[0:01] all right so you just opened up FL you're like 
what the f is going on you have no clue what  
[0:05] anything is you're looking around you're like what 
is this button do I have to learn all 20 of these  
[0:09] icons the answer is no and I got some bad news for 
you which is that you're hooked for life good news  
[0:14] is that I'm going to make this super simple for 
you to learn FL Studio if you don't know me I'm  
[0:18] game from busy Works beats.com we trained over a 
million producers around the world so I'm going  
[0:23] to work with Drake Kanye West Post Malone Ariana 
gr French Montana Young Thug Polo G trippy red  
[0:27] little baby Kendrick Lamar jcole list of other 
folks and uh we've just worked with cool folks  
[0:34] so what I'm going to show you guys today is if 
you know nothing about FL Studio I will literally  
[0:38] show you how to make your first beat probably in 
under 20 minutes if I don't talk too much um and  
[0:43] show you how cool it is so the first thing in FL 
is to simplify it all these buttons at the top  
[0:48] of your screen you don't have to memorize those 
okay you only have to know five buttons which are  
[0:52] these five buttons here so if you click around 
and just kind of Click these first five buttons  
[0:56] you'll get the hang of like opening and closing 
stuff in short this first button is where you put  
[1:01] all the puzzle pieces together this is called the 
playlist this little first button here okay this  
[1:06] is where we add in puzzle pieces and we remove 
puzzle pieces basically okay here is the what  
[1:11] we call the piano roll in my opinion as a beginner 
you want to make the piano roll as big as you can  
[1:17] so if you guys ever struggle with midi notes and 
like writing Melodies and stuff and your piano  
[1:21] roll looks like this you're going to struggle for 
life I won't say life but you're going to struggle  
[1:26] for a long time because the screen is too small so 
if you're trying to make Melodies on a screen this  
[1:31] small it's going to be a very hard process so to 
make it big click this little maximize button in  
[1:36] the top to make the screen nice and full piano 
roll is usually full screen so anytime I open  
[1:41] the piano roll it's always full screen okay and 
nextly is What's called the Channel rack think of  
[1:46] the channel rack like how we build out the puzzle 
piece you know how puzzle pieces have like some  
[1:50] have curves and some have indentures and then some 
have like other curves some are pointy some have  
[1:55] edges on them so Channel rack is where we design 
the shape of the puzzle okay and the playlist is  
[2:01] where we put the puzzle together and I usually 
keep the playlist full screen too the quick way  
[2:05] to do it is just double click on the little top 
banner and you could just left click your little  
[2:09] puzzle pieces in here couple you know kind of 
Standards I would recommend let's go to the  
[2:14] um playlist here go to the top left this little 
drop down arrow we're going to excuse me not the  
[2:19] drop down we're going to go to the magnet icon 
and we're going to go to bar so this is called  
[2:23] Snap to grid so anytime I'm doing something in the 
playlist I want it to line up so if I don't have  
[2:28] this on anything and I just click around I'm going 
to be like misaligning stuff all over the place  
[2:33] it's going to be a headache so let's go to snap 
grid bar okay so that's going to keep it really  
[2:37] simple for you and all right let's get started so 
the and then I didn't show you the mixer here so  
[2:42] the mixer is where you add effects like if I take 
my effects off my voice here's what I really sound  
[2:47] like you know I sound like a little child when I 
add my effects boom I sound like a man just like  
[2:52] that okay so that's what we can do in the mixer 
we can add effects to different sounds like our  
[2:56] synthesizers our microphones our drums Etc etc etc 
etc okay so that's how that works in the mixer we  
[3:04] get to separate the sounds um and then this fifth 
button here is called the browser so the browser  
[3:09] is where you browse for dope Bas sounds any really 
dope sound now this is the part that you should do  
[3:17] first and this is a part that I can't do for you 
guys okay but if you do want to learn FL Studio  
[3:22] like in depth go to busy Works beats.com slfl 
Studio I have a free FL studio21 course for you  
[3:29] guys there but in short is that whenever you guys 
are finding your drums that is probably 99.7% of  
[3:38] becoming a music producer like until you get your 
hands on these mongos that sound fire like you're  
[3:44] going to be making beats that sound like it but 
