How To Write Piano House like MK Woolford D.O.D Easy Method
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Well i'm off to make a piano house track .
how did you get on?
love the low steppa mention, honestly think he's one of the most underrated producers on the market, appreciate these videos!
Said it ten years ago and now I’m saying it ten years later… Heisenberg of music. Smashed it like always 👏🏼👏🏼
Thanks mate! 👊🙌❤️
100000%
Wow, this video is absolutely class, need to finish work and get into the studio. I always struggle taking these types of tracks to completion, like I'll get the Piano Stabs on point then kind of struggle with where to go with it. Thank you for posting.
same boat
keep it pushing brotha the world needs more good music
Incredible lesson!
Best tutorial I've ever seen! Honestly cannot thank you enough! Please keep up the good work!
You offer a lot of information breaking down complicated chord structure and making it understandable and simple to understand. The chord pattern you chose was a bit left field and it proved a lot you were trying to get across.
Thanks Hannah, much appreciated ❤️🤦♀️🙏
You don't understand how long I've been waiting for some videos specifically targeting this genre!! Thank you so much!
No problem friend! I Really appreciate your support.
Let me know if there is anything else you need.
I think a video on rhythms and piano sound will follow too 🙌👊❤️🙏
@@Bthelick Already looking forward to it! love the methodology you have in these videos, you give reasons to the decisions you make or actions you take which is super helpful. Hearing about common tones today has really changed my perspective, thanks so much for creating this video!
@@Bthelick I'd love a rhythm one too! Thanks for your videos, just found them as I'm working on a 90s piano house type track and looking for tips. :) Hope you had a great holiday and have a happy new year.
Excellent, had no idea about common tones for pianos, was wondering why my chorded riffs were a bit shit! Thanks for your informative video 👍 Subscribed!
Hey Bthelick I just wanted to say that this video helped me achieve my first label release. Thank you
Incredible! Well done 👊. Can I ask why you needed a label?
thanks for those patterns
Awesome!
(Painting) beautiful, groovy house by numbers.
I don't believe THANK YOU even begins to cover the gratitude for all these incredible videos, Sir!
great melody great tutorial im definitely going to try this one out on a track
This is the best video on House Music, Piano Keys I have ever seen… Thank you for a brilliant tutorial…
new favorite youtube channel. will be in london next month if anyone wants to go listen to some house musiiiiic.
this is greatest piano lesson ever for house
Hey, could you do a video on how to recreate / make a cover of chord progressions or melody’s from existing songs? You always manage to get the chords and rhythms from each tune you reference bang on - seeing your process of doing that would be really helpful! Loving the channel btw
Hey thanks,
I went over this process on the last stream, Somebody asked me to work out a bassline so I showed my process.
ruclips.net/user/livebAgt5UHTDR4?si=I17CWDNX93yPGaZ5&t=7749
I do have a proper video planned but it will just this in a cleaner format.
Let me know if that helps.
The only video that really helped me understand the tonality of pianos in house music.
I don't speak English but seriously, thank you very much
Thank you EMP.
I wish I spoke more languages.
I hope the auto captions are good enough!
🙏❤️🙌
Great video, knew about this technique. Another plus of this, such chords are easier to mix with vocals.
cool detail ! cheers
I have been watching a tonne of tutorials on house keys and melody and this is by far the most useful, thankyou
Thanks so much Mitch, glad to be a help ❤️👍👊
Hi from Australia 🌏🦘
Well played 😁 I believe muting the notes for references is pure gold 🥇
Thankyou
Thanks
Thank you! 🙏
@@Bthelick I think I've watched nothing but your videos for the last week! Straight forward pointers & descriptions that get me itching to try them out. Better put than any other producer I've watched. That's gotta be worth a pint/coffee. The 1st ever super thanks I've given too.
Wow, I'm honored thank you very much! Glad to be a help 👊
This is so helpful. Cant believe i didnt already know this. Thanks so much dude. My favourite channel by far.
You make it make sense!!
You just got me out a creative rut. Cheers mane.
This channel is awesome.
Even M22 😮 this is their sound
Most informative channel, that i found on youtube. Thank you!!!
Amazing video, learned a lot in
This video was so so helpful thank you so much
FUCK !that was Super Easy To Understand never seen any tutorial like yours keep it up !
So simple and so helpful
This is a game changer, thank you
Another great tut ..... thanks for sharing the knowledge... much appreciated as always
really good explained , now i only need a explanation of funka disco drums ,
As in how to program them?
Are there any songs in particular you consider good examples?
