All language subtitles for 12-11 - Beats Part 1 - deadmau5 Teaches Electronic Music Production

The basics of an EDM beat is having a kick on every quarter note

And a snare and or clap

On every other

Quarter note

I have MBA

Between

That's basically I mean freedm but like

Diving event

In the problem with EDM or or the not problem with ATM and maybe wise

It's done so well as it's it's it's really constrain to a group of new rules so I can one

Being psychic

126 to 1:30 range you know my in terms of BPM

Which kind of

Locks you down to putting kick drums on every quarter note which kind of makes sense

And then like

No one breaks they might switch it up here and there in like you know throw the one-off like 1/8

Early or late or something like that which is just a little interesting little purse but

Systemically through the whole track

And I'm kind of pulse driven

Music

Kind of thing on

That's that's kind of words

Makes

Commercialized ATM what it is

And if you get to polyrhythmic with it people

Can't get it

You know if you're like getting Altra dr2 on the s*** you know

No one's

Going to be able to

Get locked into a Groove and I mean

It's no surprise I think you know the masses are basically stupid

I'm so you have to make

Stupid s***

You know and

And it does really well because it's on

I'm not stupid I just mean like you know it's common denominator stuff

Canvasser say that

So you know if you just break it down to the core element of you know beatbox measures and

Groups of fat you know four eight 16 32 64 128

Beer

You're in sync

The world

And the world is in sync with you and everyone can get it

You know when that

Something for everyone is

Something that's going to do well on the market

There's no such thing as like a good kicking a bad kick sample

I mean there's there's there's

When it comes to creating

You don't kick drum

Very specific

You could you could synthesize them you could you can use an actual sample of

One that you rent from another track or from some stock music library type thing or something like that but

There's really no

Bad

Text sample that you can't reshape with you know a transient designer or any key

Q sometimes more cases are not or just by layering different types of kicks and splitting frequencies

Across meaning that

You're going to high pass

One of the case just to get the low and out of it and then a whole different kick sample in the middle

The kind of get

You know the mid-range and not forget the top end of that Kik

There's no s*** audio signal unless it's like white noise or something like that but you can

You can really shape any

Any Sound Source to sound great

Gum chewing facts

Processing compression

I I sometimes do this

Where is you know you know I'll find something and you know I'll listen to a whole Loop and say you know I'll

I like this one element out-of-the-loop

Same

Like that I had ordered

The Keg or something like that and then go in

And you know

Rimmel

One element you like

Smell I have

Repeating that kickover

A certain amount of time

Really thin sounding Tech but it

To me it sounds

Like they could be something that's it could be more top-end

Topkick

What's up with my capslock

And meaning the top-end is that not going to strip out all the low end of that Loop so

That's easy that's just

You know some like an EQ

And when I'm going to do is run basically a high pass on it

Witches

Stripping out low-end

So that's that's kind of mean

I guess

Now I'm going to go into this library of crap

And go

Find a keg

Libraries just full of

Checks

Noun

What I'm going to do here is a sampler it messed it inside that thing

Sear

This is what I like about live actually is that you could go in and

Find find a keg

Of course you got a sequence it in there

I'm going to put those all in the first

Quarter note

Stretch that out

To match that top

Okay that's kind of cohesive there now there's all these little things that come into play that

That happened here so if I if I strip if I bypass the

The top that's like way too muddy right because I cut out the low you're only hearing a low frequency of that set

I can kick

So you're getting you no more cleaner bottom-end out of that because we're stripping out all the boss

Demand in the first kid

So

Start at the top end of this taking the bottom into this cake and I mean it it sounds

Okay but

What's not happening is is compression right now so

A couple different things you can do

So

I can use a transient designer to start

Okay so I'm going to put that on the on the top root of that those two kick Channel

I'm going to pull the volumes down on these a bit because I'm going into the plug-in a little hot there and

And most plugins have warning so you'll see like the overload just like switched on a test means you're going away to