not really like it okay so your number one task  
[3:48] as a beginner I'm going to say this probably five 
more times your number one task is a hip-hop music  
[3:54] producer as an R&B music producer as a EDM person 
find the drum kits for your genre find the samples  
[4:00] for your genre they're not going to come with 
your doll you got to go out and search whether  
[4:04] it's Reddit whether it's somebody's drum website 
whether it's drumi whether it's Whoever has kits  
[4:09] I don't even know people with kits anymore drum 
broker whether it's beat butcher okay go out and  
[4:14] find all of the dope sound designers and find 
their sounds okay because without sounds you  
[4:21] really can't do much and I'll give you guys 
the project files for free so no worries on  
[4:25] trying to like memorize everything all right so 
if you want to follow along step by step follow  
[4:30] me firstly what we're going to do is label these 
tracks so here we're going to get into workflow  
[4:35] mode um if you haven't logged into your FL make 
sure you click the help tab at the top and then go  
[4:40] to where it says about and then that's how you log 
in to claim your FL Studio license okay so we're  
[4:44] going to save this let's go to where it says file 
you guys can't see the file tab because my screen  
[4:48] isn't all the way we're going to save as let's 
call this beginner beat making I've been talking  
[4:54] for 5 minutes so I promis to be under 15 let's see 
how fast we can teach let's go to my external hard  
[5:00] drive let's go to projects I have a folder called 
FL Studio what I'll do is I'll create a folder for  
[5:06] the day so today's October 16th you want to stay 
extremely organized in the beginning because tell  
[5:13] I'm telling you guys in the future four years 
from now you're going to look back like darn I  
[5:16] can't find my project where I did a little Uzi 
vert beat now you got to go through like all  
[5:20] these projects just to find one project so let's 
label this beginner beat making FL Studio the more  
[5:27] organized you are the more successful you will be 
guaranteed let's hit save all right so all we've  
[5:34] done so far is to save a project congratulations 
if you follow those steps you now have your first  
[5:39] project saved I'm going to turn on my keyboard 
just in case we need more Sounds here all right so  
[5:44] I turn on my syns my syn that don't come with the 
doll but just in case you want to add some Vibes  
[5:49] to the track all right so next step is creating 
the layers so what we're going to do here is open  
[5:57] up the playlist this screen here let's close clows 
out the browser to add more space we're going to  
[6:01] right click where this track one and let's label 
this so beats and songs have four layers they have  
[6:06] a Topline layer this is the memorable Melody 
you have the harmony section which is your  
[6:11] chord structure like where you add the you know 
the chords and the chord progression the third  
[6:16] layer is called the contrast layer this is where 
you usually add your base or sounds that are just  
[6:22] different from the top line and then you have your 
fourth layer which is your Rhythm Section okay so  
[6:27] I'll label this for you guys so we have the Top 
Line that's like you know your highest frequencies  
[6:32] of a track you have the harmony section contrast 
section and then the Rhythm Section now with these  
[6:37] four sections you could stack this up infinitely 
so once you understand those four buckets of a  
[6:42] beat everything becomes easy my favorite place 
to start is harmony okay build the chords first  
[6:48] let's go to What's called the Channel rack to 
start building out our puzzle pieces AKA our  
[6:52] musical ideas let's go to the channel rack we're 
going to rightclick and replace this with fet  
[7:00] all right so if you followed along so far you have 
saved your project and you have now opened up your  
[7:04] first plugin in FL Studio smash the like if you 
are following through smash that like button just  
[7:11] go ahead and do it all right take the time I'll 
wait five seconds 1 2 3 five thank you all right  
[7:16] let's go to the get button here and we're going 
to download where it says Essentials so here  
[7:22] under the get you want to download yours should 
say Essentials piano essential guitars essential  
[7:26] strings essential winds essential bass guitar I've 
already downloaded mine but you want to go to the  
[7:30] git Tab and make sure you download the free packs 
now that you have downloaded all that let's go to  
[7:34] piano now whenever you're struggling with music in 
general it's probably best to write with stringed  
