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title: 'FL STUDIO | Beginner to PRO Beat Making Tutorial'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=AwJGKMRhn-A'
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date: 2026-06-28
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# FL STUDIO | Beginner to PRO Beat Making Tutorial

> Source: [FL STUDIO | Beginner to PRO Beat Making Tutorial](https://youtube.com/watch?v=AwJGKMRhn-A)

## Summary

This tutorial teaches absolute beginners how to make their first beat in FL Studio. The instructor, Game from Busy Works Beats, simplifies the interface to five essential buttons and walks through a complete beat-making process: setting up the project, creating harmonic layers, adding drums, and applying mixing effects. The video emphasizes that sound selection and organization are critical for success.

### Key Points

- **Five Essential Buttons** [0:48] — Only five main buttons need to be learned: Playlist (puzzle piece assembly), Piano Roll (melodies), Channel Rack (sound design), Mixer (effects), and Browser (finding sounds).
- **Playlist as Puzzle Board** [1:01] — The Playlist is where you arrange all the musical elements together like puzzle pieces.
- **Maximize Piano Roll for Melodies** [1:11] — Always maximize the Piano Roll (click the maximize button or double-click the top banner) to avoid struggling with tiny note grids.
- **Channel Rack for Sound Design** [1:46] — The Channel Rack is where you shape the character of each sound (like puzzle piece edges), while the Playlist arranges them.
- **Mixer Adds Effects** [2:44] — The Mixer is used to add effects like reverb and compression to individual sounds. The instructor demos adding effects to his voice to sound like a 'man' instead of a 'child'.
- **Browser for Sound Discovery** [3:04] — The Browser is where you find drum kits, samples, and synths. Without good sounds, beat-making is impossible.
- **Sound Selection is 99.7% of Production** [3:17] — Finding high-quality drum kits and samples for your genre is the most important task. Stock sounds are not enough for modern hip-hop, EDM, or R&B.
- **Label Tracks and Stay Organized** [4:30] — Labeling each track (e.g., melody, harmony, bass, drums) from the start ensures you can find projects later and stay successful.
- **Four Layers of a Beat** [5:57] — Every beat has four layers: Topline (memorable melody), Harmony (chord structure), Contrast (bass or different sounds), and Rhythm (drums).
- **Start with Piano for Chords** [6:48] — Build chords first using a piano (a stringed instrument). Download free Essentials packs from the 'Get' tab.
- **Using Typing Keyboard for Notes** [8:10] — Enable the 'Typing keyboard to piano keyboard' option (click the keyboard icon) to use your computer keyboard to play notes.
- **Build Pattern While Listening to Metronome** [9:32] — Stretch a pattern to four bars, turn on the metronome, and build the beat while listening to the click to develop a good workflow habit.
- **Turn On Ghost Channels and All Note Labels** [10:46] — In the Piano Roll, enable 'Ghost channels' to see other parts and set 'Keyboard labels' to 'All notes' so every key is labeled.
- **Chord Code for Minor Chords** [13:38] — A minor chord is built using the pattern 0-3-7 (root, minor third, perfect fifth). This applies to any note as the root.
- **Adding Drums: Kick, Snare, Hat, 808** [18:02] — Use the Channel Rack to add individual drum hits. The snare typically lands on beats 3 and 7; the kick follows the 'seal' pattern (basic trap/hip-hop kick pattern).
- **Adding External Sound Folders** [19:05] — Go to Options > File Settings to add external folders to the Browser, then refresh to see new sounds.
- **Resetting a Sample** [21:14] — If a sample sounds weird, turn off 'Use loop points', set resample mode to 'Resample', right-click and hit 'R' to reset, and check the volume envelope.
- **High-Hat Pattern Fill Each 2 Steps** [22:48] — A quick way to add hi-hats is to right-click and 'Fill each 2 steps' in the piano roll, creating a steady 8th-note pattern.
- **Mixing: Wave Shaper and Soft Clipper** [25:01] — Add Fruity Wave Shaper on the master with mix ~50% and convex curvature for harmonic distortion. Then add Fruity Soft Clipper with threshold turned right for hard clipping to control peaks.
- **Using Faders vs. Channel Volume** [25:29] — Channel volume adjusts the sound before all effects; mixer faders adjust after effects. Use channel volume first, then faders only if needed.
- **Delay to Widen Hi-Hats** [26:39] — Set the hi-hat sample's Time shift (or Time offset) to a small positive value to push it slightly off-grid, creating a more human feel.
- **808 Tonality and Pitch Control** [28:34] — Use the piano roll to change the pitch of the 808 to match the key of the beat. Lower velocity notes create a stutter effect.
- **Pro Reverb with Gross Beat** [31:09] — Set up a reverb send (e.g., Lux Verb), then add Gross Beat with the 'Half Speed' preset and reduce the time knob to create a slowed-down reverb effect.
- **Fruity Delay 3 for Wobble Effect** [33:03] — Turn dry level to 0, feedback to 0, delay time to 0, and disable tempo sync. Then twist the time knob to create a wobbly modulation effect.
- **Final Takeaway** [35:16] — You only need four layers and proper sound selection to make a full beat. The video took 35 minutes but provided pro-level sound design sauce.

### Conclusion

This tutorial effectively transforms a complete beginner into someone who can create a full beat in FL Studio by simplifying the interface to five buttons, teaching the four essential layers of a track, and providing advanced mixing tricks. The core takeaway is that sound selection and organization are more important than any single feature.

## Transcript

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