I teamed up with free code Camp so if you made it this far I'd greatly appreciate if you could support me on patreon because what I'm doing is completely free and I'm never going to ask for charge anything um the only other services that I'd ever ask for charge are something that actually takes a lot of time and then I'm going to put a lot of work and effort into and so while I didn't do the full mixing mastering process that I do on my own tracks here with you guys since you're just starting out um I do offer those services and if you're willing to support me I'm also going to be married and in just about a week which is crazy and my uh fiance is an amazing singer and so we're actually going to make a music duo and if you're supporting me you're also supporting uh my future as a musician as well because I want to make music with her and I think it'd be super fun and I'd love to uh have you guys hear what what we make in the future so I know I've been blabbering for a long time um but I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and come came along for me for the ride and if you want to keep coming with me come join me um it's been it's been great working with you guys I'll see you later all right

As promised, here is the prize so I'm going to open it up here and I'm going to give you guys a ton of links that you can go to and this will help you guys tremendously on your music production Journey so first up we are going to go to Native Instruments this is the complete start I highly highly highly recommend native instruments and this is a free bundle that will give you tons of super high quality plugins that you can use when starting off and these are just awesome I really wanted to use these during our tutorial but it's actually like so good I feel like it it's almost like cheating so I wanted to make it a little bit more difficult so you guys can learn a little bit but holy cow yeah Native Instruments epic all right next up on the list is BBC Orchestra this is a free Symphony Orchestra that you can get and it is so good I was able to pick this up for free I'm almost positive I pretty sure it is still free so check this out if nothing else everything that Spitfire audio does is is epic so check out BBC Symphony Orchestra and see if you can pick up that next on the list is camel Crusher camel Crusher is a distortion plugin and it's just great it gives you amazing Distortion and I really wanted to use it during a tutorial uh this is what it looks like it's really awesome so love that use it all the time in production next up on the list is X for records we have Ott next up on the list we have fresh air it is amazing I use it on all my masters and it makes them sound amazing um it adds basically just like a little bit of a high boost it kind of like just saturate the highs it just sounds amazing just try it out trust me I'll love it um next up on the list we have ozone imager this is amazing it just helps the stereo width of uh just different um instruments or whatever you're working on I use this all the time it's amazing Fox lingo span I use this on every single Master it helps me see the audio and what's going on and how to reference different mixes it's it's it's really good I highly recommend highly recommend this next up is simatics uh they make tons of free sample packs and I highly recommend getting the sample packs that they give out they're very uh high quality the they're really good and their pay packs are good as well I've heard and last but not least on uh frees sounds. it I believe it's this is what it is there's all kinds of different free sample packs so you can pick up Drums of percussion synthesizer and keys cinematic sound effects and vocals and then there's like trap hip hop techno experimental tons of and every single one of these are sample packs and every single one of those sample packs has like hundreds of sounds so there is so so many SLE packs here for you guys to use if you're looking for that I know I went through this fast and this is not even the beginning of how many free resources there is for you guys but most of all I think that the biggest prize is going to be joining the Discord that I was talking about with all the other music producers because that was the most fun part of music production for me was working with others so I hope you guys had a great time learning and I hope to see you soon all right have a great one let's fly

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enlearn how to produce music in this full course for beginners you don't need any previous Music Experience you'll learn to create music tracks in a variety of styles using FL Studio which is a digital audio workstation with an unlimited free trial Tristan Wilcox teaches this course he's a professional musician and teacher right in front of me right here is a finished track and it's also going to be in front of you if you follows along with this tutorial you will have a full track done if you have zero Music Experience like it it really doesn't matter like if you've ever picked up an instrument doesn't matter if you know anything about music production doesn't matter I'm going to take you from zero to understanding how to make of your very first track um in just a few hours that's all I'm asking you and you don't need to do it all once I've sectioned this up into chapter so it's easy to follow um and if you're asking well what kind of music am I going to make um I'm doing EDM hip-hop and orchestra music and it doesn't really stop there the things I'm going to be teaching you you can take in to any genre so I hope you guys enjoy the this course and you're going to make your own versions of these so don't if you don't like the way I did something change it do it in the tutorial and I have a lot planned and I'm really excited and I hope that this is helpful all right guys I really wanted to show you a um just what is possible with f studi so I'm going to play a song that I made and I professionally produced mix and mastered and is called let's boom juu um bomu is the name of my pet rabbit and so I hope that you guys enjoy I think it's honestly a banger and so we're going to play it um this is on my YouTube channel Tristan WX so without further Ado let's uh just play the song here we go in the meadow so free eating car all day living life with bir so fluffy Standing Tall this rabbit got swager ain't going to fall punching bananas are the day and bath night living like's on his own the living life withams of his own let's hop hop hop hop let's might be having always obvious what the problem is to grounding stress opposite when the Comfort HS a of bread window he with his te you know he's black and white like old TV's or referee going remember me going me going me let's f f let's h all right so as you can see um that was a that was a really really fun song to make I'm not going to lie um it was it was hilarious so yeah this is what's possible with Studio you can make a song just like this um uh banana and rabbit not included but I hope that you guys have an extremely fun time watching this tutorial and you learn a lot um also if you make it through the whole tutorial you're awesome you're awesome person being and if you don't make it the tutorial you're still awesome but you could be awesomer if you made it all the way through the tutorial true story okay let's get started let's go first things first we're going to want to head over to imagine.com and you're going to pick up your copy of FL Studio just click download there and follow the installation process super easy we're going to be using the free version of FL Studio through this course but there are paid editions that give you more features if you're interested um then what we're going to do is we're going to navigate over to vital and this is vital. audio and this has um this synthesizer is so amazing I can't believe it's free um it's it's so good we we have to get this because I'd be doing you guys a disservice if if I didn't have you download this so you're going to get vital audio and this is going to help us through the tutorial and give us uh a huge uh leg up uh starting off making music here um the next thing that you're going to head over and grab is uh labs. Spire audio.com this is again this is just an insane value it's it's completely free and I just there's no reason in my mind why you wouldn't get this if you're starting off so the last but not least we're going to go over and in my free um patreon tier you guys can download in here let me show you guys if you head over to my collections right here click that and go to starter sample pack I'm going to give you guys three um parts to my sample pack which are completely free to use so you're just going to click on this post and I have attached here tww starter pack part one part two and part three and when you get these um I'm basically what I'm getting you guys is a sampler a synthesizer and a free sample pack and this is going to age you so much in your music production process and I really wish I would have had this in my first tutorial because I felt like there was just so much that you guys could uh could benefit from by having these things starting off and if you wait until the end of the tutorial and you guys actually finish your track I have this prize tab right here and that is going to be a ton of extra free samples and plugins which I am holding back from you guys because it'd be a little bit overwhelming to install everything at the same time and I and I kind of just want to open that up for you guys once you have your first track under your belt and I think that you guys might be more interested in that after you had done some music production rather than installing 50 things before we start so these three things will be great for starting and if you finish the tutorial interested in more I got that here so without further Ado once you install the studio vital labs and my sample pack you'll be ready to start following along with me in this tutorial living life with okay great so now that you haveo Studio installed and you got all the rest of the things that we're going to need for this tutorial you're going to head over to file new from template and you're going to click empty and it might ask you to save your project you're just going to click no and by doing this it's basically just going to wipe clean and just give us a fresh Sate to work on um the next thing that we're going to do is to I just want to make sure that you guys um had the resources to install and properly set up the sample pack if you were confused obviously there's tutorial online in case you get stuck with any of this stuff it's been done thousands of times there's so much resources to get set up with plugins and Sample packs but I'll just show you guys a very quick uh simple way of doing it so if you needed to get uh vital and Labs installed all you're going to do is go to options manage plugins and all you really have to do is you follow the installation for labs and vital what they tell you to do with the the basically you download it off the website double click it go through the whole process of it and then once you do that come in FL Studio and click find install plugins that's it that's literally it and it should it should work you should have zero issues um and then if you did that um after that you're going to have to reset FL Studio so that might be what you get stuck on so if you're not seeing it you're like I I did the installation it said that it haded it you have to restart Studio that's the only other thing you have to do um to see the plugins and then on the second reopen of f Studio everything will be there um for some reason they don't tell you that I'm not sure why so the next thing is that if you need to install the sample packs what you're going to do is uh once you download the zip from my uh patreon tier then what you're going to do is unzip it and when you unzip it you're going to get folders and with those folders that's what we're going to be adding to FL Studio so make sure you that you unzip the folder um that I gave you guys and once you did that you're going to go to options file settings and then from here what you're going to do is you're going to click the little folder icon and navigate to the unzipped folder that um I gave you guys and once you add that in um you'll see something that looks like this mine's named different but you'll have the same thing so oh yeah and I have to mention this you have to click this little refresh icon next to browser and once you do that that will pop in the sample packs once you added them like I just showed you then what you'll see is once you click here um or whatever it's it's called for you whatever the folder is called then you should see the samples in this browser and just if you don't see this browser make sure to click View and make sure that browser is enabled sorry I know that when you start app Studio it like changes the way everything is I don't know why cuz yeah it just puts everything in weird places so by um doing all the steps that we've done hopefully we're all looking at the exact same thing all right so now we are finally ready to get started with the first chapter where I'm going to show you guys how to add instruments to your tracks and how we're going to put Melodies on those virtual instruments so without further Ado let's head over to the next chapter sweet now that we got everything installed we are ready to do the first first part of music production which is simply just to add an instrument to our software so to do this we're going to navigate to the third Square from the from the left right here you're going to click this box and by clicking this box it's going to open up this now this is called the Channel wre and it's just a small container that's going to hold all the instruments throughout our song So as we add more and more things to our track um we're going to need a place to hold all these instruments and this is that place so to add an instrument to this little container all you have to do is hit the plus icon and we're going to add in both labs and vital because I want to show you what both of them do and it will be a good um explanation of the difference between a sampler and a um synthesizer so without further Ado we're going to go to vital um it might be in a different place for you but once you click it it will open up vital here we go Okay cool so this is vital and last but not least we just have to make sure that this little icon up here with the keyboard is enabled so click that and when it turns orange that means that we are ready to go so if I click uh Keys Z through M and a few other Keys it'll let me actually play this virtual instrument for the first time so let's see cool so a synthesizer is basically um a computer generated uh harmonic that can be in a in a different waveform and these different waveforms all sound different so you can click these little arrows up here and will give us different waveforms that we can test out and then you just have to click this top bar again and uh to let your keyboard play now I will say getting a midi keyboard is pretty nice but you absolutely do not need one and I have produced with my normal keyboard for a very long time before I got any actual Hardware now um what we're going to do is I'm going to show you guys how to load presets into our plugins so I actually gave you guys tons of presets for Vital for for completely free and this is going to just be um give you guys some ideas of what different sound design with uh synthesizers looks like um and I don't think that sound design is a beginner topic so I'm actually going to be doing that in other tutorials after we make our first track but the good news is you guys don't need to learn any sound design for starting off making music all you need to do is use pre-made instruments and pre-made sounds and you'll honestly be good to go and I did that for a very long time before learning sound design but let's just add in one of the S one of the samples that um I have here so if you go to Essentials open that up I have a bunch of um options we can use here and what you're going to do is just click hold and drag and then you'll drop it right on top of the top bar of vital right here and you'll see it turns white and that lets us drop it in so once we do that it'll reload the plugin again and let us play with this new sound here and this is just an example of something that I made um and there's all kinds of different things here so I have cords bass um lead and and PLU too so you have a lot to to experiment here and I can just add in another another one just to see what it is here so a bunch of different SN sounds that you guys can mess around with um now there are different kinds of plugins and I want to show you guys Labs now because Labs is completely different from how a synthesizer works and I and I think it's really important to understand the the difference between how these work as we're getting started here so the other uh type of thing here so I'm going to click X on vital and I'm going to go back to my channel rack and as you see here once we we drag that lead in instrument on the vital it it names it right here for us so lead four so we know that if I click this again it'll reopen my instrument okay so I'm going to hit the plus icon again and I'm going to go down to Labs okay so now that we opened up Labs um this is what's called a sampler and a sampler is different than a synthesizer in one important way and that's that the computer doesn't generate the tone from scratch it actually uses a pre- recorded um instrument and it lets you play that instrument at different pitches on um uh basically through the program so as you can see here if I switch um I'm going to just click this top Arrow up here and I'm going to go to piano and I'm going to click soft piano and double click that and that's going to open a soft piano and these are recorded piano sounds in this um in this plugin here so if I just click the keys you can hear that it is a piano um and this is is not a uh this is not a harmonic that's produced by the by the computer it's actually just they used a microphone recorded a piano and then put it into the plugin um obviously there's a lot more complicated ways that makes it sound a lot better but this is the gist of it um and if we click this Arrow there's all kinds of different things that you guys have here that you can choose from so I just want to give you guys a bunch of options here so if we just click here and then start hover over it you can see that there are all of different instruments that we can use so hopefully you guys see that by having a synthesizer and by having Labs um which is a sampler you have a lot of different options and different types of sounds that we can add to our songs and we're going to be using both labs and vital for uh the different types of genres of music we'll be making later on in this course but now that you have these virtual instruments I want to show you guys how we can actually start putting notes down in a in the piano roll so you're going to click X on Labs up here and you you should see here we have labs and we have vital which is uh titled the the preset that we added before so um let's just right click on sampler and just delete it so we'll just delete it right there and now we have just we should just have vital and just have Labs cool so I'm going to click on here again I'm going to click this little down arrow on labs and we're just going to navigate back to the piano because I think this will be a good starting space for us to be able to uh to understand how the piano roll works all right so you're going to click X on labs and now navigate uh to the second Square from the left right here the piano roll we're going to click that and it is going to open up this new piano um and you want to think of this as basically a piano that's rotated vertically and uh that's basically all it is and if we go up in notes and then down that's that's how the the pitch goes up and down like that and then time goes from left to right so let me show you guys how this works and if I hit space you see that it's playing the notes from left to right so another version of this would would be this so as you can see the piano um is basically just rotated and then it moves this way as as uh the song progresses so this is how we're going to make all of our Melodies and chords so to add in notes all you have to do is just left click anywhere you look and it will add in a note somewhere so um to do that you got to make sure that you're on this little pencil tool up here and it will let you draw in notes and just to have some extra control over what we're going to be doing with this uh go up to this Arrow key go to edit and make sure allow resizing from left is enabled then go to view go to scale highlighting and then make sure to click automatic all right cool so once we we click all those things what we're going to have is we're going to be able to place notes on key and we're going to be able to control our notes with great Precision so what if I just add a note here and I'm just going to dra hover over to the end of the note and just drag it all the way to the end and from here um I basically have a longer note so if I hit the space bar while I'm hovering over pattern make make sure it's not on song but on pattern if I hit the space bar it's going to play and I could place another note and if I want to get rid of that now I can hold right click and then just take it out now um just to show you guys some other things like you can put you can put multiple notes in the same in the same place so you can stack notes to make chords and I could just do that again real quick there we go so this is just some basic uh some basic controls here now if I hold control down while I do I do left click it's going to allow me to select multiple notes at the same time and then I can control all those notes by uh I can control their size like this I can move them all at the same time and I can drag resize from left which is what we enabled so you have all these controls at your fingertips that you can now use um um to move multiple notes at the same time and while all these notes are selected you can actually hold shift and left click and copy all the notes so um we have control left click to highlight notes we have shift right click to copy notes and we have right click to delete notes and while we're at it I can also show you guys that we have other tools up here that you guys can mess around with we have for instance um the slice tool and this will let us slice notes and we also have the paintbrush tool which allows us to paint in notes um and we have uh the other paint uh paintbrush tool that has a little X icon there that lets us mute notes so there's lots of options and different things that we can do here um I just want to show you guys really quickly um how to navigate the piano roll a little bit as well so we can scroll wheel on this uh darker bar right here and that will let us zoom in and out on our panel roll and if we scroll wheel in the top right corner here it allows us to shrink and enlarg in the piano roll as well so we have a better view of what we're working on and then dragging this left and right and dragging this lets us scroll up and down and scroll wheel in the middle lets us scroll up and down as well so hopefully this gave you guys a better idea of how the piano Ru works and the different functions that we're going to be doing um last but not least I mean we're just going to be making chords and Melodies right right away so um if you ever get lost remember you can hit the channel rack at any time and that'll bring up our plugins and we can start using that to to um put notes on the piano roll and just to make sure that if you guys got confused you're like hey he's playing the piano and I'm not able to get to the piano if that happens no worries you're just going to hit up here where it says piano roll and it should tell you the name of the instrument that you're putting notes on um but if you want to go to a different instrument what you can do is you can just click that other instrument and we'll take you to the other one from here um you just want to make sure one more thing I just realized um if you do not see these little gray underlying notes from the other instrument what you can do is hit this uh top Arrow I believe it's view yeah it's View and then you're going to go to ghost notes and by enabling Ghost Notes you're going to see the notes from the other instrument and this is cool because that means that I can kind of see where those notes are and think about where I want to place notes with other instruments uh based on those so this is just um a really cool way and if you want to just quickly go go back to that while you're working you can double right click and it will take us back to the other instrument and to get back to there you can just click here so without further Ado I think we are ready to move on to the next chapter where I'm going to show you guys how to actually make chords and Melodies so this chapter I showed you guys virtual instruments the difference between a synthesizer and a sampler and you should understand basically the differences between a synthesizer and a sampler you should have been able to add add in the sample pack and all the instruments that we had started out with and been able to change the preset um for both the synthesizer using my sample pack and the sampler using the the down arrow to change the different instruments um I just encourage you guys to experiment and just mess around with different uh different presets and different um sounds just to get acquainted with the software a little bit um and with with that you can follow along with me and we're going to go on to the next chapter where we're going to be making some chords and Melodies all right see you there okay now we are ready to start making some chords and Melodies so what we're going to do is we're going to go and navigate back to our piano here and then what I'm going to do is I'm just going to delete all of these notes really quick and I'm just going to kind of close this up so we have a better view of this um and from here I'm just going to add in our first note that is the first step so just add in a note and let's drag this note all the way to the end so I want to drag that from one as you can see here all the way to two so to do that you're just going to drag from right to left all the way to the end um and you can see that there is a darker bar here and that's what's going to signify um this the length of this note so once you do that we're going to click that note and it's going to save into the memory the size of this note so if I click again it's going to place a note of that size so if I were to make this note really tiny and click it again it's going to save that uh size of that note again so let's just make sure to click this and the way to make chords is super simple just Place one note after next and make sure that they all sound good that's it and if you just do one step at a time and just keep placing notes that sound good one after another before you know it you're going to have a chord progression super simple so first I just want to put let's start with the the first note let's do c C4 and you know what this piano kind of sounds a little bit quiet so let's go back to the Chan let's go to labs and where it says uh V that stands for volume we're just going to increases just a little bit so I can hear it a little bit better all right after that you can just click X and we are back here I'm going to click X on the channel rack and we're back to the Pian roll okay that's much better okay so after clicking C4 here we have that note so let's just hit play and make sure you're on pattern and hit space bar all right let's add another not let's see what would sound good Okay cool so I added C4 G3 A3 F3 and I just literally all I did was I looked at these little highlighted notes here so you have the darker rows and you have the lighter rows E Studio uses artificial intelligence to basically see what types of notes you're putting down and based off of those notes it goes okay well these are the rest of the notes that are going to sound good together um and that is called a key and you don't need to know anything about music production all you need to know is that okay if I put notes in these uh little lighter areas it's going to sound better that's literally it so as you place more notes on different uh notes it's going to automatically detect the key and tell us which notes are going to sound good together so I just picked a few notes that were um in these highlighted areas that sounded good one after the next and by doing that I have made a simple Baseline cool so from here I it's C4 G3 A3 and F3 and what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to hold control and we actually let's hold control let's select all of these notes and I'm going to just hold control again and then I'm going to hit the down arrow key and that is going to put all these notes one octave lower so now they should be a little bit deeper cool so I'm going to select all these notes one more time and I'm going to do contrl c and contrl V and now if if I uh hover over the red highlighted notes you can see I have a a whole the whole Baseline copy and pasted and I'm going to take this I'm going to put it right back over our original notes and I'm going to hold control and up arrow and that's going to take our Baseline and just move it one octave up so now when I when I just right click anywhere else it's going to unselect all my notes and if I hit play you will have your very first chord progression really cool so let's make it sound a little bit cooler so we're going to add in a few more notes to kind of just make it sound a little bit better so how about we take this these uh these lines and we actually do up another arrow key just this top layer all right so I just put this up again all right so I'm going to add notes one after the next and you guys can follow along with me and see what you come up with okay let's see here cool okay let's add in some more cool so I think that we have a pretty solid core progression I'm just going to try to move around a little bit more and see if I can find anything else interesting and then I think we will be ready to make a melody on top of this so as you saw I just kind of tweaked one note at a time and just kept listening over and over again and tried to get a feel for what the corporation sounded like um I don't like to make lots of decisions at the same time because I feel that unless you're very experienced uh you get lost pretty quickly and high your replacing notes and uh just get a little bit scared so I think that by just sticking to one note at a time and going okay did that sound good did that sound good did that sound good then you can start to add more notes um so as you saw I wasn't too afraid to change it up as I as I had other ideas like I had an initial good core progession but I wasn't scared to just change the core progression because I'm just experimenting and I'm just uh just enjoying the the process and seeing what I can come up with so I think that this is a pretty good starting point here for cor progression and we are ready to start working on the melodies we're going to be making a bunch of Melodies but I just want to take this time to kind of just deep deeply explain Melodies before we go into making the ones that we're going to be using for our song So to give you just a very quick explanation the way that Melodies work is we're going to be taking repeated patterns and with a little bit of change so I am going to explain this while I work on the ones that we're going to be using for our song but I just want to give a little bit after watching the video over I was like okay I kind of get got to go a little bit more in The Melodies so just kind of editing Tristan is putting this back in there but I just want to give you guys a better idea so um I'm I'm going to put in a note and I'm going to show you guys how to do all this but um what I'm going to do is I'm going to make a rhythm so let's make we're going to make is called a a b a c Melody okay so I have made a pattern here and I want to explain how this works this is called a a b a c pattern so we have what's called a and I'm just going to kind of Select this area to show you so we have a and then we have B then we repeat with a and then we have C so what this means is we basically a is going to be this pattern so we have the the two notes and then the one note and we can see that a is repeated right here we have the two notes and then the one note so I've kind of divided this uh one so you see it goes one to five if you just kind of like highlight this whole section you can see you have like four Min sections within that so you have bar one bar two to three bar 3 to four and bar four to 5 and in each of these bars um I'm putting a pattern so as you can see here in bar 1 to two I have I have pattern a and then from bar two to 3 I have pattern B and then bar 3 to four I have pattern a again and bar four to 5 I have pattern C Okay cool so basically these patterns are going to be just the notes I used and so as you can see I'm repeating these two notes in the one note the two notes in the one note and then in Pattern 2 to three I have two notes and then pattern four to five I have three notes and I kind of change it up so now what I'm going to do is I'm going to change the pitch of these notes so that you guys can see how um Melody is basically just variations in Pitch with um the same Rhythm so what I'm going to do is for uh bar the bar one I'm going to do this okay so this is actually the exact same Rhythm I just changed the pitch of the notes so let's listen so this is a and then this is a again and then this is B I'm trying to make this as simple as possible and then this is 4 to5 this is C okay because it's a different Rhythm than b now if I were to make this B again I would just take out this note and now this is the same Rhythm as as this B so it's the same so now if we listen it's the same Rhythm uh twice so it's a b a b and this becomes C once I add in this note because it's a different Rhythm so by doing this you can see that I keep the Rhythm the same but I have a pattern for my rhythm and then I change the notes in that in that um basically in each pattern to add variation with order because this is how we're going to be able to not confuse the listener but create an interesting Melody so what I like to do personally for my Melodies and all melodies you can just try out a bunch of different stuff I like to keep a exactly the same pitch and exactly the same Rhythm and then for b and c I like to switch it up so that's kind of what I like to do you could technically have a a a BB Rhythm so if I just take these notes and I'm going to move a here and I'm going to move B over here and then I'm going to do this take out that note and now we have a a BB as you can see the Rhythm it goes these three notes these three notes and then I have these two notes and then these two notes so uh let's listen to this so as you can see I just created a completely new Melody because I just changed the ordering of the way that that the Rhythm works so if we listen to the rhythm again this is what we got so as you can see this is how Rhythm and Pitch work together to make interesting Melodies so I'm going to give you guys a few templates just uh that you can remember you have a a you have AB a you have a a BB um you could do just a a b where it's just like B extends so like it's something like this like and this whole section just becomes kind of like a quiet spot in the song um there's so many different possibilities and you guys can even make your own I'm just giving you guys kind of the basic ones that are in a lot of music today which is a a is probably the most common a a BB is super common um uh ABAB is really common um but they're all just different versions of uh any different Rhythm and any any different pattern that you're using that that pattern for is going to create a wild amount of different Melodies so just by using the ab a and a a BB patterns you can make any rhythm for a and for B and for B and for C and you have millions of Melodies possib billions probably billions of possibilities for Melodies just in those categories and that's that's not even all of them so it yeah it's crazy there's there's a lot there and hopefully this kind of distilled down what we're talking about so remember I have from 1 to two is one bar from two to three is another bar 3 to four is another bar and four to 5 is another bar and this is just for the 44 time signature I'm not even talking about other time signatures and I'm not going to get into it because it's very complicated and I don't even really understand