As a fellow Metro Detroit beatmaker....this is almost exactly how we did it back in the day! Certain parts are quantized while others are off. You literally found the sauce! Now comes the rest of the pasta...we would also swing parts of the melody, bass, etc to get a kind of off kilter feel through tracks! Me and mine experimented with this since we all heard Get this Money back when Fantastic vol. 2 came out on Goodvibe! Cheers from the Metro area!
As a bass player, I really liked your comment about Dilla using bass as the extra seasoning. I often make bass too busy and 'drive' the songs cos it's what I know best, but this is a great message. Thanks man.
I like using techniques like this on gear that is not traditionally used for boom-bap. Once you learn the swing settings and drum placement tricks, you can make boom-bap in any DAW or on any machine.
I read an interview of Dr Dré somewhere long ago. He used these micro-nudge tricks to prevent his drum elements to hit at the same time. Besides the humanized feel, it also allowed him to push his faders a little louder on each drum element precisely because they didn't hit at the same time, inducing smaller peaks he could push harder during the mixing phase.
Are you sure your example of swing using the FL swing knob is correct? The way I understand it the swing knob moves every ODD 1/16th note close to the next EVEN 1/16th note. In your pattern all the hits are on EVEN 1/16th notes, so none of them will be shifting. If you lay down a high hat on every step you will hear a huge difference in with the swing at 0% and 100%
😂😂 I noticed the swing knob was not kicking any swing during editing. But this was more focused on the natural way of achieving swing, I was trying to more so show how computerized swing sounds verses your own natural swing.
Holy fuck man! Im a boom bap producer myself and this is the only video online that showed me new things about the oldschool flow, and prolly has taken my production to the next level.. thank you :D
@vape your feelings I believe if you call yourself a producer you really should already know these things. Dilla's "oldschool flow" was done on various hardware samplers including the Akai MPC models when they arrived. They have Roger Linn's MPC swing inside them. Dilla didn't use FL, or even Fruity Loops as it was still called not long before his passing. So I suggest just using the MPC MIDI groove templates that no doubt come with all DAWs now, along with a live played aspect amongst it. And using three different ones for each kit part; not one swing over everything as he did here. (Regardless of him playing 8 beats which the quantization won't pick up !) That can work for House though, even though most don't and choose the way I said. Up to you if you want to try it. I've been working as a session keys player for both live and recording for signed acts for the last 30 years, and learnt from some of the best. Some of the tracks I wrote and worked on got into the top 20 album charts (what's an album ? lol) on Hed Kandi many years ago, and since then I've kind of been an A&R man for certain colleagues and managed to get them deals based on demos ! I seem to have a knack with seeing potential in tracks. I'm mostly Logic for the last 23 years or so, but MIDI is MIDI, so I'm open to chatting about quantization or whatever. I don't self-proclaim a title for myself; I am nothing. Except a channel for music and art. Humbled unto music and the creation of it. Since before any profession I had in the industry. Any thing that comes from music creation is a bonus. When this is the focus, everything else falls into place, and people will call you what you are without any self-proclamation needed. There is no backdoor. 🙏
@@thekeysman6760 Hey Man! Yeah well, I am a producer even if I can learn some new things about production every day. I don't have special gear, just a laptop and a small, cheap MIDI. I don't sample from Vinyl, I sample from youtube(jazz/acid jazz songs mainly) so it's really hard to relate to a genius like J. Dilla, who didn't have FL Studio or any type of DAW, bc I'm a modern boom bap producer. But I feel like sometimes it's actually harder to do it w/ FL Studio, bc there's so many options you can get lost in them. And also bc my MIDI is shitty so I have to do everything manually, and it's especially hard with snare rolls and stuff like that. Also, there's the typical delayed horn effect (you can find in most of the old school songs) that was hard to figure out, bc there's no video, or not any that I know of online which shows you how to do that with a DAW. So yeah, there's always new things you can learn online! I think I'm pretty good with my production of boom bap, but I am also open to learn. :)
@@vapeyourfeelings3909 Hey there! Give me a link to a vid which has a song with this "delayed horn" thing and I'll be able to tell you whatever g'wan with it. Mate, a "producer" firstly is actually producing finished product. To be a producer, you need to produce. You've said you are still learning. You are no doubt not "producing" then. It's just fact. Secondly, a producer always works for a record label, unless he or she has their own label. Or maybe they write and produce for their own publishing company, and then license off the track to another publishers for a certain amount of time. The label will send certain types of artists to certain types of producers. This is not what your life is, is it? If you call yourself something, learn what it means first. No disrespect. That is why I'm saying be nothing! Be yourself. If everybody is saying "I'm a producer" but they aren't involved in the things I mentioned, they are not a producer but have simply chosen to tell people they are. And if that's the case, do you want to sound like all of them who we laugh at ? Other session musicians of my age, and the engineers and producers I work with, do all find this to be farcical. I.E. "the industry" laughs at people who call themselves producers. Now you know, and I'm sorry. GenX took a word which has a meaning already, tried to change the meaning, and failed. Still help you with delayed horn thing, bro. 🙏
