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