it but the point is is that there are different Keys there's different time signatures there's the possibilities are endless and by giving you just the very Basics just the a b a c and the a a BB you can make millions of different Melodies and songs and the work and they'll sound great so hopefully this made a little bit more sense on how Melodies work and we're going to jump back and editing trist is going to go back to the other where we worked on our Baseline ches and Melody cuz I just felt like I didn't uh make the melody part as clear as I could have but I made some nice Melodies that I want to keep using for the tutorial so without further Ado let's hop back into the tutorial and you guys will see the rest of the process of how I make uh made what we got all right I'll see you guys there so what I'm going to do is I'm going to click the plus icon right here and this is going to create a completely new pattern and let's just call this pattern um synth pattern and then I'm going to click enter and it's going to make a new one called synth pattern and from here I'm going to navigate on a different instrument and we're going to go to the lead and why don't we just open back up our Channel Rack open up vital and go back to my sample back go back to the synth preset and let's add in Nostalgia and we're going to hover over vital and replace it boom okay so now if I click X on vital X on Jan and make sure I'm on Nostalgia it'll put it all in the P roll all right cool so I'm going to drag it out to the one bar again click it and we're going to go scroll down to C3 and let's make a new chord progression I'm going take these notes and put them up in octave and I'm actually going to change this Rhythm a bit so I want to make a little bit more interesting chord progression here so let's do this cool I think that this is a lot more interesting so I'm going to take this and I'm going to add another note let's take this and put it up an octave higher and just see what it sounds like I think that this could actually be the basis of our Melody so why don't I take these notes and I just change the length of them and we're going to make uh we're going to just try to make a rhythm and then I'm going to change that Rhythm into our Melody going to just shorten this note and make it kind of end right here just experimenting if I get quiet it's cuz I'm kind of getting in the zone and making music and if you if that happens to you and you want to pause the video and just keep working I mean that's perfectly fine and I think it's really it's really good practice this sounds kind of cool what it like this so that's kind of see after working for a while let's kind of see what Rhythm We've Ended up with so if I take all these and put them on the same note let's see what I ended up with so this melody is a little bit complicated and I love this cuz it'll be really fun to explain so what I did was is and this all happens through intuition and years of just practicing and making Melodies so what I did was is I basically placed um some notes that I heard in my head and I have Melodies in my head that I that I'm able to put onto the canvas but this is like something I want to teach you guys to be able to do because it's so much fun um but it's I remember when I was starting out one note at a time is the best way to go and but I'm going to kind of break down this Rhythm so you guys get it so so what we have here is what's called a call and response Melody so let's listen to what the call and response is so I kind of almost like think this is like sentences so like this first thing is like the first part of a sentence and then there's like a little then there's the next part and then there's kind of the The Finisher like the what what closes it out and then it repeats and goes back to the first part and so I kind of have this in like three little parts and they all complement each other so it's like so what happens is is basically all these parts are talking to each other so um I have like some parts are are repeated and some parts aren't actually I have really no idea what I'm doing it's kind of funny so there are basically there there's simple call and response patterns and then there are more complicated call and response patterns and I think let's just show you one more very simple call and response pattern and then then after this we can start working on um our track and if you guys want you guys can just copy the notes that I have here and uh use that to move forward so I'm going to just quickly uh hold control control alt I'm going to hold control altz and by doing control altz I was able to undo all of the changes I made so I got back to what I had before cool so we have that and then if I go up to this little down arrow I can navigate to the other pattern that we had before cool so as you can see we have this pattern that we made this chord progression with the piano and if I navigate to the other pattern we have the same pattern that I made so hopefully if you guys can break this down what I'd like to uh to see from you guys is if nothing else copy what I have right now and it'll help you be able to make your first track and then what you can do and this will be really helpful copy what I have tweak some notes make it your own change it a little bit um this will be great if you make a mistake don't worry just go back to what I had before try again and just do this over and over until you you make something that's that's your own thing um and I think that this will be really good practice just start this is what I did IID actually download um other people's music i' would get it um and then what I'd do is I'd put it into my track and I'd try to remake exactly what they made and then I would change it a little bit and then I'd have my own track um and this is a great way of learning it um it's basically called using reference tracks so what you guys are doing and I don't have to explain everything that I'm doing because uh by teaching you and giving you these lessons I'm actually I I know the reasons it works but if you follow along you'll will get the benefits of it so what I'm basically doing is I'm making one giant reference track that you guys are going through with and tweaking and making your own that way you guys have your own song um what I don't want you guys to do is go through this whole tutorial copying exactly what I do and then having the exact track that I finish with cuz that would be really boring but I want you guys to take Liberty and trying to change some things and make it your own Melody your own chord progression because I think it'd be really cool um and if you get stuck you can always go back there's no punishment so there's only there's only reward by trying so hopefully this doesn't discourage you um I've been making music for like 10 years so you got of understand like all this stuff comes second hand like like this to me because I've just been doing it for so long um it is the point where I can hear a melody and go oh I'm going to voice memo that and then bring it back to FL Studio and be able to put it at in and that will come with time so don't beat yourself down for making um poor melodies or getting like oh it sounds terrible don't worry just take what I have make minor changes to it and you'll be fine you'll be good just stay Within These little highlighted notes you'll be fine um so without further Ado we're going to move on to the next chapter um I hope words encouragement you don't want to quit cuz I know that like I did a lot of this pretty fast and I wasn't talking cuz I was kind of in the zone while making which is when you do your best work it's when you're in the zone so hopefully you guys understand um it's always the fun thing with doing creative Fields is like you get in the zone while you're working you're like oh I wasn't talking at all cuz my that's my left brain but anyways so we have a couple patterns here we have aou couple start I can already picture the the start these next tracks so it's going to be really fun finishing up uh the three different songs that we're going to be making but without further Ado uh let's head over to the next chapter you guys learned how to do baselines chord progressions and Melodies um and so hopefully this made a little bit of sense and uh we'll be able to move on to to the next part here all right see you guys there now I'm going to navigate back to my synth pattern that we had before and what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to create a um I'm going to uh get a few different presets so that we can put a different instrument for our Baseline our chord progression and our Melody and we're going to listen to how this sounds I think it's going to be really cool so what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to go back to my channel rack and from here all I'm going to do is I'm going to take let's just do I don't even know let's do 808 and let's drag that into my channel rack and that's going to open up a new thing of vital that's a completely new sound okay cool so now we have What's um just an 808 and what I'm going to do is I'm going to take this Decay knob and I'm just going to move it up like this and let's listen to what this sounds like now and let's make it a little bit quieter by dragging this little arrow down cool okay so now what I'm going to do is I'm going to exit out both of those I'm going to copy the bottom part which is called our Baseline control C and now I am going to go over to my 808 instrument here I'm going to do contr V and I'm going to put that there so as you can hear that is way too low and I can barely hear the bass so I'm actually going to do control up arrow move it up an arrow it's just a move it up in octave I mean still too low I'm going to move it up again let's listen to it now I was just experimenting with something what's called an inversion and that's and I instantly realized I'm like n that's an advanced production technique not going to get into it so I'm just going to leave it how we have it here and I'm going to change out the the preset cuz I think it's all right but I might want something different so why don't we go to Tech House Sub and I'm going to put that over the where it says just this little top bar and it will reload our Baseline so listen to this it's a way too loud so we're going to turn that down it's actually distorting that's really good I love that so now what I'm going to do is I'm going to copy the melody on top here contrl C and then I'm going to delete it but I saved it cuzz I did contrl C and now if I go to the Chan rack I'm going to add in let's do Bells how about that and we just drag that in there so now we have a baseline chords and a Melody so we're going to use the bells as our Melody so let's click X on vital X on the Chan rack go to our instruments go over to bells and then hit contrl V maybe we want this down octave let's see hear what that sounds like so control down arrow okay sweet so now we have taken our uh Baseline Melody and chords and we have those on all separate um playing different parts of the of our Melody so before we had everything the Bas design the chords and the melody all in one thing now by taking that the bottom layer of the chord progression that's called the Baseline and by taking our top Melody on top of the chords we split it into three different instruments and now it's playing all things differently so we can go back to our chords here that was chords Nostalgia this is what our cogr looked like and you can hear that in the background and I think that it really kind of meshes nicely like it sounds it sounds good to me um maybe instead of belt we can use dire dire docks let's just see what this sounds like and if it doesn't sound as good we'll just go back way too loud my bad Bells is way cooler let's do Bells I think Bells sound be cool that's really chill I love this this is really cool I like it um all right that's it so we have Baseline chords Melody and we just put that on three different instruments in our Channel rack as you can see and if it helps you you can actually rename this rename these so I can just right click here and click rename and I and color an icon you can do all kinds of stuff like if you want to color code it you have a color wheel I can make my bells teal if that's what I think that they I was going to say smell like but that makes no sense um then I can just make him teal and I can just call this My Melody that helps you if this helps you you can feel free to do this for all of the different things um I could call this base and then we could just change it to like that teal color and then I hit check mark and then I could do this for my quarts and I could rename this quarts if you don't like these long names they confuse you and you want to be a little bit more organized feel free to do this so now we have our base chords and Melody and we can and just a quick tip if you want to see you can right click here and there's multiple ways to get back to the same thing so I can actually hit uh piano roll and I can right click on the chords it take me there go back to my channel rack right click on the base takes me there right click on the melody take me to the piano roll go there and there's so many ways of doing the same thing it's really cool I just want to show you guys a few ways and then hopefully that can help you so now what we're going to do is we're going to take what we made in on the piano roll and we're going to start putting it into a track and this is like the most mind-blowing part of music production because it just opens up your mind you're like oh my gosh there's so much that you can do just knowing these few very simple things that I've gone through go over to the first Square here click that and this is called our playlist and the playlist is just like the piano roll but instead of putting notes we're actually putting p patterns so it's like a meta version of the piano roll so the so let me explain this so the piano roll is the piano where we putting in notes okay and those notes play the instrument the playlist allows us to put in patterns full of notes so look at this so I'm going to take the synth pattern I'm going to put it in there now you can it has all the same tools so I have the remember I have the cutting tool um but I'm going to not do that I'm going to control Z but you have the paint tool all the same tools you can even zoom in just like the piano roll they're all it's exactly the same as a p roll literally exactly the same the only difference is instead of putting in um notes you're putting in patterns so let's listen to this pattern so I'm going to take this I'm going to drag it all the way to the beginning um and these different tracks are going to allow us to put different patterns on these tracks but let's just click song and it's in a so think about this for a second pattern is playing whatever pattern we have selected so if I select pattern one and hit play it's going to play our piano but if I hit the synth pattern right here and and it's under pattern I hit play it's going to play the pattern that we just had with the other thing that we were working on so now if I hit song it's going to play what's ever in the playlist so whatever pattern we put in the playlist it's going to play that pattern so I'm going to show you make sure that to see the patterns you click on this piano icon there's samples here and automations here and that will be later in the course but right now we're just going to stick to the patterns so if I hit play while it's hovered on song you can see now we have finally just started working on our very first track this is so exciting so now what I'm going to do is I'm going to hover over synth pattern the one here I'm going to go up to here where it says synth pattern I'm going to right click and I am going to do split by Channel and what this is going to do is it's going to give us our chords our base and our Melody all in different patterns so as you can see here if I just drag these around you're going to see it separated for us named and colored based on what we did before and it's going to put it in our track just like so so now if I hit play if I just drag the playlist uh head all the way back to the beginning it took our pattern and it unpackaged it from the instruments that we chose and just put all the instruments in separate patterns which is so cool and really fast workflow so now I can take away the melody and maybe I want to put the melody here and maybe I want to move this forward a little bit so I hold control and left click and it moves all of my patterns just like I was doing with my notes before so now I have this and then there's all kinds of different stuff like we could do we could do take this pattern again we could shorten it down and just kind of repeat that thing so we could go and then maybe I hear that here there's all kinds of possibilities I'm not going to do that cuz it's getting a little bit I think it's getting a little bit too confusing I want to keep it simp so just by using these patterns right here you could make literally you can make a full track but we are going to add so much more to this so without further Ado I showed you guys how the piano roll worked I showed you guys how to make Baseline chords Melodies I showed you guys how to add multiple instruments to your Chann rack and how to use each of those instruments for different parts of your um Corporation Baseline and Melody then I showed you how to take that pattern and how to split it into multiple different separate patterns that have each instrument and then I showed you guys how the playlist and the panel roll are basically like exactly the same thing just for for instead of notes it's patterns and how we can use all the same tools we learned with the Pian roll for our playlist which is going to be uh manipulating all the patterns that we're going to be working on and I finally I showed you how we can move patterns around to just put things in different ways so without further Ado let's go on to the next chapter see you guys there next up we are going to work on adding the drums to our track and I think that this is actually a great time for me to just show you guys some stuff right over here to the left so what we got here is we have um the synth examples I was showing you before that I can drag and drop into the channel Rack or on top of an existing plugin and here there's other things too as well and these are called samples so I want to show you guys the drum Essentials uh volume one you click here I'm going to have a bunch of drums that you guys can use and we're going to actually be using them in our track here so just to show you guys an example if I click in these folders you're going to see all of these different kicks and um yeah so I can just click on a few and you can hear the differences and what they sound like so there's all kinds of different examples there of different kicks um and these are all mik samples and they're completely copyright free so you can you can use them in any of uh the stuff that you're working on and I do not care if you're using a full song or whatever completely free to use same with everything else so I wanted to show you guys quickly the samples and this chapter we are going to be putting um making the drums for a track but I just quickly want to show you guys a couple other things that are in here just so you guys are aware so also have effects so we have effect racks we have uh Folly uh also different effects here just all kinds of different weird things that you can use in your tracks to uh make it just more interesting we also have uh midi a different midi so what midi is essentially allows me to take um notes and then put it into a file that you can drag and drop into the piano roll um I actually I'll just show you real quick what midi is cuz I think this is important and it's not really on the list of things I have to show you guys but I think it'll be helpful so I'm in a new pattern here I'm just going to drag a random one on there and what happens when I add it is that this will now this just added so I uh all these are like pre-made um Melodies and stuff that I made that you guys can use so let's just listen to what this sounds like you can tell this is meant to be played at a slower BPM at like maybe like 100 or something so you just kind of you kind of have to listen to it through it sounds super weird when you speed up the BPM um this also this knob I'm changing here changes the speed of the track and this is called the BPM so it was at 140 before so I'm going to put it back there but um I just turned it down just for this midi um but that was just one example of of different MIDI files that I've included here and I just wanted to show you guys you have a kind of a good idea see if there's some other ones I can show real quick it's just some different Melodies here let's see if there's another good one Weir there was some weird stuff happen at the end there but um yeah so this just some examples of some of the midi that I've included um there's also the sample Essentials so this is Ambience Loops one shots all base one shots all kinds of different stuff here all kinds of different things that you guys can use in your tracks but enough of that we are going to go back to our track that we're working on and we're going to add drums so I'm just going to delete this pattern that was just an example okay so to add drums to our track what we are going to do is I want to add a kick first so let's listen to the kick and figure out what would sound good in this in this track here I feel like almost that one could be cool it's a hip-hop kick but I think it could be cool for like a this this type of track okay let's see so I just dragged literally just took that kick dragged and dropped it into my track now let's see what happens when I hit play so let's go back to song and hit play Space Bar okay so just out of nowhere it just happened so what we want to do is we want to make a type of pattern and this is just the same way that You' make Melodies is you do the same thing with drums so I have this kick here and maybe I want to highlight a part of the track that I want to listen to over and over again uh so I'll highlight this part that has all the elements in it right there I'm going to right click off to the side to unselect it and now let's listen to what this sounds like let's say I want to kick every single time the next bar happens so let's do that let's and maybe the Kick's a little bit too aggressive so let's change it I like this kick okay so now that I've added my kick I'm just going to add that to every single um the the first start of each bar so as you can see 99 to 10 add is one kick 10 to 11 one kick at the start and it's easier to see once you just see the darker lines uh the ones that are a little bit more bold that's just where I'm placing that so next I'm going to add a let's do do I want to do a clap or snare let's do a clap let's see what this sounds like Let's do let's do this one incredibly boring but we're getting somewhere so I'm going to keep listening and just look at the snares as well and see if there's anything here too what about that so I'm going to go back to the kick here so as you notice now that we drag samples in here it actually has a a new row where we can choose the samples to put in instead of our patterns so before you remember that we had the patterns and we could click on one of these to put it in as you can see there but now we can do the same thing by hovering over here and going to the samples this is really cool and neat so what I'm going to do is I'm going to take the kick out again and I'm going to just make this a little bit more interesting so you see I put the snare in the halfway point between the kicks and um that's where I want to keep my snare for right now now but I think I want to change the kick pattern to be a little bit more interesting cuz right now it's super boring so let's let's kind of put some kicks in here and see what we can come up with okay so now that we're working with samples I need to show you guys a couple important things cuz they work very similar to notes work for instance if I hover to the right I can shorten and lengthen the sound but the problem is that you see as soon as I lengthen the sound all the sounds get lengthened and this is kind of weird as you see this completely changed the way that the sound is so I'm going to do control altz I'm going to undo what I just messed up there so I'm back to where I was at at before now if we want to just trim the actual duration and not stretch the track we need to click this button up here this little right here if it's off this will let us change the duration of the track without stretching it and this is really important cuz sometimes we do want to stretch the track but other times we actually just want to cut the duration and so right here as we can see the kicks layering on top of each other like this it got rid of my kick so what I have to do is I have to go to this kick and I have to select it and then I have to hover over where it's highlighted over it and I need to drag this to the left that way it doesn't cover the other one so now we can hear this but before it was was like this see so I I need to get rid of that kick where it's overlapping because it's it's taking away from the from the song so I'm going to delete the rest of the kicks on this half and I'm going to copy and paste the first pattern I made over this side just like so so let's listen to what we have I'm actually going to take away this last kick just to kind of make a complete Loop here and just cuz I think it would sound better it's pretty cool okay so now what I'm the next thing I'm going to do is I'm going to add in some high hats so let's listen to what we got okay I think this high hat would be good let's do this one and I'm actually going to take the paint brush tool with my uh this high hat selected and I'm going to paint right across so now we have this and now this is a great point for me to show you guys another way that we can manipulate samples because the high hats are much too loud in my opinion and they kind of overpower the kick in the snare so what I want to do is I actually just want to highlight all these all these um samples because I want to lower the volume and there's a really quick way we can actually do that and that's by hovering in the middle right there right on that dot this is a completely new FL Studio feature that wasn't in my old tutorial and so I wasn't able to cover it but now they've added a Lot More Sample manipulation tools that we have at our disposal and I want to show you guys how to use those so here we can actually lower this and it will actually change the volume so as you can see I'm just going to lower it to likeus 3db let's listen to that let's do minus5 - 7 there we go very cool I'm liking it so now I might want to add an open hat okay this is cool but again the open hats too too loud and as you can see I put the small high hats all the way across those are closed high hats I took the high hat and it kind of goes on either side of the snare it's kind of the way I like to hear it so if we took away the kicks and just oh by the way I can also mute a row here simply by clicking this this little um Green Dot and that will mute that track so now I can listen to it without that so let's say I'm just working on the drums and I don't want to hear the rest of this I can do this so this is much too loud so I'm going to actually lower the volume cool okay so what I'm going to do now is I'm going to see if I can add maybe like a ride or simple this is perfect so I'm going to take this ride I'm going to put it on every kick on every single bar like so just to kind of emphasize a little bit more and you know what I actually don't like the ride for this song so I'm going to take it out I'm just going to delete it so this is a good point I can show you guys you just delete that sample and then it's gone um yeah so I don't think the I don't think the ride will really work and I also made you guys some pre-made drum Loops as well so you guys can listen to that so a lot of these are for like house music and electronic music but I think that it electronic music is one of the best ways to get started music production so I I'd like to show this first and then you guys can always Branch out in other other directions too which is why we're doing hip-hop and orchestral music too as well um but we're starting with the EDM if you guys haven't already noticed um or electron iic I suppose so here we have a kick we have a snare we've added the closed high hats and the Open high hats um now I say that we spice up the uh this high hat loop I think it's a little bit boring so right now it's it's just kind of like all kind of same old same old so let's just add in some more high hats so what I'm going to do I'm actually going to hover On Track eight or whatever track it is that has nothing in it and is the last one that we haven't used I'm going to hold shift and I'm actually going to scroll wheel up and as you can see it basically lets me move this wherever and I'm just doing this just because I like to organize stuff differently so I'm actually going to go in here and I'm going to click on this I hat and I'm going to put more of them so I'm going to use this empty row to kind of like fill up a second a second thing so let's listen to this that's kind of cool so we can do something like maybe like this just that barely a little bit of change makes the drum sample infinitely more interesting um so I think that that was a good change okay so let's see what else can we do here we have percussive elements that I can put in like percussions a lot of these samples actually recorded using my field microphone and I would like just punch random stuff in my house so that's why some of my kicks are like kick of me punching my couch it's literally me punching my couch and then I reprocessed it into a kick so that's how I made a lot of these sounds just whacking on stuff in my house um so they're not like obviously some of the highest quality but they are interesting so I hope that that aids you guys in your music production cuz to be honest with you it's really easy to find just a normal kick sample it's kind of hard to find something interesting so that's what I was kind of the take I was going with my sample pack is what can I give people that' be interesting that they're not going to get everywhere else so anyways all right why don't we add this to our track let's see what we can where we can put this so I'm just dragging in samples I'm just seeing where I can put it you don't have to do exactly what I'm doing you can pick other samples too just see where it sounds cool um and and like I said again I'm always trying to make like a pattern I'm I'm looking and trying to make stuff into little little patterns I can repeat over and over again so like I did that with the kicks I did that with the snare I did that with the high hats I'm just repeating patterns to try to make it interesting so let's listen and see where we can put this so maybe we want the sample here um and I turned on the volume like you guys saw before but what if I actually wanted to shorten the the waveform but I didn't want to do it like this cuz then it' be choppy cuz that sounds weird I mean maybe it sounds cool but what if I wanted to do that more smoothly well there's a way I can do that I can actually drag from the top right corner I can bring this curve down and it will let me control hold on I I want to get that decel volume so if I zoom in here I can actually there's a little what's it called like a little curvy line that I can control by clicking the middle and I can do uh take that down so I can like Smooth it out like quickly but like um not chop it off if you know what I'm talking about so there's there's all kind of things there so I can actually make this shorter and it'll chop off more of it so as you can see I was able to control and you can do the same thing from the other side too so I can actually do that and I can come from this side I can kind of make it I could make it like whoosh up so as you can hear that has more like more of a to it and then this has more of a like more of a wooin to it and you can actually see that reflected in the waveform so it's very intuitive to me and understanding what it's doing so that's that's cool um I think um just showing you guys procussion is fine I'm actually I actually kind of like it simpler so I'm actually going to take out the percussion but I think that was a good opportunity for me to show you guys how this works um I think the next thing I want to show you guys is just adding in some effects so let's go to my effects Essentials and go to here okay so this is kind of a cool a cool sound effect so this is actually what I was making for a I basically sometimes I'll take a prompt and I'll try to like sound design to it so I believe this one was a scuba diver that was like slowly drowning and could hear his heartbeat it's kind of moreb bid but this was like what I came up with so this is to show you guys like what's possible like what you can make in FL Studio you imagine like being underwater it's kind of freaky but maybe I think we can use this in our drum Loop so he like comes up from the water he get he gets out and his heartbeat starts like regulating anyways that was really fun to make uh I could show you guys how I did that um later but um let's just add in I I keep getting distracted I'm having too much fun um why don't I add in just some I'm going to take the effects here and I'm actually just going to drag it from the left and match it up perfectly with the start of the track right here I'm trying to zoom in so yeah I'm going to match to the end of the track there I'm going to do the same thing on this side as well and now I'm actually going to repeat this this little sample this little water sample throughout my entire drum Loop and it will act kind of as like this kind of background noise so we'll do that so without here's what it sounds like kind of boring but if I add it back that's pretty interesting so I was able to add in I actually think I wonder if I should slow down this a little bit to like 126 maybe let's see what this sounds like actually I like it faster so we're going to keep at 140 that's pretty good all right cool so let's see what else I can add here I'm just trying to try to fill it up as much I can because I want to show you guys about drums and I think it'd be helpful so let's see let's see can I add in any other samples okay let's see if this sample fits in it probably won't but I'm just curious so I'm actually going to put it in there and let's see what it sounds like so as you can hear it does not fit in the key at all it sounds terrible so hold on let me show you guys something really interesting here so I'm going to right click on this Green Dot right here and this is going to solo out my chords and now I'm going to enable this one that we just added which is the ambience confusion and you can hear it just does not fit at all but I'm going to double clip the sample and double clicking it opens up this more controls that we can control it with which is really fun so I'm actually going to go to mode I'm going to turn to stretch and this will let me change the pitch of the sample so let's just change the pitch up and down that might fit in the in it let's just try out some different pitches no no no it's off so I'm actually going to turn it down in octave so I'm going to go to this gear icon right here I'm going to right click on C6 now this is going to make it go down in octave so automatically it's always going to put the this is basically this is kind of difficult to explain but this is the root note C5 it is playing the sample on C5 um and so if I change the root note it's actually going to pitch down the sample so if I make it all you really need to know I I'm it's kind of hard to explain but really all you need to know is that if I right click the C6 it's going to make it lower if I right click the C4 it'll make it higher so let's listen that's higher that's lower that's the normal so we'll just keep it normal I actually don't want to use this cuz I think it might be a little bit too advanced so we'll just keep it I just had to pitch the sample one down to fit into this and I think I'm actually going to Let's mess around with some other stuff I can also reverse the sample I'm not I'm going to keep it the way it was and there's in and out so I can actually control um if I do out it will actually kind of pinch off the audio um it looks like it's glitching there though I'm not sure why yeah there's some weird glitching happening with this one it's kind of strange um but yeah so basically there's the reverse there's the normalize which uh makes it Lou uh brings the peak up to 0 DB um and then