@@vapeyourfeelings3909 no shame in it, I've been a producer for 20 years, started programming drums in 1998 and it's only been a few years since I fully understood Dilla's rythms. A lot of the Dilla feel was induced by the limitations of his MPC, he was just very smart in the way he used these limitations to his advantage. There's an interview of Questlove talking about how Dilla programmed his drums, very interesting. Basically, the idea is that if you play a rythm wrong once, it's an error. If you repeat it, now it's groove. Also, I read elsewhere that although he did'nt use quantize on everything, Dilla knew perfectly the effect of each and every swing percentage of his MPC. Could have something to do with him being surrounded with musicians since his early childhood. If you want to get close to what he used to do, you also need to understand quintuplets and septuplets. Detroit drummers took a lot from the hip-hop scene and now you can find these types of swing everywhere. I recommend Slynk's video channel, especially his videos on quintuplet swing and septuplet swing, used extensively on Erykah Badu's and the Roots' albums. Also, read this, it's a goldmine www.brltheory.com/analysis/dilla-part-ii-theory-quintuplet-swing-septuplet-swing-playing-off-the-grid/
Finally a solid video on this concept. I’ve seen so many dilla inspired drum tutorials where the final result sounds nothing like him because of the emphasis on the swing function or just playing with no quantize and that’s it. dilla was all about real drummers not just in the playing of his drums but the velocity of certain notes and where they sit in the mix. Glad to see someone finally talk about that
I already knew the techniques for making drums have a live feel, however, I didn’t know the purpose of the 16 levels function until you broke that down. Thanks a grip because I was using the less convenient way to liven my drums.
That drum pattern example you have at the beginning only has straight 8th notes. You can turn up the swing knob till insanity and nothing will ever happen as most DAWs quantize to 16th notes by default. The ghost notes or like musicians call them "triplets", those are the 16th notes in this beat. An 8th triplet beat would be a Blues Shuffle (B.B. King-Rock Me Baby) for instance. Add some 16th notes to your pattern and then krank up the swing knob again. I don't have FL but I'm pretty sure you will hear the difference then.
see, I dont use the swing knob. so the sole purpose of this was to share how to get the natural swing and not use the swing knob. I should have removed that section of the video because it was doing nothing. lol, but I said fxck it im putting it up because this is still valuable information for my fellow producers 💯
Triplets is 3 notes played over the duration that one would normally play two notes, so where 8th notes would be double count of the beats per measure or 8 over 4, 8T would 12 over 4. 16ths is double time.
The favorite tech I I learned in this video was putting things on 16 levels. That was pretty cool. The same as painting in some velocity but it gives a more human feel.
You you touched on a lot of great points here! I have a few that may help 1 if you don’t have a drum pad see if your daw has track delay. Then you can push your snares a little early or late 2. Ghost notes apply to the entire drum kit! Kicks, snares, hats. 3. If you’re feeling bold you can use the off times hats to figure out where to place kicks. It reinforces the groove! 4. Spaces Spaces spaces. Leave space so your rhythm can breathe. What I mean by this is try to keep your kit tight and leave a touch of silence before every element to create very short space and strengthen that groove. Spaces! Especially if you make heavier swing music like halftime (the beat construction is mad similar, just heavier sounds) 5.the double hit is the golden rule even if you don’t slip your drums. So pair drum sounds just like heat did with the kick Kick kick Kick snare Kick hat Snare kick Snare snare… you get the idea Other than that great tips for foundation of humanizing them grooves 🔥 Some bad grammar, it’s late, sorry
😂😂😂 I didn’t truly notice until I was editing. I thought I was tripping at first. But this was more geared towards showing how to get that feeling NATURALLY rather than with the swing knob. I take fault for not taking that part out.
This was straight to the sauce. I've always wondered what made my head bop so hard to these types of beats and how they could sound so complex. I'm 31 and new to beat-making and this helped me out a ton! I play the piano and sing and rap a bit, Boom bap, J-Dilla beats, Erykah Badu, Fugees, and Floetry is where I grew up on, where I got my rapping and singing flow from. So, I'm so happy to create that boom-bap, neo-soul vibe from scratch myself now! Thank you! Questions for you as a beginner what headphones would you suggest with a Mac and Akai?
