Simple Bass lines & Melodies

Neurojazz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSckYmFJ_ZY

Here's a tutorial for all from the the feedback off the headcount thread - and included the stuff Seannash wanted

Enjoy - fire more ideas at me!

Neurojazz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn7BajlZQLE

Really basic stuff - but here for new people.

eeloe

Fantastic to be seeing videos like these from someone with such a background in dance music!

Fair play to ya Matt!

ICN

Good work Matt

red dave

This is quality, nice1

Neurojazz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq1EfpEqvDE

Another little tutorial here - the delay on the sound has come out louder than in reality - so the riff almost sounds double anyway - you'll get the idea anyway

seannash

Great stuff Neuro.

Any chance you could so a piece on trance drums?

Neurojazz

seannash wrote: »

Great stuff Neuro.

Any chance you could so a piece on trance drums?

Probably, I'll go through what I know (which isn't much)

krd

They're all really great. I'll watch them again and again. There's lots of stuff in there, that you don't say but I can pick up from watching: "aw...so that's how he does it"

Neurojazz

krd wrote: »

They're all really great. I'll watch them again and again. There's lots of stuff in there, that you don't say but I can pick up from watching: "aw...so that's how he does it"

Cool - i'm trying to keep it as real & practical as possible. As sean was asking... i'll plan one on drums and keep going over the builds as that's the biggest issue with keeping interest in the music.

eeloe

Matt, I assume it's not just trance you produce?

Neurojazz

eeloe wrote: »

Matt, I assume it's not just trance you produce?

I can make anything pretty much... and if i can't doesn't take me long to learn other styles...

Sort of like things:-

70s Rock, Rock & Roll, Blues, Pop, Heavy Metal, Jungle, DnB, Chillout, Breakbeat, Hiphop, Trance, EDM, Electro etc... Jack of all trades I suppose - melody being my forte.

ICN

Matt, dont be so modest :rolleyes:

Can you do something on the use of reverbs / baseline settings.. on different elements in a track?

Drums

Stabby yokes

Pads

Background textures

and then whether there are any considerations in making them all fit together. Would like to see what you do / recommend.

You are on a roll - keep 'em commin! :cool:

eeloe

I'm only really interested in the techno side of things.

Be very interested in seeing you do a progressive house chord progression, I know it'll be the same as the ones you've done here, but it'd sit better in my mind seeing it done another way.

Neurojazz

eeloe wrote: »

I'm only really interested in the techno side of things.

Be very interested in seeing you do a progressive house chord progression, I know it'll be the same as the ones you've done here, but it'd sit better in my mind seeing it done another way.

Might need to poke JTSuited for those

krd

seannash wrote: »

Great stuff Neuro.

Any chance you could so a piece on trance drums?

You mean, the Neuro drums.

I picked up a lot from watching the tutorial. I've tried to get "that" sound by all kinds of different ways. The way in the tutorial is one kind of clear way of doing it.

ICN

Are you using Loops Matt?

If so, would like to see how you handle / treat them

Neurojazz

ICN wrote: »

Are you using Loops Matt?

If so, would like to see how you handle / treat them

Very rarely - but RMX owners can expect to see how to abuse that at some point. I usually only use a loop if knocking ideas up together and need something that is fiddly to make - usually the running hats as they would waste 5-10mins (and as a parent that's an eternity

ICN

Haha @ the eternity thing - Snap

Well, if you wanna show anything in regards to the loops you do use, I'd like to see what you do.

Neurojazz

seannash wrote: »

Great stuff Neuro.

Any chance you could so a piece on trance drums?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ_Ejo-oPiE

The basics there - now what do you want the focus on?

Neurojazz

ICN wrote: »

Are you using Loops Matt?

If so, would like to see how you handle / treat them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUcCCZqIlbo

Basic processing - but can go much deeper...

It's a pity i can't link to a project i've just completed as that has a bucket full of techniques going on - but will be spilled once released.

More recently i've been trying to use as little of a loop as possible and mangle it up to create pure grains of the original sound - this gave the whole EP a distinctive lo-fi sound but with good clarity.