This is great hands on stuff. Excellent, clear, engaging videos! This channel is going grow and grow....
youre the absolute best.. thanks so much!!!!
Thank you! This is such an excellent video!
That's cool... I just hit and hope and use midi file.. this has been an education.. have my sub!
Invaluable THANKS
Very good lesson...i`m off to make drones
Sick!! Thanks a lot 🖤
Just come across your page and absolutely loving your tutorials… CLASS! Is there a video before this one? Just wonder when you are putting this tutorial together, what piano sound are you using and how is it loaded into live?
Thanks
Thankyou 🙏 The very next video shows sound and effects.
ruclips.net/video/P14GY_Iu4zQ/видео.htmlsi=hLuYZBvKzYhpKC7L
nice bro! great house music!
This really helped me out a lot mate, cheers! 👍🏼
Glad I can help! 🙏❤️👊
Cracking video, thank you for making my life a whole lot easier 🤜🤛
You're welcome Jdubbz, thanks for the compliments! 🙌🙏❤️
I was the 1k like 👍🏻
I don’t know why but it felt good 😅
Love your channel ❤
this video will prove to change my life
Thanks for the compliments Maurice! ❤️🙏🤟
Top video 👌👌👌👌
i never write comments, but i wanted to sau this video was absolutely amazing. one of the best things ive seen educationally in this regard in years. although, why the 1:1 resolution xD
Hey thanks so much! haha the square ratio was because I didn't have time to make separate edits for Insta / phones etc. Now I've just accepted that my videos make terrible short form content anyway so its all 16:9 since the beginning of this year.
Love your videos! 💓
Paid for courses in piano house that don’t go into this much detail. Thank you
Man you're a legend! :D
Would be great if you could break down some bass and chords interplay in jazzy ukg. Ref tracks :
- mj cole - nothing but trouble / bad boy / never say never
- ben hydro - backseat driver
- phonetix - blue step
I'm certainly down for that! we already have a few garage vs house questions so this is a good excuse to dive in.
@@Bthelick you can use my latest draft as counter example of what can go wrong...I got perhaps too inspired by the MK sound 😂
@@San7hos that's very generous, and a great idea yes, please send it over! Email it in bthelick@gmail.com I'll use it in a vid
great video, thank you
Thank YOU Craig! 🙏🙌👊
Awesome video. Subbed
Hard work and dedication makes u good producer. But some of ur videos are good, no easy way to become good at producing. How long you been producing? U are from Holland?
Thanks, I'm from England.
Yeah I've said it many times, it takes time and ear training.
I don't consider myself a good producer, I think my strengths are musicianship and engineering, I've been professional for over 15 years.
loveeeeeee
Wow, this was so helpful! So glad this got out in my recommended! +1 Sub!
Thanks Yen! 👊🙌❤️🙏
love the vids thanks
thx man!
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Nice!
You're like the Dan Worral of house music! Subbed
That comment means so much thank you 💗 I think Dan Worral is one of the best teachers we have!
@@Bthelick he is! And you're doing a good job of it yourself mate. Happy Christmas
@@MrDisrupta you too mate thank you have a good one
Great work my friend!!! Instant Subscribe and great samples on the back end too. What piano vst are you finding the most success with this genre?
I show the sound set up in the next video, "piano house sound". It's an m1 sample.
Great Video, I followed all the way until 7:50 when you started talking bass notes,6-7-1-4 on MK tracks etc, i got a little lost if you or somebody can explain that part again please :)
No problem you weren't the only one to ask! . I made another video, Check out the "chord numbers" video it should explain everything.
Thanks for this video! What you think about the chords progressions that use Artist as Porter Robinson or Madeon? I know is not that common in house, but I think the music that they do is very musically rich. Definitely there is some interesting in terms music theory and harmony inside of his songs. (sorry for my bad English, I'm not native speaker haha) Also the main difference between the French House and the UK (more mainstream) House.
Never apologise for being multi-lingual! Your English is better than my attempts at any other language!
I love Porter Robinson! especially the side project he did under "Virtual Self". He's definitely a 'muso' he uses more interesting chords than average imo.
I like Madeon's more recent tracks, more chill less noisy, and some good grooves, reminds me of Flume sometimes.
Thanks for the Video ideas we can definitely look into those.
this is sooo enlightening ! I can see that , apart form the 2 octave apart root notes, on top you use mostly 2 notes or 3,. When does it stop to sound "piano house", is it when you use more notes on top, like extended chords? is that in fact the secret sauce of piano house": drone tones and not more that 2-3 on top of your root? thanks for sharing DA knowledge brother.