Love your euphemisms and the way you explain stuff man. "Sprinkle in some seasoning", "hammer on a table", "beat making is a conversation". This is real musician talk, much love man
Ableton user here. This was very insightful, especially the ghost Kicks. Finger drummers on Ableton normally don't use 16 pads of sensitivity for each sound so that was actually really interesting to see you do it the way Dilla probably did it.
Haha does the exact same thing I do when it comes to the swing. Sometimes I shift the snare before and after the 2 & 4 every 8 bars. This beat is stupid btw 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾🔥🔥🔥🔥
Appreciate you Calvin!! 💯💯 I released a course this month called “The Art Of Boom Bap Basslines” you can grab it at boombapuniversity.com & it goes through my whole process of making bass lines. So I give you the full run through of my process.
Love ur video, I just got to know about J Dilla and I have gotten some of his albums. am an afrobeat producer but I sure will be able to add this technique to my beats. Thanks for sharing
Thank you, Heat. You are still one of my favorites. You definitely have your own lane and drive it well, brother. And by the way, the beat was still dope! Blessings!
Ain’t no swing knob for ya nuts, gotta swing those puppies naturally, or gotta swing them bad boys by hand, push one forward a few notches, one back a few, ain’t nothing wrong with letting ya nuts swing, but no knob gonna swing em like you swing em.....hahahahah😂🎉
Great video….possibly the best showing the technique. I’m not a FL user so i couldn’t get it just right but it made me go back to the lab. I wasn’t looping my bass note samples so I picked up that little gem, thanks
No, you can't hear the swing because it's not affecting 8th notes at all. You need 16th notes to hear the shuffle. So, when you're describing shift, it's incorrect. Note shift is a different function entirely and can be used to affect individual notes or groups of notes, by ticks, forward (sooner) or backward (later) on the grid. Supreme often laid drums with the quantize function off. Just do it until it's right, the way you want it. What newer producers sometimes aren't aware of is how to effectively trigger and mute samples to keep everything in time with drums that are now "off the grid."
Drums go so much bounce this is viby bro. This style is called metro Detroit? I love the style of music production. Defijtirly something to consider when I make beats next.
Fl swing knob will not work at all in this example. It works by delaying even notes (every 2nd 16th to be percise). It delays notes by percent amount. BMP doesn't matter. I don't know what this fellow musician referes to, when he describes how you can hear 50% vs 100% turn of swing knob. It literally does nothing.
Dope video very informative, but how were you able to record the sample that way? All i know is slice x & edison that method would be wayy easier than both of those for me. Great content keep going brother!
Hey! Video is great and all, but there is something wrong. Hate to admit it, but in your case Swing knob in first examples does litteraly nothing. It's not that I'm mishearing or something, but it's technicaly not how this knob works. For you fellow beatmakers out there, you should check the user manual by pressing f1 in channel rack to see what it does. Besides, that beat and feel, you've programmed - that shit slaps. my man! =D
yep, I stand behind taking fault in not removing that part of the video. I didnt notice until I was editing. like wow, the swing was doing nothing. smh!!
At 3:45, where you're A/Bing the swing control, I don't know FL Studio so I'm not positive of this, but my guess is that what that knob really does is control the amount of swing of the notes that come between the kick and the hat and the hat and the snare and so on, but that beat you've got doesn't have any of those, so that's why the knob isn't doing much (if anything). I bet if you programmed in a James Brown or PFunk drum pattern, that knob would do a lot more. I keep trying to find a video that really breaks down exactly how swing works on Ableton versus FL Studio versus other programs.
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No matter what you will do, J Dilla’s swing has a lot to do with the flaws of the Mpc he used. A lot of tutorials tend to omit that the MPC 60 actually quantized everything no matter what due to a poor MIDI resolution of 96PPQN AND that this machine was actually unable to play events simultaneously, they had to be played sequentially. Last but not least, the midi clock of the MPC wasn’t linear and had a slight non-linear drift over time. All this leads to a feel you can’t quite emulate. In terms of technique, Dilla used a bunch of them. There is a book detailing most of these techniques, I recommend it to anyone who is a fan, it’s the result of a big work of interviews with people who actually worked with Dilla.