[7:41] instruments piano is a stringed instrument it has 
strings underneath the hood of a piano grand piano  
[7:47] uh a guitar is a string instrument orchestral 
instruments are stringed is that a word stringed  
[7:53] instruments they're string instruments okay so 
start with string instruments first and then swap  
[7:58] out the sounds if you to okay so here we're going 
to go to Steinway D which is a piano and let's go  
[8:03] to takeoff Reverb takeoff limiter takeoff Master 
filter so now we just have a Plano Plano piano now  
[8:10] if you can't figure out how to make sounds click 
this little typing keyboard to piano keyboard  
[8:15] make sure this is on and now you can use your 
typing keyboard on your p on your computer to  
[8:20] make stuff okay so you can right click to switch 
out the settings what I would recommend is you  
[8:24] just right click hit reset in short it basically 
puts it out it puts it on layout piano root note  
[8:33] C octave 4 so that's what it does in those steps 
I'm running out of breath so I need y'all to smash  
[8:38] that like button we have seven more minutes to 
go okay let's let's start moving faster here now  
[8:43] that we have our sound open we need to first hit 
contrl L that will send the sound to the mixer and  
[8:48] name it for us if you don't see this number on 
the left side hit alt M on your keyboard to hi  
[8:53] to reveal that first thing we need to do is create 
ches so what I do I go to the playlist I drag in  
[9:00] a pattern okay I like to build inside of um as 
I'm listening to the beat we're going to turn  
[9:06] the metronome on we're going to turn blend overdub 
on we're going to turn the link on we're going to  
[9:10] turn the 3.2.1 on if you guys don't see this view 
right here this is just my view but you can click  
[9:16] the drop down go to view go to behind Clips switch 
it to solid that's why my screen looks different  
[9:21] but I'll reset it back to normal for you guys okay 
so here's what it looks like now if I hit space  
[9:28] bar it's just playing the metronome sound and 
nothing's playing but that's fine we want to build  
[9:32] as we're listening okay it's going to that's going 
to be a good habit for you guys over time so we're  
[9:36] going to stretch this out for about four bars 
now we're at 140 BPM in Hip Hop this is double  
[9:41] time okay so even though we're at 140 we're really 
technically at 70 BPM so don't be tricked by the  
[9:47] number four it's really two we're not trying to 
make stuff complicated right this second I have  
[9:51] song structure master classes on my Channel for 
free all right so now we have this stretch to  
[9:57] four let's hit control B this is latch paste latch 
paste okay so if you do not have the stretch to  
[10:03] the bar and you have something like this where 
it's not fully locked into the grid and you hit  
[10:08] contrl B it will paste it right there which is 
not on the grid it's not going to paste right so  
[10:14] contrl B is not copy and paste it's latch paste 
very different than copy and paste okay so now  
[10:20] we have this now we can we have it laid out the 
puzzle pieces now we can double click to go inside  
[10:25] and we can rightclick go to piano roll and now we 
can start adding notes okay now by default I don't  
[10:31] know why FL comes without this turned on but it 
is what it is so click the drop down in your piano  
[10:36] roll let's go to view let's go to where it says 
ghost channels for one you guys won't see that  
[10:41] just yet um and then we're going to go to where it 
says keyboard labels all notes make sure you turn  
[10:47] on all notes because by default it only turns on 
the root notes which how you're supposed to know  
[10:52] how to make music this way it's impossible okay 
impossible to make music that way so let's go to  
[10:57] view keyboard labels all notes okay turn that on 
so you can see every single note all right let's  
[11:04] make something easy here let's do uh let's start 
here at e and what we're going to do is change the  
[11:11] snap the grid to one half beat I'd recommend this 
if you ever mess up and you make some weird shape  
[11:16] hit contrl L it will truncate the note and make it 
longer for you guys all right now let's take this  
[11:22] note control left click is Select okay and then 
hit shift left click to duplicate and then we're  
[11:28] going to hit control down that will pull that note 
down an octave you've now just created your first
[11:34] octave okay so now what do we do from here we 
have this note stretched out two bars we're  
[11:42] going to highlight this hit control we're going 
to hit shift left click and drag this up so now  
[11:48] we're going to go up a half step to f a half step 