Neurojazz

Another one a little deeper for leads/melodies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR8xHF0Uhf0

red dave

I must say... I'm finding these little videos absolute gold.

Screw the books

seannash

Neurojazz wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ_Ejo-oPiE

The basics there - now what do you want the focus on?

Great stuff man,
You should chuck these in the resources thread also

Neurojazz

seannash wrote: »

Great stuff man,
You should chuck these in the resources thread also

Yeah will do once we've been through anything people want and i'll sort them all out into a clean post

Neurojazz

What do you guys want next? - I have most the day free to do some more

ICN

Layering a bassline

A short percussive type one? and maybe a longer synth bass type one.

Do you usually do it in Octaves, or like a chord?

Would like to see your advice on EQ'n, compression etc.. in regards to it :cool:

Neurojazz

ICN wrote: »

Layering a bassline

A short percussive type one? and maybe a longer synth bass type one.

Do you usually do it in Octaves, or like a chord?

Would like to see your advice on EQ'n, compression etc.. in regards to it :cool:

Ok, when you mean bass line... you mean just the lower driving one and not leads etc? (just to be clear - as some people call leads basslines because of the pesky 303 )

I'll do this is Sylenth as that's pretty generic sounds.

ICN

The language we speak is a complicated thing - You're right to check

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Yeah.. Lower stuff.

Say if your Kick is A0 / 55hz.. How you then go about layering something that cuts through & has weight.

I usually would try & construct a chord with the layers.. but I would like to see how you would approach it with your experience.

Great watching how you work Matt.. You're very good at communicating the ideas.

Neurojazz

ICN wrote: »

Yeah.. Lower stuff.

Say if your Kick is A0 / 55hz.. How you then go about layering something that cuts through & has weight.

I usually would try & construct a chord with the layers.. but I would like to see how you would approach it with your experience.

Great watching how you work Matt.. You're very good at communicating the ideas.

Ok, I usually make one synth do all the work - Sylenth can also do tuned osc - for Electro and such - here's the basic Trance vid - please get back if there are grey areas in any of this stuff (even lurkers should chip in and ask as I could be dead tommorow :P )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLOGYt2E_SE

Neurojazz

And a quick one for leads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evoa6RTFhUA

krd

NJ, thanks for all the vids.

I've got quite a bit out of it. Especially tiny little bits of technique.

I've even started a Trance track that sounds like something. I was thinking of calling it The Rings of Uranus - though I'll probably have to change that - it does sound spacey though.

krd

You know. What I'd really like is if you could talk randomly over the structure of a track you've already completed. The more random the better.

Neurojazz

krd wrote: »

You know. What I'd really like is if you could talk randomly over the structure of a track you've already completed. The more random the better.

haha, anything constructive or just ramblings?

krd

Neurojazz wrote: »

haha, anything constructive or just ramblings?

The rambling is constructive.


Anyone can show the basic "how to" - it's more the inbetweens where you say stuff - not with any particular clarity, but maybe clearer than if it was YTBS Rockschool

Like the bit in the drum tutorial where you played with the decay on the hi-hat and talked about it. I kind of knew that already, and had played with it before - but now I have a different understanding and feeling for it, just by watching you doing your thang. It would probably go completely over the head of an absolute beginner - but for someone who's tortuously tried to learn all the different ways of achieving something, and not being sure of any particular method, it can be illuminating.

You rambling away is great

Neurojazz

krd wrote: »

The rambling is constructive.


Anyone can show the basic "how to" - it's more the inbetweens where you say stuff - not with any particular clarity, but maybe clearer than if it was YTBS Rockschool

Like the bit in the drum tutorial where you played with the decay on the hi-hat and talked about it. I kind of knew that already, and had played with it before - but now I have a different understanding and feeling for it, just by watching you doing your thang. It would probably go completely over the head of an absolute beginner - but for someone who's tortuously tried to learn all the different ways of achieving something, and not being sure of any particular method, it can be illuminating.

You rambling away is great

Cool, i'll slacken up on a few tutorials a bit more lol - usually I ramble way to much anyway and these i'm in are pretty lucid lol, i'll have time on thursday and will go right off on a tangent for you - something pretty different

Neurojazz

krd wrote: »

The rambling is constructive.

