[0:00] all right we're rocking and we're
[0:02] rolling if you're wanting if you're
[0:04] wanting to produce music like Kendrick
[0:05] Lamar Jack harlo Lil NS X Drake Kanye
[0:09] West or Tyler the Creator then you are
[0:11] in the right place my friend I'm going
[0:12] to show you exactly how to produce a
[0:14] hip-hop song it's going to be super
[0:15] simple for you to follow along because
[0:17] they basically all use the same formula
[0:18] I'm a professional I've toured the world
[0:20] as a musician as a DJ got over 100
[0:22] million streams on Spotify and I am
[0:24] qualified to teach you so all that to
[0:26] say buckle up and trust me you're not
[0:28] going to want to skip this because this
[0:29] is the foundation this is the building
[0:30] block for you to be able to produce any
[0:32] style of hip-hop music that you want and
[0:34] it's going to be so sick okay once you
[0:36] got able to open if you remember our
[0:37] formula the first thing we need to do is
[0:39] add some drums also some of you guys
[0:41] with your Keen Eye you may have noticed
[0:43] I'm in a new studio maybe I'll give you
[0:44] guys a little tour at the end of the
[0:45] video but it's kind of in the process of
[0:47] being built out right now so I might
[0:48] wait a couple videos to give you guys
[0:49] the tour but it is so sick it's
[0:51] definitely an upgrade first thing I want
[0:52] to do is I want to build out a drum
[0:54] pattern so I'm going to set the BPM up
[0:55] here to the left in Ableton till like
[0:57] 150 that's a good Tempo and all I did
[0:59] was just go to drums and click on Kick
[1:01] and filters and go down to kick bricks
[1:04] which I think is the best for hipop in
[1:05] terms of Ableton samples also I'm going
[1:08] to do my best to use all Ableton sounds
[1:10] so that way you guys can follow along so
[1:11] let's get a click
[1:13] going D do now I hear the pattern in my
[1:15] head and to bring it to life I can click
[1:17] on the sample and press command C to
[1:18] copy it and then click and press command
[1:20] V to paste it so here's the pattern I'm
[1:21] hearing for the
[1:22] [Music]
[1:24] kick and I'm just going to keep it
[1:26] simple and I'm going to duplicate this
[1:27] out a couple times and let's press
[1:29] command t and make a brand new track now
[1:31] I'm going to click on clap in filters
[1:33] find a good
[1:34] clap o 808 is pretty hard to beat let's
[1:37] drag the 808 clap in here now we got our
[1:39] drum
[1:40] [Music]
[1:41] beat okay so that's sounding decent I
[1:44] kind of want to spice these drums up
[1:45] just a little bit so what I'm going to
[1:46] do is shorten this clap just like this
[1:48] just holding command to get really
[1:50] precise with the shortening and then
[1:51] using the
[1:52] Fades I want to be shorter and then I
[1:55] also want to let's say add a little bit
[1:57] of saturator on it maybe make it a bit
[1:59] warmer
[2:01] and we'll bring it way down cuz it's
[2:02] super
[2:04] loud and then you know we can use Redux
[2:07] if we want we can try some
[2:09] dust it's just a way to make it kind of
[2:11] cool this is without those plugins this
[2:14] is with them sounds like it's basically
[2:16] just making them louder which it kind of
[2:18] is then I want to add a little pattern
[2:19] with a clap so it's
[2:20] [Music]
[2:26] like ah great so I want that to happen
[2:29] every four bars sick so we got a little
[2:31] drum pattern going if you're struggling
[2:33] coming up with your drum pattern I would
[2:34] just drag in a reference track and try
[2:36] and copy the drums from that reference
[2:37] track to do that all you do is just drag
[2:39] in a song Maybe from iTunes find the BPM
[2:42] on Google and then you want to click
[2:43] warp and you want to change the BPM here
[2:45] to the BPM of the song and that's going
[2:47] to tell Ableton what the BPM of the song
[2:49] is and then it will be lined up to the
[2:51] grid and you can turn it off and you can
[2:52] solo it and listen to it now I'm not
[2:54] going to listen to the song cuz I don't
[2:55] want a copyright strike but that's how
[2:56] you drag in a song and you line it up
[2:57] with a grid and then you can copy the