is when we go from one note directly to the note  
[11:52] above or below and I teach all this music theory 
stuff in my music theory Essentials course it's  
[11:59] it's the foundation of everything I teach just 
go to busyworksbeats.com music theory Essentials  
[12:04] I'll leave all the links below but that's the 
foundational teaching for everything I teach  
[12:09] okay so here's e and then we have [Music] F 
It's pretty dope so now this is our contrast  
[12:20] layer so if we remember we were building out the 
harmony so if we start here let's go back to the  
[12:26] playlist view let's highlight all these notes 
and let's hit shift down let's move that to  
[12:32] What's called the contrast section so contrast 
is usually our base tones okay so now we want  
[12:38] to create a Harmony do we create the Harmony 
in pattern one or do we create a new pattern  
[12:42] we go to a new puzzle piece so let's go to 
pattern two you left click this little area  
[12:46] go to pattern two and on the left side you'll see 
your patterns over here you could just left click  
[12:50] and drag it in and we need to make it long 
like we did before now we have pattern two  
[12:57] but there's no midi information in here there's 
nothing in it so let's double click we need to  
[13:01] add stuff to it let's right click go to piano 
roll and now we can hear pattern two over top  
[13:07] of pattern one but we don't have anything in 
here so let's start adding some stuffs let's  
[13:12] add a note here at e then add a note at F and 
we're going to take E and F we're going to hit  
[13:20] control left click highlight and hit shift left 
click to duplicate the notes and we're going to  
[13:25] hit shift up seven times one two 3 four five six 
seven this creates what's called a perfect [Music]
[13:38] fifth now that we have that what we can do is take 
this further I'm going to get into a little music  
[13:52] theory but we'll just kind of keep this short 
we're going to hit control highlight these notes  
[13:57] and hit shift left click and then we're going 
to hit shift down one two 3 4 0 1 2 3 okay so  
[14:04] now we're creating a minor chord okay so a minor 
chord without borne all to tears about everything  
[14:10] about music right now the root note consider this 
zero we're not talking about scale degrees for  
[14:16] all the music theory snobs out there this called 
integer notation okay I call these chord codes how  
[14:21] to build any chord so basically this is the root 
note zero and then we count up so it's 0 1 2 3 4 5  
[14:29] 5 6 7 so we count note by note until we fill 
that chord code out so this is 0 1 2 3 so it's  
[14:34] 0 3 4 5 6 7 so 03 7 always makes the minor chord 
all the time so that's your quick way of making  
[14:41] chords now the second chord feels wrong so what 
we'll do is we'll take this note here the middle  
[14:47] note hit shift up so we hit control to highlight 
left click and then we hit shift [Music] up and  
[14:56] now that feels more correct so usually chords 
are going to be major or minor chords so that's  
[15:00] why we start with the minor chord first okay 
now that we have the chords now all we have  
[15:05] to do is just go back to the playlist make sure 
we're on song mode if I didn't make that clear  
[15:09] and uh we're going to left click drag that in 
now my tool is on the paintbrush tool when it  
[15:14] comes to the playlist uh and now let's move into 
What's called the Top Line we're going to go to  
[15:18] pattern three so we're going to left click switch 
this to pattern three and you might be like okay  
[15:23] how do you make Melodies well in my opinion the 
Top Line starts one octave higher than the high  
[15:29] note of your chords so let's right click go to 
piano roll now if you guys remember we played  
[15:35] e it was down here e and then we went up to B so 
that was our top note so now we're going to take  
[15:41] this B hit control up to go up an octave and we're 
going to start our Melody here there are a lot of  
[15:47] rules with Melody I can't explain everything 
in 5 minutes so I'm just going to teach you  
[15:51] guys What notes we can add here but I explain 
this in music theory Essentials if you guys go  
[15:55] to busyworksbeats.com SL music theory Essentials 
I will guide you through building Melody I even  
[16:02] have a new course called Melody Mastery which goes 
really deep into Melody okay we're talking about  
[16:07] Counterpoint counter Melodies advanced stuff 
chrom chromaticism a lot of stuff but for now  
[16:14] we're just going to give you guys some shortcuts 
so if you highlight the note the only number you  
[16:17] really need to remember is the number seven okay 
so we're going to take a note uh hit control hit  