Ok, rambling posted up here (and a couple of other new ones).

Youtube is allowing me to upload longer videos now also - so maybe can post some actual sessions soon (with rambling)

Let me know if that's the sort of thing you wanted!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEczAAn53oc

krd

Neurojazz wrote: »

Ok, rambling posted up here (and a couple of other new ones).

Youtube is allowing me to upload longer videos now also - so maybe can post some actual sessions soon (with rambling)

Let me know if that's the sort of thing you wanted!

Yeah, that's precisely what I meant. Yeah, actually that was really good.


Now to apply it.

Neurojazz

krd wrote: »

Yeah, that's precisely what I meant. Yeah, actually that was really good.


Now to apply it.

Cool - I can do more on Thursday - so any gaps or stuff you'd like more detail on (or new subjects/vsts) just ask and i'll get on it.

romarr

Be interested in hearing your advice / see a vid on prepping material for playing out - Live sets

Neurojazz

romarr wrote: »

Be interested in hearing your advice / see a vid on prepping material for playing out - Live sets

Cool - quite a bit goes on there, If your into the Trance side also (and not my EDM antics) - Stuart is doing a Q&A on Reddits Trance section and you can quiz him there for advanced stuff about the main Binary set work that goes on

http://www.reddit.com/r/trance/comments/gwlpa/binary_finary_ama/

Will try to get that video up for Monday or maybe even tomorrow

romarr

Neurojazz wrote: »

Cool - quite a bit goes on there, If your into the Trance side also (and not my EDM antics) - Stuart is doing a Q&A on Reddits Trance section and you can quiz him there for advanced stuff about the main Binary set work that goes on

http://www.reddit.com/r/trance/comments/gwlpa/binary_finary_ama/

I'll have a trawl through that - more into the edm antics myself

Neurojazz wrote: »

Will try to get that video up for Monday or maybe even tomorrow

ta !

krd

romarr wrote: »

Be interested in hearing your advice / see a vid on prepping material for playing out - Live sets

You're playing on the 6th?


Mp3s and don't forget to wear the mouse head.

Neurojazz

romarr wrote: »

I'll have a trawl through that - more into the edm antics myself



ta !

Here's a casual one about live - just ask if you want details on any area.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6pji1RAlHU

krd

NJ, that was a really great piece. Lots of really excellent stuff in there I'd never heard before.


I'll throw in something I know about laptops - that I've found out the hard way. Never block the fan intake (kind of obvious). Before you use the laptop - when it's switched off - blow through the fan outflow, to blow away dust build ups - since the fan airflow is one way, it has a habit of picking up deposits, the normal flow doesn't clear - mine picks up fag ash. Dust on the processor can causes a serious overheating problem - all processors have a panic, if they sense they're overheating - usually 80c, they automatically clock down - or trigger another panic that shuts off the machine (if you're in a hot room the chances are, if the processor can't cool as quickly as it normally would, you'll have a problem). Also be careful of sudden temperature changes - laptops are designed to run at room temperature. If you're at a winter festival in Poland and your laptop has been chilling at -10c, it will not like it when you try to wake it up. The shock could be enough to make it die.


Thanks again for doing that tutorial.

electrogrimey

Wow, how did I miss this thread. Gold.

Looking forward to a nice session watching these and then making music.

Any chance of one on self-mastering?

Neurojazz

electrogrimey wrote: »

Wow, how did I miss this thread. Gold.

Looking forward to a nice session watching these and then making music.

Any chance of one on self-mastering?

Cool cheers - There are some little bits of self mastering in there - but something to be avoided because of the issues with speakers/rooms etc...

But saying that will do a brief run over typical things to avoid doing!

I've got another 3-4 videos to do today, If i get a chance i'll show some tricks in them today

eeloe

I think we can all agree here that this thread deserves it's own sticky??

electrogrimey

And maybe an edit of the thread title.

Neurojazz

I promise i will clean this up and turn it into a meta thread - but life is hectic at the moment

eeloe

Are you the only mod here NJ?

If ya needed a bit of help arranging the place I'd be able to lend a few hours a week!