[2:58] drums for that if you want okay let's go
[3:00] ahead and get some high hats going
[3:01] usually for drums you have kick then you
[3:02] have clap or snare and then you have
[3:04] high hats so for high hats I'm going to
[3:05] do midi drums and all that means is I'm
[3:07] basically going to make a piano roll and
[3:09] play drums on the piano so to do that we
[3:11] press command shift T that's going to
[3:13] make a new midi track I'm going to go
[3:14] ahead and highlight a new section on
[3:15] that midi track and press command shift
[3:17] M and then let's go ahead and go to
[3:19] instruments and let's drag simpler right
[3:21] onto that track now we need to drag a
[3:22] high hat sound onto simpler so let's go
[3:24] to Drums let's select high hat and I
[3:26] think I'm going to go with probably 808
[3:28] I'm going to search for 808
[3:31] oh this classic closed data way is great
[3:33] so if we click on the record icon right
[3:35] here to the right and arm the track and
[3:36] then we click on this little piano thing
[3:38] right up here to the right we can use
[3:39] our computer
[3:40] keyboard as a media
[3:44] keyboard it's kind of challenging and if
[3:46] you have a midi keyboard you can
[3:47] actually use a midi keyboard as well so
[3:48] if you want you can click record up here
[3:50] at the top and try and play in a
[3:52] [Music]
[3:54] pattern or you can just highlight a
[3:56] section like I did before press command
[3:57] shift M and then you can draw in your p
[3:59] pattern here on the piano roll if you
[4:00] want to be able to hear the notes as you
[4:02] click them just click this little
[4:03] headphone icon right here you can also
[4:05] change the pitch which is sick let's try
[4:07] that I'm just pressing command D to
[4:09] duplicate these
[4:10] [Music]
[4:14] notes and at the end of this I want it
[4:16] to go da da da da da da so it's like
[4:19] [Music]
[4:20] this and then here I want it to go let
[4:23] me show you what I
[4:28] mean yeah
[4:31] [Music]
[4:35] yeah sick and I want to kind of mix up
[4:38] the pattern a little bit
[4:39] [Music]
[4:41] too sick all right last but not least a
[4:44] lot of hip-hop beats kind of have some
[4:45] sort of Rim shot or percussion element
[4:47] or even like a laser type sound let's
[4:49] see does this even have lasers that's
[4:51] lazy maybe like a blip let's look under
[4:53] percussion
[5:00] [Music]
[5:10] all right let's go ahead and save our
[5:11] session before we forget and lose
[5:13] everything on accident once you've saved
[5:14] it go ahead and hit file collect all and
[5:16] save and hit okay make sure all those
[5:18] are yellow and now everything's saved on
[5:19] one project folder so we can send that
[5:21] to other computers share it with friends
[5:23] all that kind of stuff what's also nice
[5:24] about simpler is we can adjust the
[5:26] length of this too the length of the
[5:27] high hat
[5:29] [Music]
[5:35] okay so we have our drums now what's
[5:38] next if you remember from our formula
[5:39] base so there are two ways that we can
[5:41] do 808s one is we can just drag in
[5:43] samples I have 808s from my sample pack
[5:45] for complete producer Pro which is my
[5:48] paid
[5:50] course so that's just the drag and drop
[5:53] method just like we did with the
[5:56] drums and that's cool you know we can
[5:58] create different patterns with with that
[5:59] as well just by pitching it up in
[6:01] Ableton do something like this 1 2 3 4 5
[6:03] 6 7 maybe a pattern
[6:05] [Music]
[6:10] like but another way to do that is we
[6:13] can either use simpler again and do
[6:15] exactly what we did with the high hats
[6:16] so we just press command shift T to make
[6:18] a new midi track we drag simpler onto it
[6:20] and then we drag an 808 onto simpler and
[6:22] then we can use our our piano roll to
[6:25] draw in notes or we can literally just
[6:28] go to Ableton and go to instrument and
[6:29] click base and just look through all
[6:31] these different
[6:34] instruments obviously you want to find
[6:36] something that sounds like an 808 I'm
[6:38] not sure if you guys have this base or
[6:39] not but it sounds pretty
[6:40] sick that one sounds pretty hard
