafted that sound so perfectly.
That's really my style.
Like my main focus.
It's like really emotional, ambient sound and he just matched with that so perfectly.
I’m in high school right now.
And no, I’m not trying to put 2,000 college classes, worry about, “Oh I’ve got to
go to Harvard and I’ve got to go to this.”
I don’t have to worry about all that pressure.
As soon as I get home at like 2 o’ clock…
From that to the rest of the night, I’m just working.
Going to school, I hear people play it in their cars and stuff.
They have no idea.
And I’m just like, “Dang."
"I made that.”
And I’m like, in my head, I’m like, “That’s just wild."
I’m hearing it on the radio.
Here and there.
Like that’s just insane.
I made it in my bedroom.