[16:23] shift left click make that duplicate note and 
then hit shift up seven times 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
[16:31] okay and then we could raise that note up one half
[16:33] step okay so we're going to copy this 
so let's create like a Travis Scout  
[16:40] Vibe and we're going to hit shift 
pull this over the only thing we're  
[16:46] going to change is this root note so 
we're going to pull this note up to C
[16:58] [Music] actually I might change
[17:00] [Music] it let's change that top note so sounds  
[17:07] better let's do actually [Music] a 
just going by ear here there's no
[17:15] rules there we go going for like a Travis Scott 
type Vibe now let's go back to song mode and  
[17:23] the playlist here we're going to left click and 
add this in so now we have the Top Line section  
[17:28] we have the Harmon section we have the contrast 
section now we just need Rhythm so here's where we  
[17:31] add our drums so beat making really comes down 
to four layers I already missed my 15-minute  
[17:36] Target cuz I was trying to explain everything but 
I showed you guys how you can literally open the  
[17:41] program how to save your program how to open up 
your first plugin I showed you guys how to make  
[17:46] your panel roll look nice I showed you guys how 
to make your first cord I went over how to layer  
[17:52] the four layers of your beat so you've learned a 
lot in this video it sounds simple but it took me  
[17:57] years to figure this out so I've crystallized it 
to make it super streamlined for you guys so now  
[18:02] let's add the Rhythm like I said in the very 
beginning of the video this is the part where  
[18:06] you guys have to go hunt some sounds I'm going 
to give you the project files for free if you  
[18:11] guys go to busyworksbeats.com flstudio I'll give 
you the project files for free I'll show you where  
[18:17] to find some stock sounds but again you're not 
going to get this in the stock sounds okay so  
[18:22] if you guys got a packs you guys can mess with the 
Legacy drums and then go to where it says vintage  
[18:28] this is a Rolland tr808 drum [Music] kit so it 
has some sounds in there but you're not going  
[18:36] to find modern hip-hop stuff in FL Studio stock 
sound so I'm not going to keep you guys chasing  
[18:41] a rabbit that doesn't exist um so that's where 
you find sounds is in the packs area and then  
[18:47] you could mess with different packs for different 
sounds for the most part let's go to our Channel  
[18:51] rack we want a kick which is like we want a high 
hat which is T we want a snare which is C okay  
[18:58] so okay and then we went an 808 which is Boom 
all right so let's find those sounds in our  
[19:05] browser let's open up the browser right here 
this button and what I've done here is I've  
[19:12] added my own hard drive so if you guys do collect 
sounds on your external let me show you guys how  
[19:18] to how to uh save your files go to where it says 
um options in the top here and then go to where it  
[19:26] says file settings here you can import different 
folders into FL Studio and when you import those  
[19:32] folders it will show up on your browser like 
this so I basically click this little folder  
[19:37] icon you find your folder on your computer I'll 
go to my external thing I have a folder called  
[19:43] friend sounds where is it at friend sounds okay 
and then over here you can name it something so  
[19:47] we'll call this friend Sounds new just so you guys 
can see it so I have two things that say friend  
[19:53] sounds cuz one's already the friend sounds folder 
okay now what we have to do from here is hit the  
[19:58] refresh button in the top left of the browser and 
then see this folder says friend Sounds new okay  
[20:05] so it's the same location but I'm just showing you 
guys how to add sounds to your um project now we  
[20:10] didn't do a lot of like finessing with the midi 
here because I'm trying to keep this less than 30  
[20:14] minutes nextly let's go to pattern four because 
now we're going to start drawing out some drums  
[20:19] so let's go to pattern four here left click go to 
pattern four and let's find some drums all right  
[20:24] so we're going to go to Metro's kit here where 
we at here let's go to lunch 77 Metro again you  
[20:33] guys got to chase down these sounds there's no 
one place to get sounds Reddit has a lot of the  
[20:37] stuff that you know it just has a ton of stuff 
let's go to snares start here I like to start  
[20:45] with snares first we're going to right click and 
open a new channel okay that's going to add that  
[20:51] sound to our puzzle piece shaping thing called the 
Channel rack all right so now we have that snare  
