Watch Me Make A Beat
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- Опубликовано: 12 дек 2024
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”It should be about how those chords with that sound make you feel at this time”
Yes, this is so true. Don’t overthink it. Feel it.
I love the way you produce! It's so enjoyable and your accent is the added icing on the cake of watching your process unfold!
With no musical talent myself, this is absolutely fascinating. More of these please, would love to see the full hour, wort's and all
Live streams👀
Musical talent is a myth
Nice to meet you today, I'm just learning Ableton now. Thanks
Great video! Gotta say though, that while you're 100% right about the song in terms of feeling and not getting hung up on theory, the idea with music theory is to use it WHEN you're hung up and not to start with it. People that get hung up about music theory doesn't mean that music theory is bad, it just means that the individual is making poor choices while producing / composing. As with anything, the more knowledge you have on a subject, the better. Music theory when applied correctly means a bigger vocabulary that you have while producing.
Yeah, and the thing is that, as with ANY subject / field I'd say, having freshly-gained knowledge blocks you a bit... because it can get overwhelming and your brain is operating with all that info. But it goes away!! That feeling of ''oh knowledge kills the vibes'' :D once you assimilated it it's in the background... and you have mental tools on hand to help you out when needed. Granted, it can take a long while for this process...
p.s.: does the native english speaking world refer to the discipline of harmony and chord progressions etc as 'music theory'?
'Cause where I am, music theory is really the more objective side of music, like: ear training, learning about scales and modes, harmonic resonance...
That would explain why they get an allergic reaction to it, like ''ugh, you're telling me what chord SHOULD go where? no thanks'' :))
Naming things right before mixing. Welll that works. First You create chaos and then You arrange the chaos to be more organized. (Tidying up)
"I went to the shop and bought some biscuits", I love you Rachel.
This threw my heartbeat into a flurry. Excited, suspenseful, inspired, then in awe. Great work, in just over 10min, we got to witness 60 minutes of straight improv'd composition; we were treated to an astonishing vibe'd concoction!!
This is awesome... What a vibe, and energy.... Great work 🙏🏾💜
Nice to see how others are doing it. Thanks for the window on your world!
dope work. i like your style
I just sit in awe. Being a non musician, having no musical understanding at all except for hearing amazing beats when they come.... I fantasize that I could somehow learn to create music this way... but the reality is probably just fantasy. So, I will live vicariously through your work. Thank you.
THINKING about it is the first step. If you really want to learn, you can! There are no limits. Only those we place on ourselves. You're LISTENING to beats. You've already started, my friend! :-)
@@damelos4039 Nice comment Damelos! I have made a few beats on Garage Band, but its nothing like what she does here. I know nothing of chord progressions and music theory. The only thing I can do is put sounds together that Garage Band provides. I just enjoy those who can make beats from nothing but their imagination from the very first note. Thanks again!
Your thinking, now try it...A simple midi keyboard, some free beat making software...learn some simple chords C, F, G, Am, Dm...Honestly, just mess about...if you start to like it..it will get better...we all started somewhere...so why not.
Was hoping to hear that vocal over the beat at the end! So impressive!
Thanks for sharing! It's great to see your creative process and the ways you avoid getting stuck and your willingness to redo things - not overly invested in what's come so far.
The song sounds great. Some very useful workflow tips too
1h of producing...
Me: just finishing my kick drum sound design 🙈
RKC: creating an entire song with lyrics and all 😎
Super nice and inspirational session here!
It shows that you don't need to be super perfect to create an awesome hookie track which will stuck in your head for a couple of days 😁
Agreed. RKC's "mess" is other people's polished final product. Including myself here. LOL You're a true artist, Rachel.
If you make 3 favorit kicks in a folder, you won’t waste to much time + you will be more creative, if you tweak a kick for an hour your creativity gets lost in my opinion.
@scoot manke Yeah, I don't waste an entire hour on a kick, that was more thought as a hyperbole. 😁 It should just point out how unimportant perfection could be 🤔
@thiskingbuisness yeah, that's a clever move, will be looking into it next time 😊
Love the honesty and candour in your videos. Thanks for de-mystifying the process!
YOU are Awesome! Thanks! INSPIRATION to the MAX😌
Marvelous as always!
i really loved that melody Rachel ... wanted to hear what the rest of the soundtrack would sound like
You need to make a full fledged track out of this! This is brilliant 🔥. Looking forward!
The voice is crazy with the reverb
Please make more videos like this Rachel, absolutly awsome!
Really like your sequencing and editing. Thanks for the great tips as well.
you're a beast Rachel... every track has a mega hook...
Agree with the session view vibes. That's the magic of Ableton Live. If you want a linear timeline, use any DAW. Literally....except now Logic has this feature, even though it's rudimentary right now.
Fascinating watching you create Rachel. Very enjoyable.
@Rachel you have the best and efective Gaming Chair I've ever seen !