there's um some other more advanced things here but uh the big thing is that if you hear Clicks in your samples uh just change this to General or generic bleeding or smooth bleeding and it will get rid of the Clicks in the audio that you hear as you're playing samples um so hopefully that that's helpful for you guys um there's a lot more I could go into here but I I do think that it is quite Advanced and it's not super necessary to making music itself I just wanted to show you guys how you can quickly change the pitch of something so let's just listen to this again I'm going to make it such a background element you can barely even hear it and when I add back everything it's almost like a dissonant core but it kind of it adds to the atmosphere of the track it's like nearly out of the song it's so quiet I could literally remove it I sometimes you just add those little little tiny bits that you can barely here and it just changes the way that uh you listen to the song and it can be interesting sometimes so I just wanted to show you guys um we went over the drums snares high hats um different percussions that we ended up not putting in um background ambients and the ways that that can just make this it sound more interesting so now we've done all that um I think that we're pretty much ready to go to the next chapter so I hope that this was helpful for you guys and I will see you at the next chapter okay next up we are ready to start working on structure super super fun so we have this part right here and then it goes kind of more simple and then it kind of works it way up so what I want to do is I want to make a intro verse course and I'm actually going to do it in reverse so we're going to work on the course of the song first and then we'll work on the rest of it so I'm actually going to copy and paste from nine I'm going to hold right click all the way to 13 and then I'm going to hold contrl B and it's going to duplicate it over um to the next uh place which is epic so now we have this it's going to just copy and paste everything over sweet now I'm going to work on making Z drop so let's do that and this is for EDM song so we're going to be working on making a drop so I'm actually going to delete a lot of stuff at the end here and the only thing I want is this snare so I'm going to take all the rest of everything out literally everything so like just like this and then it's going to go into the drop and the drop is going to go right here so this is where stuff gets interesting I need to add in let's do a drum Loop and we're going to make it a little bit more kind of like a lot more so hip-hop kick let's do it so we're going to make a new drum Loop so it's going to go like and then snare we'll just do this um and then what we'll do after this is we will do house right after trap so I'll do like a trap drop and then it we'll drop into like base house or something so we'll do something crazy it'll be fun so we'll go kick and let's just make the drum Loop that we did from before I'm going to kind of go I'm we're going to do less talking and more doing so you guys can kind of watch and and see my process of how I work um and you'll kind of just follow along with me if you'd like and I'm going to be placing a Dr here and then we will work on uh the rest of the drop once I get that sorted out so let's do that Okay cool so we got that there I'm going to take this Baseline and I'm going to put it here and I'm actually going to go to the top left corner this of this pattern actually actually I'm not going to do that that's not what I'm going to do what I'm going to do is I'm going to go double click into this pattern which uh by the way takes us to our piano roll which is super cool I'm going to copy all this contrl C can and then copy all these notes I'm going to make a new pattern I'm going to put that pattern right here pattern number five and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to add in a whole new Baseline so why don't we go to tww samples or nope not there that's my other sample pack uh we'll go to sample pack here and I'm going to go to my samples and let's add in I don't know like I could do like 808 maybe I don't know what would sound good maybe not 808 maybe we change it out with who knows a boss fight that's kind of cool so we could do something like that so let's go into pattern five right click on uh base boss fight and go to piano and we're going to paste this in right here okay I don't actually we're going to change this until I find something cool so let's just keep changing the base so we could do kind of like a let's change up the the Rhythm here cool so we got we got a different type of uh different type of Bas here um I actually almost want to like I want the lowest note to be something different I feel like it goes a little bit too low so I feel like if the if the lowest note was like a I don't know we we'll keep it how it is so I have uh this this Baseline for right now and that kind of fits because um I I think I think this will fit nicely with the melody so I'm going to click on the melody and I'm going to copy all of this so contrl C and it's just copy that Melody um you don't actually have to select all the notes so I can actually just contrl C or you can select all of them it's up to you and after that we do control+ c I'm going to add in another synth here let's do lead and then let's just do like I don't know something and we we'll always change it later if it doesn't sound good so I'm going to add in a new a new pattern and I'm going to put that here and I'm going to go to the piano roll again and I'm going to paste it in here so we got this okay so we're about to this is about to get really cool so we're going to go back to the lead and we're going to turn down the volume cuz it's way too loud n n kind of interesting um let's just change the lead sound a couple times and see what we come up with kind of interesting um why don't we do this I'm actually going to go back to the old Melody we have CU why not um and as I undo stuff here I'm going to go back to my uh sound as well bring it back and I'm going to put this Whistle Back In we'll just test out some other some other stuff here just to come up with some ideas could be could be interesting I don't know I don't know how I feel about it so I might like why don't we change this idea so I'm going to take this I'm going to start from scratch I'm going to copy that again and this is just all part of the process you know like we're working on every part of the song and I want to like make it the best I can so I'm actually going to take that out and put this in so let's just actually kind of shorten all these notes to be like this I actually can go like this and kind of just shorten them all at the same time kind of and then I'll just shorten these and then shorten this n a what if I just like selected random of these notes and made them up an octave and down an octave I don't know this is all like fun music production stuff like experimenting and seeing what would sound cool like I have no idea like I'm just messing around so like if I did something like this kind of cool like what if I like changed back to a different lead now maybe something else that's kind of cool and then what if this half was actually completely different lead so I can contrl c that and delete it and then we add a Part B to this melody so the instrument is actually matching the melody so we have in part A and A Part B of the melody what if I actually did the same thing with this could be interesting so I'm going to add another another one here another thing of idol I think it just broke what my vital like completely broke I'm going to delete that I'm G to add vital and I'm going to drag that back on there it's weird it's like not loading vital that's super weird well let's see if it works I'm actually just curious I'm going to change my instrument uh contrl V and I'm going to drag that back to that's actually super interesting this is a cool track so I could go here and then what if I like made the base go like kind of up and down like interesting like what if I did something like I don't know like this that's kind of the start of like something cool so like I could add in in chords now so I could go like copy up my chord progression contrl C and then we can make a new pattern again and then let's go here and just copy it in so I'm actually going to add new chords as well so let us add in some cords let's do that and then what we will do is it's weird that it's not loading a lot of the stuff I'm not sure why that is but I'm going to right click on P roll for dire D do just add in these wordss and then if the if these chords actually kind of went with the Baseline that could be super cool so if it was like so maybe like it's kind of confusing but it's kind of cool I I want to see where this goes what put like like something like this maybe no not like that what is it what am I thinking I'm thinking something like I'm going to delete these chords I want to do like that's pretty cool okay let's put this up in octave H what if it was like well you know what these these chords actually need to be changed because actually yeah that would make sense because these need to follow the Baseline H interesting so what if we did this I definitely need to turn the volume down on the chord so we're going to click back in here and just change the volume a little bit so it goes down I feel like this this has a cool opportunity so what I want to do actually is I want to like keep it more together because I feel like the Rhythm if you notied so far the rhythm of the bass the chords and the lead are all kind of like jumbled so like they kind of work together but not so like listen so then I feel like if the chords were here and the Baseline was here and I took the the drums and extended them a little bit then it would be something like I'm trying to I'm trying to see how this would work because then the melody wouldn't be conflicting with the with the Baseline anymore let's see what the chords that sound like that's kind of interesting so what if I like that could that could almost keep going like that here and then I could add back in the melody maybe let's see if that works I'm just complete experimentation right now just seeing where where it goes I'm actually really curious to hear what you guys come up with cuz like I'm having fun just messing around and just making something new I don't think I've ever made anything like this before it's a completely like different style than I usually make so just kind of see here I'm going to add in what if I kind of like take all this stuff and I'm going to put it into the the final thing so let's take all this stuff I'm going to select all of the different samples down here but not I don't want to select any I just want to select the full samples and I'm going to hold shift and just copy it over just like so and I'm going to hold shift and copied over a couple more times just so I have it for each um each part here so let's look at here remember I know why that's happening but it's just kind of funny to me um okay so the transition between this melody I think that's better and then we'll make the second half of this be the other lead too how about that so then we go to the other lead that we had and we just put it for the pluck uh that doesn't actually really work cuz I yeah it has to be this other lead cuz the other lead like holds more and extends yeah that makes more sense Okay cool so kind of like made two different versions so what if we like made this more house so I'm going to take actually I'm going to take these drums and I'm going to change them so we're going to change all the drums for this part and then I will actually just delete this part and yeah sorry if I'm moving up pretty quick um I like videos because I you can always slow them down and see what I'm doing um hopefully um it's not too confusing but I am basically just trying to like think on fly and come up with ideas here so this is like literally just a music production process you start off with the basics and then I want you guys to like run from there so like a lot like pretty much all this you could reverse engineer if you like watch me close enough and you could do all this stuff but also just by giving you like a little bit you can see what the possibilities are like what could be done um once you like get familiar to like where this becomes like secondhand like to me all this stuff is like very simple like I'm just it's very happens very quickly but like it might be really hard at first so don't feel discouraged if you're having a hard time um falling along but uh here's what I'm going to do here I'm going to make a new drum pattern where we're going to do two two snares like this actually like so and then I'm actually going to make this more like a house thing so it'll go faster so it'll be like and then I'm going to take out the snare I decid to add the snare and then take out the snare you're like Tristan what are you doing uh go back to Drums I'm going to add clap because it'll sound better and we're just going to do this on every other cake yeah this is a very interesting song so I'm actually going to start off with maybe introducing some different things here so let's listen I'm not going to put the high hat the open hat in at all until we get to the drums here let's see what else we can do here so let's go to the intro so we got the chorus and I could actually mark this out for you guys if you'd like so at 17 I have the chorus um so what you can do is I can put the playlist right here the playlist head so this little thing I drag around this is where it's going to play from and you can drag the starting to wherever you want so wherever you click it's going to put that there and every time I hit space it's going to play from that new spot so if I go to like 17 here I can actually use this to mark off certain places so I can add it's Z marker and I can just click add one I'm gonna call this one chorus and then I can add another one um and I could do this one is like buildup and this one could be intro so I could do time marker add one intro I don't actually do this when I'm producing because I just know where everything's at but this might help some of you guys who are following along you're like what the heck is he doing so hopefully this makes a little bit more sense so we could um that this fits in pretty well I think that the course is a little bit long for some reason like it's kind of unnecessarily long so I might like make this like kind of like an outro extended outro so like take out a lot of the drum samples here like something like that so now we have the chords starting off here and maybe I make these chords more interesting because they're kind of boring right now like what if we did like and I'm actually going to add in these high hats right here just so we have something going on and maybe the clap we'll do kind of something like this what if it was like the open hat like oh you know what the open hat should be not like that they should be like this with the house part it should be like every other like that yeah that that'll be super way better super way better I'm like my English is falling out the window you can tell I'm tired I hav't had my coffee cuz I'm at this point I'm just kind of like doing stuff and hold on we're moving okay this is what happens when I get into the music process I'm just we're just we're moving but luckily I don't believe I missed anything so hopefully you guys have everything you need to follow along so far okay here we go okay cool um save my project oh yeah always contrl s save do that please CU if your Apple Studio crashes you will be crying um okay so cool we got um pretty much the full song I think pretty epic so I'm just going to copy and paste this Ambience to the beginning part of the track and I think that will be our EDM track so let's just listen to it real quick from the beginning and then what's cool is I can actually what I'm here's kind of my plan cu the chapters are kind of weird um for this EDM track I'm actually not going to do any mixing any mastering I'm not going to do any eqing nothing we're just going to leave it kind of Bare Bones from here and then what I'll plan to do is for the hip-hop and orchestral we'll do more I'll think I'll probably go into automations with orchestral music and for mixing we'll do Ed or hip hop so the next time we do hip hop with mixing I'm going to do both of them together so we're I'm going to go to a new project file we're going to make a new song and I'm going to show you guys how to do mixing with that one and then when we go to orchestral I'm going to rinse and repeat we're going to do the whole thing all over again again and then that time we will do um we'll just mix and master and do the whole thing so I think that that'll probably work out so let's listen to what we got so far and yeah let's let's do it cool so I hope you guys uh liked this EDM song hopefully this helps you in your journey I know I made house music at40 BPM and I don't even know what the other type of music I made as called but just interesting um hopefully you guys enjoyed that now we are going to move on and we are going to go through the rest of music production um okay let's go to the next chapter and I will do we'll do hip-hop next see you there okay as much as I want to keep working on this track we're moving on so let's go to file new from template click empty so I just want to let you guys know before you do that if you are on the sh version FL Studio you cannot open up that project again so I'm just going to tell you now I warned you don't do it if you want to keep that song you better export it okay so to export it you go to file you just click export and it's going to to go through your whole song and Export for you um I'm going to go through all types of exporting so we're going to go through it's going to get more advanced um and I'm going to teach you some other stuff so I'd say to if you're working on that project maybe save it export it and then come to this project and we're going to keep keep going so let's do some hip-hop so the way that I'm going to do it is I am going to go to labs and we're going to find something that we can use to make some hip-hop music so let's go to labs and I really want to find something that is inspiring let's see let's see what we got um wonder if there's something no we're not going to use that um you know what change my mind we're not going to do that delete Labs okay here's what we're going to do we are going to go to quickly sample Essentials Loops maybe other and let's see what I have here perfect okay so you're going to drag this into your project file and we are going to change the BPM until it fits the end so it looks like we'll do um here's what I want you to do I want you to take the uh remember the stretch tool that I was talking about earlier we're going to do that and we're actually going to hold alt and we're going to stretch this until all the way to the edge of five so zoom in there and get it real close and then we're going to play it and make sure to double click the sample and we're going to change it to stretch not resample stretch and I'm going to cut in half and this is I'm going to make the Hip Hop we're going to take this side and we're going to switch them so it's perfect all right so now I'm going to take drums and we're going to add add a snare to it but it's going to be like a hip-hop snare something like this and then I will add in a clap too so that's what we're going to do and then let's see I'm going to C uh take this I'm going to shrink down I'm going to move all the snares up to their snare level going to move that up there and then we're going to add in some drums we're going move all that down okay let add in some drums let's do kicks okay there we go and we're going to add in high hats now we're like speed running straight for the for the hip up we're going to do this and then we're going to take uh the paint tool go like that that's a little Overkill delete the rest of it cool and then we're going to select all those make them quieter click them again and then I'm going to kind of in between that the end of like the uh the two and three and at the end of the four and five I'm going to add in some super fast high hats like this and then right before the end I'm also going to like do even more so it's going to be like this like doesn't oh that's why I need to add them to this side too so that they're kind of like and then I need to make these ones like quieter and then I need to make all of them shorter like this and then make all these shorter so they all kind of fit together and then we'll just kind of move everything together one at a time that was very satisfying okay so now I'm going to take this little end part that I made like so I'm going to copy all those put them to the end here delete these high hats like boom put that there like so and then we should have something like this and then maybe we'll put a couple like that also before the I'm going to do that do this contrl B while selecting that all right what do we got okay it's perfect now I'm going to copy the whole thing paste it twice and then I'm going to go to this side like so and I'm going to make sure to not stretch it but just make it its original thing and reverse it oh actually no before I reverse it I need to go to the top left corner I need to click make uni make unique right there and then I need to reverse it because now that I made it unique it's actually going to be different than the other sample over here so this one's still revers and then this one isn't sounds kind of weird though like What if I it sounds weird okay forget everything I just said about making that unique we're just going to keep the original reverse version here and then I'm going to add a pattern on top and we're going to kind of make a baseline so well not kind of we are going to make a baseline so I'm going to go to vital once more and we are going to copy the synths right here we will go to let's see here want to do 808 let's do 808 and then I'm going to make the Decay longer on my 808 and that's it and then I'm just going to make it a little bit quieter that's it okay let's go to pattern one p roll so you got to just listen to the note hear it and know that's the right one so I can put it up in octave you can hear it's the right note and then what we can do is we can add in some some notes and we can actually put them down an octave and make them slide notes so like this oh and then we want to add like maybe like a melody on top of this so let's add another pattern put it on top of here and we'll make another Melody so we'll do that um what kind of Melody can we do maybe we do something interesting let's add another let's see what we got Bells let's add bells and let's kind of do like a little ARP that goes like d d something like oh um cool so let's make a new kind of let's take this Baseline that we had before just copy these two notes cuz that's the only ones that we really need pull out the Baseline put in another pattern drop the pattern in go uh drag that to the end and then let's just take out all the kicks and then just leaving the snares and then what we're going to do is we're actually going to add in the synway base back in there okay I am super unlucky my Apple Studio has crashed about six times I don't know why it's happening so I think it has to do with my the fact that I'm recording or I am using a green screen using Zoom uh don't ask um and I'm running studio all at the same time so my computer just does not like it I think it's using a lot of memory so I think that's what's going on however what I'm going to try to do instead of making the full track a hip-hop track I'm going to take what we have and I'm going to show you guys how to do mixing so that's what we're going to do I'm going to go to backup I'm going to go here I'm going to open it and now we're going to open exactly what we have and just mix that so that's all I'm going to do I'm going to take exactly what we got and you know what we'll copy and paste this twice and we'll actually just put this little art Melody on on the second time all right time to learn mixing so we are going to go to our Channel rack and we are going to change it from audio to all and then we are going to get rid of the samp and then after getting rid of the sampler you're going to select everything you're going to hit control and then you're going to click l while selected everything and what that will do is it will put all of um okay hold on if you do that correctly and not hold L like I did um what it's going to do is it's actually going wow I did that a bunch of times okay there we go hopefully that wasn't too confusing so what we're doing is it's taking all of the instruments all the samples and putting them in our mixer so now watch this so this allows us to control the volume and effects for all of our tracks and this is the beautiful power of mixing so we're going to listen real closely and just see what we can change to make it sound a little bit better so let's start with the volume okay I think that sounds better just change the volume just to touch um now while I can right click on this uh green um what is it called this green circle and it will just solo out something and you honestly you want to be selected on a part of the song that you want to be mixing pull out the mixer that little box fourth one from the left and this will help you kind of get um rolling here on on um this is the best way to do it in my opinion so we can see what's playing and we can uh work on it as as it's repeating so what I want to do is I'm going to add I know I have a lot of effects so this is probably going to be confusing but just try to find it where it's at for you I'm going to pull out fruity parametric eq2 and watch this you just go on the slots to the right here make sure that you have selected what you want to put the effects on as you can see if I change the effects aren't on these other ones so I want to go oh my goodness I want to click on the one that's making this noise and I want to put a fruity parametric EQ while that is highlighted then I'm going to click into it and from here I want to take out all the low end in uh in this so what I'm going to do is I'm going to right click on number one go to order steep eight right click it again and go to type I'm going to go to high pass and the pass filter is going to let me take out all of those low frequencies in here that's much better so now that we've taken out the low frequencies let's just listen to it now if I unclick uncheck this it's going to turn off the effect and if I check it I'm going to do it with just this highlighted so you can hear the difference essentially what it's doing is it's taking out all that low rumbling that's going to make the mix sound muddy and a little bit unpleasant to the ears because my Bas is they're both fighting for space um all the sounds in your track are going to be wanting uh space they're basically kind of like think about like kids in a classroom once one starts talking and another starts talking then the other one has to talk louder so that they can be heard and then everyone starts talking and then everyone's getting louder and that's just what happens in a classroom so if you've ever been in school you've had that experience your mix is doing the same thing you push one up in volume the other one wants to be pushed up in volume everyone wants to be the the loudest one and then you can't hear anything so what you got to do is you have to cut you have to cut the annoying frequencies um don't think that too literally so what we're going to do is you're going to lower like what is not needed in the mix and we're going going to keep what we do want in the mix so for instance I don't want the base in this sound because I already have a base it's my 808 so I don't need Bas in this in this track and that's a very like like dumb down example but what we can do is by applying that kind of General concept to everything we can make our M our mixes sound tight and Punchy so and that's kind of what we want we want for hip-hop song you want it to be tight and Punchy you don't want it to be muddy and like kind of muddled like you want it to be crisp so I might take out even more lows if I and maybe I want a little bit more high-end so I I just lift this a little bit see how much different that sounds listen to this now when I with it on it makes a world of difference like just that tiny little shift in in what which frequencies we're boosting we're changing the the tonality of the entire song so it's it's really cool now for the base here um there's all kinds of other effects we could do so maybe on the base what if I wanted to add some Distortion to it so we could go to um we have what's called fruity fast Distortion that's included in FL Studio and you can use this and it's going to do that's a lot so let's let's take the mix down without with just add a little bit of distortion is what it's going to do is it's going to add harmonics to the base so it's going to make it sound a little bit beefier which is kind of cool so maybe you want that maybe you don't I'm just showing you guys some different effects that we can add so let's go back to here and solo this and just kind of listen and I want to show you guys something that's really cool it's called Reverb so I'm sure if you've ever been inside of a big building or cave and and you spok in you can hear your voice kind of echo out and it like it's really big well this is what Reverb emulates so let's listen to it with Reverb without Reverb with Reverb really cool now what if we added some other stuff so like what if we added like a delay to the clap so every time the clap came in or this is the clap my bad what if we added a delay so let's go to delay and we can add delay bank so it's like and then we put it on ping pong so it bounces in our headphones oh actually wait oops that's not the right thing oh no it is the right thing I have to turn in the pan a little bit cool so that's just a few settings that that we can tweak uh so this delay is going to be like it's going to delay the sound and play it over and over again and I can change the way it delays too so like I could change it here that's just a interesting different interesting things that we can do in our in our song so we're just adding effects we're changing volume we're adding mixing to to our song we're just we're it's adding flavor so if I take everything off it sounds like this and with the effects on so I showed you guys kind of the basics I gave you Reverb um we have delay I wanted to show you Distortion those are like the big three that you're going to be using a lot of um and some simple volume control just understanding where things can go in the track um another thing that we can do is I can show you guys how to pan things right and left so like let's let's open up the mixer again and just listen I can actually turn this to the right of my headphones or the left of my headphones so maybe maybe I want this a little bit pan to the right and maybe I want these a little bit pan to the left I I mean I reverse that but listen and then there's other things that we can do like we can make things wide or narrow so like listen to this I can turn down this little knob right here and it will make it mono like in the center or it will go wide or narrow and controlling the narrowness and the width of Our Song is also how we're going to create a full sounding song too so maybe I want the main thing to be a little bit more wide but I want the base all the way in the center with my kick too so that's just a just an interesting example so we we have panning left and right we have stereo width opening and closing being more mono or being more stereo then we have effects like delay Reverb EQ Distortion um there's so many effects that you guys can experiment with too um one thing that I will recommend as long as you don't blow out your eardrum I want to do your a favor go to your master go to Just and the master is basically where like everything is getting funneled into so like all your music is going to go to the master so if I turn it off nothing comes true if I turn it back on so as you can see that is completely controlling how everything's working so any effect or anything that you put on the master is going to affect everything so something I like to do just to be safe is to put a limiter on the master now listen carefully once you get better at music production putting a limiter on the master is going to be like the worst advice ever but when you're starting off I think it's good advice because you have no idea what you're putting on your tracks and you could easily put something that makes something get everything get really loud and you like and I'm not going to say you're going to burst your eardrum but I'm just saying it's happened to me before so be careful like there are definitely some cing on here that if you put it on there you're going to want to like literally Chuck your headphones cuz you're like oh crap I didn't realize that that was going to make it that loud so I just want you guys to be careful so what you can do is go to fruity limiter when you're starting off this will be good and another thing that you can do is produce a little bit quieter you don't have to produce it at max volume that's how you lose your hearing um I produce at 60% volume all the time and I never turn it up for anything even when I listen to music myself I don't listen to it higher than 60 volume and the reason I do that and 60 volume is going to sound different for everyone's headphones sure is to protect your ears because it's very important um so I know that uh this is kind of a weird tangent I'm talking about ear protection stuff but it is relevant it's relevant to mixing it's relevant to keeping your ears safe over a long period of time so I just want to give you guys that uh that advice because it's it is very important to keep your ears safe so I showed you guys effects I showed you guys mixing I told talk to you guys about volume and how to control that um these are just the basics I'm giving you guys the tools I'm giving you guys like here's the tool box have fun like I'm just showing you a couple of what they do and then you can do have fun with the rest and that's the best way to learn like not everything needs to be perfect you don't need to sit over like oh did I tweak this to the right value like just have fun dude like put effects on there mess around with it see what happens like that's literally How I Learned that's how every single professional I've ever met that's how they learned they had fun so yeah I don't know why I'm going preacher mode here but like I just I see so many people who are so worried about being good producers or how to be a right artist or whatever it's like you need to drop it and you need to just make music to have fun otherwise you're never going to be able to like make good music um I think something that it's called beat block so I'm going to talk about so it's it's called music writer block there there's a million names for it but essentially what it is is it's the inability to create music it you blocks you off like you you actually can't physically keep making music and as a beginner you won't run into this but as you get better and better you'll get what's called beat block and the reason this is is because you're like I'm making music CU I want to be famous I'm making music because I want to make money I'm making music because put in reason but the the problem is if you're making music and you're not enjoying the process you will physically not be able to be motivated to make music it's very simple like and this is for anything in life if you're playing a video game and you're not having fun nothing is going to make you want to keep coming back to that game and playing it you'll just stop playing it if you're at work and you have no nothing motivating you you're not going to work I mean there it's very simple so this is with everything in life it's not just music so we make these terms writer block or music block it applies everywhere so I don't understand why it's only apply to music I've seen it all over the place I mean if you have co-workers family or just you you'll see this encounter this idea and it's in all different fields so just want to kind of debunk that real quick if you're having writers block or music block instant fix you're not having fun like I promise you're not enjoying the process so you have to slow down and just kind of like and then you'll get into the zone and you saw me get into the Zone because I'm going super fast and I'm not even thinking and I'm like forget that I was recording a tutorial I'm like oh crap I was recording a tutorial and then like you guys are probably just sitting there're like