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Good afternoon all! I hope you enjoyed yesterday as much as I did. I will leave the downloads up until Tuesday. Thanks again for making www.mstrismusic.com a success!

I have family coming over today and we’ll continue with the extra hours of live help tomorrow, closing out the anniversary celebration…

As promised I wanted to make a special “Anniversary Beat” for free download. I thought..perfect timing for our next tutorial! For those new to my tutorials please keep in mind that they are my ‘suggested’ ways of making beats, or ways to get you started. You should always try different techniques until you find some that are right for you…

This tutorial will be pretty extensive so we will work in two or three parts..and even leave you with some homework

We have discussed chord progressions, snare rolls, mixing kicks in Reason, and even arranging verses and bars in a song. We should be ready to roll through easily to a complete composition now.

The most difficult part of Dirty South style hiphop is the “double timing technique”. I guess the easiest way to explain with out confusing you is: I am making a Beat at 73 bpm. All elements of my beat will be placed at 73bpm EXCEPT HI HATS and SNARE ROLLS. This means my chord progressions, kicks, and main snare will be at 73bpm tempo while my hi hats and snares rolls will be 146bpm.

My way of achieving this, is to add hi hats first. I go into the piano roll on my redrum hi hat channel. I select 1/32 for my time signature. This will allow me to double the time placement of my hihats from 1/16 steps to 1/32 steps. I start placing hihats on each line.You will have to zoom in to get your window as pictured below.
1. Add Hihats

You clearly hear the hihats are going faster than my metronome/ click track:**note** I will the leave click track loud so you can hear it over other sounds**

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From here it gets easier if you remember to place all other elements in time with the metronome/click.

Let’s say you’d like to add drums by playing your midi keyboard. Listen to the metronome/click track and add your kick and snare in time with it instead of hihats:

Kick Snare w/ double time hihats

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When we look at this pattern you can see the hihats are placed in faster time signature increments than kick and snare. The Hihats are placed at 1/32 and the kick and snare at 1/16:

OR you can play your chord progression in time with the metronome/click.

For this beat I will be using:

Em l F l G l Am
EGB FAC GBD ACE

which make up an Em chord progression.

You can start with any of the chords to begin your beat. For this example I started with G and F, in time with the click track.

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You now have a foundation to start with. For homework/practice try starting your beat in a small 2 bar section using the above technique, with the following settings.

Then copy and paste your 2 bars another 3 times..

This progression and drum pattern is enough to get a great beat started..we’ll continue tomorrow with some major changes and additions…

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Happy Beat making To All..
Pz Til Later..

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