hey guys welcome to another tutorial I'll be teaching you how to finish a
funk song there's a continuation of how to make funk part 1 video in this video
I want to show you guys how to turn the beat rhyme song in this genre this is a
different song in the first video obviously these are just general
guidelines the ideal way to use the sno-isle just paired with your own
instinct first I'm going to talk to you about the approach of how I'd finished a
funk song or her I've seen them finished by other people then I'm gonna figure
out how am I finished this funk song I have on my desktop screen it's a collab
I have with sound effects none of it is pre-planned I feel like the only way to
give you guys a real tutorial is by improvising it and to prove that these
techniques can actually help you achieve them goal so first off we have multiple
types of folk songs there's a rap type generally uses funk Cocles as a hook and
then uses the rest of the song for a rapper or rappers to rap on here's an
example of the rap type then there's experimental type experiments with
change ups and different variations hooks to remain interesting usually it's
more instrumental than the rap version here's an example of the experimental
so in part one we created our a section of the song and I'm explaining to you
guys how we would create a B and C section and I'll list any other ideas I
might have so a good idea would be to sample the same a lot example use a
different part in the song find a different part to flip make sure it
flows with the a section if you made your song with synths instead of a
sample though play a similar but relative riff slash chord progression
you could even sample something different
another idea would be to change the key overtime throughout the song yeah I got
to eight or sixteen bars and then for the c-section you could play your a
section again but makes the basical crazy or do some sort of modulation
throughout the track that makes them more interesting you can also sample
something different that's another option you can also chop the instruments
from section a and B either together or by themselves so obviously there should
be more options by the time you hit your C section of the song don't be afraid to
have an interlude or you singing or do something weird experimentation is what
makes music interesting okay now that I've explained to you guys different
ways a person could finish funk song let's finish my song there's a cloud I'm
doing my friends sound effects hopefully it'll be released by the time this
tutorial is out I'll put a link to it in the description I already have a
strategy going in which isn't always the case
but when you have a legit idea going in that's great because there's a much
higher chance of success my strategy is to use a different part of the original
sample to finish this okay let's listen to my my song so I got to make sure this
samples in the right key basically I'm going to set this up so it's the same
way and that way when I use a different part of the same song it'll flow
oh man that sounds nice all right so what I did there is I
picked a different part of the sample I warped it I figure out the pitch of the
original one it was pitched up two semitones and then I did that on mine
and I made sure the timing was the same
that's fuck it tight I'm trying to get the work from perfect on this because it
matters since there's drums on it nice so I got my little B section sample now
I'm gonna name that B sample another one would be a sample I just don't do my
ranging until later we like to find the pieces first and then then worry about
that after once I build this B section I'll have an actual portion of the song
done or a good portion of it depending on how complex this is going to be what
I'm thinking is I'm not gonna try to add vocals to this B section right away what
I'm gonna do is I'm gonna do the arrangement know that I have a and B
section and then after that I'll decide if I want to add some sort of vocal
thing or flute or whatever because I think I'm getting kind of caught up in
the idea of doing something specifically and it's not working and it's better to
just uh move on to something else like the arrangement I don't know I'm gonna
do for the intro yet so I'll do that after so for now I'll just duplicate
everything else over with the ctrl D and I'm going to copy and paste everything
in the a section over to the c section and I'll do some projects medding to
that also but it's just gonna be the same for now so let's listen to it
I think it's taking too long to get to the B section so much I move through
that quicker see what happens
I don't know how I feel about the flow from A to B let me see what happens if I
throw effects maybe that might help then I'm gonna bring back the next part
I think wow that it's a complete lack of flow so maybe I could try some things
maybe it would help if I cut out the drums and bass when I brought it back in
so I'm going to do that so what I did is I used control e to cut that out there
and then a zero to meet it
so I think I might need one more section and this FX is definitely helping with
the transitions and playing with the arrangement and whatnot so that's
something good to keep in mind I'm gonna meet the hi-hat right there maybe I want
to use that somewhere this long that's a good transition I know move this back
see how this flows from here to here remove this one forward
probably would be good to do some like snare rolls or I have rolls or something
so I'm gonna chop out some of this snares here I didn't do the kick and
snare originally that's why it's like this
cool I don't know that refresher program this would draw them in I think I might
draw them in you'll see how it works out
that's cool maybe lose a few these last kicks here
sound a little out of place there we go
I'm separating the kick and the snare roll from each other
I think I need the snare rolls there too I think I'm starting to overplay the
card now though
Trott cut out some they're overlapping so I made sure to delete overlapping
it's bringing back snare Oh again God doesn't curse me for doing this so many
times
this is embarrassing there's a lot of fucks arrows snares weren't bringing out
so I fixed up still think I either new vocals in the B section or some
something I need that something so sort of make it more interesting
a sections kind of interesting B section not as much question is what to do it's
funny how I wanted to cover the open hi-hat originally but actually now I
kind of like it it's actually a really go open hi-hat some and I think I'm
gonna cop paced it around to make sure it's more consistent kind of like how
these beats usually are and not so unpredictable or something more
predictable probably
well it's just missing it on the 4th be it I think copy-paste this first part
over here
see yeah it works it works problem solved
okay time to figure out our intro I think so I moved everything back to the
17th bar that way we have 16 bars to play with her an intro I think what I'm
going to try to do is pull this a section back here the sample and see if
i uncover anything that will transition well so something before this
so whatever comes before what I sampled for the a section I'm gonna have that
played before this because it should flow technically or test it out and see
what happens I think we got it pretty cool gonna meet the hi-hat I have it
just running non-stop and reason for now I just take a constant one kind of works
but I might do some editing to that later I'm not sure how I feel about that
yet either sometimes you gotta let stuff in marinade
we're definitely a copyright strike for this intro though so you may want to
throw some shit on it throw some D's on that bitch probably okay got our intro
that's really cool now don't think I'm gonna do a drumroll
there but I think I'm gonna do that effects and see how that works cut the
noise short
it's funny because that FX kind of works in the context the rest of the song with
that intro not really happening none of that really helps I'm just gonna
lose it yeah we've have any vocals or something in the second section but I
think I'm gonna call this tutorial for now I want to get my collaborators input
on this before I go any further so I think I'm gonna do a part three on this
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