what the heck is he doing so like hopefully I'm not going too fast I'm sorry if I am I'm also fun so um hopefully you can see that and hopefully you're learning as I'm learning and I can pass on some of these uh some of these things that I know are important and not give you all the other details that are going to just confuse you and make you like make it complicated because the best way of learning and the best way is by doing it's by doing it's by teaching others and I'm going to go into that a little bit later because I'm going to give you guys a lot more of the tools to become great artists and great musicians um and that will happen once we get to the end of end of this I'm going to give you guys so much value so I want this course to be increasing in value as you keep going not just like oh you learned this thing and then none of it's important it's building okay so stick with me if you gotten this far I'm really proud of you we're going to make some orchestal music I'm going to teach you about automation I'm going to teach you about mastering and then I'm going to give you the most important thing for music production and music making in general oh boy that was a lot so I went over how to EQ I went over different types of effects I talked about um different what some of these knobs do so you learned about the the volume knob you learned about the stereo stereo which is orange and then the purple which is mono you learn about panning which is yellow or orange and then red which is um the right or my bad the left and right ear and you learned how to hit contr L and put everything neatly organized um onto these tracks so as you can see here real quick um I should show you the channel rack is putting this on number one if I change this it's going to move it so I'm going to put that back on one but you're seeing that this is how it's routed so this number signifies which track it's on so that's where everything is connected you have your box your container which is your channel rack and the instruments in there are getting routed with this number onto this mixer okay and that's how that works so without further Ado let's go to the next chapter and I'm going to show you guys how to do automation with orchestra music let's go okay here we go we are going to save this project and I am going to open a new one because we are making orchestra music and I'm going to teach you guys all about automation so this is be super super fun let's do it first let's open up Spitfire Labs because this is where we're going to be making a lot of our orchestra music using this plugin so let's go to labs and why don't we put in some strings let's do that or maybe open up all of them Let's do let's do short strings and let's make them a little bit louder we're going to go to our Channel rack and you guys know the drill hopefully you've learned this by now we're going to contrl L it's going to put on our Mex track and then I'm going to just right click and go to piano roll and I'm going to find one of my midi and we will use that in our track this time so this will just show you guys how midi works so let's just click one of these and see what I what I have here what what's this one okay that's way too fast so let's slow it down that way I don't have a heart attack okay this is really cool however I need it to be lengthened a little bit so I'm going to take all these short notes I'm just going to lengthen them a little bit I think that they're they're too short so they need all be like that and you guys know the drill we I already talked about how to add effects so I think that this would be super cool with convolver and this is kind of like a a Reverb style thing but it's it's a little bit different it's called convolution Reverb and it's just different in the way it works but I think it'll sound really good so let's listen and let's change it to like a cathedral I want it like a big warm Cathedral what if it was I can't really sing but I have the idea so what I'm going to do is I'm going to select one through one through five and I'm going to hit control B and it's going to put it on the next thing here and then this time through when it plays I'm going to I'm going to make the melody keep going a okay so I just made the melody a little bit more interesting uh by adding some variation in the second part here and then what I want to do is just copy all these lower bass notes like so I'm just going to copy all of these and I think that I'm going to contrl C and we're going to control control or not control we're going to right click labs and we're going to clone it actually and when we clone it here it's just going to make a second copy labs and then we're going to choose maybe a longer string so let's pick string long and I'm going to go here and click Labs number two CU this is our string long I'm going to paste that in here so let's move these to the start there I'm going to delete these extra notes just so I just have the starting note like so and we're going to take this and hit contr L and it will extend all the notes out to the end and now we have this okay something like that so now we have the longer notes here that are played like with this and maybe I can actually play and then we'll play We we'll kind of fit the chord progression in with what we have here so I'll fit it to the other arpeggiated cor progression and then we'll just copy this over here just like so and yeah so now we got something like this and then we can copy the top half of this melody and we can actually just kind of like like take all of this and kind of just take what it has and we are going to use it with another instrument so let's do that let's take all this like so I believe that's the top Melody we're going to copy that contrl c and we are going to do the same thing we're going to clone Labs once more and I'm going to find like a harp I want to find I think that would be super cool do I have like a harp um I don't know if I do no clue um strings do have Auto harp maybe that's it let's double click Auto harp I have no idea so let's try auto harp and I'm going to go to laps number three and I'm going to past this in and let's see if this so obviously it's very overpoweringly loud so I'm just going to turn everything down so one way I can do that is I can actually I'm going to also put these on mixture tracks as well just real quick I can turn it down here but I can also turn it down in the channel R so and this doesn't they're not connected together but let's listen to this how it if I just turn this down okay so we ran into an issue and the issue is that I can't actually go that high with this instrument so that's kind of frustrating but I think I have a work around if I go control down like this and let's see if I can move it up the other way sometimes this works if it does I will explain what I did okay it didn't so I'm actually going to forget that I ever said that and we're going to go back to the way it was so just ignore that so C8 okay so C is the highest note it can be so let's go one two 3 four okay so I have to move the whole thing down four this is a huge huge cool thing that I can show you guys so right click on pattern one this has everything in it right now now I can go transpose and I'm going to do minus 4 and that's going to tell it to move it down four every single pattern so if I do that boom now let's play it that works pretty well so it moved everything down shifted it and it works great now so really happy we're going to take this I'm going to put it in here and I'm going to split my channel and I'm going to do what I was doing before and I'm going to take out the bass notes out of the things that I don't need it to Let's Go to the song and I'm actually just going to lower the basee cuz I don't want it gone completely let's add the warm Cathedral and let's add a little bit of delay as well so obviously the mixing is not exactly where I want it to be but the orchestral idea is there so now I want to teach you guys about automation cuz that's what this whole section is about and I wanted to teach you guys using orchestra music so I think that I should add just a little bit of drums just to kind of spice it up a little bit just cuz it's kind of boring right now so see if I can add in some fortunately I don't really have maybe a drum Loop cuz I don't really we'll do this so I'm just going to stretch out this drum Loop to so it fits make sure to stretch it so that it fits properly so I'm going to stretch it to the end so everything is kind of like merging together right put also putting on stretch making sure that as well so that it doesn't pitch shift weird Okay cool so we got that um now I want to show you guys automation so there's different all kinds of different automations and basically the idea of an automation is that I can move a knob using some type of control so let's let's just listen to like this melody for instance so what does this do so we can see that these knobs change the way the S the song sounds so what I can do is I can wiggle one of these knobs then I can right click this right here and click create automation clip and what it's going to do is it's literally going to make me something that I can control that knob in the plug using this this like little thing here let me show you it's easier to show than than to tell what what this is doing so we'll do something like this because this will really show you guys what an automation is doing so I'm actually going to do that and I'm let's let's play it here so now let's go back to all and we're going to click Labs or where is it cuz I I'm trying to find the melody it's Labs number three so let's go to number three and check this out look at the automation okay sweet so now what I'm I'm going to do is I'm going to kind of like I'm going to do another automation so let's uh I want to show you guys that you can actually automate effects as well so on here I can automate this mix knob and okay so FL Studio native knobs you can just right click and create an automation instantly just like that create create an automation I can create an automation for that um if it's in a third party plugin what you have to do like vital any knob in vital any knob in Labs anything like that like this knob um you're going to have to right click up here and then create an automation clip and you have to wiggle it that way it knows which knob you're going to create an automation with but you can create an animation with anything so I'm going to create an animation with all three of those things and I'm going to just kind of like move it around here so you guys get the gist of like how the automations are working so I'm just going to do that and then I might move that down and then move it back up and then we'll just copy that I'm just putting all these automations here just so that you guys get a get a picture of like what could be done uh it's not necessarily like a full a full thing here so we're just going to kind of do that and then just going to do a bunch of automations so you guys get the picture and then I'm going to make another automation where I let's do the panning as well I want to do the panning and then let's move that here you can hear it moving around in my ears now and as you can see these knobs are moving over here as well which is really cool so I'm able to control so many different things I think the easiest thing that the way to see it is I'm going to put an EQ and I'm actually going to change what I'm going to do is I'm going to actually I'm going to change this right here so I'm going to take this bell curve and I'm going to move this back and forth across here and you'll be able to very clearly hear what's what's going on so I'm going to take this and I'm going to move it just like so so I'm going to right click that create an automation clip and by moving this up and down you're going to hear the difference so it's going to go up and then it's going to go down and it's going to up and it's going to go down and I don't want to go all the way CU that's going to hurt my ears so we'll just do it like that and then it's going to be like this and really quickly I want to go to parametric EQ and you'll be able to see this Automation in action watch this bottom one it's it's named parametric eq2 watch automation okay so I don't really like doing that kind of automation CU it's going to make peaks in the volume and it's going to sound very unpleasant but I'm just trying to show you guys examples that really show you what automation is doing I don't think you guys realize how powerful automation is it is so so so cool and everything that you can do with it it's that's what literally takes a beginner producer from here to like master because of like their automations are crazy um you can get really creative um I really like automating volume so having things come in very gradually into a song it's a very great way of making stuff sound uh good so like for instance if I'm in this part right here let's say I don't want this I don't want that to start immediately so what if I did something like this um I could let's we're going to put a fruity balance on there so I'm going to find navigate and find fruity balance and this will allow me to control the audio and I'm going to create an automation for this so I can actually control the audio here and then we're going to have this okay so hopefully that gave you guys a picture of like what automation is actually looking like and what is doing in the software so that's literally all I wanted to show you guys you can automate effects you can automate Volume you can automate basically any knob that you see in FL Studio whether it's in a plugin whether or not it's in in effects volume pitch literally any knob inl Studio chances are you can automate it and even if it's not an FL Studio native plugin if it's a third- party plugin I showed you that you can not you can automate that too using that box up there so overall automations are super powerful and there's so much you can do in Apple Studio with them and you don't need them for the beginner tracks I'd say mixing is important though being able to fit things together and make them sound good in a mix is quite important um and that honestly just takes practice and listening and I'd say honestly the best way of mixing and the best way of using automations is by picking good samples picking good instruments and actually just not having to EQ a lot because lots of people what they'll do is they get an instrument and they're like okay I want to make this sound good with the rest of my track so they EQ it like crazy they put all these like bell curves and all kinds of things to make it sound good um instead of just picking something that fits so when I say EQ it by the way what I'm talking about is taking one of these and moving all these everywhere like and making something that looks like a modern art piece like you don't need to do that like if your sound sounds good you shouldn't have to move everything like crazy so just a little word of advice hopefully that's helpful for some of you that get into that moving Bell curbs like crazy everywhere um but don't let that stop you like if you want to do something for sound design purposes have fun like experiment have fun but um yeah I just wanted to show you guys about automations and mixing and I wanted to keep for the beginner tutorial I wanted to keep the mixing and automations relatively short and the reason is pretty simple when you're starting off they're fluff they're extra um making good music is not because of mixing and mastering or automations it's because of um good musical ideas and the ways that you layer and pick things and put things together so um that's all you guys need to know for this chapter and we're going to move on to the Final Chapter which is basic mastering and from there um we're going to be wrapping up and I'm going to share with you guys probably the most important thing that you're going to learn and if you take away anything with the music production tutorial it'll honestly apply to life too so hopefully it'll be helpful and we'll get there in a sec but first we have to learn how to do mastering so let's okay now what we're going to do is we're going to just apply some mixing and mastering to uh the original EDM track that I did cuz I think that EDM is pretty easy to mix and master so I thought that I'd show you guys how um again with all these things there are levels to mixing and mastering and the how you can go and in terms of skill and it only keeps getting better um but understanding what mixing and mastering purpose is is fundamentally important to how you go about making music so mixing is just getting everything to fit together and work together in a cohesive way so if your elements don't fit together or if they are don't sound good together in your headphones that means the mixing is wrong usually the first thing you want to check in mixing is what sounds did I pick did I pick sounds that fit together or I pick sounds that don't fit together if you pick sounds that don't fit together you shouldn't be surprised if they don't sound good I mean that's pretty simple um but it's shocking how many people miss this they'll throw together all these different sounds throw them together and then when they put it in the in the pot together it sounds terrible it's like don't make work hard on yourself pick good sounds pick things that work together secondly um another thing to know is that mixing is about changing volume is something would it fit if it was quieter that's another thing you need to ask yourself would this thing fit if it was louder picking which sounds are going to stand out which are not um the so the second the first stage is picking sounds for mixing the second stage is how the volume the third stage is effects like would this sound good if it had tons of Reverb on it and wasn't so prominent in the mix those are questions you can ask yourself so asking yourself questions as you're working in the mix and um it'll it'll help you understand what you're trying to do so what we're trying to accomplish is making all of the pieces of Our Song fit not only fit together but sound the best they possibly can individually and together so there's effects that we can apply to our whole song to bring it up but then there's also effects that we can apply to individual things and that's why uh I always keep Max mastering minimal um I want to make the song sound as good as it possibly can before I apply effects to everything because once you apply effects to your entire song it's going to like affect every element so try to make the elements as good as they possibly can be and then your master just barely moves it that 5% that like 1% it shouldn't move it 30% you know um um I had a lot of friends that would master and I mean they would just use mastering and it's kind of a like a what is it like a cheap way to to master if if you just throw something that makes everything sound good it's like cuz then it's harder to change things cuz after you apply effect to everything what you'll learn is you're like oh darn now I have all these little effects and when I change them it doesn't work cuz I have this big effect that's affecting everything and that's really frustrating so when you're mixing just remember if you're going to put something on the master that's affecting your whole mix try to wait till the end to do that because that way you can mix on all the individual things and make them sound really good before you apply something to everything uh so that's just something to remember I think that's really helpful um so now that you understand what we're actually doing when we're mixing now we can ask ourselves okay what is mastering what are we doing mastering is just making the song sound good everywhere so making the song sound good everywhere is just a product of reference tracks picking a track that you're making your music like or if you a track similar genre listen to that song say how loud was the bass how loud was the treble how loud was the mid like how loud was everything and how do I want my song to sound so mastering is getting your song to sound industry standard it's taking the mix that you have that sounds good and making it industry standard making it sound like everything else so that when people are playing through a playlist they listen to your song they're like oh this just sounds like another awesome song they don't say ooh this one sounds weird like the bass is all weird you know what I mean like if it catches somebody's ear in a bad way that's not good so you want to M reference your tracks with other leading artist tracks to see where their levels are at um and that's really important to mastering the second thing with mastering is mastering in a way that your frequency will sound good on almost every single pair of headphones so by referencing you're doing two things at once you are one making your music sound industry standard and two you're actually also like um making it sound good everywhere so you're not just making it sound good on your headphones you're making it sound good for all headphones for all car systems and there are just bad audio systems sure your audio is not going to sound good on those but by and large we want to make our audio sound good everywhere and that's really important and that's what mastering is all about so to make things sound good everywhere we are just simply going to apply the 5% that's going to bring it from here to here and um to do that we're first going to ask what we can make our mix better so first part of mastering is actually mixing so we're going to listen to this and just say what could we do better well the first thing we can do is we can actually put everything on an audio track so let's take all of this and just hold shift and kind of just select all these and then do contrl L and contr L is going to put everything on the mixure track so now we can actually see what's going on here hm okay so I think that this would sound good if it had a little bit more a little bit more compression so I might put a sound guizer on it just because that's going to add some compression it's going to add some nice distortion so now what I want to do is I want to add in another probably some more compression on this one cuz I'm just adding compression to kind of bring out the different parts of the song so so let's listen to it once we add a b a bunch of compression and I just kind of bring up the mix a little bit so I think that this is it just has a little bit too much lowend so I'm going to just take out some of low end okay so so what I did was I basically just removed the Lowe's from the things I didn't need Lowe's and I just kind of like am using uh just you know I'm using some compression and some saturation to make make the sound sound a little bit better and a little bit more full um and there's all kinds of different compressions and lots of people will make fun that I'm using sound gizer but honestly sounds good so why not um I use my ears to mix I don't use people's opinions um and also another thing if anybody's going to roast me for using sound gizer Kirby uses it and he's probably a way better producer than you are so if you're making fun of me talk to him because he's using it so and he makes amazing awesome bass house tracks so it doesn't really that's another thing to know doesn't matter what you're using just listen like does it sound good does it fit with the rest of the track ask those questions and they'll lead you in the right direction don't ask questions like oh well I don't use this pluging because this person doesn't use it and they say it's dumb it's like that's a stupid way of of making music make music using your ears not your opinions um so that's that's another thing so also I don't know I think that the longer I make music and the longer I'm on I'm recording the more like like I just go downhill but so we'll try to wrap it up here and get as much value as I can into this tutorial okay so also it's probably super loud in the headphones just cuz it's kind of clipping which is fine clipping is good clipping sounds good um and I'm actually going to utilize utilize that in the master CU I think with EDM music clipping is is awesome it sounds really nice so honestly the last thing I'm going to do is I'm just going to kind of just finish off by just putting a a Mac maximizer on it and I'm just going to kind of boost the gain a little bit and I think that that's all I'm going to do for mastering I'm want to keep it super simple like I'm just going to put Maxim Maximus on it on my master track and I'm just going to put an EQ maybe just going to n this is a very like very high level like I'm like literally took like 5 minutes to just put some basic stuff on here so I'm not like doing something that I do with 50 hours of music production like of on one track like there's there's different varying of levels of mixing and mastering that I go into and what I want to do is I want to use this time that if you've made it this far you're actually interested in mixing and mastering you've actually made it this far with the song then you know what you'll be interested in you'll be interested in me breaking down some of my actual fin finished tracks that are mixed and mastered and I'm going to do that on my YouTube channel so I couldn't I don't really have the opportunity to do that here because I don't think that it's the right time and place because if you're watching this you're probably just starting out um but if you're interested in more of what I'm going to do in the future I do have a YouTube channel um and you can see that I put my links on my patreon page as as well where you got the samples and the rest of the things so if you made it this far um you can connect with me I have a big um I I have the one last final thing that I want to tell you guys and it's going to and I'm going to tell you guys in the next chapter but hopefully this showed you the basics of mastering the basics of mixing the what the purpose of all of it because that's the most important part like if you miss the purpose of why we're doing each individual part you're going to miss the whole thing you're going to miss the target so with mastering all we're doing is we're making it sound good like as a whole and we're going to make it sound good everywhere on every single system so that's 90% of the mix and the master is just making sure like that um we're just going to add some some flavor and with the default Apple Studio plugins like you can do some mastering and you could make it sound good but I honestly I utilize a lot of third party plugins and because I can't use those in my mastering I'm going to say like don't worry too much about uh your master because most people aren't going to know the difference and I know it sounds like weird advice but if you can keep your master so it's just not going to have some bad clipping on different Sun if you could just put like a limiter or like a Maximus so that it doesn't like completely like clip on um when you send it to Spotify or something you're in the clear add some basic eqing maybe add some small effects don't add like raver delay or anything on your master but just add some small things that are just going to kind of lift it just a little bit so like there's different things that you can look into and I I had explore um there's there's lots of I mean I'm not going to say that there's nothing to do with mastering an FL Studio but it is not uh it is true that the third party plugins are going to help you greatly in just making better mixes and Masters however I I would look at multiband compressors I think that those are huge um and yeah I'd say that that's like the big thing with mastering and then um I'd like to show you guys some other things that I use as well but um really in the mastering part actually for beginners I didn't want to talk so much about mastering I actually want to talk more about mindset because that's going to make you a master if you actually are able to master the rest of everything I've given you in this course so that's the true mastering um what what I'm going to do now is we're going to go to the final chapter and that is going to be arguably the most important part so without further Ado we're going to go to the final chapter and I'm so excited so let's for the Final Chapter what I'm going to talk to you guys about is exporting and exporting is the easiest is one of the easiest Parts like literally all you have to do is go to file export and then click waver MP3 that's it and then you're going to get a file that spits off like this entire uh track that we worked on together um that's all that's how exporting is um that's it and but it's what you do with that song after that's important and this is where so many people kind of kind of lose it so I've noticed that people hold on to tracks people hold on to project files and they sit on them and they don't do anything I I've been I've been in around the block a little bit and I've talked to tons of music producers and I want you guys to know the pitfalls of how other people produce and how I produce at one point and I want to steer you clear of that and I want to give you the I want to give you uh what will actually make you better music producers um so that's why I have a Discord Channel that's why I have a YouTube channel that's why I have my patreon and what it's all for is bringing music producers together to build connections and build a really awesome community of people that are going to work together and help each other out so I think the reason uh my Discord is is really important is because I already have like a big community of people there from my last beginner tutorial and they've all moved moved in and uh just kind of made like a home on this Discord server where everyone's sending music and getting feedback so what you're doing is you send feedback because you listen to Somebody's track what happens is you send feedback to them then you send your track and then somebody gives feedback on your track so what's happening is you're able to listen and build your your ears up so you have a better listening ability and also reading what how other people get feedback it'll help you be able to be conscious and understanding of how to listen to music and how to improve as an artist because teaching is actually one of the best ways of learning uh and this is just scientifically true um I've done lots of research in how humans learn and how we understand things and all about psychology and different things and I just want to share that like another amazing way is actually collaborating with other people um working on projects learning different perspectives and different ways of producing streaming what you're working on to other people this is the how I uh was able to grow so quickly during Co time was that I was friends with tons of really popular artists and I just watched them work I literally just watch exactly what they do like you were doing with me watching me work is going to help you understand like what people are doing when they're music producing and you can absorb that and then once you also copy and kind of imitate what I'm doing in your own work you'll be able to grow as an artist so part of it is following tutorials part of it is watching things but most of it is doing and it's the repeated process of failure and just learning and getting better over time that's going to make you really good and so when you click file and when you click export what I want you to do is I want you to take that song I want you to go to my Discord server and I want you to post it in my first track and I want you're going to have like hundreds of people there that are going to come in and go this is amazing here's what's next you're working with those people you're making friends you guys are all working together and having a great time and that's what I wanted so that's that's what I made so because a lot of people are asking me hey Tristan where do I go where do I find producers and the answer is there's nowhere to go there's absolutely zero place to go there's no nothing like that that exists and if it does then it's probably revolving around one artist but I don't want to make a music group that revolves around somebody who might be here one day and might be gone the next I want to make a group that's just dedicated to other people who want to learn and interact together so that's what my Discord group is all about and that and my YouTube channel is a place for me to upload tutorials and also have other people um make tutorials as well and upload what they're working on and these are artists that are already producing already um uploading music to Spotify and so if you're interested in that learning from all kinds of different artists from all different kinds of fields watching me break down tracks that I've done um come join me come join uh me in the rest of the gang and we'll show you around and how to continue with this hobby that you have and hopefully I can show you other ways that you can take it farther too not just doing music production but actually becoming an artist um and all kinds of different stuff so if that's something you're interested in uh that would be that' be really cool if you could join us so I would love if you could post your track with us and we could check it out and I'd be super stoked to see what you guys work worked on cuz I mean it just when I used to get emails because of my last beginner tutorial of people finishing the whole tutorial and sending me tracks I was like wow this is so awesome I just email people and I'm like I really need a place to put all these people because I get so many emails of people sending me their first track and so this time around I do have a place for you go to my Discord server post your song and it will all start there and you'll have a bunch of encouraging people ready to take you to to help you become an artist um and it doesn't stop there too we also have fun challenges I do challenges with everybody um and I do reviews for track reviews so I do all kinds of stuff so it's it's not just about like getting feedback and making it this like teacher student thing I'm I'm more like it's like a group thing like we're all having fun we're all doing challenges I'm in the challenges with you guys so and I'm there too if you want to talk to me that's where I'm at so if you're interested in anything like that please join us I think it would be super super fun and I'd love to hear what what music that you guys make um last but not least um I do this for free I share and I don't gatekeep information I ask you to buy a course I don't ask you to do anything that's why I teamed up with free code Camp so if you made it this far I'd greatly appreciate if you could support me on patreon because what I'm doing is completely free and I'm never going to ask for charge anything um the only other services that I'd ever ask for charge are something that actually takes a lot of time and then I'm going to put a lot of work and effort into and so while I didn't do the full mixing mastering process that I do on my own tracks here with you guys since you're just starting out um I do offer those services and if you're willing to support me I'm also going to be married and in just about a week which is crazy and my uh fiance is an amazing singer and so we're actually going to make a music duo and if you're supporting me you're also supporting uh my future as a musician as well because I want to make music with her and I think it'd be super fun and I'd love to uh have you guys hear what what we make in the future so I know I've been blabbering for a long time um but I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and come came along for me for the ride and if you want to keep coming with me come join me um it's been it's been great with working with you guys I'll see you later all right and as I promised here is the prize so I'm going to open it up here and I'm going to give you guys a ton of links that you can go to and this will help you guys tremendously on your music production Journey so first up we are going to go to Native Instruments this is the complete start I highly highly highly recommend native instruments and this is a free bundle that will give you tons of super high quality plugins that you can use when starting off and these are just awesome I really wanted to use these during our tutorial but it's actually like so good I feel like it it's almost like cheating so I wanted to make it a little bit more difficult so you guys can learn a little bit but holy cow yeah Native Instruments epic all right next up on the list is BBC Orchestra this is a free Symphony Orchestra that you can get and it is so good I was able to pick this up for free I'm almost positive I pretty sure it is still free so check this out if nothing else everything that Spitfire