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snerkler Senior Member
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Posted - 2012/07/12 : 14:05:20
So, after years and years (like 20 years) of wanting to produce music, 2 weeks ago I finally found the time to start learning. It's a REALLY REALLY REALLY steep learning curve, just learning the software interface is hard enough, let alone learning how to create music. So obviously my first attempt is very naive, and very poorly produced. However, I wanted to do it in the early 90's UK rave style which was poorly produced anyway lol. It is a remix of a track by Richie Whizz called get a life, and was originally a breakbeat happy hardcore track on remix records.
I have just straight ripped the piano and vocals, as well as the samples, and then timestretched these and cut up the piano line. The rest is built fro the ground up. The beats/breaks are a variation of the Amen break (see more below), and whilst in the past people either just straight ripped and looped this, and then in later years sliced it (separate each individual hit and then rearrange them), I actually created a virtual drum kit with all the different drums and then programmed the hits from scratch. Very time consuming, but am proud of the end result, especially the hits just before the second/last piano break. Breakbeat is very complicated and within one 4-beat (bar) I've got up to 20 drum hits. You will also notice a 'famous' (in the rave world) riff at one point too. The bassline is quite low frequency and most computers can't play it so would be best listened through headphones.
Obviously I want to be able to produce much more professional sounding music, but I don't think this is bad after only 2 weeks. I do think my understanding of music and DJing has helped a lot. However, with your critique please bare in mind the time scale I've been learning
Back to the Amen break. This was the sound of early hip hip, and early rave music as well as jungle, and all taken from a 6 second drum loop on a track from the 1960's. Amazing how this 6 seconds spawned a whole generation of music. Here's a very good video explaining the history (you'll laugh at the guy's voice).
Here's another video showing you where a lot of other famous dance music breaks came from, if you don't recognise them just imagine them speeded up to 140-170bpm. A lot of these were and are used in Jungle and drum & bass, as well as early hip hop/rap.
Sorry if these videos are a repost
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Posted - 2012/07/12 : 14:05:20