Super fun watching you work in that 'mess of yours' and come out with something beautiful.
Fantastic work Rachel! I gotta do more of these with Ableton
Totally agree with what you said about chord progression. Using 100% theory to get something “so new” often makes me loose track of the inicial feeling and mood of the song
To me it’s kinda obvious that following the path of every musician will lead to .... nowhere new. So I agree with both of u too.
I know music theory pretty well, and I still like using weird sampling tools or midi generators to get ideas going without thinking about theory at all. It’s an old plugin but I still use it often called Cthulhu that just generates random chords assigned to keys. Every preset is in an actual scale or key, so the results are musical, but you don’t really know whats coming until you start playing. Love it. It makes me respond to the music happening by feeling as opposed to intellectual theory brain
Yeah, then a profesional comes and blows you by making a song equally fast but coming up with an awesome chord progression
Sebastian Diaz or maybe he won’t do shit because he’s been too busy learning the same thing musicians have been learning for decades.
It’s definitely not an “always” scenario but many brilliant minds in music fought the academy of music in their time for not following “theory”.
If we had stayed at replicating what is taught to us in music classes, we’d still be composing Mozart-like stuff.
That, is stifled creativity. Don’t forget there’s only “one Mozart”, so good luck if your goal is to simply replicate what has been done already.
I think BOTH sides have a lot to offer. The best is obviously knowing about theory and knowing when to break away from its conventions.
However, someone with perfect pitch will probably never need to study harmony (well, they will, but on their own and before age 3 so... lol not much you would be able to teach them then, and a few years later they’ll be able to understand harmony far better than a trained musician would).
Mr Nelsonius I love modular workflows because of this, it’s like composing WITH the computer. I use a lot of sequencers to drive OTHER sequencers which in turn drive parameters and other stuff.. my songs built this way generally sound like I wanted them to but without actually being exactly what I had envisioned before building the setup.
It feels a lot like directing/improvising which I used to do back when I had the time to have a band lol
Thanks for inviting me into your studio.
Big fan since your “4 Producers 1 sample” production. Thanks for sharing this. It’s great to see how your mind works and how comfortable you are with your workflow. Shout out to Jade Wii also. I didn’t know you epic jammed together. 😊
Same here! First time I heard of her was through that video. Big follower since then!
YOU ARE AWESOME. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE HOW TO YOU CREATE YOUR TRACKS. LOVE YOUR SOUND!!!
These videos are honestly getting me back into making music after a several year hiatus! Thanks a bunch for that!
Great vid! Love your spontaneity! Melody is the most important thing. Chords are just harmony...
More of these "Rapid Fires" please!
You'd be surprised what you can come up with when you're under a time limit. 😉
Yes, it's helpful to just force yourself into that space periodically. Sometimes, there's a real gem in the process.
This is so inspiring i stopped watching at 1.32
and started making music, i have been making music for 15 years and recently stumbled on your video's, you got a big new fan here!
I was feelin that riff when you were starting out. Love watching your creative process. Finished product is dope!
The last part where you sang "I've got one minute" cracked me up so hard :D
Nicely done!
it all makes perfect sense
Amazing!! Sounds really fresh and love your workflow! Boom!
WHen she started singing got to my heart
that was incredible
I love seeing the process! Thanks for sharing :)
Brilliant! It's so good to see people doing what they really do, not what they pretend. I'm just starting out in this making music thing, and it's really good to see that 'unstructured creativity' (ie "jfc what was I thinking, lets completely redo that bit" perfectionism) is a way to end up with something that sounds good! More like this please :-)
Glad to see someone else using an MX-1! 👍
I am not into most of the current musical scene as I am an old school guy doing live guitars and rock bands. I have purchased Ableton Standard for loops and Studio one pro for mixing. I find your tutorials awesome as they give more insight into jotting down the ideas and the process of recording unlike others. Please keep doing them.
Welcome to the digital.world. 😊
rachel it is just amazing to see your workflow, tools and tips. very inspirational. and i loved the song
Thanks Onur x
That was so cool...,i love it👍🏻😊...thank you so much for sharing this video to us....🙏🏻😊
I love your workflow. This is inspiring. Thank you for this.
U did nice job editing mixing screen and keeping audio intact flowing behind
In my music-work path, I actually tend to get the opposite of “its been done a million times before” when it comes to chord changes haha. If it’s not common in modern popular music it’s probably “too weird”. Example: my band once wrote a song a 3/4 time that we all really liked. None of us think of that as an odd meter. It’s a waltz for gods sake, been around forever. So we started performing it live on tour and it went over like a lead balloon. We’d be rocking it out having a blast and every audience, every night, particularly the young ones, had no idea how to move to it. You could just see the discomfort and confusion. Sad day for me musically... we haven’t finished a song as a band in 3/4 since 😂. I just wrote an instrumental in 14/8 just for my ears though. Because my soul needs something different sometimes 🤷♂️
Check out king gizzard and the lizard wizard, they have like 30 songs in 7/4 and it works great lol
I feel... so confused. :))
Are you saying that knowledge 'ruined' a song for you?... or the other way around? :-?