audio does is is epic so check out BBC Symphony Orchestra and see if you can pick up that next on the list is camel Crusher camel Crusher is a distortion plugin and it's just great it gives you amazing Distortion and I really wanted to use it during a tutorial uh this is what it looks like it's really awesome so love that use it all the time in production next up on the list is X for records we have Ott next up on the list we have fresh air it is amazing I use it on all my masters and it makes them sound amazing um it adds basically just like a little bit of a high boost it kind of like just saturate the highs it just sounds amazing just try it out trust me I'll love it um next up on the list we have ozone imager this is amazing it just helps the stereo width of uh just different um instruments or whatever you're working on I use this all the time it's amazing Fox lingo span I use this on every single Master it helps me see the audio and what's going on and how to reference different mixes it's it's it's really good I highly recommend highly recommend this next up is simatics uh they make tons of free sample packs and I highly recommend getting the sample packs that they give out they're very uh high quality the they're really good and their pay packs are good as well I've heard and last but not least on uh frees sounds. it I believe it's this is what it is there's all kinds of different free sample packs so you can pick up Drums of percussion synthesizer and keys cinematic sound effects and vocals and then there's like trap hip hop techno experimental tons of and every single one of these are sample packs and every single one of those sample packs has like hundreds of sounds so there is so so many SLE packs here for you guys to use if you're looking for that I know I went through this fast and this is not even the beginning of how many free resources there is for you guys but most of all I think that the biggest prize is going to be joining the Discord that I was talking about with all the other music producers because that was the most fun part of music production for me was working with others so I hope you guys had a great time learning and I hope to see you soon all right have a great one let's fly fly fly flylearn how to produce music in this full course for beginners you don't need any previous Music Experience you'll learn to create music tracks in a variety of styles using FL Studio which is a digital audio workstation with an unlimited free trial Tristan Wilcox teaches this course he's a professional musician and teacher right in front of me right here is a finished track and it's also going to be in front of you if you follows along with this tutorial you will have a full track done if you have zero Music Experience like it it really doesn't matter like if you've ever picked up an instrument doesn't matter if you know anything about music production doesn't matter I'm going to take you from zero to understanding how to make of your very first track um in just a few hours that's all I'm asking you and you don't need to do it all once I've sectioned this up into chapter so it's easy to follow um and if you're asking well what kind of music am I going to make um I'm doing EDM hip-hop and orchestra music and it doesn't really stop there the things I'm going to be teaching you you can take in to any genre so I hope you guys enjoy the this course and you're going to make your own versions of these so don't if you don't like the way I did something change it do it in the tutorial and I have a lot planned and I'm really excited and I hope that this is helpful all right guys I really wanted to show you a um just what is possible with f studi so I'm going to play a song that I made and I professionally produced mix and mastered and is called let's boom juu um bomu is the name of my pet rabbit and so I hope that you guys enjoy I think it's honestly a banger and so we're going to play it um this is on my YouTube channel Tristan WX so without further Ado let's uh just play the song here we go in the meadow so free eating car all day living life with bir so fluffy Standing Tall this rabbit got swager ain't going to fall punching bananas are the day and bath night living like's on his own the living life withams of his own let's hop hop hop hop let's might be having always obvious what the problem is to grounding stress opposite when the Comfort HS a of bread window he with his te you know he's black and white like old TV's or referee going remember me going me going me let's f f let's h all right so as you can see um that was a that was a really really fun song to make I'm not going to lie um it was it was hilarious so yeah this is what's possible with Studio you can make a song just like this um uh banana and rabbit not included but I hope that you guys have an extremely fun time watching this tutorial and you learn a lot um also if you make it through the whole tutorial you're awesome you're awesome person being and if you don't make it the tutorial you're still awesome but you could be awesomer if you made it all the way through the tutorial true story okay let's get started let's go first things first we're going to want to head over to imagine.com and you're going to pick up your copy of FL Studio just click download there and follow the installation process super easy we're going to be using the free version of FL Studio through this course but there are paid editions that give you more features if you're interested um then what we're going to do is we're going to navigate over to vital and this is vital. audio and this has um this synthesizer is so amazing I can't believe it's free um it's it's so good we we have to get this because I'd be doing you guys a disservice if if I didn't have you download this so you're going to get vital audio and this is going to help us through the tutorial and give us uh a huge uh leg up uh starting off making music here um the next thing that you're going to head over and grab is uh labs. Spire audio.com this is again this is just an insane value it's it's completely free and I just there's no reason in my mind why you wouldn't get this if you're starting off so the last but not least we're going to go over and in my free um patreon tier you guys can download in here let me show you guys if you head over to my collections right here click that and go to starter sample pack I'm going to give you guys three um parts to my sample pack which are completely free to use so you're just going to click on this post and I have attached here tww starter pack part one part two and part three and when you get these um I'm basically what I'm getting you guys is a sampler a synthesizer and a free sample pack and this is going to age you so much in your music production process and I really wish I would have had this in my first tutorial because I felt like there was just so much that you guys could uh could benefit from by having these things starting off and if you wait until the end of the tutorial and you guys actually finish your track I have this prize tab right here and that is going to be a ton of extra free samples and plugins which I am holding back from you guys because it'd be a little bit overwhelming to install everything at the same time and I and I kind of just want to open that up for you guys once you have your first track under your belt and I think that you guys might be more interested in that after you had done some music production rather than installing 50 things before we start so these three things will be great for starting and if you finish the tutorial interested in more I got that here so without further Ado once you install the studio vital labs and my sample pack you'll be ready to start following along with me in this tutorial living life with okay great so now that you haveo Studio installed and you got all the rest of the things that we're going to need for this tutorial you're going to head over to file new from template and you're going to click empty and it might ask you to save your project you're just going to click no and by doing this it's basically just going to wipe clean and just give us a fresh Sate to work on um the next thing that we're going to do is to I just want to make sure that you guys um had the resources to install and properly set up the sample pack if you were confused obviously there's tutorial online in case you get stuck with any of this stuff it's been done thousands of times there's so much resources to get set up with plugins and Sample packs but I'll just show you guys a very quick uh simple way of doing it so if you needed to get uh vital and Labs installed all you're going to do is go to options manage plugins and all you really have to do is you follow the installation for labs and vital what they tell you to do with the the basically you download it off the website double click it go through the whole process of it and then once you do that come in FL Studio and click find install plugins that's it that's literally it and it should it should work you should have zero issues um and then if you did that um after that you're going to have to reset FL Studio so that might be what you get stuck on so if you're not seeing it you're like I I did the installation it said that it haded it you have to restart Studio that's the only other thing you have to do um to see the plugins and then on the second reopen of f Studio everything will be there um for some reason they don't tell you that I'm not sure why so the next thing is that if you need to install the sample packs what you're going to do is uh once you download the zip from my uh patreon tier then what you're going to do is unzip it and when you unzip it you're going to get folders and with those folders that's what we're going to be adding to FL Studio so make sure you that you unzip the folder um that I gave you guys and once you did that you're going to go to options file settings and then from here what you're going to do is you're going to click the little folder icon and navigate to the unzipped folder that um I gave you guys and once you add that in um you'll see something that looks like this mine's named different but you'll have the same thing so oh yeah and I have to mention this you have to click this little refresh icon next to browser and once you do that that will pop in the sample packs once you added them like I just showed you then what you'll see is once you click here um or whatever it's it's called for you whatever the folder is called then you should see the samples in this browser and just if you don't see this browser make sure to click View and make sure that browser is enabled sorry I know that when you start app Studio it like changes the way everything is I don't know why cuz yeah it just puts everything in weird places so by um doing all the steps that we've done hopefully we're all looking at the exact same thing all right so now we are finally ready to get started with the first chapter where I'm going to show you guys how to add instruments to your tracks and how we're going to put Melodies on those virtual instruments so without further Ado let's head over to the next chapter sweet now that we got everything installed we are ready to do the first first part of music production which is simply just to add an instrument to our software so to do this we're going to navigate to the third Square from the from the left right here you're going to click this box and by clicking this box it's going to open up this now this is called the Channel wre and it's just a small container that's going to hold all the instruments throughout our song So as we add more and more things to our track um we're going to need a place to hold all these instruments and this is that place so to add an instrument to this little container all you have to do is hit the plus icon and we're going to add in both labs and vital because I want to show you what both of them do and it will be a good um explanation of the difference between a sampler and a um synthesizer so without further Ado we're going to go to vital um it might be in a different place for you but once you click it it will open up vital here we go Okay cool so this is vital and last but not least we just have to make sure that this little icon up here with the keyboard is enabled so click that and when it turns orange that means that we are ready to go so if I click uh Keys Z through M and a few other Keys it'll let me actually play this virtual instrument for the first time so let's see cool so a synthesizer is basically um a computer generated uh harmonic that can be in a in a different waveform and these different waveforms all sound different so you can click these little arrows up here and will give us different waveforms that we can test out and then you just have to click this top bar again and uh to let your keyboard play now I will say getting a midi keyboard is pretty nice but you absolutely do not need one and I have produced with my normal keyboard for a very long time before I got any actual Hardware now um what we're going to do is I'm going to show you guys how to load presets into our plugins so I actually gave you guys tons of presets for Vital for for completely free and this is going to just be um give you guys some ideas of what different sound design with uh synthesizers looks like um and I don't think that sound design is a beginner topic so I'm actually going to be doing that in other tutorials after we make our first track but the good news is you guys don't need to learn any sound design for starting off making music all you need to do is use pre-made instruments and pre-made sounds and you'll honestly be good to go and I did that for a very long time before learning sound design but let's just add in one of the S one of the samples that um I have here so if you go to Essentials open that up I have a bunch of um options we can use here and what you're going to do is just click hold and drag and then you'll drop it right on top of the top bar of vital right here and you'll see it turns white and that lets us drop it in so once we do that it'll reload the plugin again and let us play with this new sound here and this is just an example of something that I made um and there's all kinds of different things here so I have cords bass um lead and and PLU too so you have a lot to to experiment here and I can just add in another another one just to see what it is here so a bunch of different SN sounds that you guys can mess around with um now there are different kinds of plugins and I want to show you guys Labs now because Labs is completely different from how a synthesizer works and I and I think it's really important to understand the the difference between how these work as we're getting started here so the other uh type of thing here so I'm going to click X on vital and I'm going to go back to my channel rack and as you see here once we we drag that lead in instrument on the vital it it names it right here for us so lead four so we know that if I click this again it'll reopen my instrument okay so I'm going to hit the plus icon again and I'm going to go down to Labs okay so now that we opened up Labs um this is what's called a sampler and a sampler is different than a synthesizer in one important way and that's that the computer doesn't generate the tone from scratch it actually uses a pre- recorded um instrument and it lets you play that instrument at different pitches on um uh basically through the program so as you can see here if I switch um I'm going to just click this top Arrow up here and I'm going to go to piano and I'm going to click soft piano and double click that and that's going to open a soft piano and these are recorded piano sounds in this um in this plugin here so if I just click the keys you can hear that it is a piano um and this is is not a uh this is not a harmonic that's produced by the by the computer it's actually just they used a microphone recorded a piano and then put it into the plugin um obviously there's a lot more complicated ways that makes it sound a lot better but this is the gist of it um and if we click this Arrow there's all kinds of different things that you guys have here that you can choose from so I just want to give you guys a bunch of options here so if we just click here and then start hover over it you can see that there are all of different instruments that we can use so hopefully you guys see that by having a synthesizer and by having Labs um which is a sampler you have a lot of different options and different types of sounds that we can add to our songs and we're going to be using both labs and vital for uh the different types of genres of music we'll be making later on in this course but now that you have these virtual instruments I want to show you guys how we can actually start putting notes down in a in the piano roll so you're going to click X on Labs up here and you you should see here we have labs and we have vital which is uh titled the the preset that we added before so um let's just right click on sampler and just delete it so we'll just delete it right there and now we have just we should just have vital and just have Labs cool so I'm going to click on here again I'm going to click this little down arrow on labs and we're just going to navigate back to the piano because I think this will be a good starting space for us to be able to uh to understand how the piano roll works all right so you're going to click X on labs and now navigate uh to the second Square from the left right here the piano roll we're going to click that and it is going to open up this new piano um and you want to think of this as basically a piano that's rotated vertically and uh that's basically all it is and if we go up in notes and then down that's that's how the the pitch goes up and down like that and then time goes from left to right so let me show you guys how this works and if I hit space you see that it's playing the notes from left to right so another version of this would would be this so as you can see the piano um is basically just rotated and then it moves this way as as uh the song progresses so this is how we're going to make all of our Melodies and chords so to add in notes all you have to do is just left click anywhere you look and it will add in a note somewhere so um to do that you got to make sure that you're on this little pencil tool up here and it will let you draw in notes and just to have some extra control over what we're going to be doing with this uh go up to this Arrow key go to edit and make sure allow resizing from left is enabled then go to view go to scale highlighting and then make sure to click automatic all right cool so once we we click all those things what we're going to have is we're going to be able to place notes on key and we're going to be able to control our notes with great Precision so what if I just add a note here and I'm just going to dra hover over to the end of the note and just drag it all the way to the end and from here um I basically have a longer note so if I hit the space bar while I'm hovering over pattern make make sure it's not on song but on pattern if I hit the space bar it's going to play and I could place another note and if I want to get rid of that now I can hold right click and then just take it out now um just to show you guys some other things like you can put you can put multiple notes in the same in the same place so you can stack notes to make chords and I could just do that again real quick there we go so this is just some basic uh some basic controls here now if I hold control down while I do I do left click it's going to allow me to select multiple notes at the same time and then I can control all those notes by uh I can control their size like this I can move them all at the same time and I can drag resize from left which is what we enabled so you have all these controls at your fingertips that you can now use um um to move multiple notes at the same time and while all these notes are selected you can actually hold shift and left click and copy all the notes so um we have control left click to highlight notes we have shift right click to copy notes and we have right click to delete notes and while we're at it I can also show you guys that we have other tools up here that you guys can mess around with we have for instance um the slice tool and this will let us slice notes and we also have the paintbrush tool which allows us to paint in notes um and we have uh the other paint uh paintbrush tool that has a little X icon there that lets us mute notes so there's lots of options and different things that we can do here um I just want to show you guys really quickly um how to navigate the piano roll a little bit as well so we can scroll wheel on this uh darker bar right here and that will let us zoom in and out on our panel roll and if we scroll wheel in the top right corner here it allows us to shrink and enlarg in the piano roll as well so we have a better view of what we're working on and then dragging this left and right and dragging this lets us scroll up and down and scroll wheel in the middle lets us scroll up and down as well so hopefully this gave you guys a better idea of how the piano Ru works and the different functions that we're going to be doing um last but not least I mean we're just going to be making chords and Melodies right right away so um if you ever get lost remember you can hit the channel rack at any time and that'll bring up our plugins and we can start using that to to um put notes on the piano roll and just to make sure that if you guys got confused you're like hey he's playing the piano and I'm not able to get to the piano if that happens no worries you're just going to hit up here where it says piano roll and it should tell you the name of the instrument that you're putting notes on um but if you want to go to a different instrument what you can do is you can just click that other instrument and we'll take you to the other one from here um you just want to make sure one more thing I just realized um if you do not see these little gray underlying notes from the other instrument what you can do is hit this uh top Arrow I believe it's view yeah it's View and then you're going to go to ghost notes and by enabling Ghost Notes you're going to see the notes from the other instrument and this is cool because that means that I can kind of see where those notes are and think about where I want to place notes with other instruments uh based on those so this is just um a really cool way and if you want to just quickly go go back to that while you're working you can double right click and it will take us back to the other instrument and to get back to there you can just click here so without further Ado I think we are ready to move on to the next chapter where I'm going to show you guys how to actually make chords and Melodies so this chapter I showed you guys virtual instruments the difference between a synthesizer and a sampler and you should understand basically the differences between a synthesizer and a sampler you should have been able to add add in the sample pack and all the instruments that we had started out with and been able to change the preset um for both the synthesizer using my sample pack and the sampler using the the down arrow to change the different instruments um I just encourage you guys to experiment and just mess around with different uh different presets and different um sounds just to get acquainted with the software a little bit um and with with that you can follow along with me and we're going to go on to the next chapter where we're going to be making some chords and Melodies all right see you there okay now we are ready to start making some chords and Melodies so what we're going to do is we're going to go and navigate back to our piano here and then what I'm going to do is I'm just going to delete all of these notes really quick and I'm just going to kind of close this up so we have a better view of this um and from here I'm just going to add in our first note that is the first step so just add in a note and let's drag this note all the way to the end so I want to drag that from one as you can see here all the way to two so to do that you're just going to drag from right to left all the way to the end um and you can see that there is a darker bar here and that's what's going to signify um this the length of this note so once you do that we're going to click that note and it's going to save into the memory the size of this note so if I click again it's going to place a note of that size so if I were to make this note really tiny and click it again it's going to save that uh size of that note again so let's just make sure to click this and the way to make chords is super simple just Place one note after next and make sure that they all sound good that's it and if you just do one step at a time and just keep placing notes that sound good one after another before you know it you're going to have a chord progression super simple so first I just want to put let's start with the the first note let's do c C4 and you know what this piano kind of sounds a little bit quiet so let's go back to the Chan let's go to labs and where it says uh V that stands for volume we're just going to increases just a little bit so I can hear it a little bit better all right after that you can just click X and we are back here I'm going to click X on the channel rack and we're back to the Pian roll okay that's much better okay so after clicking C4 here we have that note so let's just hit play and make sure you're on pattern and hit space bar all right let's add another not let's see what would sound good Okay cool so I added C4 G3 A3 F3 and I just literally all I did was I looked at these little highlighted notes here so you have the darker rows and you have the lighter rows E Studio uses artificial intelligence to basically see what types of notes you're putting down and based off of those notes it goes okay well these are the rest of the notes that are going to sound good together um and that is called a key and you don't need to know anything about music production all you need to know is that okay if I put notes in these uh little lighter areas it's going to sound better that's literally it so as you place more notes on different uh notes it's going to automatically detect the key and tell us which notes are going to sound good together so I just picked a few notes that were um in these highlighted areas that sounded good one after the next and by doing that I have made a simple Baseline cool so from here I it's C4 G3 A3 and F3 and what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to hold control and we actually let's hold control let's select all of these notes and I'm going to just hold control again and then I'm going to hit the down arrow key and that is going to put all these notes one octave lower so now they should be a little bit deeper cool so I'm going to select all these notes one more time and I'm going to do contrl c and contrl V and now if if I uh hover over the red highlighted notes you can see I have a a whole the whole Baseline copy and pasted and I'm going to take this I'm going to put it right back over our original notes and I'm going to hold control and up arrow and that's going to take our Baseline and just move it one octave up so now when I when I just right click anywhere else it's going to unselect all my notes and if I hit play you will have your very first chord progression really cool so let's make it sound a little bit cooler so we're going to add in a few more notes to kind of just make it sound a little bit better so how about we take this these uh these lines and we actually do up another arrow key just this top layer all right so I just put this up again all right so I'm going to add notes one after the next and you guys can follow along with me and see what you come up with okay let's see here cool okay let's add in some more cool so I think that we have a pretty solid core progression I'm just going to try to move around a little bit more and see if I can find anything else interesting and then I think we will be ready to make a melody on top of this so as you saw I just kind of tweaked one note at a time and just kept listening over and over again and tried to get a feel for what the corporation sounded like um I don't like to make lots of decisions at the same time because I feel that unless you're very experienced uh you get lost pretty quickly and high your replacing notes and uh just get a little bit scared so I think that by just sticking to one note at a time and going okay did that sound good did that sound good did that sound good then you can start to add more notes um so as you saw I wasn't too afraid to change it up as I as I had other ideas like I had an initial good core progession but I wasn't scared to just change the core progression because I'm just experimenting and I'm just uh just enjoying the the process and seeing what I can come up with so I think that this is a pretty good starting point here for cor progression and we are ready to start working on the melodies we're going to be making a bunch of Melodies but I just want to take this time to kind of just deep deeply explain Melodies before we go into making the ones that we're going to be using for our song So to give you just a very quick explanation the way that Melodies work is we're going to be taking repeated patterns and with a little bit of change so I am going to explain this while I work on the ones that we're going to be using for our song but I just want to give a little bit after watching the video over I was like okay I kind of get got to go a little bit more in The Melodies so just kind of editing Tristan is putting this back in there but I just want to give you guys a better idea so um I'm I'm going to put in a note and I'm going to show you guys how to do all this but um what I'm going to do is I'm going to make a rhythm so let's make we're going to make is called a a b a c Melody okay so I have made a pattern here and I want to explain how this works this is called a a b a c pattern so we have what's called a and I'm just going to kind of Select this area to show you so we have a and then we have B then we repeat with a and then we have C so what this means is we basically a is going to be this pattern so we have the the two notes and then the one note and we can see that a is repeated right here we have the two notes and then the one note so I've kind of divided this uh one so you see it goes one to five if you just kind of like highlight this whole section you can see you have like four Min sections within that so you have bar one bar two to three bar 3 to four and bar four to 5 and in each of these bars um I'm putting a pattern so as you can see here in bar 1 to two I have I have pattern a and then from bar two to 3 I have pattern B and then bar 3 to four I have pattern a again and bar four to 5 I have pattern C Okay cool so basically these patterns are going to be just the notes I used and so as you can see I'm repeating these two notes in the one note the two notes in the one note and then in Pattern 2 to three I have two notes and then pattern four to five I have three notes and I kind of change it up so now what I'm going to do is I'm going to change the pitch of these notes so that you guys can see how um Melody is basically just variations in Pitch with um the same Rhythm so what I'm going to do is for uh bar the bar one I'm going to do this okay so this is actually the exact same Rhythm I just changed the pitch of the notes so let's listen so this is a and then this is a again and then this is B I'm trying to make this as simple as possible and then this is 4 to5 this is C okay because it's a different Rhythm than b now if I were to make this B again I would just take out this note and now this is the same Rhythm as as this B so it's the same so now if we listen it's the same Rhythm uh twice so it's a b a b and this becomes C once I add in this note because it's a different Rhythm so by doing this you can see that I keep the Rhythm the same but I have a pattern for my rhythm and then I change the notes in that in that um basically in each pattern to add variation with order because this is how we're going to be able to not confuse the listener but create an interesting Melody so what I like to do personally for my Melodies and all melodies you can just try out a bunch of different stuff I like to keep a exactly the same pitch and exactly the same Rhythm and then for b and c I like to switch it up so that's kind of what I like to do you could technically have a a a BB Rhythm so if I just take these notes and I'm going to move a here and I'm going to move B over here and then I'm going to do this take out that note and now we have a a BB as you can see the Rhythm it goes these three notes these three notes and then I have these two notes and then these two notes so uh let's listen to this so as you can see I just created a completely new Melody because I just changed the ordering of the way that that the Rhythm works so if we listen to the rhythm again this is what we got so as you can see this is how Rhythm and Pitch work together to make interesting Melodies so I'm going to give you guys a few templates just uh that you can remember you have a a you have AB a you have a a BB um you could do just a a b where it's just like B extends so like it's something like this like and this whole section just becomes kind of like a quiet spot in the song um there's so many different possibilities and you guys can even make your own I'm just giving you guys kind of the basic ones that are in a lot of music today which is a a is probably the most common a a BB is super common um uh ABAB is really common um but they're all just different versions of uh any different Rhythm and any any different pattern that you're using that that pattern for is going to create a wild amount of different Melodies so just by using the ab a and a a BB patterns you can make any rhythm for a and for B and for B and for C and you have millions of Melodies possib billions probably billions of possibilities for Melodies just in those categories and that's that's not even all of them so it yeah it's crazy there's there's a lot there and hopefully this kind of distilled down what we're talking about so remember I have from 1 to two is one bar from two to three is another bar 3 to four is another bar and four to 5 is another bar and this is just for the 44 time signature I'm not even talking about other time signatures and I'm not going to get into it because it's very complicated and I don't even really understand it but the point is is that there are different Keys there's different time signatures there's the possibilities are endless and by giving you just the very Basics just the a b a c and the a a BB you can make millions of different Melodies and songs and the work and they'll sound great so hopefully this made a little bit more sense on how Melodies work and we're going to jump back and editing trist is going to go back to the other where we worked on our Baseline ches and Melody cuz I just felt like I didn't uh make the melody part as clear as I could have but I made some nice Melodies that I want to keep using for the tutorial so without further Ado let's hop back into the tutorial and you guys will see the rest of the process of how I make uh made what we got all right I'll see you guys there so what I'm going to do is I'm going to click the plus icon right here and this is going to create a completely new pattern and let's just call this pattern um synth pattern and then I'm going to click enter and it's going to make a new one called synth pattern and from here I'm going to navigate on a different instrument and we're going to go to the lead and why don't we just open back up our Channel Rack open up vital and go back to my sample back go back to the synth preset and let's add in Nostalgia and we're going to hover over vital and replace it boom okay so now if I click X on vital X on Jan and make sure I'm on Nostalgia it'll put it all in the P roll all right cool so I'm going to drag it out to the one bar again click it and we're going to go scroll down to C3 and let's make a new chord progression I'm going take these notes and put them up in octave and I'm actually going to change this Rhythm a bit so I want to make a little bit more interesting chord progression here so let's do this cool I think that this is a lot more interesting so I'm going to take this and I'm going to add another note let's take this and put it up an octave higher and just see what it sounds like I think that this could actually be the basis of our Melody so why don't I take these notes and I just change the length of them and we're going to make uh we're going to just try to make a rhythm and then I'm going to change that Rhythm into our