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As a fellow Metro Detroit beatmaker....this is almost exactly how we did it back in the day! Certain parts are quantized while others are off. You literally found the sauce! Now comes the rest of the pasta...we would also swing parts of the melody, bass, etc to get a kind of off kilter feel through tracks! Me and mine experimented with this since we all heard Get this Money back when Fantastic vol. 2 came out on Goodvibe! Cheers from the Metro area!
Thanks for watching Morgan!! Appreciate the insight. 🙏🏽💯 salute to my fellow michigander
Respect to the OG Beatmakers and thanks for the sauce tips!
This is what all those chill beats to study to are missing
😂😂😂😂
lol facts, stiff "lofi"
As a bass player, I really liked your comment about Dilla using bass as the extra seasoning. I often make bass too busy and 'drive' the songs cos it's what I know best, but this is a great message. Thanks man.
yeah, gotta find a good balance with bass. sometimes busy is good, but sometimes it can be too much.
I like using techniques like this on gear that is not traditionally used for boom-bap. Once you learn the swing settings and drum placement tricks, you can make boom-bap in any DAW or on any machine.
I love hearing folks make boom bap on non traditional equipment. Always amazes me what can be created
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read it again lad@@flyingisland7583
I read an interview of Dr Dré somewhere long ago. He used these micro-nudge tricks to prevent his drum elements to hit at the same time. Besides the humanized feel, it also allowed him to push his faders a little louder on each drum element precisely because they didn't hit at the same time, inducing smaller peaks he could push harder during the mixing phase.
word up!! Dre is a legend. love this info. thanks fam!! 💯
Are you sure your example of swing using the FL swing knob is correct?
The way I understand it the swing knob moves every ODD 1/16th note close to the next EVEN 1/16th note. In your pattern all the hits are on EVEN 1/16th notes, so none of them will be shifting.
If you lay down a high hat on every step you will hear a huge difference in with the swing at 0% and 100%
word i was gonna comment the same thing. The stuff dude heard when he turned the swing up was all placebo
😂😂 I noticed the swing knob was not kicking any swing during editing. But this was more focused on the natural way of achieving swing, I was trying to more so show how computerized swing sounds verses your own natural swing.
yeah fl studio requires 16th notes to produce any kind of swing otherwise the knob is useless
I was just gonna say this was a bad example of the swing feature lol
Yeah the swing affects the 16th notes. All those were rhythms were 8th notes so nothing changed when he turned up the swing 😅
Holy fuck man! Im a boom bap producer myself and this is the only video online that showed me new things about the oldschool flow, and prolly has taken my production to the next level.. thank you :D
thanks for watching fam!!
@vape your feelings I believe if you call yourself a producer you really should already know these things. Dilla's "oldschool flow" was done on various hardware samplers including the Akai MPC models when they arrived. They have Roger Linn's MPC swing inside them. Dilla didn't use FL, or even Fruity Loops as it was still called not long before his passing. So I suggest just using the MPC MIDI groove templates that no doubt come with all DAWs now, along with a live played aspect amongst it. And using three different ones for each kit part; not one swing over everything as he did here. (Regardless of him playing 8 beats which the quantization won't pick up !) That can work for House though, even though most don't and choose the way I said. Up to you if you want to try it. I've been working as a session keys player for both live and recording for signed acts for the last 30 years, and learnt from some of the best. Some of the tracks I wrote and worked on got into the top 20 album charts (what's an album ? lol) on Hed Kandi many years ago, and since then I've kind of been an A&R man for certain colleagues and managed to get them deals based on demos ! I seem to have a knack with seeing potential in tracks. I'm mostly Logic for the last 23 years or so, but MIDI is MIDI, so I'm open to chatting about quantization or whatever. I don't self-proclaim a title for myself; I am nothing. Except a channel for music and art. Humbled unto music and the creation of it. Since before any profession I had in the industry. Any thing that comes from music creation is a bonus. When this is the focus, everything else falls into place, and people will call you what you are without any self-proclamation needed. There is no backdoor. 🙏
@@thekeysman6760 Hey Man!
Yeah well, I am a producer even if I can learn some new things about production every day.
I don't have special gear, just a laptop and a small, cheap MIDI.
I don't sample from Vinyl, I sample from youtube(jazz/acid jazz songs mainly) so it's really hard to relate to a genius like J. Dilla, who didn't have FL Studio or any type of DAW, bc I'm a modern boom bap producer.
But I feel like sometimes it's actually harder to do it w/ FL Studio, bc there's so many options you can get lost in them.
And also bc my MIDI is shitty so I have to do everything manually, and it's especially hard with snare rolls and stuff like that.
Also, there's the typical delayed horn effect (you can find in most of the old school songs) that was hard to figure out, bc there's no video, or not any that I know of online which shows you how to do that with a DAW.