[6:43] too okay I'm going to try going with
[6:45] this base but if you're having trouble
[6:46] finding 808s just Google free 808 sample
[6:49] pack or free subbase sample pack there's
[6:51] tons of free stuff out there no excuses
[6:53] that's what I had to do back in the day
[6:54] and it worked fine and there's more
[6:55] resources now than there have ever been
[6:57] and another thing that's really going to
[6:58] help us with this 808 is music theory so
[7:00] just make sure you know the key of your
[7:02] 808s so for example in my sample pack
[7:04] this Astro 808 right here if I drag it
[7:06] onto a new track you can see it says e m
[7:08] and that means it's an E minor so
[7:10] basically we want to build out the mids
[7:11] for the song in the key of the 808 which
[7:13] is going to be E minor I'm going to go
[7:15] ahead and draw in a pattern with our 808
[7:17] sound here on the piano roll and if you
[7:19] don't know music theory which you should
[7:20] it's going to change the game for you
[7:22] especially for all music production but
[7:24] especially in hip-hop like you just need
[7:25] to know music theory in order for your
[7:27] song to sound professional and all the
[7:28] elements to be cohesive I have a video
[7:30] on it if you want to check it out it's
[7:31] right up here just go ahead and click
[7:32] that and then you can come right back to
[7:33] this video and join us for our
[7:36] [Music]
[7:49] 808s you know that's that 808 sound is
[7:51] fine but I think I actually want to try
[7:53] bbas which I know that Ableton has so
[7:55] you guys can just copy this if you
[7:58] want I'm going to adjust the Decay here
[8:00] to get the length
[8:03] right I'm going to go ahead and turn our
[8:05] whole song down a little bit clicking on
[8:07] the top track scrolling down holding
[8:08] shift and clicking on our last track and
[8:10] then just using these Fades right here
[8:12] to the right the
[8:13] [Music]
[8:19] faders sweet so now we come to sort of
[8:23] the song part of hip-hop music this is
[8:25] when we get to mids now mids there's
[8:27] just such a big range of mids that we
[8:30] can use as far as instruments go in
[8:31] Ableton most of the instruments I
[8:33] believe are mid sounds and we can go
[8:35] through any of these sounds that we want
[8:36] we could even go to Strings we can click
[8:38] on lead and once we find a sound that we
[8:40] like we can just drag it onto a midi
[8:42] track and then we can start chipping
[8:43] away at some chords and a
[8:47] melody and once you have a melody and a
[8:49] progression that you like like
[8:54] [Music]
[8:56] this I really like the sound of those
[8:59] notes notes I just don't really like the
[9:01] sound itself but once you have that in
[9:02] Ableton it's super easy to audition
[9:04] different sounds so you can just click
[9:05] on this little hot swap button right
[9:07] here and audition different
[9:11] sounds some of them are insane
[9:14] [Music]
[9:20] obviously that's kind of hot
[9:24] [Music]
[9:30] and then I want to add one other sound
[9:32] with this maybe playing some chords so
[9:34] because I know music theory which you
[9:36] should watch the video if you don't to
[9:37] find some kind of uh I want to say piano
[9:41] and
[9:42] keys let's try that something it's
[9:44] [Music]
[9:47] like dude there's so much latency on
[9:50] this okay so now we have some cool
[9:51] chords
[9:55] [Music]
[10:03] now if we wanted this to sound a bit
[10:05] more like Jack harlo or Lil NX or
[10:07] something we could just use brass and we
[10:09] could Branch out of Ableton plugins and
[10:11] we could go for something third party
[10:13] what about play this might just crash
[10:16] let's see oh my gosh it actually worked
[10:19] pop brass
[10:21] [Music]
[10:41] they would probably do something like
[10:43] this I just used play East West which is
[10:45] like some good brass
[10:46] [Music]
[10:57] sounds and we can also add something
[10:59] like these strings right
[11:01] here
[11:02] [Music]
[11:06] gorgeous and what we do with mids for
[11:08] hip-hop is what I like to do at least I
[11:10] like to create almost like a separate