Melody going to just shorten this note and make it kind of end right here just experimenting if I get quiet it's cuz I'm kind of getting in the zone and making music and if you if that happens to you and you want to pause the video and just keep working I mean that's perfectly fine and I think it's really it's really good practice this sounds kind of cool what it like this so that's kind of see after working for a while let's kind of see what Rhythm We've Ended up with so if I take all these and put them on the same note let's see what I ended up with so this melody is a little bit complicated and I love this cuz it'll be really fun to explain so what I did was is and this all happens through intuition and years of just practicing and making Melodies so what I did was is I basically placed um some notes that I heard in my head and I have Melodies in my head that I that I'm able to put onto the canvas but this is like something I want to teach you guys to be able to do because it's so much fun um but it's I remember when I was starting out one note at a time is the best way to go and but I'm going to kind of break down this Rhythm so you guys get it so so what we have here is what's called a call and response Melody so let's listen to what the call and response is so I kind of almost like think this is like sentences so like this first thing is like the first part of a sentence and then there's like a little then there's the next part and then there's kind of the The Finisher like the what what closes it out and then it repeats and goes back to the first part and so I kind of have this in like three little parts and they all complement each other so it's like so what happens is is basically all these parts are talking to each other so um I have like some parts are are repeated and some parts aren't actually I have really no idea what I'm doing it's kind of funny so there are basically there there's simple call and response patterns and then there are more complicated call and response patterns and I think let's just show you one more very simple call and response pattern and then then after this we can start working on um our track and if you guys want you guys can just copy the notes that I have here and uh use that to move forward so I'm going to just quickly uh hold control control alt I'm going to hold control altz and by doing control altz I was able to undo all of the changes I made so I got back to what I had before cool so we have that and then if I go up to this little down arrow I can navigate to the other pattern that we had before cool so as you can see we have this pattern that we made this chord progression with the piano and if I navigate to the other pattern we have the same pattern that I made so hopefully if you guys can break this down what I'd like to uh to see from you guys is if nothing else copy what I have right now and it'll help you be able to make your first track and then what you can do and this will be really helpful copy what I have tweak some notes make it your own change it a little bit um this will be great if you make a mistake don't worry just go back to what I had before try again and just do this over and over until you you make something that's that's your own thing um and I think that this will be really good practice just start this is what I did IID actually download um other people's music i' would get it um and then what I'd do is I'd put it into my track and I'd try to remake exactly what they made and then I would change it a little bit and then I'd have my own track um and this is a great way of learning it um it's basically called using reference tracks so what you guys are doing and I don't have to explain everything that I'm doing because uh by teaching you and giving you these lessons I'm actually I I know the reasons it works but if you follow along you'll will get the benefits of it so what I'm basically doing is I'm making one giant reference track that you guys are going through with and tweaking and making your own that way you guys have your own song um what I don't want you guys to do is go through this whole tutorial copying exactly what I do and then having the exact track that I finish with cuz that would be really boring but I want you guys to take Liberty and trying to change some things and make it your own Melody your own chord progression because I think it'd be really cool um and if you get stuck you can always go back there's no punishment so there's only there's only reward by trying so hopefully this doesn't discourage you um I've been making music for like 10 years so you got of understand like all this stuff comes second hand like like this to me because I've just been doing it for so long um it is the point where I can hear a melody and go oh I'm going to voice memo that and then bring it back to FL Studio and be able to put it at in and that will come with time so don't beat yourself down for making um poor melodies or getting like oh it sounds terrible don't worry just take what I have make minor changes to it and you'll be fine you'll be good just stay Within These little highlighted notes you'll be fine um so without further Ado we're going to move on to the next chapter um I hope words encouragement you don't want to quit cuz I know that like I did a lot of this pretty fast and I wasn't talking cuz I was kind of in the zone while making which is when you do your best work it's when you're in the zone so hopefully you guys understand um it's always the fun thing with doing creative Fields is like you get in the zone while you're working you're like oh I wasn't talking at all cuz my that's my left brain but anyways so we have a couple patterns here we have aou couple start I can already picture the the start these next tracks so it's going to be really fun finishing up uh the three different songs that we're going to be making but without further Ado uh let's head over to the next chapter you guys learned how to do baselines chord progressions and Melodies um and so hopefully this made a little bit of sense and uh we'll be able to move on to to the next part here all right see you guys there now I'm going to navigate back to my synth pattern that we had before and what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to create a um I'm going to uh get a few different presets so that we can put a different instrument for our Baseline our chord progression and our Melody and we're going to listen to how this sounds I think it's going to be really cool so what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to go back to my channel rack and from here all I'm going to do is I'm going to take let's just do I don't even know let's do 808 and let's drag that into my channel rack and that's going to open up a new thing of vital that's a completely new sound okay cool so now we have What's um just an 808 and what I'm going to do is I'm going to take this Decay knob and I'm just going to move it up like this and let's listen to what this sounds like now and let's make it a little bit quieter by dragging this little arrow down cool okay so now what I'm going to do is I'm going to exit out both of those I'm going to copy the bottom part which is called our Baseline control C and now I am going to go over to my 808 instrument here I'm going to do contr V and I'm going to put that there so as you can hear that is way too low and I can barely hear the bass so I'm actually going to do control up arrow move it up an arrow it's just a move it up in octave I mean still too low I'm going to move it up again let's listen to it now I was just experimenting with something what's called an inversion and that's and I instantly realized I'm like n that's an advanced production technique not going to get into it so I'm just going to leave it how we have it here and I'm going to change out the the preset cuz I think it's all right but I might want something different so why don't we go to Tech House Sub and I'm going to put that over the where it says just this little top bar and it will reload our Baseline so listen to this it's a way too loud so we're going to turn that down it's actually distorting that's really good I love that so now what I'm going to do is I'm going to copy the melody on top here contrl C and then I'm going to delete it but I saved it cuzz I did contrl C and now if I go to the Chan rack I'm going to add in let's do Bells how about that and we just drag that in there so now we have a baseline chords and a Melody so we're going to use the bells as our Melody so let's click X on vital X on the Chan rack go to our instruments go over to bells and then hit contrl V maybe we want this down octave let's see hear what that sounds like so control down arrow okay sweet so now we have taken our uh Baseline Melody and chords and we have those on all separate um playing different parts of the of our Melody so before we had everything the Bas design the chords and the melody all in one thing now by taking that the bottom layer of the chord progression that's called the Baseline and by taking our top Melody on top of the chords we split it into three different instruments and now it's playing all things differently so we can go back to our chords here that was chords Nostalgia this is what our cogr looked like and you can hear that in the background and I think that it really kind of meshes nicely like it sounds it sounds good to me um maybe instead of belt we can use dire dire docks let's just see what this sounds like and if it doesn't sound as good we'll just go back way too loud my bad Bells is way cooler let's do Bells I think Bells sound be cool that's really chill I love this this is really cool I like it um all right that's it so we have Baseline chords Melody and we just put that on three different instruments in our Channel rack as you can see and if it helps you you can actually rename this rename these so I can just right click here and click rename and I and color an icon you can do all kinds of stuff like if you want to color code it you have a color wheel I can make my bells teal if that's what I think that they I was going to say smell like but that makes no sense um then I can just make him teal and I can just call this My Melody that helps you if this helps you you can feel free to do this for all of the different things um I could call this base and then we could just change it to like that teal color and then I hit check mark and then I could do this for my quarts and I could rename this quarts if you don't like these long names they confuse you and you want to be a little bit more organized feel free to do this so now we have our base chords and Melody and we can and just a quick tip if you want to see you can right click here and there's multiple ways to get back to the same thing so I can actually hit uh piano roll and I can right click on the chords it take me there go back to my channel rack right click on the base takes me there right click on the melody take me to the piano roll go there and there's so many ways of doing the same thing it's really cool I just want to show you guys a few ways and then hopefully that can help you so now what we're going to do is we're going to take what we made in on the piano roll and we're going to start putting it into a track and this is like the most mind-blowing part of music production because it just opens up your mind you're like oh my gosh there's so much that you can do just knowing these few very simple things that I've gone through go over to the first Square here click that and this is called our playlist and the playlist is just like the piano roll but instead of putting notes we're actually putting p patterns so it's like a meta version of the piano roll so the so let me explain this so the piano roll is the piano where we putting in notes okay and those notes play the instrument the playlist allows us to put in patterns full of notes so look at this so I'm going to take the synth pattern I'm going to put it in there now you can it has all the same tools so I have the remember I have the cutting tool um but I'm going to not do that I'm going to control Z but you have the paint tool all the same tools you can even zoom in just like the piano roll they're all it's exactly the same as a p roll literally exactly the same the only difference is instead of putting in um notes you're putting in patterns so let's listen to this pattern so I'm going to take this I'm going to drag it all the way to the beginning um and these different tracks are going to allow us to put different patterns on these tracks but let's just click song and it's in a so think about this for a second pattern is playing whatever pattern we have selected so if I select pattern one and hit play it's going to play our piano but if I hit the synth pattern right here and and it's under pattern I hit play it's going to play the pattern that we just had with the other thing that we were working on so now if I hit song it's going to play what's ever in the playlist so whatever pattern we put in the playlist it's going to play that pattern so I'm going to show you make sure that to see the patterns you click on this piano icon there's samples here and automations here and that will be later in the course but right now we're just going to stick to the patterns so if I hit play while it's hovered on song you can see now we have finally just started working on our very first track this is so exciting so now what I'm going to do is I'm going to hover over synth pattern the one here I'm going to go up to here where it says synth pattern I'm going to right click and I am going to do split by Channel and what this is going to do is it's going to give us our chords our base and our Melody all in different patterns so as you can see here if I just drag these around you're going to see it separated for us named and colored based on what we did before and it's going to put it in our track just like so so now if I hit play if I just drag the playlist uh head all the way back to the beginning it took our pattern and it unpackaged it from the instruments that we chose and just put all the instruments in separate patterns which is so cool and really fast workflow so now I can take away the melody and maybe I want to put the melody here and maybe I want to move this forward a little bit so I hold control and left click and it moves all of my patterns just like I was doing with my notes before so now I have this and then there's all kinds of different stuff like we could do we could do take this pattern again we could shorten it down and just kind of repeat that thing so we could go and then maybe I hear that here there's all kinds of possibilities I'm not going to do that cuz it's getting a little bit I think it's getting a little bit too confusing I want to keep it simp so just by using these patterns right here you could make literally you can make a full track but we are going to add so much more to this so without further Ado I showed you guys how the piano roll worked I showed you guys how to make Baseline chords Melodies I showed you guys how to add multiple instruments to your Chann rack and how to use each of those instruments for different parts of your um Corporation Baseline and Melody then I showed you how to take that pattern and how to split it into multiple different separate patterns that have each instrument and then I showed you guys how the playlist and the panel roll are basically like exactly the same thing just for for instead of notes it's patterns and how we can use all the same tools we learned with the Pian roll for our playlist which is going to be uh manipulating all the patterns that we're going to be working on and I finally I showed you how we can move patterns around to just put things in different ways so without further Ado let's go on to the next chapter see you guys there next up we are going to work on adding the drums to our track and I think that this is actually a great time for me to just show you guys some stuff right over here to the left so what we got here is we have um the synth examples I was showing you before that I can drag and drop into the channel Rack or on top of an existing plugin and here there's other things too as well and these are called samples so I want to show you guys the drum Essentials uh volume one you click here I'm going to have a bunch of drums that you guys can use and we're going to actually be using them in our track here so just to show you guys an example if I click in these folders you're going to see all of these different kicks and um yeah so I can just click on a few and you can hear the differences and what they sound like so there's all kinds of different examples there of different kicks um and these are all mik samples and they're completely copyright free so you can you can use them in any of uh the stuff that you're working on and I do not care if you're using a full song or whatever completely free to use same with everything else so I wanted to show you guys quickly the samples and this chapter we are going to be putting um making the drums for a track but I just quickly want to show you guys a couple other things that are in here just so you guys are aware so also have effects so we have effect racks we have uh Folly uh also different effects here just all kinds of different weird things that you can use in your tracks to uh make it just more interesting we also have uh midi a different midi so what midi is essentially allows me to take um notes and then put it into a file that you can drag and drop into the piano roll um I actually I'll just show you real quick what midi is cuz I think this is important and it's not really on the list of things I have to show you guys but I think it'll be helpful so I'm in a new pattern here I'm just going to drag a random one on there and what happens when I add it is that this will now this just added so I uh all these are like pre-made um Melodies and stuff that I made that you guys can use so let's just listen to what this sounds like you can tell this is meant to be played at a slower BPM at like maybe like 100 or something so you just kind of you kind of have to listen to it through it sounds super weird when you speed up the BPM um this also this knob I'm changing here changes the speed of the track and this is called the BPM so it was at 140 before so I'm going to put it back there but um I just turned it down just for this midi um but that was just one example of of different MIDI files that I've included here and I just wanted to show you guys you have a kind of a good idea see if there's some other ones I can show real quick it's just some different Melodies here let's see if there's another good one Weir there was some weird stuff happen at the end there but um yeah so this just some examples of some of the midi that I've included um there's also the sample Essentials so this is Ambience Loops one shots all base one shots all kinds of different stuff here all kinds of different things that you guys can use in your tracks but enough of that we are going to go back to our track that we're working on and we're going to add drums so I'm just going to delete this pattern that was just an example okay so to add drums to our track what we are going to do is I want to add a kick first so let's listen to the kick and figure out what would sound good in this in this track here I feel like almost that one could be cool it's a hip-hop kick but I think it could be cool for like a this this type of track okay let's see so I just dragged literally just took that kick dragged and dropped it into my track now let's see what happens when I hit play so let's go back to song and hit play Space Bar okay so just out of nowhere it just happened so what we want to do is we want to make a type of pattern and this is just the same way that You' make Melodies is you do the same thing with drums so I have this kick here and maybe I want to highlight a part of the track that I want to listen to over and over again uh so I'll highlight this part that has all the elements in it right there I'm going to right click off to the side to unselect it and now let's listen to what this sounds like let's say I want to kick every single time the next bar happens so let's do that let's and maybe the Kick's a little bit too aggressive so let's change it I like this kick okay so now that I've added my kick I'm just going to add that to every single um the the first start of each bar so as you can see 99 to 10 add is one kick 10 to 11 one kick at the start and it's easier to see once you just see the darker lines uh the ones that are a little bit more bold that's just where I'm placing that so next I'm going to add a let's do do I want to do a clap or snare let's do a clap let's see what this sounds like Let's do let's do this one incredibly boring but we're getting somewhere so I'm going to keep listening and just look at the snares as well and see if there's anything here too what about that so I'm going to go back to the kick here so as you notice now that we drag samples in here it actually has a a new row where we can choose the samples to put in instead of our patterns so before you remember that we had the patterns and we could click on one of these to put it in as you can see there but now we can do the same thing by hovering over here and going to the samples this is really cool and neat so what I'm going to do is I'm going to take the kick out again and I'm going to just make this a little bit more interesting so you see I put the snare in the halfway point between the kicks and um that's where I want to keep my snare for right now now but I think I want to change the kick pattern to be a little bit more interesting cuz right now it's super boring so let's let's kind of put some kicks in here and see what we can come up with okay so now that we're working with samples I need to show you guys a couple important things cuz they work very similar to notes work for instance if I hover to the right I can shorten and lengthen the sound but the problem is that you see as soon as I lengthen the sound all the sounds get lengthened and this is kind of weird as you see this completely changed the way that the sound is so I'm going to do control altz I'm going to undo what I just messed up there so I'm back to where I was at at before now if we want to just trim the actual duration and not stretch the track we need to click this button up here this little right here if it's off this will let us change the duration of the track without stretching it and this is really important cuz sometimes we do want to stretch the track but other times we actually just want to cut the duration and so right here as we can see the kicks layering on top of each other like this it got rid of my kick so what I have to do is I have to go to this kick and I have to select it and then I have to hover over where it's highlighted over it and I need to drag this to the left that way it doesn't cover the other one so now we can hear this but before it was was like this see so I I need to get rid of that kick where it's overlapping because it's it's taking away from the from the song so I'm going to delete the rest of the kicks on this half and I'm going to copy and paste the first pattern I made over this side just like so so let's listen to what we have I'm actually going to take away this last kick just to kind of make a complete Loop here and just cuz I think it would sound better it's pretty cool okay so now what I'm the next thing I'm going to do is I'm going to add in some high hats so let's listen to what we got okay I think this high hat would be good let's do this one and I'm actually going to take the paint brush tool with my uh this high hat selected and I'm going to paint right across so now we have this and now this is a great point for me to show you guys another way that we can manipulate samples because the high hats are much too loud in my opinion and they kind of overpower the kick in the snare so what I want to do is I actually just want to highlight all these all these um samples because I want to lower the volume and there's a really quick way we can actually do that and that's by hovering in the middle right there right on that dot this is a completely new FL Studio feature that wasn't in my old tutorial and so I wasn't able to cover it but now they've added a Lot More Sample manipulation tools that we have at our disposal and I want to show you guys how to use those so here we can actually lower this and it will actually change the volume so as you can see I'm just going to lower it to likeus 3db let's listen to that let's do minus5 - 7 there we go very cool I'm liking it so now I might want to add an open hat okay this is cool but again the open hats too too loud and as you can see I put the small high hats all the way across those are closed high hats I took the high hat and it kind of goes on either side of the snare it's kind of the way I like to hear it so if we took away the kicks and just oh by the way I can also mute a row here simply by clicking this this little um Green Dot and that will mute that track so now I can listen to it without that so let's say I'm just working on the drums and I don't want to hear the rest of this I can do this so this is much too loud so I'm going to actually lower the volume cool okay so what I'm going to do now is I'm going to see if I can add maybe like a ride or simple this is perfect so I'm going to take this ride I'm going to put it on every kick on every single bar like so just to kind of emphasize a little bit more and you know what I actually don't like the ride for this song so I'm going to take it out I'm just going to delete it so this is a good point I can show you guys you just delete that sample and then it's gone um yeah so I don't think the I don't think the ride will really work and I also made you guys some pre-made drum Loops as well so you guys can listen to that so a lot of these are for like house music and electronic music but I think that it electronic music is one of the best ways to get started music production so I I'd like to show this first and then you guys can always Branch out in other other directions too which is why we're doing hip-hop and orchestral music too as well um but we're starting with the EDM if you guys haven't already noticed um or electron iic I suppose so here we have a kick we have a snare we've added the closed high hats and the Open high hats um now I say that we spice up the uh this high hat loop I think it's a little bit boring so right now it's it's just kind of like all kind of same old same old so let's just add in some more high hats so what I'm going to do I'm actually going to hover On Track eight or whatever track it is that has nothing in it and is the last one that we haven't used I'm going to hold shift and I'm actually going to scroll wheel up and as you can see it basically lets me move this wherever and I'm just doing this just because I like to organize stuff differently so I'm actually going to go in here and I'm going to click on this I hat and I'm going to put more of them so I'm going to use this empty row to kind of like fill up a second a second thing so let's listen to this that's kind of cool so we can do something like maybe like this just that barely a little bit of change makes the drum sample infinitely more interesting um so I think that that was a good change okay so let's see what else can we do here we have percussive elements that I can put in like percussions a lot of these samples actually recorded using my field microphone and I would like just punch random stuff in my house so that's why some of my kicks are like kick of me punching my couch it's literally me punching my couch and then I reprocessed it into a kick so that's how I made a lot of these sounds just whacking on stuff in my house um so they're not like obviously some of the highest quality but they are interesting so I hope that that aids you guys in your music production cuz to be honest with you it's really easy to find just a normal kick sample it's kind of hard to find something interesting so that's what I was kind of the take I was going with my sample pack is what can I give people that' be interesting that they're not going to get everywhere else so anyways all right why don't we add this to our track let's see what we can where we can put this so I'm just dragging in samples I'm just seeing where I can put it you don't have to do exactly what I'm doing you can pick other samples too just see where it sounds cool um and and like I said again I'm always trying to make like a pattern I'm I'm looking and trying to make stuff into little little patterns I can repeat over and over again so like I did that with the kicks I did that with the snare I did that with the high hats I'm just repeating patterns to try to make it interesting so let's listen and see where we can put this so maybe we want the sample here um and I turned on the volume like you guys saw before but what if I actually wanted to shorten the the waveform but I didn't want to do it like this cuz then it' be choppy cuz that sounds weird I mean maybe it sounds cool but what if I wanted to do that more smoothly well there's a way I can do that I can actually drag from the top right corner I can bring this curve down and it will let me control hold on I I want to get that decel volume so if I zoom in here I can actually there's a little what's it called like a little curvy line that I can control by clicking the middle and I can do uh take that down so I can like Smooth it out like quickly but like um not chop it off if you know what I'm talking about so there's there's all kind of things there so I can actually make this shorter and it'll chop off more of it so as you can see I was able to control and you can do the same thing from the other side too so I can actually do that and I can come from this side I can kind of make it I could make it like whoosh up so as you can hear that has more like more of a to it and then this has more of a like more of a wooin to it and you can actually see that reflected in the waveform so it's very intuitive to me and understanding what it's doing so that's that's cool um I think um just showing you guys procussion is fine I'm actually I actually kind of like it simpler so I'm actually going to take out the percussion but I think that was a good opportunity for me to show you guys how this works um I think the next thing I want to show you guys is just adding in some effects so let's go to my effects Essentials and go to here okay so this is kind of a cool a cool sound effect so this is actually what I was making for a I basically sometimes I'll take a prompt and I'll try to like sound design to it so I believe this one was a scuba diver that was like slowly drowning and could hear his heartbeat it's kind of moreb bid but this was like what I came up with so this is to show you guys like what's possible like what you can make in FL Studio you imagine like being underwater it's kind of freaky but maybe I think we can use this in our drum Loop so he like comes up from the water he get he gets out and his heartbeat starts like regulating anyways that was really fun to make uh I could show you guys how I did that um later but um let's just add in I I keep getting distracted I'm having too much fun um why don't I add in just some I'm going to take the effects here and I'm actually just going to drag it from the left and match it up perfectly with the start of the track right here I'm trying to zoom in so yeah I'm going to match to the end of the track there I'm going to do the same thing on this side as well and now I'm actually going to repeat this this little sample this little water sample throughout my entire drum Loop and it will act kind of as like this kind of background noise so we'll do that so without here's what it sounds like kind of boring but if I add it back that's pretty interesting so I was able to add in I actually think I wonder if I should slow down this a little bit to like 126 maybe let's see what this sounds like actually I like it faster so we're going to keep at 140 that's pretty good all right cool so let's see what else I can add here I'm just trying to try to fill it up as much I can because I want to show you guys about drums and I think it'd be helpful so let's see let's see can I add in any other samples okay let's see if this sample fits in it probably won't but I'm just curious so I'm actually going to put it in there and let's see what it sounds like so as you can hear it does not fit in the key at all it sounds terrible so hold on let me show you guys something really interesting here so I'm going to right click on this Green Dot right here and this is going to solo out my chords and now I'm going to enable this one that we just added which is the ambience confusion and you can hear it just does not fit at all but I'm going to double clip the sample and double clicking it opens up this more controls that we can control it with which is really fun so I'm actually going to go to mode I'm going to turn to stretch and this will let me change the pitch of the sample so let's just change the pitch up and down that might fit in the in it let's just try out some different pitches no no no it's off so I'm actually going to turn it down in octave so I'm going to go to this gear icon right here I'm going to right click on C6 now this is going to make it go down in octave so automatically it's always going to put the this is basically this is kind of difficult to explain but this is the root note C5 it is playing the sample on C5 um and so if I change the root note it's actually going to pitch down the sample so if I make it all you really need to know I I'm it's kind of hard to explain but really all you need to know is that if I right click the C6 it's going to make it lower if I right click the C4 it'll make it higher so let's listen that's higher that's lower that's the normal so we'll just keep it normal I actually don't want to use this cuz I think it might be a little bit too advanced so we'll just keep it I just had to pitch the sample one down to fit into this and I think I'm actually going to Let's mess around with some other stuff I can also reverse the sample I'm not I'm going to keep it the way it was and there's in and out so I can actually control um if I do out it will actually kind of pinch off the audio um it looks like it's glitching there though I'm not sure why yeah there's some weird glitching happening with this one it's kind of strange um but yeah so basically there's the reverse there's the normalize which uh makes it Lou uh brings the peak up to 0 DB um and then there's um some other more advanced things here but uh the big thing is that if you hear Clicks in your samples uh just change this to General or generic bleeding or smooth bleeding and it will get rid of the Clicks in the audio that you hear as you're playing samples um so hopefully that that's helpful for you guys um there's a lot more I could go into here but I I do think that it is quite Advanced and it's not super necessary to making music itself I just wanted to show you guys how you can quickly change the pitch of something so let's just listen to this again I'm going to make it such a background element you can barely even hear it and when I add back everything it's almost like a dissonant core but it kind of it adds to the atmosphere of the track it's like nearly out of the song it's so quiet I could literally remove it I sometimes you just add those little little tiny bits that you can barely here and it just changes the way that uh you listen to the song and it can be interesting sometimes so I just wanted to show you guys um we went over the drums snares high hats um different percussions that we ended up not putting in um background ambients and the ways that that can just make this it sound more interesting so now we've done all that um I think that we're pretty much ready to go to the next chapter so I hope that this was helpful for you guys and I will see you at the next chapter okay next up we are ready to start working on structure super super fun so we have this part right here and then it goes kind of more simple and then it kind of works it way up so what I want to do is I want to make a intro verse course and I'm actually going to do it in reverse so we're going to work on the course of the song first and then we'll work on the rest of it so I'm actually going to copy and paste from nine I'm going to hold right click all the way to 13 and then I'm going to hold contrl B and it's going to duplicate it over um to the next uh place which is epic so now we have this it's going to just copy and paste everything over sweet now I'm going to work on making Z drop so let's do that and this is for EDM song so we're going to be working on making a drop so I'm actually going to delete a lot of stuff at the