So yeah, there's always new things you can learn online!
I think I'm pretty good with my production of boom bap, but I am also open to learn. :)
@@vapeyourfeelings3909 Hey there! Give me a link to a vid which has a song with this "delayed horn" thing and I'll be able to tell you whatever g'wan with it.
Mate, a "producer" firstly is actually producing finished product. To be a producer, you need to produce. You've said you are still learning. You are no doubt not "producing" then. It's just fact. Secondly, a producer always works for a record label, unless he or she has their own label. Or maybe they write and produce for their own publishing company, and then license off the track to another publishers for a certain amount of time. The label will send certain types of artists to certain types of producers. This is not what your life is, is it? If you call yourself something, learn what it means first. No disrespect. That is why I'm saying be nothing! Be yourself. If everybody is saying "I'm a producer" but they aren't involved in the things I mentioned, they are not a producer but have simply chosen to tell people they are. And if that's the case, do you want to sound like all of them who we laugh at ? Other session musicians of my age, and the engineers and producers I work with, do all find this to be farcical. I.E. "the industry" laughs at people who call themselves producers. Now you know, and I'm sorry. GenX took a word which has a meaning already, tried to change the meaning, and failed. Still help you with delayed horn thing, bro. 🙏
@@vapeyourfeelings3909 no shame in it, I've been a producer for 20 years, started programming drums in 1998 and it's only been a few years since I fully understood Dilla's rythms. A lot of the Dilla feel was induced by the limitations of his MPC, he was just very smart in the way he used these limitations to his advantage. There's an interview of Questlove talking about how Dilla programmed his drums, very interesting. Basically, the idea is that if you play a rythm wrong once, it's an error. If you repeat it, now it's groove. Also, I read elsewhere that although he did'nt use quantize on everything, Dilla knew perfectly the effect of each and every swing percentage of his MPC. Could have something to do with him being surrounded with musicians since his early childhood. If you want to get close to what he used to do, you also need to understand quintuplets and septuplets. Detroit drummers took a lot from the hip-hop scene and now you can find these types of swing everywhere. I recommend Slynk's video channel, especially his videos on quintuplet swing and septuplet swing, used extensively on Erykah Badu's and the Roots' albums. Also, read this, it's a goldmine www.brltheory.com/analysis/dilla-part-ii-theory-quintuplet-swing-septuplet-swing-playing-off-the-grid/
Actually has swing. Most people do Dilla tutorials wrong yours is pretty accurate I'd say
Appreciate that Chris!! Thanks for tuning in fam.💯💯
There is no swing at all, because your pattern consists only of 8th notes. Swing manipulates the even 16th notes.
Nope. Theres both 8th and 16th note swing. Some drum machines and DAWs have both built in.
Yep, I noticed it wasn’t working during editing. I knew I was tripping, but I am no swing knob man *pause* so I couldn’t even really tell the diff. 😂💯
Finally a solid video on this concept. I’ve seen so many dilla inspired drum tutorials where the final result sounds nothing like him because of the emphasis on the swing function or just playing with no quantize and that’s it. dilla was all about real drummers not just in the playing of his drums but the velocity of certain notes and where they sit in the mix. Glad to see someone finally talk about that
I already knew the techniques for making drums have a live feel, however, I didn’t know the purpose of the 16 levels function until you broke that down. Thanks a grip because I was using the less convenient way to liven my drums.
Glad to help fam!! Thanks for watching. 💯
I just started reading Dan Charnas` Dilla Time and, it`s a good read.
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I like the piano riff and how it ties in with the drums wow it sounds super chill bru plus hearing this is inspiring
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That drum pattern example you have at the beginning only has straight 8th notes. You can turn up the swing knob till insanity and nothing will ever happen as most DAWs quantize to 16th notes by default. The ghost notes or like musicians call them "triplets", those are the 16th notes in this beat. An 8th triplet beat would be a Blues Shuffle (B.B. King-Rock Me Baby) for instance. Add some 16th notes to your pattern and then krank up the swing knob again. I don't have FL but I'm pretty sure you will hear the difference then.
see, I dont use the swing knob. so the sole purpose of this was to share how to get the natural swing and not use the swing knob. I should have removed that section of the video because it was doing nothing. lol, but I said fxck it im putting it up because this is still valuable information for my fellow producers 💯
Came to the comments to say this
Yes, I’m here for the same reason 😂 this guy took the words outta my mouth lol but great content man! Keep up the fire 🫡
Triplets is 3 notes played over the duration that one would normally play two notes, so where 8th notes would be double count of the beats per measure or 8 over 4, 8T would 12 over 4. 16ths is double time.