[11:12] song this is like its own kind of
[11:15] song and then I like to group all those
[11:17] tracks together by clicking on one and
[11:19] holding shift and clicking on the last
[11:20] and pressing command G and then we can
[11:22] mess with this whole kind of group and
[11:24] we can go to audio effects go to
[11:26] something like eq8 and we could put like
[11:28] e base vintage on it and play with
[11:31] [Music]
[11:32] [Applause]
[11:36] these we can even put stuff like Redux
[11:39] on it vintage sampler kind of play with
[11:41] that
[11:43] [Applause]
[11:49] [Music]
[11:59] and then another thing we can do is we
[12:01] can put Ott on this sample to really
[12:03] make it huge so got to multiband
[12:05] Dynamics drag Ott onto it and we'll drag
[12:07] these guys down and drag these guys
[12:10] [Music]
[12:15] up and I'm loving the sound of these
[12:18] strings like they're beautiful but the
[12:20] problem is that they're just taking up a
[12:21] bit too much space so I think what we're
[12:23] going to have to do is have them play a
[12:25] little pattern like this instead
[12:35] and we could probably find something a
[12:36] bit more
[12:40] Plucky it's kind of
[12:56] insane that's sick
[13:03] yes big yes just going to EQ this a
[13:05] little
[13:09] bit I'm going to put some chorus on this
[13:11] trumpet
[13:12] lead not too much
[13:17] but I just want it to be a little bit
[13:19] wider in the mix and if you're watching
[13:21] this and you're like H you know he's
[13:22] using all these sounds I don't have all
[13:24] these plugins like it doesn't matter
[13:25] just use Ableton plugins there's a ton
[13:27] of amazing sounds in Ableton if you're
[13:29] willing to dig and if you're willing to
[13:31] tweak some stuff I guarantee you can
[13:32] come up with something
[13:41] awesome now I want the 808 to be a
[13:43] little bit
[13:47] longer and you know there's one more
[13:49] little thing I want to do with this 808
[13:51] is I want to side chain it with a kick
[13:53] now you may be a little confused on side
[13:54] chaining but all it is is you just drag
[13:56] a compressor on and you click side chain
[13:58] click e Q so it's gray ratio all the way
[14:00] up attack all the way down click on this
[14:02] bent line bring the threshold down and
[14:03] then we route it to the kick and you're
[14:05] like great what was all that about now
[14:07] what this does is now when our 808 is
[14:09] playing and our kick is playing when the
[14:10] kick hits it's going to make the 808
[14:12] duck in volume so let me make it really
[14:13] extreme and I'll solo the 808 so you can
[14:15] hear
[14:16] it you can hear the 808 tucking
[14:22] volume that's because when the kick is
[14:24] playing it's causing the 808 to duck in
[14:25] volume the reason that we do this is cuz
[14:27] if we don't when that kick and that base
[14:29] are playing at the same time it's going
[14:31] to cause clipping and Distortion and
[14:32] it's just a mess in terms of sound
[14:34] design so we just want to play this
[14:35] threshold and we can solo the kick as
[14:37] well by holding command and pressing
[14:39] solo just making sure that those can
[14:42] live together in the same space really
[14:46] well
[14:47] [Music]
[14:49] yeah now we can also add one more little
[14:52] element one more little mid-range thing
[14:56] [Music]
[14:59] so like
[15:03] this and we'll have it pretty quiet in
[15:06] the
[15:06] [Music]
[15:10] background and the reason I'm doing that
[15:12] is cuz I want there to be a section kind
[15:14] of before the chorus comes in where
[15:16] there's no 808 maybe there's no drums
[15:18] either and it's just like a clap
[15:20] going something like this so that way we
[15:23] can have it come in when the drums come
[15:25] in and it could just be like a clap like
[15:26] this
[15:31] and then everything comes
[15:32] [Music]
[15:37] in okay so what I'm going to do now is
[15:39] I'm going to take some time I'm going to
[15:40] try to write a hip-hop song over this
[15:42] I'm going to try to come up with one
[15:43] verse and one chorus and then I'll show
[15:45] you guys what I did and we'll kind of
[15:46] wrap it all up it's going to sound super