So about there

So with that transient design or what it's basically kind of doing is

Doing a little transient lifting and then compressing the rest after that

Swinging it turn up the attack on that in the the sustained on that

So it's giving me a little

Sharper image of a keg there

And you can hear that by

Bypassing it

It's subtle but it's it's definitely there

And then maybe a bit of overall bus compression because

We're also going to we're going to throw in some other elements like

I have some venison are just to get a basic beat going so

My kind of go to is

This song

API

2500 have one sitting right here and which I would just route you know the audio to and from that but

Demo psychologist

Drum compression you know typically it's going to be three four

31

And now as I'm

Upping the threshold on that you're going to hear them

You can actually see the gain reduction happening

That's my computer

Chokes to death on something I don't know what but

Americans

Really weird

Okay good enough I mean but then

Things like Ableton now you can just go in

Try out

Other checks

The guy had it right

First one

Can I get enough

I mean it's just tweaking that kind of stuff like

Bringing that down a semitone

Or 4

Portrayed till you get a nice

You know solid tone out of that

And now you're hearing a whole bunch of little weird artifacts like

I'm hearing this weird click

Staying at the end of the sample I can get rid of that by

Snap off

Anime be decaying into bed

Yeah I know that's gone

But you can do this till the cows come home and then you know later and

And play with things but you really want to keep your frequency separate on each element so that say you have the top of one thing the mid

Another thing in the bottom of another thing and never really mix the two because

Going to start getting into problems called phase cancellation meeting that

This is what's happening when I

Bypass the ieq is getting a little weird

FaZe cancellation or add Edition because you have to low-frequency way folic playing on top of

Each other creating a harmonica

Or canceling each other out

Knock reading

You know whole lot of nothing

So the way to actually

Show you how that works is if I duplicate that so 5 to kicks playing at the same time

Exact exact same waveform

What it is. It's going to happen

Is it's going to be twice as loud so

If I add another one on top of it it's going to be two times the volume and it's going to clip all the hell and all that stuff

Now what's interesting is that

If I went in and I inverted the phase of another one of those kicks

And I can do that with a utility and say

Invert the phase on that now because I

Inverted the phase

What you're hearing

Especially if I turn down the game if I start to turn up the game on that

Which is funny

Because I'm turning

Up game it's actually getting quieter

And now as I pass zero it gets louder again so what's happening

Is the two waves are playing at the same time and one is the opposite of it and needed canceling it out that's called

Phase cancellation

And that happens a lot when you start to mix

A lot of low-frequency elements together this is the most dramatic

Condom

Example of this because you're playing The Identical wave so it's going to cancel each other out

So because I

Inverted the face on the left and right of that channel that just means

You're not going to hear anything because you have two waveforms playing against each other canceling each other out that's called face

That's what happens when you start to mix

Things like this and this and then have frequencies colliding

So

That's something to really you know look out for

Premier beat doesn't really change much

Anna song on

Elements are added and taken away but that the

The structure

For me

Remains

As like a kind of placeholder thing

To you know

Keep time

The music that I have

Going on because like I kind of mentioned before as I

The way I write music as it's it's more Melody Centric

So I'm not

Too focused on

The arrangement of the drums in terms of the timing of the the certain elements a lot of them

Will stay locked in in young within a bar or two or three

For with some minor

Variances

But I I

The way I

Change that up is by introducing elements and taking away elements as opposed to

Rearranging existing Ella

Switches you know

Not a style all its own but I kind of refrain from doing that because I just

I'm more

I'm more than thrilled by the the melody structure of

You know I've tones that supposed to

You know percussive elements

You know so it's like I could give a s*** last with the drums are doing half the time because I'm more interested in the kind of phrase

And it beats just kind of there cuz it has to be

If I had it my way you know

I wouldn't

Have a lot of drums in my stuff

But

You can't answer that Mandy just can't play that so

That's just not what sells and I have to pay for all this s***

The end of the day to be quite honest

More often than not why even have

Pics in my stuff because I like

I have a lot of songs

That I've written and done that are that don't have drums that are just you know big sent Corrales kind

Stuff like that in

You know Sebastian Bach did that to Mozart did that to annoy s*** on him for

You know not having a drop

That big bass in it you know

Well actually at the time they did s*** on him

But now they don't so that's important