Been missing something in my new dilla-type beat, and that ghost note trick hit the spot.
dope!! glad to help my friend. 💯
The favorite tech I I learned in this video was putting things on 16 levels. That was pretty cool. The same as painting in some velocity but it gives a more human feel.
Such a dope feature. Helps get that human feel. 💯💯
You you touched on a lot of great points here! I have a few that may help
1 if you don’t have a drum pad see if your daw has track delay. Then you can push your snares a little early or late
2. Ghost notes apply to the entire drum kit! Kicks, snares, hats.
3. If you’re feeling bold you can use the off times hats to figure out where to place kicks. It reinforces the groove!
4. Spaces Spaces spaces. Leave space so your rhythm can breathe. What I mean by this is try to keep your kit tight and leave a touch of silence before every element to create very short space and strengthen that groove. Spaces! Especially if you make heavier swing music like halftime (the beat construction is mad similar, just heavier sounds)
5.the double hit is the golden rule even if you don’t slip your drums. So pair drum sounds just like heat did with the kick
Kick kick
Kick snare
Kick hat
Snare kick
Snare snare… you get the idea
Other than that great tips for foundation of humanizing them grooves 🔥
Some bad grammar, it’s late, sorry
Appreciate that fam!! Thanks for those added tips. 💯💯
Did you test the flstudio swing with a beat that only had 8th notes? I don't think it will do anything unless you have 16th in the mix.
The fact that he was 'hearing' swing shows how powerful the placebo effect is
😂😂😂 I didn’t truly notice until I was editing. I thought I was tripping at first. But this was more geared towards showing how to get that feeling NATURALLY rather than with the swing knob. I take fault for not taking that part out.
I was going to walk away at that point saying this is whack. But by admitting it, I admire your honesty and I finished the video. Props.
Lol ok so i m not deaf
@@theycallmeheat I commend you for noticing your mistake and accepting it. Awesome, I will be subscribing
16 levels ghost notes, amazing!
Thanks Cliff!! 💯 glad to share a new way
This was straight to the sauce. I've always wondered what made my head bop so hard to these types of beats and how they could sound so complex. I'm 31 and new to beat-making and this helped me out a ton! I play the piano and sing and rap a bit, Boom bap, J-Dilla beats, Erykah Badu, Fugees, and Floetry is where I grew up on, where I got my rapping and singing flow from. So, I'm so happy to create that boom-bap, neo-soul vibe from scratch myself now! Thank you! Questions for you as a beginner what headphones would you suggest with a Mac and Akai?
thanks for watching fam!! appreciate you. 💯💯 ..I would say the Audio Technica ATX-M50 headphones. Great for music production.
Love your euphemisms and the way you explain stuff man. "Sprinkle in some seasoning", "hammer on a table", "beat making is a conversation". This is real musician talk, much love man
Aaayyyee!! Appreciate you my friend. 🙏🏽💯💯
the different velocity for the high hats was interesting for me.
I like to use like 6 different hi-hats at different volumes inside the FPC
Very informative…a cheat code to beat making. Thanks
Absolutely!! Glad to help. 💯💯💯
I'm really starting to get into this hip hop stuff, thanks so much for giving me some ideas and inspirations!!
No prob my friend!! Glad to provide some value for you. 💯 be sure to subscribe if you haven’t, I post videos like this every week. 🙏🏽
Thank you for the knowledge Bruthaman! Keep doing what you do! Respect 🤙🏼
Thank you! Will do! appreciate you tuning in fam. 💯💯
Back from a trip and back to making beats! Great video for inspiration!! 🔥🔥🔥
Welcome back! thanks for watching fam. 💯
Straight up dope. Been having a hard time with swing but now I feel ready to make some heads rock 🔥🔥
Super dope fam!! Glad to hear. 💯💯
That beat, on the background,😊😉 great review thank you, you never disappoint.
Appreciate that my friend!! 🙏🏽💯
I learned about using the bass as a little season because I've been using mine the complete opposite 😅 ty
dope. glad to hear you've learned variations. appreciate you watching fam!!
Let's gooo 🔥. JDilla is one of my favourite Producers and my inspiration
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Heat's one of the absolute best at giving his expertise, always persice and on point!!
wont ever not follow his techniques. the truth!!!
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I appreciate that fam!! always happy to give back to the producer community.
Ayo brother, ur tutorials are too good, keep doing this, it’s not average tutorials, it’s quality!