(you don't have to know any music theory to make a song in 3/4)
There are 3/4 songs in rock / popular music tho?
Personally I don't think disconfort is such a bad thing to cause hahah, especially if it's in a small dose in your case. They would've gotten used to it maybe? :D
I'm super bummed that you let that reaction take away from YOUR joy and your inspiration... :'(
The audience can be lifted up, we don't have to go down... (at the same time, i don't know the context, maybe the song didn't work with the setlist or something else was odd about it haha)
Like, maybe try a 5/4 too :D it can get super engaging
Irina V not saying this at all. I make tons of music for me that is in odd meters, complicated, technical etc. But I’m also a full time professional musician and have been a long time. I get hired to deliver music that somebody else wants. Whether it’s “make my mix sound like this Top 40 artist” or “help me produce a song to be a radio single” etc. I wouldn’t have a career if I just did what I wanted, I’d need another job, and then I’d have way less time for music in general. My point was young people, listening to my band’s genre, did not understand that 3/4 waltz feel. They buy tickets and albums, I have an obligation as an artist to make things as quality as possible, but also an obligation to understand my audience and play to them. Not just at them. Delicate balance sometimes
@@mrnelsonius5631 I get it. I'm glad you still do what you want, even if for yourself (but I hope you share it with other people, though :D )
Hey now I'm super curious, do you have that 'odd' song anywhere on the internet? (and any other songs, band *and* complicated :) )
(p.s.: sorry if i came off as condescending in any way)
Irina V oh not at all. And the song was never released!! It really wasn’t complicated either, simple rock song. But it’s the times, “Money” by Pink Floyd was their biggest charting single at the time, back in the 70s, huge hit, and it was in 7/4. There hasn’t been a hit song in a time signature like that in a very long time. Tastes change. Hopefully more advanced music becomes popular again. Fads change 🤷♂️
Cool song. Well done.
so talented as usual Rachel... you deserve way more subscribers
That bassline is sick :) Give us more of that and how you got that sound!
Thanks for sharing Rachel, really cool workflow :)
I like your approach.Thanks
just awesome vibe! good work Rachel :)
You are music genius girl, that’s for sure
WOW...just subscribed and fell in love all in one!
I really like it! Both your process & your results are soo fun!
love the music and your art of inspiration
Freakin' brilliant as always.
i enjoy your unpretentious style. watching your video inspired me to stop procrastinating and get to work
Very nice video, thank you
Nice vid 😃 please do more
I can listen to Rachel for hours ❤️
That Vox plugin works so well with the vocals👍
Love it. Hope it becomes a whole track.
Your vocals are timeless an big responce
Crushing hard!
Loving the track! And dang Valhalla Supermassive is so much fun playing with it now, thanks for the heads up!! :)
Awesome work there
Thanks Rachel! Very helpful for the competition 🤗
"Session view is my vibe"... could not agree more
Hey Rachel, love your comment at 8mins on the nose. "You don't have to be a great singer..." I am 52 from Hertfordshire and I don't have a great singing voice, but I try.... I wish that I had got into electronic music production years ago. Right now, I find myself in northeast Thailand and have no music-making buddies to confer or collaborate with... Love your videos and the vids you did for Ableton.....
Love that your wearing that Catford T!
I think you should make a full video course on Ableton 10, it surely will be the best and funny course EVER !! You're phenomenal !!!! :-D
hahaha it's in the pipeline xxx
This is bloody awesome, love your workflow and end result is great. Thanks for the tips. :-)
You’re inspiring and amazingly talented.
Loved it very inspirational
Wonderful ! Thank you Rachelle from France.
Rachelle I love that!
love your so spontaneous way of work. F***ing love it.
So amazing!!!
Yes, Rachel. Sounds sick. 🔥💖
You are FUCKING amazing!
Such an inspiration Rachel :) love your content
That was great Rachel, thank you! I've studied singing for a while long time ago but I gave it up, I should definitely try and record something myself!
Love it!
Cool content. I agree with the music theory that gets in the way of making music sometimes. I just go play, record, and trust my gut feel and BAM I got a song.
Love this so much! Would love to see more videos like this.
Very cool! Not thinking about which chords you're using is also a helpful recipe of mine.
Another amazing video, thanks for sharing!
nice work, thx for sharing! :-)
I would be so interested to get a look at your Vocal FX Chain :) Sounds really great!
I learned so much from this and I love the tune! 🎛️🎶✨
As usual great video Rachel!
Cheers John x
So much respect! I would love to see your vocal chain!
Hey hey! This is a family channel. Behave! LOL
+1 on quick video on the RKC vocal chain!