[15:48] sick and if you're following along right
[15:49] now and you're making your own be just
[15:51] make sure that you have drums make sure
[15:52] that you have base and make sure that
[15:53] you have mids and then you should be
[15:55] pretty good in terms of having a beat
[15:56] and if you want to structure your beat
[15:58] out you just drag another their song in
[15:59] and copy their song structure but I'm
[16:01] going to go ahead and write something
[16:01] over this and we'll be right back real
[16:04] quick if you're enjoying this at all you
[16:05] feel like you're learning something I
[16:06] would really love if you would consider
[16:07] subscribing and giving me the chance to
[16:09] help you make the best music that you're
[16:10] capable of that's what I'm here to do
[16:12] and so yeah it's free for you and I'd
[16:13] really appreciate it let's get back to
[16:14] the video all right we are back I have
[16:16] officially written a song to this it's
[16:18] pretty sick actually I think some of you
[16:21] guys might find it pretty hot I think
[16:22] it's pretty hot let me show you real
[16:23] quick what I did in terms of production
[16:24] I did a little mixing as well but I just
[16:26] added some mids
[16:29] like some lower
[16:30] horns and
[16:32] this that's all them together and
[16:39] then and if you don't have a horn sound
[16:41] just look up horn samples you can find a
[16:43] horn sample like a one shot drag it into
[16:45] simpler like I showed you or just use
[16:47] other sounds from Ableton it's no big
[16:48] deal and other than that I just added
[16:50] some vocals and I'm tentatively calling
[16:52] the song Safari just for fun the lyrics
[16:55] are kind of silly so without further Ado
[16:57] I give you my hit hipop song tentatively
[17:00] titled
[17:01] Safari yeah tell them what it
[17:05] is complete producer
[17:10] Pro
[17:11] yeah I'm just looking for
[17:14] somebody to chop it up with me like
[17:17] karate like karate I only tell them if
[17:19] you really want me or we can keep it
[17:23] private like Safari Safari Saar go I
[17:27] said it once and I'll say it again and I
[17:29] got enemies saying they are friend just
[17:30] out the way they stay out the way unless
[17:32] you got something they trying to get 10
[17:34] years in I finally see through that b
[17:36] shooting this comedy how these wab bees
[17:37] want to be like me without working it
[17:39] without working it yeah I know what I'm
[17:40] doing just trust me there's no need to
[17:42] rush things I can get rough like rug be
[17:45] but let's take it slow cuz I'm Rusty
[17:46] when you're talk it out I got just a
[17:48] thing is called emphasis on recovery so
[17:49] just hug me and don't bug me I'm just
[17:51] looking for
[17:52] some to chop it up with me like karate
[17:56] like karate I only tell them if you
[17:58] really
[17:59] me we can keep it private like Safari
[18:02] like Safari yeah like
[18:06] Safari kind of sick right it's kind of
[18:08] like Jack Carlo Lil nosx kind of that
[18:11] territory if you want to sound more like
[18:13] Kendrick do the same thing for drums
[18:15] like get a sick beat going and then
[18:16] instead of doing these mids just pull
[18:18] another song into Ableton and just
[18:20] sample it so like pull a song in double
[18:22] click on the file on the song and then
[18:24] pitch it up or pitch it down using this
[18:26] where it says pitch right here and en
[18:28] Ableton you can double click and create
[18:29] warp markers and stretch it out and do
[18:31] all this kind of stuff to sample
[18:33] something but that's for another video
[18:35] this is if you want to create your own
[18:36] fully original hip-hop song vocal
[18:38] processing I have a whole video on how
[18:40] to process vocals using Ableton plugins
[18:42] and third party plugins so if you just
[18:44] want to use Ableton plugins or you want
[18:45] to see my vocal chain go ahead and click
[18:47] up here and you can see that video so if
[18:48] you want to see my vocal chain you know
[18:49] where to find it but structurally I just
[18:51] had a lead vocal and just looking for
[18:53] somebody and then I did a double so I