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Ableton user here. This was very insightful, especially the ghost Kicks. Finger drummers on Ableton normally don't use 16 pads of sensitivity for each sound so that was actually really interesting to see you do it the way Dilla probably did it.
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Haha does the exact same thing I do when it comes to the swing. Sometimes I shift the snare before and after the 2 & 4 every 8 bars.
This beat is stupid btw 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾🔥🔥🔥🔥
Raw Fire Sir!
Hands Down
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Ok this is too sick. Thanks for the lesson!
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I liked how you did that baseline
I've been trying to get that
Thanks
The video is nice I use FL studio myself
Appreciate you Calvin!! 💯💯 I released a course this month called “The Art Of Boom Bap Basslines” you can grab it at boombapuniversity.com & it goes through my whole process of making bass lines. So I give you the full run through of my process.
Dope video very nostalgic. Ghost kicks part was my favorite secret sauce
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Very well explained! Can never get enough JD vibes!
Word up!! Thanks for watching my friend!! 💯
Love ur video, I just got to know about J Dilla and I have gotten some of his albums. am an afrobeat producer but I sure will be able to add this technique to my beats. Thanks for sharing
appreciate you watching fam!! 💯
Thank you, Heat. You are still one of my favorites. You definitely have your own lane and drive it well, brother. And by the way, the beat was still dope! Blessings!
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Ain’t no swing knob for ya nuts, gotta swing those puppies naturally, or gotta swing them bad boys by hand, push one forward a few notches, one back a few, ain’t nothing wrong with letting ya nuts swing, but no knob gonna swing em like you swing em.....hahahahah😂🎉
😂 I don’t even know what to say. Yes, natural swing was the sole purpose of this video. So I we’re on the same page 💯
@@theycallmeheat hahahah.. was just goofing around 🤪
Love the use of different velocities on the Hi-Hats! Thank you for this vid bro🙏🏿.
Definitely a game changer!! Appreciate you watching fam. 💯
@@theycallmeheat Anytime!!
love all the technique very well explain
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I think a lot of what you've said is relevant to one particular style of Dilla song
theres many styles to Dilla. this is geared towards trying to gain "human swing"
12:02 yeah lets go, dope man! :D
Great video….possibly the best showing the technique. I’m not a FL user so i couldn’t get it just right but it made me go back to the lab. I wasn’t looping my bass note samples so I picked up that little gem, thanks
Glad it helped! thanks for tuning in fam. 💯
Thank you for this insightful video Heat 🔥🔥🔥🔥 I used to just layer my bassline with my kick but you just gave the sauce 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Happy to help! always happy to share value or as we say SAUCE with the community.
great explanation and the beat you made is dope👍
Appreciate that fam!! 🙏🏽🙏🏽
Amazing. Imma test everything.
Have fun! let me know how it works for you. 💯💯
this was a great video bro. thank you, I needed this.
Glad you enjoyed it! thanks for tuning in my friend!
Brandy- What about us. That entire song is 100% in dilla time. (Great book too).
word up!!
@@theycallmeheat listen too that instrumental and, tell me that isn’t one of the most Detroit beats ever.
Busta Rhymes and Rapsody! Tell me im wrong bruh dis shxt hard 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥😍
appreciate you Josh!! that would be a crazy combo.
Always dope content 💯🔥
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triplet swing + shift notes up / down on mpc3000
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Pretty much.
I’m glad I found your channel bruh. Good ish
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Really good video, love dilla
The ghost notes on the kick💪🏾💯🔥🔥🔥🔥
Can you please do one on Dr. Dre? It will be much appreciated 🙏🏾
Thanks fam!!
No, you can't hear the swing because it's not affecting 8th notes at all. You need 16th notes to hear the shuffle. So, when you're describing shift, it's incorrect. Note shift is a different function entirely and can be used to affect individual notes or groups of notes, by ticks, forward (sooner) or backward (later) on the grid. Supreme often laid drums with the quantize function off. Just do it until it's right, the way you want it.
What newer producers sometimes aren't aware of is how to effectively trigger and mute samples to keep everything in time with drums that are now "off the grid."
SIMPLE AND HARD! the groove got the bounce we all love ;]
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The only way to get that Dilla swing is to do it by hand
There’s always one of you in the comments
Except dilla did apply his swing afterwards…. It’s a known fact. To get REAL swing you physically need to play the drums lol
Incredible content, man!
Thank you for tuning in fam, glad you enjoyed it!!
Thats some wonky beats, but I'm here to learn about 'em!
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climax is fire beat he did too
Hell yeah!! One of my fav beats of his 💯💯
@@theycallmeheat you should drop a vid like that too!