[20:57] as an option here let's find a high hat and close 
high hat let's right click open a new channel so  
[21:02] now that's added to our Channel rack uh let's go 
to our Kick let right click open a new channel  
[21:11] now one thing about samples if you're a beginner 
and you don't know what this red thing is just  
[21:14] turn off where it says use the loot points or else 
you're going to get like a weird sound also some  
[21:18] samples are like weird it says Auto and all this 
just click here go to Res sample rightclick your  
[21:24] time and hit R to reset and also check under 
your volume envelope and make sure you reset  
[21:30] the root note okay because some samples are kind 
of quirky so that's how you reset a sample in the  
[21:35] sampler uh that's for more intermediate to advance 
folks but anyhow let's add an open high [Music]
[21:43] hat right click open a new channel so far we have 
a snare we have a high hat and we have a kick now  
[21:51] we need to find an 808 now the most popular 808 is 
the spins 808 shout out to DJ Spins for Branding  
[21:57] one of the most used 808s on the planet uh we 
have this 808 here it's called The Spins 808 we're  
[22:03] going to right click open that up again you guys 
will get the project files for free so don't try  
[22:07] to memorize like everything I'm talking about now 
that we have all the sounds in FL FL Studio again  
[22:12] you guys could use your own sounds if you're 
following along but we're going to go to the  
[22:15] channel rack here left click and highlight all 
of the sounds on the left side then we're going  
[22:21] to hit contrl L that will send the sounds to our 
mixer because in the mixer we could do stuff like  
[22:27] saturation d Distortion whatever okay so now 
we're on pattern four we need to add pattern  
[22:31] four to the playlist under song mode remember 
we need to switch here grab pattern four from  
[22:36] the left side drag it in so nothing's happening 
right now we're just laying out the puzzle pieces  
[22:41] now we need to fill in the puzzle pieces like AKA 
draw on the puzzle piece so let's double click in  
[22:45] here to open up pattern four and here's where 
we can start building so what I like to do is  
[22:50] just click somewhere over here and then right 
click fill each two steps when it comes to the  
[22:54] high head so fl's kind of hard to like judge how 
long it needs to be so just right click fill each  
[23:01] two steps this is a great place to start because 
this is almost like creating your own metronome  
[23:07] okay now the snare goes on What's called the 
three and the seven so if I turn the metronome  
[23:11] back on I'm going to count and every time the 
metronome hits It's a heartbeat so it's one 2  
[23:15] snare four five six snare 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 
2 3 4 5 6 7even 8 let's add a little Metro it  
[23:27] goes one 2 one two one two t 1 two one two one 
two one two one two one two one two okay so that  
[23:34] little high hat I added in here is that Metro 
bounce now let's add our open high head one two
[23:41] so say okay now let's add the boom boom the 
boom boom sounds weird so it's we're g to  
[23:52] add this now there's a pattern in Hip Hop and 
trap calledo so it goes CEO in drill it goes
[24:00] ta that's the only pattern you need 
to memorize it creates all the genres  
[24:06] from Mob music in the west coast 
hip-hop classic boom bap uh trap afro
[24:12] beon it's all the seal okay so so just get used to  
[24:18] that pattern okay so it goes boom boom 
boom that's the SE right there now you  
[24:22] can move that around if you guys want to 
be more creative but that's the pattern
[24:30] boom boom bo so I'm going go and call out 3 
3 c o c o so that's called tro it's a nice
[24:41] bounce so now you're like okay I I can kind 
of hear the 808 but I can't so now let's  
[24:48] go to the Steinway we're going to turn down 
what's called the Channel volume um because  
[24:52] we want to turn sounds down at the source 
most of the time so let's turn that down  
[24:55] here in the channel volume so now the piano 
is live quier now we're going to turn up the
[25:01] 808 now I'm not going to use a kick for this 
beat but if you guys wanted to add a kick we  
[25:09] could a simple way is just click on your 808 hit 
contrl c contrl v and just pasted it in the same  
[25:15] timing as your 808 kind of a cool blend here but 
now the beat sounds kind of Muddy and sloppy the  
[25:25] last thing we need to do in this beat is mix and 
then kind of deal with some of the effects all  
[25:29] right so here's where we're going to get a little 
Advanced pretty quickly but just follow the steps  