end here and the only thing I want is this snare so I'm going to take all the rest of everything out literally everything so like just like this and then it's going to go into the drop and the drop is going to go right here so this is where stuff gets interesting I need to add in let's do a drum Loop and we're going to make it a little bit more kind of like a lot more so hip-hop kick let's do it so we're going to make a new drum Loop so it's going to go like and then snare we'll just do this um and then what we'll do after this is we will do house right after trap so I'll do like a trap drop and then it we'll drop into like base house or something so we'll do something crazy it'll be fun so we'll go kick and let's just make the drum Loop that we did from before I'm going to kind of go I'm we're going to do less talking and more doing so you guys can kind of watch and and see my process of how I work um and you'll kind of just follow along with me if you'd like and I'm going to be placing a Dr here and then we will work on uh the rest of the drop once I get that sorted out so let's do that Okay cool so we got that there I'm going to take this Baseline and I'm going to put it here and I'm actually going to go to the top left corner this of this pattern actually actually I'm not going to do that that's not what I'm going to do what I'm going to do is I'm going to go double click into this pattern which uh by the way takes us to our piano roll which is super cool I'm going to copy all this contrl C can and then copy all these notes I'm going to make a new pattern I'm going to put that pattern right here pattern number five and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to add in a whole new Baseline so why don't we go to tww samples or nope not there that's my other sample pack uh we'll go to sample pack here and I'm going to go to my samples and let's add in I don't know like I could do like 808 maybe I don't know what would sound good maybe not 808 maybe we change it out with who knows a boss fight that's kind of cool so we could do something like that so let's go into pattern five right click on uh base boss fight and go to piano and we're going to paste this in right here okay I don't actually we're going to change this until I find something cool so let's just keep changing the base so we could do kind of like a let's change up the the Rhythm here cool so we got we got a different type of uh different type of Bas here um I actually almost want to like I want the lowest note to be something different I feel like it goes a little bit too low so I feel like if the if the lowest note was like a I don't know we we'll keep it how it is so I have uh this this Baseline for right now and that kind of fits because um I I think I think this will fit nicely with the melody so I'm going to click on the melody and I'm going to copy all of this so contrl C and it's just copy that Melody um you don't actually have to select all the notes so I can actually just contrl C or you can select all of them it's up to you and after that we do control+ c I'm going to add in another synth here let's do lead and then let's just do like I don't know something and we we'll always change it later if it doesn't sound good so I'm going to add in a new a new pattern and I'm going to put that here and I'm going to go to the piano roll again and I'm going to paste it in here so we got this okay so we're about to this is about to get really cool so we're going to go back to the lead and we're going to turn down the volume cuz it's way too loud n n kind of interesting um let's just change the lead sound a couple times and see what we come up with kind of interesting um why don't we do this I'm actually going to go back to the old Melody we have CU why not um and as I undo stuff here I'm going to go back to my uh sound as well bring it back and I'm going to put this Whistle Back In we'll just test out some other some other stuff here just to come up with some ideas could be could be interesting I don't know I don't know how I feel about it so I might like why don't we change this idea so I'm going to take this I'm going to start from scratch I'm going to copy that again and this is just all part of the process you know like we're working on every part of the song and I want to like make it the best I can so I'm actually going to take that out and put this in so let's just actually kind of shorten all these notes to be like this I actually can go like this and kind of just shorten them all at the same time kind of and then I'll just shorten these and then shorten this n a what if I just like selected random of these notes and made them up an octave and down an octave I don't know this is all like fun music production stuff like experimenting and seeing what would sound cool like I have no idea like I'm just messing around so like if I did something like this kind of cool like what if I like changed back to a different lead now maybe something else that's kind of cool and then what if this half was actually completely different lead so I can contrl c that and delete it and then we add a Part B to this melody so the instrument is actually matching the melody so we have in part A and A Part B of the melody what if I actually did the same thing with this could be interesting so I'm going to add another another one here another thing of idol I think it just broke what my vital like completely broke I'm going to delete that I'm G to add vital and I'm going to drag that back on there it's weird it's like not loading vital that's super weird well let's see if it works I'm actually just curious I'm going to change my instrument uh contrl V and I'm going to drag that back to that's actually super interesting this is a cool track so I could go here and then what if I like made the base go like kind of up and down like interesting like what if I did something like I don't know like this that's kind of the start of like something cool so like I could add in in chords now so I could go like copy up my chord progression contrl C and then we can make a new pattern again and then let's go here and just copy it in so I'm actually going to add new chords as well so let us add in some cords let's do that and then what we will do is it's weird that it's not loading a lot of the stuff I'm not sure why that is but I'm going to right click on P roll for dire D do just add in these wordss and then if the if these chords actually kind of went with the Baseline that could be super cool so if it was like so maybe like it's kind of confusing but it's kind of cool I I want to see where this goes what put like like something like this maybe no not like that what is it what am I thinking I'm thinking something like I'm going to delete these chords I want to do like that's pretty cool okay let's put this up in octave H what if it was like well you know what these these chords actually need to be changed because actually yeah that would make sense because these need to follow the Baseline H interesting so what if we did this I definitely need to turn the volume down on the chord so we're going to click back in here and just change the volume a little bit so it goes down I feel like this this has a cool opportunity so what I want to do actually is I want to like keep it more together because I feel like the Rhythm if you notied so far the rhythm of the bass the chords and the lead are all kind of like jumbled so like they kind of work together but not so like listen so then I feel like if the chords were here and the Baseline was here and I took the the drums and extended them a little bit then it would be something like I'm trying to I'm trying to see how this would work because then the melody wouldn't be conflicting with the with the Baseline anymore let's see what the chords that sound like that's kind of interesting so what if I like that could that could almost keep going like that here and then I could add back in the melody maybe let's see if that works I'm just complete experimentation right now just seeing where where it goes I'm actually really curious to hear what you guys come up with cuz like I'm having fun just messing around and just making something new I don't think I've ever made anything like this before it's a completely like different style than I usually make so just kind of see here I'm going to add in what if I kind of like take all this stuff and I'm going to put it into the the final thing so let's take all this stuff I'm going to select all of the different samples down here but not I don't want to select any I just want to select the full samples and I'm going to hold shift and just copy it over just like so and I'm going to hold shift and copied over a couple more times just so I have it for each um each part here so let's look at here remember I know why that's happening but it's just kind of funny to me um okay so the transition between this melody I think that's better and then we'll make the second half of this be the other lead too how about that so then we go to the other lead that we had and we just put it for the pluck uh that doesn't actually really work cuz I yeah it has to be this other lead cuz the other lead like holds more and extends yeah that makes more sense Okay cool so kind of like made two different versions so what if we like made this more house so I'm going to take actually I'm going to take these drums and I'm going to change them so we're going to change all the drums for this part and then I will actually just delete this part and yeah sorry if I'm moving up pretty quick um I like videos because I you can always slow them down and see what I'm doing um hopefully um it's not too confusing but I am basically just trying to like think on fly and come up with ideas here so this is like literally just a music production process you start off with the basics and then I want you guys to like run from there so like a lot like pretty much all this you could reverse engineer if you like watch me close enough and you could do all this stuff but also just by giving you like a little bit you can see what the possibilities are like what could be done um once you like get familiar to like where this becomes like secondhand like to me all this stuff is like very simple like I'm just it's very happens very quickly but like it might be really hard at first so don't feel discouraged if you're having a hard time um falling along but uh here's what I'm going to do here I'm going to make a new drum pattern where we're going to do two two snares like this actually like so and then I'm actually going to make this more like a house thing so it'll go faster so it'll be like and then I'm going to take out the snare I decid to add the snare and then take out the snare you're like Tristan what are you doing uh go back to Drums I'm going to add clap because it'll sound better and we're just going to do this on every other cake yeah this is a very interesting song so I'm actually going to start off with maybe introducing some different things here so let's listen I'm not going to put the high hat the open hat in at all until we get to the drums here let's see what else we can do here so let's go to the intro so we got the chorus and I could actually mark this out for you guys if you'd like so at 17 I have the chorus um so what you can do is I can put the playlist right here the playlist head so this little thing I drag around this is where it's going to play from and you can drag the starting to wherever you want so wherever you click it's going to put that there and every time I hit space it's going to play from that new spot so if I go to like 17 here I can actually use this to mark off certain places so I can add it's Z marker and I can just click add one I'm gonna call this one chorus and then I can add another one um and I could do this one is like buildup and this one could be intro so I could do time marker add one intro I don't actually do this when I'm producing because I just know where everything's at but this might help some of you guys who are following along you're like what the heck is he doing so hopefully this makes a little bit more sense so we could um that this fits in pretty well I think that the course is a little bit long for some reason like it's kind of unnecessarily long so I might like make this like kind of like an outro extended outro so like take out a lot of the drum samples here like something like that so now we have the chords starting off here and maybe I make these chords more interesting because they're kind of boring right now like what if we did like and I'm actually going to add in these high hats right here just so we have something going on and maybe the clap we'll do kind of something like this what if it was like the open hat like oh you know what the open hat should be not like that they should be like this with the house part it should be like every other like that yeah that that'll be super way better super way better I'm like my English is falling out the window you can tell I'm tired I hav't had my coffee cuz I'm at this point I'm just kind of like doing stuff and hold on we're moving okay this is what happens when I get into the music process I'm just we're just we're moving but luckily I don't believe I missed anything so hopefully you guys have everything you need to follow along so far okay here we go okay cool um save my project oh yeah always contrl s save do that please CU if your Apple Studio crashes you will be crying um okay so cool we got um pretty much the full song I think pretty epic so I'm just going to copy and paste this Ambience to the beginning part of the track and I think that will be our EDM track so let's just listen to it real quick from the beginning and then what's cool is I can actually what I'm here's kind of my plan cu the chapters are kind of weird um for this EDM track I'm actually not going to do any mixing any mastering I'm not going to do any eqing nothing we're just going to leave it kind of Bare Bones from here and then what I'll plan to do is for the hip-hop and orchestral we'll do more I'll think I'll probably go into automations with orchestral music and for mixing we'll do Ed or hip hop so the next time we do hip hop with mixing I'm going to do both of them together so we're I'm going to go to a new project file we're going to make a new song and I'm going to show you guys how to do mixing with that one and then when we go to orchestral I'm going to rinse and repeat we're going to do the whole thing all over again again and then that time we will do um we'll just mix and master and do the whole thing so I think that that'll probably work out so let's listen to what we got so far and yeah let's let's do it cool so I hope you guys uh liked this EDM song hopefully this helps you in your journey I know I made house music at40 BPM and I don't even know what the other type of music I made as called but just interesting um hopefully you guys enjoyed that now we are going to move on and we are going to go through the rest of music production um okay let's go to the next chapter and I will do we'll do hip-hop next see you there okay as much as I want to keep working on this track we're moving on so let's go to file new from template click empty so I just want to let you guys know before you do that if you are on the sh version FL Studio you cannot open up that project again so I'm just going to tell you now I warned you don't do it if you want to keep that song you better export it okay so to export it you go to file you just click export and it's going to to go through your whole song and Export for you um I'm going to go through all types of exporting so we're going to go through it's going to get more advanced um and I'm going to teach you some other stuff so I'd say to if you're working on that project maybe save it export it and then come to this project and we're going to keep keep going so let's do some hip-hop so the way that I'm going to do it is I am going to go to labs and we're going to find something that we can use to make some hip-hop music so let's go to labs and I really want to find something that is inspiring let's see let's see what we got um wonder if there's something no we're not going to use that um you know what change my mind we're not going to do that delete Labs okay here's what we're going to do we are going to go to quickly sample Essentials Loops maybe other and let's see what I have here perfect okay so you're going to drag this into your project file and we are going to change the BPM until it fits the end so it looks like we'll do um here's what I want you to do I want you to take the uh remember the stretch tool that I was talking about earlier we're going to do that and we're actually going to hold alt and we're going to stretch this until all the way to the edge of five so zoom in there and get it real close and then we're going to play it and make sure to double click the sample and we're going to change it to stretch not resample stretch and I'm going to cut in half and this is I'm going to make the Hip Hop we're going to take this side and we're going to switch them so it's perfect all right so now I'm going to take drums and we're going to add add a snare to it but it's going to be like a hip-hop snare something like this and then I will add in a clap too so that's what we're going to do and then let's see I'm going to C uh take this I'm going to shrink down I'm going to move all the snares up to their snare level going to move that up there and then we're going to add in some drums we're going move all that down okay let add in some drums let's do kicks okay there we go and we're going to add in high hats now we're like speed running straight for the for the hip up we're going to do this and then we're going to take uh the paint tool go like that that's a little Overkill delete the rest of it cool and then we're going to select all those make them quieter click them again and then I'm going to kind of in between that the end of like the uh the two and three and at the end of the four and five I'm going to add in some super fast high hats like this and then right before the end I'm also going to like do even more so it's going to be like this like doesn't oh that's why I need to add them to this side too so that they're kind of like and then I need to make these ones like quieter and then I need to make all of them shorter like this and then make all these shorter so they all kind of fit together and then we'll just kind of move everything together one at a time that was very satisfying okay so now I'm going to take this little end part that I made like so I'm going to copy all those put them to the end here delete these high hats like boom put that there like so and then we should have something like this and then maybe we'll put a couple like that also before the I'm going to do that do this contrl B while selecting that all right what do we got okay it's perfect now I'm going to copy the whole thing paste it twice and then I'm going to go to this side like so and I'm going to make sure to not stretch it but just make it its original thing and reverse it oh actually no before I reverse it I need to go to the top left corner I need to click make uni make unique right there and then I need to reverse it because now that I made it unique it's actually going to be different than the other sample over here so this one's still revers and then this one isn't sounds kind of weird though like What if I it sounds weird okay forget everything I just said about making that unique we're just going to keep the original reverse version here and then I'm going to add a pattern on top and we're going to kind of make a baseline so well not kind of we are going to make a baseline so I'm going to go to vital once more and we are going to copy the synths right here we will go to let's see here want to do 808 let's do 808 and then I'm going to make the Decay longer on my 808 and that's it and then I'm just going to make it a little bit quieter that's it okay let's go to pattern one p roll so you got to just listen to the note hear it and know that's the right one so I can put it up in octave you can hear it's the right note and then what we can do is we can add in some some notes and we can actually put them down an octave and make them slide notes so like this oh and then we want to add like maybe like a melody on top of this so let's add another pattern put it on top of here and we'll make another Melody so we'll do that um what kind of Melody can we do maybe we do something interesting let's add another let's see what we got Bells let's add bells and let's kind of do like a little ARP that goes like d d something like oh um cool so let's make a new kind of let's take this Baseline that we had before just copy these two notes cuz that's the only ones that we really need pull out the Baseline put in another pattern drop the pattern in go uh drag that to the end and then let's just take out all the kicks and then just leaving the snares and then what we're going to do is we're actually going to add in the synway base back in there okay I am super unlucky my Apple Studio has crashed about six times I don't know why it's happening so I think it has to do with my the fact that I'm recording or I am using a green screen using Zoom uh don't ask um and I'm running studio all at the same time so my computer just does not like it I think it's using a lot of memory so I think that's what's going on however what I'm going to try to do instead of making the full track a hip-hop track I'm going to take what we have and I'm going to show you guys how to do mixing so that's what we're going to do I'm going to go to backup I'm going to go here I'm going to open it and now we're going to open exactly what we have and just mix that so that's all I'm going to do I'm going to take exactly what we got and you know what we'll copy and paste this twice and we'll actually just put this little art Melody on on the second time all right time to learn mixing so we are going to go to our Channel rack and we are going to change it from audio to all and then we are going to get rid of the samp and then after getting rid of the sampler you're going to select everything you're going to hit control and then you're going to click l while selected everything and what that will do is it will put all of um okay hold on if you do that correctly and not hold L like I did um what it's going to do is it's actually going wow I did that a bunch of times okay there we go hopefully that wasn't too confusing so what we're doing is it's taking all of the instruments all the samples and putting them in our mixer so now watch this so this allows us to control the volume and effects for all of our tracks and this is the beautiful power of mixing so we're going to listen real closely and just see what we can change to make it sound a little bit better so let's start with the volume okay I think that sounds better just change the volume just to touch um now while I can right click on this uh green um what is it called this green circle and it will just solo out something and you honestly you want to be selected on a part of the song that you want to be mixing pull out the mixer that little box fourth one from the left and this will help you kind of get um rolling here on on um this is the best way to do it in my opinion so we can see what's playing and we can uh work on it as as it's repeating so what I want to do is I'm going to add I know I have a lot of effects so this is probably going to be confusing but just try to find it where it's at for you I'm going to pull out fruity parametric eq2 and watch this you just go on the slots to the right here make sure that you have selected what you want to put the effects on as you can see if I change the effects aren't on these other ones so I want to go oh my goodness I want to click on the one that's making this noise and I want to put a fruity parametric EQ while that is highlighted then I'm going to click into it and from here I want to take out all the low end in uh in this so what I'm going to do is I'm going to right click on number one go to order steep eight right click it again and go to type I'm going to go to high pass and the pass filter is going to let me take out all of those low frequencies in here that's much better so now that we've taken out the low frequencies let's just listen to it now if I unclick uncheck this it's going to turn off the effect and if I check it I'm going to do it with just this highlighted so you can hear the difference essentially what it's doing is it's taking out all that low rumbling that's going to make the mix sound muddy and a little bit unpleasant to the ears because my Bas is they're both fighting for space um all the sounds in your track are going to be wanting uh space they're basically kind of like think about like kids in a classroom once one starts talking and another starts talking then the other one has to talk louder so that they can be heard and then everyone starts talking and then everyone's getting louder and that's just what happens in a classroom so if you've ever been in school you've had that experience your mix is doing the same thing you push one up in volume the other one wants to be pushed up in volume everyone wants to be the the loudest one and then you can't hear anything so what you got to do is you have to cut you have to cut the annoying frequencies um don't think that too literally so what we're going to do is you're going to lower like what is not needed in the mix and we're going going to keep what we do want in the mix so for instance I don't want the base in this sound because I already have a base it's my 808 so I don't need Bas in this in this track and that's a very like like dumb down example but what we can do is by applying that kind of General concept to everything we can make our M our mixes sound tight and Punchy so and that's kind of what we want we want for hip-hop song you want it to be tight and Punchy you don't want it to be muddy and like kind of muddled like you want it to be crisp so I might take out even more lows if I and maybe I want a little bit more high-end so I I just lift this a little bit see how much different that sounds listen to this now when I with it on it makes a world of difference like just that tiny little shift in in what which frequencies we're boosting we're changing the the tonality of the entire song so it's it's really cool now for the base here um there's all kinds of other effects we could do so maybe on the base what if I wanted to add some Distortion to it so we could go to um we have what's called fruity fast Distortion that's included in FL Studio and you can use this and it's going to do that's a lot so let's let's take the mix down without with just add a little bit of distortion is what it's going to do is it's going to add harmonics to the base so it's going to make it sound a little bit beefier which is kind of cool so maybe you want that maybe you don't I'm just showing you guys some different effects that we can add so let's go back to here and solo this and just kind of listen and I want to show you guys something that's really cool it's called Reverb so I'm sure if you've ever been inside of a big building or cave and and you spok in you can hear your voice kind of echo out and it like it's really big well this is what Reverb emulates so let's listen to it with Reverb without Reverb with Reverb really cool now what if we added some other stuff so like what if we added like a delay to the clap so every time the clap came in or this is the clap my bad what if we added a delay so let's go to delay and we can add delay bank so it's like and then we put it on ping pong so it bounces in our headphones oh actually wait oops that's not the right thing oh no it is the right thing I have to turn in the pan a little bit cool so that's just a few settings that that we can tweak uh so this delay is going to be like it's going to delay the sound and play it over and over again and I can change the way it delays too so like I could change it here that's just a interesting different interesting things that we can do in our in our song so we're just adding effects we're changing volume we're adding mixing to to our song we're just we're it's adding flavor so if I take everything off it sounds like this and with the effects on so I showed you guys kind of the basics I gave you Reverb um we have delay I wanted to show you Distortion those are like the big three that you're going to be using a lot of um and some simple volume control just understanding where things can go in the track um another thing that we can do is I can show you guys how to pan things right and left so like let's let's open up the mixer again and just listen I can actually turn this to the right of my headphones or the left of my headphones so maybe maybe I want this a little bit pan to the right and maybe I want these a little bit pan to the left I I mean I reverse that but listen and then there's other things that we can do like we can make things wide or narrow so like listen to this I can turn down this little knob right here and it will make it mono like in the center or it will go wide or narrow and controlling the narrowness and the width of Our Song is also how we're going to create a full sounding song too so maybe I want the main thing to be a little bit more wide but I want the base all the way in the center with my kick too so that's just a just an interesting example so we we have panning left and right we have stereo width opening and closing being more mono or being more stereo then we have effects like delay Reverb EQ Distortion um there's so many effects that you guys can experiment with too um one thing that I will recommend as long as you don't blow out your eardrum I want to do your a favor go to your master go to Just and the master is basically where like everything is getting funneled into so like all your music is going to go to the master so if I turn it off nothing comes true if I turn it back on so as you can see that is completely controlling how everything's working so any effect or anything that you put on the master is going to affect everything so something I like to do just to be safe is to put a limiter on the master now listen carefully once you get better at music production putting a limiter on the master is going to be like the worst advice ever but when you're starting off I think it's good advice because you have no idea what you're putting on your tracks and you could easily put something that makes something get everything get really loud and you like and I'm not going to say you're going to burst your eardrum but I'm just saying it's happened to me before so be careful like there are definitely some cing on here that if you put it on there you're going to want to like literally Chuck your headphones cuz you're like oh crap I didn't realize that that was going to make it that loud so I just want you guys to be careful so what you can do is go to fruity limiter when you're starting off this will be good and another thing that you can do is produce a little bit quieter you don't have to produce it at max volume that's how you lose your hearing um I produce at 60% volume all the time and I never turn it up for anything even when I listen to music myself I don't listen to it higher than 60 volume and the reason I do that and 60 volume is going to sound different for everyone's headphones sure is to protect your ears because it's very important um so I know that uh this is kind of a weird tangent I'm talking about ear protection stuff but it is relevant it's relevant to mixing it's relevant to keeping your ears safe over a long period of time so I just want to give you guys that uh that advice because it's it is very important to keep your ears safe so I showed you guys effects I showed you guys mixing I told talk to you guys about volume and how to control that um these are just the basics I'm giving you guys the tools I'm giving you guys like here's the tool box have fun like I'm just showing you a couple of what they do and then you can do have fun with the rest and that's the best way to learn like not everything needs to be perfect you don't need to sit over like oh did I tweak this to the right value like just have fun dude like put effects on there mess around with it see what happens like that's literally How I Learned that's how every single professional I've ever met that's how they learned they had fun so yeah I don't know why I'm going preacher mode here but like I just I see so many people who are so worried about being good producers or how to be a right artist or whatever it's like you need to drop it and you need to just make music to have fun otherwise you're never going to be able to like make good music um I think something that it's called beat block so I'm going to talk about so it's it's called music writer block there there's a million names for it but essentially what it is is it's the inability to create music it you blocks you off like you you actually can't physically keep making music and as a beginner you won't run into this but as you get better and better you'll get what's called beat block and the reason this is is because you're like I'm making music CU I want to be famous I'm making music because I want to make money I'm making music because put in reason but the the problem is if you're making music and you're not enjoying the process you will physically not be able to be motivated to make music it's very simple like and this is for anything in life if you're playing a video game and you're not having fun nothing is going to make you want to keep coming back to that game and playing it you'll just stop playing it if you're at work and you have no nothing motivating you you're not going to work I mean there it's very simple so this is with everything in life it's not just music so we make these terms writer block or music block it applies everywhere so I don't understand why it's only apply to music I've seen it all over the place I mean if you have co-workers family or just you you'll see this encounter this idea and it's in all different fields so just want to kind of debunk that real quick if you're having writers block or music block instant fix you're not having fun like I promise you're not enjoying the process so you have to slow down and just kind of like and then you'll get into the zone and you saw me get into the Zone because I'm going super fast and I'm not even thinking and I'm like forget that I was recording a tutorial I'm like oh crap I was recording a tutorial and then like you guys are probably just sitting there're like what the heck is he doing so like hopefully I'm not going too fast I'm sorry if I am I'm also fun so um hopefully you can see that and hopefully you're learning as I'm learning and I can pass on some of these uh some of these things that I know are important and not give you all the other details that are going to just confuse you and make you like make it complicated because the best way of learning and the best way is by doing it's by doing it's by teaching others and I'm going to go into that a little bit later because I'm going to give you guys a lot more of the tools to become great artists and great musicians um and that will happen once we get to the end of end of this I'm going to give you guys so much value so I want this course to be increasing in value as you keep going not just like oh you learned this thing and then none of it's important it's building okay so stick with me if you gotten this far I'm really proud of you we're going to make some orchestal music I'm going to teach you about automation I'm going to teach you about mastering and then I'm going to give you the most important thing for music production and music making in general oh boy that was a lot so I went over how to EQ I went over different types of effects I talked about um different what some of these knobs do so you learned about the the volume knob you learned about the stereo stereo which is orange and then the purple which is mono you learn about panning which is yellow or orange and then red which is um the right or my bad the left and right ear and you learned how to hit contr L and put everything neatly organized um onto these tracks so as you can see here real quick um I should show you the channel rack is putting this on number one if I change this it's going to move it so I'm going to put that back on one but you're seeing that this is how it's routed so this number signifies which track it's on so that's where everything is connected you have your box your container which is your channel rack and the instruments in there are getting routed with this number onto this mixer okay and that's how that works so without further Ado let's go to the next chapter and I'm going to show you guys how to do automation with orchestra music