Thanks bro this helped a lot
Glad to help!! Thanks for watching. 💯💯
Drums go so much bounce this is viby bro. This style is called metro Detroit? I love the style of music production. Defijtirly something to consider when I make beats next.
nah, this is just boom bap. Dilla is from the metro Detroit area. thanks for tuning in fam!! 💯
All your videos are dope
thanks Ace. appreciate that fam 💯💯
Fl swing knob isn’t gonna work properly at that higher bpms tho (double time boom bap)
Fl swing knob will not work at all in this example. It works by delaying even notes (every 2nd 16th to be percise). It delays notes by percent amount. BMP doesn't matter. I don't know what this fellow musician referes to, when he describes how you can hear 50% vs 100% turn of swing knob. It literally does nothing.
hahahaha!!!! I NEVER use the swing knob, I only know what it does. I didnt notice until I was editing that the knob wasnt even adding "swing" lol
Another thing he would do is have really long.Putterance not your typical two or four bar
This was real accurate!
thank you my friend!!
look at the sample of" OSTR Co ty tu robisz" Propably its the same sample. PEaceeee
I'll have to check that out
Dope video very informative, but how were you able to record the sample that way? All i know is slice x & edison that method would be wayy easier than both of those for me. Great content keep going brother!
You mean how the sample is chopped in the fl slicer?
Dilla is the godfather of lofi hip hop that is super popular around the world and I bet you 98% of its consumers have no clue what a J Dilla is lol
Dilla is one of the godfathers of this boom bap/lofi shxt.
Make Boombap great again
MAX Respect
thanks fam
Hey! Video is great and all, but there is something wrong. Hate to admit it, but in your case Swing knob in first examples does litteraly nothing.
It's not that I'm mishearing or something, but it's technicaly not how this knob works.
For you fellow beatmakers out there, you should check the user manual by pressing f1 in channel rack to see what it does.
Besides, that beat and feel, you've programmed - that shit slaps. my man! =D
yep, I stand behind taking fault in not removing that part of the video. I didnt notice until I was editing. like wow, the swing was doing nothing. smh!!
Great Vid! ✌🏽💯
Thanks Jay!! Appreciate you watching fam. 💯
sweet
Thank you my friend
At 3:45, where you're A/Bing the swing control, I don't know FL Studio so I'm not positive of this, but my guess is that what that knob really does is control the amount of swing of the notes that come between the kick and the hat and the hat and the snare and so on, but that beat you've got doesn't have any of those, so that's why the knob isn't doing much (if anything). I bet if you programmed in a James Brown or PFunk drum pattern, that knob would do a lot more. I keep trying to find a video that really breaks down exactly how swing works on Ableton versus FL Studio versus other programs.
Ghost notes secured that 👍
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OOOOOOOOHHHHH straight fire sir, lemme try that
Thanks fam!!
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Super helpful 🔥
Glad to help!! 💯💯
Good work !
Thank you! Cheers! 💯
Very good work tho! This helps def out 2 make my drums doper
Glad to hear my friend!! Thanks for watching 💯
This video helps! Great content boss. Do you think you'd be able to go into depth on how to setup the 16 velocities on our controllers in FL Studio?
My keyboard controller has the 16 levels option because it’s an akai product. So any controller from akai will have that option most likely
Thank You Sir!!!
Most welcome! thanks for watching
No matter what you will do, J Dilla’s swing has a lot to do with the flaws of the Mpc he used. A lot of tutorials tend to omit that the MPC 60 actually quantized everything no matter what due to a poor MIDI resolution of 96PPQN AND that this machine was actually unable to play events simultaneously, they had to be played sequentially. Last but not least, the midi clock of the MPC wasn’t linear and had a slight non-linear drift over time. All this leads to a feel you can’t quite emulate. In terms of technique, Dilla used a bunch of them. There is a book detailing most of these techniques, I recommend it to anyone who is a fan, it’s the result of a big work of interviews with people who actually worked with Dilla.
maaaaaan... its dope beat... dope as fuck
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Too many still here. But I appreciate that fam 🙏🏽💯
Always dope
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U got my subscription ❤️
thanks my friend!!
Dem Drumz
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I'm sorry, what difference do you exactly hear when demonstrating 16th note swing on 8th note pattern? 2:59 & 3:42
lol. I was not using the right notes for the swing to be heard. I didnt notice until I was editing. 😂😂😂😂😂
where did you get that bass? fabolous🔥
Spectrasonics Trillian
Dope!
thanks Dennis!!