[25:33] if you guys are copying every single step let's 
go to the master we're going to click on here  
[25:37] we're going to go to our plugins and let's add the 
fruity wave shaper this one's going to add what's  
[25:43] called harmonic steer track to make it sound more 
filled out we're going to click this Cog icon in  
[25:47] the bottom right turn your mix level to about 
50% or less hit this little over sample button  
[25:52] and crank this up to 4X I like to hit the high 
quality button and we're going to turn up this  
[25:57] curvature to make it more of a convex curvature 
you can even hear it in my voice my voice will  
[26:01] start to sound a little bit more Buzzy so that's 
what we're adding to the beat we're adding like  
[26:04] a buzz to it a subtle Buzz next plugin in slot 
two if you don't see this like View and you're  
[26:10] like what the heck is going on um go to here 
to where it says Compact 2 or wide I'm not sure  
[26:15] which the default one is I keep mine on Compact 2 
the old school way but your mixer might look like  
[26:20] this I don't like this view so let's go back to 
Compact 2 also if you don't see all the buttons  
[26:25] click these two icons here to show the plugins 
and this one shows this little other section  
[26:30] here if you don't see that section at the bottom 
your mixer might be too small so just drag it to  
[26:35] make it bigger like that all right so I forgot 
what I was talking about here oh okay let's click  
[26:41] the drop down let's go to fruity soft Clipper and 
this will just basically make sure we're not going  
[26:47] over zero we're going to turn the threshold to 
the right this is called Soft clipping or excuse  
[26:51] me hard clipping uh soft clipping would be to 
the left okay so we're going to turn that to  
[26:55] the right now we're our beat sounds a lot bigger 
and now we can do crazy stuff like turn the 808
[27:02] up so what I did here in the mixer is I turned 
this what's called a fader up this is post  
[27:12] everything so me turning this up is after all 
of my other effects on the 808 if we wanted to  
[27:18] turn the 808 up at the source like before all 
our plugins we would turn it up at the channel  
[27:23] rack level very important cuz a lot of people 
try to turn their sounds up and down from the  
[27:27] mixer and they're wondering why they're not 
getting like more of their effect so the mixer  
[27:33] is like the fader is like the last thing I would 
touch for volume most of the time now the 808 is
[27:38] jumping so let me show you guys a couple tips 
to make your stuff sound more Pro let's go to  
[27:46] the high hat just click on it go to the wrench 
tool go to where it says time shift if you're an  
[27:52] FL Studio 11 or below it's called time offset and 
it's down here somewhere so we're going to turn  
[27:57] the time shift up like that now the high hat will 
be a little delayed after the track so it won't  
[28:04] sound so right on the grid it's called now the 
8way is kind of loud so let's pull it back in
[28:09] volume now I want my kick to be 
a little more forceful so let's  
[28:17] turn the kick up with the channel volume 
here there we go now we can turn the beta8
[28:34] so let's say my 808 tone is in like right it 
goes D the whole time what we can do is give  
[28:39] tonality to our 808 let's right click go to 
piano roll so now we're taking these sequence  
[28:43] notes and we're starting to create unique notes 
for it so we're going to right click go to piano  
[28:48] roll so now I can see the note values for my 
808 if you guys struggle with 808 TI control  
[28:53] up and you can hear the tonality right now it's 
not like matching the piano and you see so let's  
[29:01] hit shift down now it's more in key remember in 
our Melody we went one note then a note up so  
[29:10] the same thing here this is basically doing that 
let's hit control down and pull that back down
[29:28] [Music]
[29:28] let me again show you guys how to make your 
stuffff sound pro I'm just going to add in little  
[29:32] notes here and I'm going to turn the velocity down 
now the gray out stuff in the background is called  
[29:37] a ghost channel so if you click in the top left go 
to view that's what the ghost channel is if I turn  
[29:42] that off you guys won't see that so basically 
anything on the same channel rack pattern the  
[29:48] puzzle piece you'll be able to see where the 
midi is to help you guys Trace patterns and
[29:52] stuff so now I'm adding in this this lower 
velocity a88 if you don't see the velocity  
[30:01] grab the ellipses here left click pull 
this up go to where it says control then  
[30:07] go to where it says note velocity and that's 
how you pull up this little velocity [Music]