There's no hard fast rules on things like only 2 notes high up ect, the 5 examples at the start show they all vary in that sense. Bear in mind I keep things simple to get the idea across too, but keeping it simple never hurts in general. By all means start simple to get you used to the idea , and expand once the idea is already working.
Also it's worth mentioning, the higher up you go on the difficulty scale of chosen drone notes, the more notes in the chord might be needed to 'connect' it to the lower notes.
Great video! Thanks a lot for the info. What is the piano you’re using it sounds great too! I’m a my wits end with my pianos haha
It's a Free m1 sample. I show everything in the follow up vid,
ruclips.net/video/P14GY_Iu4zQ/видео.htmlsi=Hn3y4ZO05Byj5bBY
@@Bthelick thanks for the reply! I did see the follow up video! Subscribed and looking forward to getting back in the studio to check out your other videos! 💯
Thank you 👊 and welcome! 🙏
You may have already made a video on this, but would love a video on music theory. For example when you say the bass notes are on 1, 4, 6 etc what exactly do you mean by that?
Well technically all my videos are music theory haha.
But yes I did a video on chord numbers right here, ruclips.net/video/K15Ahh76BCI/видео.htmlsi=I6jteNm2423z5iEC
@@Bthelick Thank you Sir!
Hey I love your videos, huge content and tips. I'd like to know what sample libraries or specific sounds you recommend, for example the kick that you used for this video.
The kick is gonna be one of many thousands I've collected over the years!
If you want a good starting point I would grab a Mark Knight , Thomas penton, Defected, or kshmr pack.
how mix the piano and bass and what effects to use ? great video
The very next video after this one I show how to get piano sound.
ruclips.net/video/P14GY_Iu4zQ/видео.htmlsi=skmvn3bMPsR_RtCg
The bass preset is in the description.
I don't use any effects on the bass other than a side chain.
See my video on how I process house bass
ruclips.net/video/suXj2OICbaA/видео.htmlsi=RYSXsW4uawmie2OD
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This video reminds me of the classic M1 Korg synth, a real taste of synth. Could you bring the Colombian artist Felipe Gordon for the next one, and some production techniques he uses, I personally know him, a good friend, and his brothers too! It is influenced by Jazz and House.
It is the m1 yes (well a sample) I show how to get it in the follow up video.
So you mean you would like me analyse Felipe's music?
@@Bthelick Cool, the sample really sounds exactly like the M1 House preset, as for Felipe. It has many among them one of the most famous "Júpiter Song"
Are you using Vital as your piano VST? Anyway, great video! I took a lot from it since I have been struggling with chords😂
Oh its M1
Please tell us what the preset of M1 it is?
Vital is a synth, it can't play acoustic sounds like a sample player / rompler.
I use a free sampler to trigger an m1 sample. Take a look at my "piano house sound" video I go over which sample it is how to get it and play it. It's all free.
this is awesome! what piano sounds are you using? i use a lot of M1 and Kontakt Hybrid keys but looking for new libraries as well
It's all shown in the video after this one.
Just a Free m1 sample and some free plugins
YOU'RE A GENIUS, THANK YOU SO MUCH
Very helpful! What piano are you using in this? Thanks
It's a freebie m1 sample, I go over how to get it and process it in the very next vid. Check it out 😉
Another superb video, thank you for sharing your amazing skills! 2 questions if I may:-
-Do you recommend randomizing the velocities and swing of notes for a house piano such as these to add natural feel to them or keep them less organic?
-The D.O.D track, is it a heavily processed M1 Piano 16 (to sound thinner) or is it a different piano?
Thanks!
Great questions. changing velocities / timing for more organic feel is certainly something you can try, but randomising is not the solution imo. In dance music, the aim of doing this would be increase human feel and groove, in order to achieve more dance-ability , but it should be done with purpose and experience, knowing when to push or pull the beat , accent the chord, or note inside the chord etc. This comes with time, especially as you learn to play live, but more importantly, with the ability to dance yourself!
Randomising will not give organic feel, just a looser feel maybe, or messy feel (this can be desirable in some cases like lofi genres) but it certainly risks the groove, which we have to prioritise. human / organic feel is not random, ironically only machines can be truly random!
By all means experiment with it. Some common practices are reducing the velocities of the 5th / extensions of the chord to help the 3rd stand out, or pulling syncopated notes late in an other wise square pattern to manually swing, note lengths are a big part of it too, observing live players helps here.
But bare in mind House and Techno's origin's are that of machines (after disco of course) and have been keeping people dancing for several decades, so neither is right or wrong.