let's go okay here we go we are going to save this project and I am going to open a new one because we are making orchestra music and I'm going to teach you guys all about automation so this is be super super fun let's do it first let's open up Spitfire Labs because this is where we're going to be making a lot of our orchestra music using this plugin so let's go to labs and why don't we put in some strings let's do that or maybe open up all of them Let's do let's do short strings and let's make them a little bit louder we're going to go to our Channel rack and you guys know the drill hopefully you've learned this by now we're going to contrl L it's going to put on our Mex track and then I'm going to just right click and go to piano roll and I'm going to find one of my midi and we will use that in our track this time so this will just show you guys how midi works so let's just click one of these and see what I what I have here what what's this one okay that's way too fast so let's slow it down that way I don't have a heart attack okay this is really cool however I need it to be lengthened a little bit so I'm going to take all these short notes I'm just going to lengthen them a little bit I think that they're they're too short so they need all be like that and you guys know the drill we I already talked about how to add effects so I think that this would be super cool with convolver and this is kind of like a a Reverb style thing but it's it's a little bit different it's called convolution Reverb and it's just different in the way it works but I think it'll sound really good so let's listen and let's change it to like a cathedral I want it like a big warm Cathedral what if it was I can't really sing but I have the idea so what I'm going to do is I'm going to select one through one through five and I'm going to hit control B and it's going to put it on the next thing here and then this time through when it plays I'm going to I'm going to make the melody keep going a okay so I just made the melody a little bit more interesting uh by adding some variation in the second part here and then what I want to do is just copy all these lower bass notes like so I'm just going to copy all of these and I think that I'm going to contrl C and we're going to control control or not control we're going to right click labs and we're going to clone it actually and when we clone it here it's just going to make a second copy labs and then we're going to choose maybe a longer string so let's pick string long and I'm going to go here and click Labs number two CU this is our string long I'm going to paste that in here so let's move these to the start there I'm going to delete these extra notes just so I just have the starting note like so and we're going to take this and hit contr L and it will extend all the notes out to the end and now we have this okay something like that so now we have the longer notes here that are played like with this and maybe I can actually play and then we'll play We we'll kind of fit the chord progression in with what we have here so I'll fit it to the other arpeggiated cor progression and then we'll just copy this over here just like so and yeah so now we got something like this and then we can copy the top half of this melody and we can actually just kind of like like take all of this and kind of just take what it has and we are going to use it with another instrument so let's do that let's take all this like so I believe that's the top Melody we're going to copy that contrl c and we are going to do the same thing we're going to clone Labs once more and I'm going to find like a harp I want to find I think that would be super cool do I have like a harp um I don't know if I do no clue um strings do have Auto harp maybe that's it let's double click Auto harp I have no idea so let's try auto harp and I'm going to go to laps number three and I'm going to past this in and let's see if this so obviously it's very overpoweringly loud so I'm just going to turn everything down so one way I can do that is I can actually I'm going to also put these on mixture tracks as well just real quick I can turn it down here but I can also turn it down in the channel R so and this doesn't they're not connected together but let's listen to this how it if I just turn this down okay so we ran into an issue and the issue is that I can't actually go that high with this instrument so that's kind of frustrating but I think I have a work around if I go control down like this and let's see if I can move it up the other way sometimes this works if it does I will explain what I did okay it didn't so I'm actually going to forget that I ever said that and we're going to go back to the way it was so just ignore that so C8 okay so C is the highest note it can be so let's go one two 3 four okay so I have to move the whole thing down four this is a huge huge cool thing that I can show you guys so right click on pattern one this has everything in it right now now I can go transpose and I'm going to do minus 4 and that's going to tell it to move it down four every single pattern so if I do that boom now let's play it that works pretty well so it moved everything down shifted it and it works great now so really happy we're going to take this I'm going to put it in here and I'm going to split my channel and I'm going to do what I was doing before and I'm going to take out the bass notes out of the things that I don't need it to Let's Go to the song and I'm actually just going to lower the basee cuz I don't want it gone completely let's add the warm Cathedral and let's add a little bit of delay as well so obviously the mixing is not exactly where I want it to be but the orchestral idea is there so now I want to teach you guys about automation cuz that's what this whole section is about and I wanted to teach you guys using orchestra music so I think that I should add just a little bit of drums just to kind of spice it up a little bit just cuz it's kind of boring right now so see if I can add in some fortunately I don't really have maybe a drum Loop cuz I don't really we'll do this so I'm just going to stretch out this drum Loop to so it fits make sure to stretch it so that it fits properly so I'm going to stretch it to the end so everything is kind of like merging together right put also putting on stretch making sure that as well so that it doesn't pitch shift weird Okay cool so we got that um now I want to show you guys automation so there's different all kinds of different automations and basically the idea of an automation is that I can move a knob using some type of control so let's let's just listen to like this melody for instance so what does this do so we can see that these knobs change the way the S the song sounds so what I can do is I can wiggle one of these knobs then I can right click this right here and click create automation clip and what it's going to do is it's literally going to make me something that I can control that knob in the plug using this this like little thing here let me show you it's easier to show than than to tell what what this is doing so we'll do something like this because this will really show you guys what an automation is doing so I'm actually going to do that and I'm let's let's play it here so now let's go back to all and we're going to click Labs or where is it cuz I I'm trying to find the melody it's Labs number three so let's go to number three and check this out look at the automation okay sweet so now what I'm I'm going to do is I'm going to kind of like I'm going to do another automation so let's uh I want to show you guys that you can actually automate effects as well so on here I can automate this mix knob and okay so FL Studio native knobs you can just right click and create an automation instantly just like that create create an automation I can create an automation for that um if it's in a third party plugin what you have to do like vital any knob in vital any knob in Labs anything like that like this knob um you're going to have to right click up here and then create an automation clip and you have to wiggle it that way it knows which knob you're going to create an automation with but you can create an animation with anything so I'm going to create an animation with all three of those things and I'm going to just kind of like move it around here so you guys get the gist of like how the automations are working so I'm just going to do that and then I might move that down and then move it back up and then we'll just copy that I'm just putting all these automations here just so that you guys get a get a picture of like what could be done uh it's not necessarily like a full a full thing here so we're just going to kind of do that and then just going to do a bunch of automations so you guys get the picture and then I'm going to make another automation where I let's do the panning as well I want to do the panning and then let's move that here you can hear it moving around in my ears now and as you can see these knobs are moving over here as well which is really cool so I'm able to control so many different things I think the easiest thing that the way to see it is I'm going to put an EQ and I'm actually going to change what I'm going to do is I'm going to actually I'm going to change this right here so I'm going to take this bell curve and I'm going to move this back and forth across here and you'll be able to very clearly hear what's what's going on so I'm going to take this and I'm going to move it just like so so I'm going to right click that create an automation clip and by moving this up and down you're going to hear the difference so it's going to go up and then it's going to go down and it's going to up and it's going to go down and I don't want to go all the way CU that's going to hurt my ears so we'll just do it like that and then it's going to be like this and really quickly I want to go to parametric EQ and you'll be able to see this Automation in action watch this bottom one it's it's named parametric eq2 watch automation okay so I don't really like doing that kind of automation CU it's going to make peaks in the volume and it's going to sound very unpleasant but I'm just trying to show you guys examples that really show you what automation is doing I don't think you guys realize how powerful automation is it is so so so cool and everything that you can do with it it's that's what literally takes a beginner producer from here to like master because of like their automations are crazy um you can get really creative um I really like automating volume so having things come in very gradually into a song it's a very great way of making stuff sound uh good so like for instance if I'm in this part right here let's say I don't want this I don't want that to start immediately so what if I did something like this um I could let's we're going to put a fruity balance on there so I'm going to find navigate and find fruity balance and this will allow me to control the audio and I'm going to create an automation for this so I can actually control the audio here and then we're going to have this okay so hopefully that gave you guys a picture of like what automation is actually looking like and what is doing in the software so that's literally all I wanted to show you guys you can automate effects you can automate Volume you can automate basically any knob that you see in FL Studio whether it's in a plugin whether or not it's in in effects volume pitch literally any knob inl Studio chances are you can automate it and even if it's not an FL Studio native plugin if it's a third- party plugin I showed you that you can not you can automate that too using that box up there so overall automations are super powerful and there's so much you can do in Apple Studio with them and you don't need them for the beginner tracks I'd say mixing is important though being able to fit things together and make them sound good in a mix is quite important um and that honestly just takes practice and listening and I'd say honestly the best way of mixing and the best way of using automations is by picking good samples picking good instruments and actually just not having to EQ a lot because lots of people what they'll do is they get an instrument and they're like okay I want to make this sound good with the rest of my track so they EQ it like crazy they put all these like bell curves and all kinds of things to make it sound good um instead of just picking something that fits so when I say EQ it by the way what I'm talking about is taking one of these and moving all these everywhere like and making something that looks like a modern art piece like you don't need to do that like if your sound sounds good you shouldn't have to move everything like crazy so just a little word of advice hopefully that's helpful for some of you that get into that moving Bell curbs like crazy everywhere um but don't let that stop you like if you want to do something for sound design purposes have fun like experiment have fun but um yeah I just wanted to show you guys about automations and mixing and I wanted to keep for the beginner tutorial I wanted to keep the mixing and automations relatively short and the reason is pretty simple when you're starting off they're fluff they're extra um making good music is not because of mixing and mastering or automations it's because of um good musical ideas and the ways that you layer and pick things and put things together so um that's all you guys need to know for this chapter and we're going to move on to the Final Chapter which is basic mastering and from there um we're going to be wrapping up and I'm going to share with you guys probably the most important thing that you're going to learn and if you take away anything with the music production tutorial it'll honestly apply to life too so hopefully it'll be helpful and we'll get there in a sec but first we have to learn how to do mastering so let's okay now what we're going to do is we're going to just apply some mixing and mastering to uh the original EDM track that I did cuz I think that EDM is pretty easy to mix and master so I thought that I'd show you guys how um again with all these things there are levels to mixing and mastering and the how you can go and in terms of skill and it only keeps getting better um but understanding what mixing and mastering purpose is is fundamentally important to how you go about making music so mixing is just getting everything to fit together and work together in a cohesive way so if your elements don't fit together or if they are don't sound good together in your headphones that means the mixing is wrong usually the first thing you want to check in mixing is what sounds did I pick did I pick sounds that fit together or I pick sounds that don't fit together if you pick sounds that don't fit together you shouldn't be surprised if they don't sound good I mean that's pretty simple um but it's shocking how many people miss this they'll throw together all these different sounds throw them together and then when they put it in the in the pot together it sounds terrible it's like don't make work hard on yourself pick good sounds pick things that work together secondly um another thing to know is that mixing is about changing volume is something would it fit if it was quieter that's another thing you need to ask yourself would this thing fit if it was louder picking which sounds are going to stand out which are not um the so the second the first stage is picking sounds for mixing the second stage is how the volume the third stage is effects like would this sound good if it had tons of Reverb on it and wasn't so prominent in the mix those are questions you can ask yourself so asking yourself questions as you're working in the mix and um it'll it'll help you understand what you're trying to do so what we're trying to accomplish is making all of the pieces of Our Song fit not only fit together but sound the best they possibly can individually and together so there's effects that we can apply to our whole song to bring it up but then there's also effects that we can apply to individual things and that's why uh I always keep Max mastering minimal um I want to make the song sound as good as it possibly can before I apply effects to everything because once you apply effects to your entire song it's going to like affect every element so try to make the elements as good as they possibly can be and then your master just barely moves it that 5% that like 1% it shouldn't move it 30% you know um um I had a lot of friends that would master and I mean they would just use mastering and it's kind of a like a what is it like a cheap way to to master if if you just throw something that makes everything sound good it's like cuz then it's harder to change things cuz after you apply effect to everything what you'll learn is you're like oh darn now I have all these little effects and when I change them it doesn't work cuz I have this big effect that's affecting everything and that's really frustrating so when you're mixing just remember if you're going to put something on the master that's affecting your whole mix try to wait till the end to do that because that way you can mix on all the individual things and make them sound really good before you apply something to everything uh so that's just something to remember I think that's really helpful um so now that you understand what we're actually doing when we're mixing now we can ask ourselves okay what is mastering what are we doing mastering is just making the song sound good everywhere so making the song sound good everywhere is just a product of reference tracks picking a track that you're making your music like or if you a track similar genre listen to that song say how loud was the bass how loud was the treble how loud was the mid like how loud was everything and how do I want my song to sound so mastering is getting your song to sound industry standard it's taking the mix that you have that sounds good and making it industry standard making it sound like everything else so that when people are playing through a playlist they listen to your song they're like oh this just sounds like another awesome song they don't say ooh this one sounds weird like the bass is all weird you know what I mean like if it catches somebody's ear in a bad way that's not good so you want to M reference your tracks with other leading artist tracks to see where their levels are at um and that's really important to mastering the second thing with mastering is mastering in a way that your frequency will sound good on almost every single pair of headphones so by referencing you're doing two things at once you are one making your music sound industry standard and two you're actually also like um making it sound good everywhere so you're not just making it sound good on your headphones you're making it sound good for all headphones for all car systems and there are just bad audio systems sure your audio is not going to sound good on those but by and large we want to make our audio sound good everywhere and that's really important and that's what mastering is all about so to make things sound good everywhere we are just simply going to apply the 5% that's going to bring it from here to here and um to do that we're first going to ask what we can make our mix better so first part of mastering is actually mixing so we're going to listen to this and just say what could we do better well the first thing we can do is we can actually put everything on an audio track so let's take all of this and just hold shift and kind of just select all these and then do contrl L and contr L is going to put everything on the mixure track so now we can actually see what's going on here hm okay so I think that this would sound good if it had a little bit more a little bit more compression so I might put a sound guizer on it just because that's going to add some compression it's going to add some nice distortion so now what I want to do is I want to add in another probably some more compression on this one cuz I'm just adding compression to kind of bring out the different parts of the song so so let's listen to it once we add a b a bunch of compression and I just kind of bring up the mix a little bit so I think that this is it just has a little bit too much lowend so I'm going to just take out some of low end okay so so what I did was I basically just removed the Lowe's from the things I didn't need Lowe's and I just kind of like am using uh just you know I'm using some compression and some saturation to make make the sound sound a little bit better and a little bit more full um and there's all kinds of different compressions and lots of people will make fun that I'm using sound gizer but honestly sounds good so why not um I use my ears to mix I don't use people's opinions um and also another thing if anybody's going to roast me for using sound gizer Kirby uses it and he's probably a way better producer than you are so if you're making fun of me talk to him because he's using it so and he makes amazing awesome bass house tracks so it doesn't really that's another thing to know doesn't matter what you're using just listen like does it sound good does it fit with the rest of the track ask those questions and they'll lead you in the right direction don't ask questions like oh well I don't use this pluging because this person doesn't use it and they say it's dumb it's like that's a stupid way of of making music make music using your ears not your opinions um so that's that's another thing so also I don't know I think that the longer I make music and the longer I'm on I'm recording the more like like I just go downhill but so we'll try to wrap it up here and get as much value as I can into this tutorial okay so also it's probably super loud in the headphones just cuz it's kind of clipping which is fine clipping is good clipping sounds good um and I'm actually going to utilize utilize that in the master CU I think with EDM music clipping is is awesome it sounds really nice so honestly the last thing I'm going to do is I'm just going to kind of just finish off by just putting a a Mac maximizer on it and I'm just going to kind of boost the gain a little bit and I think that that's all I'm going to do for mastering I'm want to keep it super simple like I'm just going to put Maxim Maximus on it on my master track and I'm just going to put an EQ maybe just going to n this is a very like very high level like I'm like literally took like 5 minutes to just put some basic stuff on here so I'm not like doing something that I do with 50 hours of music production like of on one track like there's there's different varying of levels of mixing and mastering that I go into and what I want to do is I want to use this time that if you've made it this far you're actually interested in mixing and mastering you've actually made it this far with the song then you know what you'll be interested in you'll be interested in me breaking down some of my actual fin finished tracks that are mixed and mastered and I'm going to do that on my YouTube channel so I couldn't I don't really have the opportunity to do that here because I don't think that it's the right time and place because if you're watching this you're probably just starting out um but if you're interested in more of what I'm going to do in the future I do have a YouTube channel um and you can see that I put my links on my patreon page as as well where you got the samples and the rest of the things so if you made it this far um you can connect with me I have a big um I I have the one last final thing that I want to tell you guys and it's going to and I'm going to tell you guys in the next chapter but hopefully this showed you the basics of mastering the basics of mixing the what the purpose of all of it because that's the most important part like if you miss the purpose of why we're doing each individual part you're going to miss the whole thing you're going to miss the target so with mastering all we're doing is we're making it sound good like as a whole and we're going to make it sound good everywhere on every single system so that's 90% of the mix and the master is just making sure like that um we're just going to add some some flavor and with the default Apple Studio plugins like you can do some mastering and you could make it sound good but I honestly I utilize a lot of third party plugins and because I can't use those in my mastering I'm going to say like don't worry too much about uh your master because most people aren't going to know the difference and I know it sounds like weird advice but if you can keep your master so it's just not going to have some bad clipping on different Sun if you could just put like a limiter or like a Maximus so that it doesn't like completely like clip on um when you send it to Spotify or something you're in the clear add some basic eqing maybe add some small effects don't add like raver delay or anything on your master but just add some small things that are just going to kind of lift it just a little bit so like there's different things that you can look into and I I had explore um there's there's lots of I mean I'm not going to say that there's nothing to do with mastering an FL Studio but it is not uh it is true that the third party plugins are going to help you greatly in just making better mixes and Masters however I I would look at multiband compressors I think that those are huge um and yeah I'd say that that's like the big thing with mastering and then um I'd like to show you guys some other things that I use as well but um really in the mastering part actually for beginners I didn't want to talk so much about mastering I actually want to talk more about mindset because that's going to make you a master if you actually are able to master the rest of everything I've given you in this course so that's the true mastering um what what I'm going to do now is we're going to go to the final chapter and that is going to be arguably the most important part so without further Ado we're going to go to the final chapter and I'm so excited so let's for the Final Chapter what I'm going to talk to you guys about is exporting and exporting is the easiest is one of the easiest Parts like literally all you have to do is go to file export and then click waver MP3 that's it and then you're going to get a file that spits off like this entire uh track that we worked on together um that's all that's how exporting is um that's it and but it's what you do with that song after that's important and this is where so many people kind of kind of lose it so I've noticed that people hold on to tracks people hold on to project files and they sit on them and they don't do anything I I've been I've been in around the block a little bit and I've talked to tons of music producers and I want you guys to know the pitfalls of how other people produce and how I produce at one point and I want to steer you clear of that and I want to give you the I want to give you uh what will actually make you better music producers um so that's why I have a Discord Channel that's why I have a YouTube channel that's why I have my patreon and what it's all for is bringing music producers together to build connections and build a really awesome community of people that are going to work together and help each other out so I think the reason uh my Discord is is really important is because I already have like a big community of people there from my last beginner tutorial and they've all moved moved in and uh just kind of made like a home on this Discord server where everyone's sending music and getting feedback so what you're doing is you send feedback because you listen to Somebody's track what happens is you send feedback to them then you send your track and then somebody gives feedback on your track so what's happening is you're able to listen and build your your ears up so you have a better listening ability and also reading what how other people get feedback it'll help you be able to be conscious and understanding of how to listen to music and how to improve as an artist because teaching is actually one of the best ways of learning uh and this is just scientifically true um I've done lots of research in how humans learn and how we understand things and all about psychology and different things and I just want to share that like another amazing way is actually collaborating with other people um working on projects learning different perspectives and different ways of producing streaming what you're working on to other people this is the how I uh was able to grow so quickly during Co time was that I was friends with tons of really popular artists and I just watched them work I literally just watch exactly what they do like you were doing with me watching me work is going to help you understand like what people are doing when they're music producing and you can absorb that and then once you also copy and kind of imitate what I'm doing in your own work you'll be able to grow as an artist so part of it is following tutorials part of it is watching things but most of it is doing and it's the repeated process of failure and just learning and getting better over time that's going to make you really good and so when you click file and when you click export what I want you to do is I want you to take that song I want you to go to my Discord server and I want you to post it in my first track and I want you're going to have like hundreds of people there that are going to come in and go this is amazing here's what's next you're working with those people you're making friends you guys are all working together and having a great time and that's what I wanted so that's that's what I made so because a lot of people are asking me hey Tristan where do I go where do I find producers and the answer is there's nowhere to go there's absolutely zero place to go there's no nothing like that that exists and if it does then it's probably revolving around one artist but I don't want to make a music group that revolves around somebody who might be here one day and might be gone the next I want to make a group that's just dedicated to other people who want to learn and interact together so that's what my Discord group is all about and that and my YouTube channel is a place for me to upload tutorials and also have other people um make tutorials as well and upload what they're working on and these are artists that are already producing already um uploading music to Spotify and so if you're interested in that learning from all kinds of different artists from all different kinds of fields watching me break down tracks that I've done um come join me come join uh me in the rest of the gang and we'll show you around and how to continue with this hobby that you have and hopefully I can show you other ways that you can take it farther too not just doing music production but actually becoming an artist um and all kinds of different stuff so if that's something you're interested in uh that would be that' be really cool if you could join us so I would love if you could post your track with us and we could check it out and I'd be super stoked to see what you guys work worked on cuz I mean it just when I used to get emails because of my last beginner tutorial of people finishing the whole tutorial and sending me tracks I was like wow this is so awesome I just email people and I'm like I really need a place to put all these people because I get so many emails of people sending me their first track and so this time around I do have a place for you go to my Discord server post your song and it will all start there and you'll have a bunch of encouraging people ready to take you to to help you become an artist um and it doesn't stop there too we also have fun challenges I do challenges with everybody um and I do reviews for track reviews so I do all kinds of stuff so it's it's not just about like getting feedback and making it this like teacher student thing I'm I'm more like it's like a group thing like we're all having fun we're all doing challenges I'm in the challenges with you guys so and I'm there too if you want to talk to me that's where I'm at so if you're interested in anything like that please join us I think it would be super super fun and I'd love to hear what what music that you guys make um last but not least um I do this for free I share and I don't gatekeep information I ask you to buy a course I don't ask you to do anything that's why I teamed up with free code Camp so if you made it this far I'd greatly appreciate if you could support me on patreon because what I'm doing is completely free and I'm never going to ask for charge anything um the only other services that I'd ever ask for charge are something that actually takes a lot of time and then I'm going to put a lot of work and effort into and so while I didn't do the full mixing mastering process that I do on my own tracks here with you guys since you're just starting out um I do offer those services and if you're willing to support me I'm also going to be married and in just about a week which is crazy and my uh fiance is an amazing singer and so we're actually going to make a music duo and if you're supporting me you're also supporting uh my future as a musician as well because I want to make music with her and I think it'd be super fun and I'd love to uh have you guys hear what what we make in the future so I know I've been blabbering for a long time um but I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and come came along for me for the ride and if you want to keep coming with me come join me um it's been it's been great with working with you guys I'll see you later all right and as I promised here is the prize so I'm going to open it up here and I'm going to give you guys a ton of links that you can go to and this will help you guys tremendously on your music production Journey so first up we are going to go to Native Instruments this is the complete start I highly highly highly recommend native instruments and this is a free bundle that will give you tons of super high quality plugins that you can use when starting off and these are just awesome I really wanted to use these during our tutorial but it's actually like so good I feel like it it's almost like cheating so I wanted to make it a little bit more difficult so you guys can learn a little bit but holy cow yeah Native Instruments epic all right next up on the list is BBC Orchestra this is a free Symphony Orchestra that you can get and it is so good I was able to pick this up for free I'm almost positive I pretty sure it is still free so check this out if nothing else everything that Spitfire audio does is is epic so check out BBC Symphony Orchestra and see if you can pick up that next on the list is camel Crusher camel Crusher is a distortion plugin and it's just great it gives you amazing Distortion and I really wanted to use it during a tutorial uh this is what it looks like it's really awesome so love that use it all the time in production next up on the list is X for records we have Ott next up on the list we have fresh air it is amazing I use it on all my masters and it makes them sound amazing um it adds basically just like a little bit of a high boost it kind of like just saturate the highs it just sounds amazing just try it out trust me I'll love it um next up on the list we have ozone imager this is amazing it just helps the stereo width of uh just different um instruments or whatever you're working on I use this all the time it's amazing Fox lingo span I use this on every single Master it helps me see the audio and what's going on and how to reference different mixes it's it's it's really good I highly recommend highly recommend this next up is simatics uh they make tons of free sample packs and I highly recommend getting the sample packs that they give out they're very uh high quality the they're really good and their pay packs are good as well I've heard and last but not least on uh frees sounds. it I believe it's this is what it is there's all kinds of different free sample packs so you can pick up Drums of percussion synthesizer and keys cinematic sound effects and vocals and then there's like trap hip hop techno experimental tons of and every single one of these are sample packs and every single one of those sample packs has like hundreds of sounds so there is so so many SLE packs here for you guys to use if you're looking for that I know I went through this fast and this is not even the beginning of how many free resources there is for you guys but most of all I think that the biggest prize is going to be joining the Discord that I was talking about with all the other music producers because that was the most fun part of music production for me was working with others so I hope you guys had a great time learning and I hope to see you soon all right have a great one let's fly fly fly fly\n"