[18:55] recorded the main vocal again two more
[18:57] times and pan those left and right and
[18:59] this is those I'm just looking for some
[19:02] so that's super wide in the mix like in
[19:04] your ears this is them together I'm just
[19:06] looking for some and then I added some
[19:08] harmonies which is
[19:10] this which sounds so silly on its own
[19:12] but this is all of it
[19:14] together to chop it up with me like
[19:17] a I only tell them if you really want me
[19:22] or we can keep it private like Safari
[19:24] and then I got the rap vocal here yeah I
[19:27] said it once and I'll say it again again
[19:28] I got enemies saying they are friend
[19:30] just s the way they stay out the way
[19:32] unless you got something they trying to
[19:33] get pretty hot same vocal processing
[19:35] that I talk about in that video I
[19:37] believe and the mic I'm using cuz I know
[19:39] there's going to be people who ask is
[19:41] Microtech gell this is what it looks
[19:43] like gmbh can't remember which one it is
[19:46] but you saw what it looks like and it's
[19:48] great and it obviously sounds freaking
[19:50] sick so yeah with all this stuff the
[19:52] biggest thing is just going to be
[19:53] following that structure as long as you
[19:55] can check those things off the list I
[19:56] got drums I got bass I got mids I got
[19:58] vocals then you're going to be good to
[20:00] go I didn't talk about effects you can
[20:01] definitely add
[20:05] effects so you can add like a riser like
[20:07] this sound right
[20:09] here and just in context it sounds like
[20:14] this I'm just
[20:17] looking and you could even add the
[20:20] [Music]
[20:23] after and you know there's room to add
[20:25] effects that's kind of the usual
[20:27] production formula but really if you
[20:28] just stick to those first four and
[20:29] really focus on making each one of those
[20:31] as good as you possibly can then I think
[20:33] you'll be well on your way to making
[20:35] awesome hip-hop music and so much of it
[20:37] is about the song guys like so much of
[20:39] it is about the lyrics the delivery
[20:41] making sure the hook is memorable and
[20:43] catchy you know there's tons of hip-hop
[20:45] songs without singing hooks they're like
[20:46] wrapped so if you're somebody who can't
[20:48] sing or you struggle with singing on key
[20:50] but you can rap like don't let that stop
[20:51] you all that to say you're never going
[20:53] to improve or make great music unless
[20:55] you actually apply what I teach so go
[20:56] ahead and open up Ableton take some time
[20:58] try try to make a hip-hop beat you can
[20:59] make a beat in like 10 minutes so at
[21:01] least try to make a beat and you can
[21:03] watch some more videos and learn some
[21:04] more some of you guys love just chilling
[21:05] on Youtube Learning a few things going
[21:07] about your day there's going to be a few
[21:08] of you guys who want to go above and
[21:10] beyond and you really want to learn step
[21:11] by step how to make professional music
[21:13] how to produce like a pro and for you
[21:14] guys I have a course called complete
[21:16] producer Pro and that teaches you guys
[21:17] how to write and produce professional
[21:19] music all the way from the ground up
[21:20] beginning to end it's very comprehensive
[21:22] and it also comes with my new course on
[21:24] EDM production so complete producer Pro
[21:26] is all music with an emphasis kind of on
[21:28] Pop music and then I have a course on
[21:29] dance music there's also a mini course
[21:31] on drill style beats within complete
[21:33] producer Pro it's just a ton of
[21:35] information and I think for a few of you
[21:36] guys it's going to be an absolute Game
[21:38] Changer so if you want to learn more
[21:39] about the course just go to the link in
[21:40] the description of the video and you can
[21:42] check it out down there so all that to
[21:43] say might I remind you to stop making
[21:45] excuses and start making music
[21:49] cheers also if you have any comments or
[21:51] questions try to read the comments when
[21:53] I can and respond so go ahead and
[21:54] comment any questions or anything down
[21:55] below CIA Bella