If you want to study more organic dance rhythms I would always recommend absorbing acoustic Latin music, and observing it's influences on dance, however not all of that culture has translated, but some is absolutely fundamental (like dembo rhythms for example)
The DOD track doesn't sound like an m1 no, well spotted. The meat beats micro piano sounds pretty close though.
@@Bthelick blown away by your detailed answer, thank you very much for it. Wish I knew about this channel earlier...
Thank you! I might have a do a video on this, it takes questions like that for me to realise I actually have plenty to say on the subject!
@@Bthelick So much to cover, its almost impossible to do all of them because you really go in to detail and explain it as well as you can!
太好了🎉
Thanks! ❤️🎉
Wicked man! What’s the piano from?
I go over sound in the next video and where to get, it's just a free m1 sample.
@@Bthelick legend!
(btw I meant next video that came after this one it was called "piano house sound" , not my next video this weekend haha.
Hey, amazing vid btw, your content is very much aiding my music production. What is the actual key of the Low Steppa - Make It Through track? I've been trying to find it online, however, the results seem to be conflicting. Many thanks in advance!
Thanks! Make it through is in D# minor 👊
Love the vid, what are some good software pianos to use?
Check the next vid after this one "piano house sound", I show a great freebie to use 👊👍🙌
@@Bthelick sweet one thanks mate
oh also, after i did that video Meatbeats released a free micro piano based on a classic sample too.
If you want realism though nothing beats pianoteq but that's not free. Or whatever comes with your daw is usually fine for most work.
@@Bthelick downloaded the meat beats one, some cool sounds on there but Korg sample you showed is defo the best one, cheers for this !
Could you possibly provide the download link for the specific free m1 piano sound sample? big help 🙏
It's all in the piano house sound video, the next video after this one , along with the effects plugins
@@Bthelick oh okay thank you! I’ll check it out now 🙏🏽
What chord were they ultimately? I’ve never seen that way of working before usually eg a progression of 4 1 6 7 would be triads not just bass notes (and top 1 n 5 common tones) I put in G A E into a chord identifier and it said no chords match . Love what your doing sounds amazing just like to understand what’s going on theory wise
The chords don't need names if you understand how they got to that point! 👍😜
But if you Absolutely most know, A E and G in this context makes Amin7th no 3rd.
When it comes to musical arrangement , A chord progression is rarely the actual triads in their standard form, different notes can be spread across different roles/parts of even within the same part can be 'voiced ' in any order possible.
the bass notes give us the clue as the implied chords, implied being the key word. Just because the C is not in that A, E, G chord doesn't mean it's not a minor chord, it's implied from the other music either side of it and the fact that we are in the minor scale.
The lesson here is simply that; because we know every chord can contain every note via extensions (as long as we stay in scale) then any notes are valid to put together.
Not every chord needs to contain all of it's notes , if you just want the 1st 7th and 9th of a 9th chord (because that happens to voice/sound/flow better) that's absolutely fine. The rest is implied
Also, remember the western chord naming 'standard' was basically drawn up by a bunch of stoned jazz students. It's all over the place!
If you can't find a name for a chord that doesn't mean it stops existing, or is wrong/bad in any way.
did you release a track with the last track ? if so is it on beatport or somewhere i can listen?
Yes, I release every idea! it was released as "common tone"
are you in locked scale or something, i'm looking at the midi here and attempting to play along on my piano and yea it's not matching up ? at 7:30 it shows your 2 notes are A and E but what i'm gettin is B and F# .. so you must be in locked scale or something. i guess i can't learn these songs sadly. or this technique. ppl really shouldn't do tutorials in locked scale
Not locked to scale, I'm just using the white notes.
But I say at the beginning everything is converted to A visually.
The track I make later is in B, it's transposed up 2 in real-time if you want to play along but that is not the purpose of this.
The title is how to "write" piano house not "play". 2 very different things.
I understand you're frustrated, but I think your trying to take the wrong lesson. You can learn from this, but It's not supposed to be showing you songs to play along with, I teach in musical principles of relative distance, as the base key doesn't matter on music, the lesson is not WHAT to play, it's WHY it's played , taught in intervals. It's not a piano lesson, It's a harmony theory lesson.
Thus why I draw in the midi in this one vs playing. It's a deliberate branding choice as I have data that many djs / dance producers are put off by piano playing in tutorials so I stopped.
How do you duplicate these group of notes in place in the piano roll in ableton? I know to mark them, but it's not command c and command v. it's another shortcut?