[30:14] graph so now we're adding a little stutter
[30:18] step let's go to our snare let's 
tune this down with a pitch here
[30:30] if you ever want to fade out 
of sound you guys can use the  
[30:31] out parameter here to fade or shorten a [Music]
[30:38] sound same with the high head click 
on our high hat go to the main page  
[30:45] you guys can trim the high hat to get 
rid of all the excess blankness and  
[30:49] then hit Fade Out trim some of that 
Reverb off let's go to the open high  
[30:56] head let's go to the wrench tool turn 
up time shift so it's not sew on the
[31:01] grid all right now I'm going to show you guys 
my secret sauce and then we'll wrap this up on  
[31:09] the piano I'm trying to decide how I want to do 
this I guess we'll do it on a different track so  
[31:13] let's open up the mixer so remember the mixer is 
where we can add effects and stuff let's go to a  
[31:18] blank area called insert 8 let's right click call 
this Reverb we're going to open up fruity actually  
[31:24] let's do Lex verb I forgot we have Lex verb now 
they not not Lex verb my bad Lux verb shout out  
[31:29] to Lux verb shout out to Lex Luger and we're 
going to turn the Reverb on and then turn on  
[31:33] where it says feedback and I'm trying to decide 
do I want to do it this way uh yeah let's try it  
[31:39] okay so let's turn up what's called the gain and 
then we're going to turn up the high cut so now  
[31:44] I'm going to send my piano to that Reverb to do 
that I'm going to right click and rename this and  
[31:50] give it a color so you guys can see we're going 
to go to our piano left click these up arrows at  
[31:54] the bottom to send a signal to that channel and 
then to turn it down you just left click and turn  
[31:59] it down like that now my piano's going to this 
Reverb Channel and it has this unique Reverb  
[32:06] sound and it's filling out the sound now if you 
guys want to go pro Lev very quickly in slot two  
[32:13] let's open up gross beat so if you guys see this 
technique used by anybody I created it first so  
[32:20] you know They're copying off your boy go to gross 
beat it's okay if you guys use it but if anybody  
[32:24] claims they made this up cap okay go to gross 
beat let's go to presets let's go to momentary  
[32:29] let's go to half speed and then let's pull back 
the time knob here so now we have a slowed down  
[32:34] Reverb and we have the original Reverb creates 
a nice haunted [Music] sound sounds [Music]
[32:47] crazy let me show you guys something you could 
do with with FL you probably didn't know I'm just  
[32:54] showing you guys sauce just to inspire you guys 
so I need you to subscribe if that was sauce for  
[32:58] you please subscribe I don't want to have to 
beg you again I give you two seconds one two  
[33:03] okay if you go to Steinway piano open up fruity 
delay three and um all right fruity delay three  
[33:09] now here's the technique turn your dry level 
all the way down turn feedback level all the  
[33:14] way down turn delay time all the way down okay and 
turn off Tempo sync and basically everything else  
[33:21] becomes an effect just start twisting knobs and 
you'll hear it so basically time modulation under  
[33:25] time if I turn this up creates that wobbly sound 
like sound it makes it sound really creepy so now  
[33:36] we have a really creepy [Music] Vibe I'm going 
to go to the master channel here and let's see  
[33:48] what it sounds like with soft clipping I'm just 
curious that crunchy Playboy cardi type sound
[34:06] so you guys don't need a bunch of sounds to 
make a a beat that feels full it's just about  
[34:10] all those steps remember a beat is really 
just Topline the harmony section which is  
[34:16] your chords the contrast layer which is like 
your base layer and then the Rhythm Section
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[35:39] to tell yall if you want the foundation of like 
how to turn this eight bar idea into like a full  
[35:43] song go to busyworksbeats.com slm music theory 
Essentials that's all my music theory teaching  
[35:49] where I go through like how to song structure how 
to make beats from scratch how to make Melodies  
[35:54] From Scratch how to make chords from scratch how 
to do baselines from scratch modes explain scales  
[35:59] explain moods behind music then move into what's 
called music theory magic that's the next level up  
[36:04] that goes into really deep science about what how 
to generate mood through music in short and then  
[36:09] from there I go into Melody Mastery and that's 
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[36:14] order to really comprehend Melody Mastery so all 
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