It is crrl+c etc but you're probably in music play mode (sorry can't remember it's name) where it's set to play midi with the qwerty keys, that disables many shortcuts.
There's a keyboard icon in the top right, press M to toggle the mode.
@@Bthelick thank you 4 responding, by the way your tutorials are soooooo great 💪
Is the piano the M1 or something else?
The very next after this one showed everything to do with the sound.
It's a free M1 sample yes.
ruclips.net/video/P14GY_Iu4zQ/видео.htmlsi=eos3tt1UppRolaiU
@@Bthelick Thanks Man!
where can i find piano presets like these for free ?
In the very next video after this one,
ruclips.net/video/P14GY_Iu4zQ/видео.htmlsi=Bco6aWbeuZ10IP5v
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All root position, no inversions. Sure makes it easy to identify a chord by just looking at its bass note, but the second someone throws in an inversion, this analysis falls apart. It's a shame it's so rigidly root position too, because inversions can radically change the sound of a chord and progression. Wish we saw more interesting theory in piano house, but alas, it's just dance music after all. What's funny is that classical cadences can translate really well to piano riffs, provided you actually avoid ever resolving to the tonic chord from the V chord, as that would sound super out of place in dance music. Avoid resolving to the tonic, and it floats along with suspense, but then it also becomes modal (that is, it's in the key of the i chord, but never actually hits that chord) which would likely throw off DJs looking to key-match tracks. I'm just rambling now. Something I want to experiment with for fun with more advanced chord voicing, voice leading, and some borrowed Bach cadences.
Of course, but this is called "easy piano house" it's aimed at beginners. to teach a principle we have to keep it in scope. I go over inversions in other videos.
It's the same reason I don't use Roman Numerals or Greek terms etc, effective teaching uses the language of the audience , and as a classically trained musician working professionally for DJs as producers in the real world, I am in a privileged position to understand that not only do they not use language such as "V cadence" or "tonic" they would actively avoid it (and most certainly not be clicking on my videos!)
The purpose of this channel is to be a conduit between those two worlds.
@@Bthelick Understood. Please excuse my late night ramblings. I wasn't criticizing the video, but more the state of music theory in dance music. I was just thinking out loud.
@@CaptJackAubreyOfTheRoyalNavy all good, you're just trying to help. I agree with most of the ramble tbh, i do aim to get everyone up to that level of musicianship by the end, where appropriate to the context of course, for part of being a great musician is recognizing that certain club music works best as an anti-theory genre!
Are they off by two semitones?
Which notes are you referring to?
@@Bthelick I haven't checked all of them,
first midi is C key, but sounds like D key.
second midi is C key, but sounds like F# key.
did you use the transpose function?
@@luvofficial948 oh I see yes, at the beginning I say I have converted all the midi to show in Amin.
I do that most of the time, so we can concentrate on learning the harmony principles regardless of key.
The actual keys are;
Mk - Bm (+2)
Woolford, Dod, low steppa - D#m (+/-6)
2nd city - A#m (+1)
@@Bthelick I put the same placement as your MIDI,
but it sounded different so I was confused. lol
Sorry, I'm not good at listening.
Thank you very much.
What m1 preset do you use
The sounds (and download links) are all shown in the video after this one
ruclips.net/video/P14GY_Iu4zQ/видео.html
What piano u using?
Check out the next video, piano house sound I go over the full chain.
where can i find that m1??
All the sound links and info and processing was in the video after this.
ruclips.net/video/P14GY_Iu4zQ/видео.htmlsi=w1gIEJPWLTN7Gfq5
Just saw the follow up vid. I will be spending my $100
@@TheIslipfootball125 haha no worries, the free version too much of a faff for ya?
I must be a complet fool but I am still having a bit of a hard time getting this :-)
Not at all Thomas, there's probably just a knowledge gap somewhere else
Let's try to fill the gap.
What exactly are you struggling with?
@@Bthelick Sorry if my Englist is not that good. I am someone who learn by doing :-) But I guess it is putting those chords together! By the way I ma very glad I found your channel. I grew uo listening to classic house music so I would love to be able to make it like you do ( maybe that is only a dream)
@@thomasdietz579 have confidence Thomas we will turn your dream into reality!
Never apologise for being multilingual! You're English is better than my attempts at other languages 🤣.
Have you seen my "chord numbers" video yet?
@@Bthelick Thanks :-)
Just start with 2 chords and pick only 1 note to repeat in common with both chords.
Stay in Aminor scale so you only use white notes.
Let me know if that gets you started.
deadmau5 also does this a lot!
Yes definitely 👊