No lie, this may be one of the most helpful videos I've seen. I am naturally an over-thinker and this made starting chord progressions easier to understand.
This is actually the worst ever piece of information online. What this does is misleading and making you think you got it by just sticking a bunch of pre made chord progressions. This is about making music, and making music is about making your own, so the advice I can give you is to go actually learn about progressions within a music environment instead of learning it from a random producer online.
@@leonardodruscovich2131 This is exactly learning progressions typical of liquid drum and bass. This is root note selection and certainly useful theoretical knowledge for any budding producer
In FL Studio you can enable Scale highlighting for a specific scale in the piano roll via the top left menu > View > Scale Highlighting. LIFESAVER TIP: If you rightclick the Scale/Root Note it changes the settings, but is not closing the menu :D Also if you opened the piano roll menu you can jump to this option by inputting V > Enter > S > S > Enter (if you input a character it jumps to the menu option with the same beginning letter, enter leads to the submenu).
Hey stranjah! Great tutorial as always! I wanted to point out one minor mistake in this video and the last - I actually caught it in the breaks video. Your sample is in the key of B Minor, not F# minor. Most of the baselines still work because you are essentially treating the 5th of the key as the tonic, but there are a few that end up with notes not in the key of the sample and there’s a bit of dissonance which is why some of these progressions sound better than others. Still, great stuff!
@@STRANJAH No sweat man, we're all eternal students in this biz! I'm not sure if you know this, but the title of a sample usually contains the key it is in. For your vocal stem and keys sample, it had "Bm" in the title. I first noticed it on Tracklib in your breaks video though, where it said on the site underneath the song the key that it was in. Have a look in your last video when talking about Tracklib and your sample choice to see what I mean. :)
@@thenoobasaurus7840 Yes I knew it was Bm, but most of the basslines that sounded good to me started at F#, which made me wonder. Did they label the key incorrectly. Help me understand what's going on with my perception of the keys.
I didn't notice it. But I find it funny how easy I can tell when someone's bass is offkey, but when I get to work with a sample I'm always second guessing myself. It's a good idea to hide the notes of your own chords and then make a bass line to train your ear for it. It's definitely something that took me a while with no musical experience, but the best way I can describe it is that the bass should hit mainly on the least wobbly note for the duration of each chord.
@STRANJAH I got out my guitar to see what was going on with the original track, and you are right -- the song follows a chord progression of DMaj7 / E Maj / D Maj 7 / F Minor. So yes, the song is actually mislabeled, and it is in the key of A Major/F# Minor. The vocal lines are mostly sung in the F# Minor Pentatonic scale. The reason some of the basslines sound off is because of a chord building concept known as "inversions." The bass note of a chord is actually fairly important because it identifies which inversion the chord is. There are 4 common types, which I'll demonstrate with a D Major7 chord, since that's the chord this track revolves around: Standard - D F# A C# (Standard stacked 3rd chord) First Inversion - F# D A C# (Third in the bass) Second Inversion - A C# F# D (Fifth in the bass) Third inversion - C# A F# D (Seventh in the bass) If you notice in my example above, the order of the notes above the bass note don't actually matter, and you can shuffle them into different octaves to make different chord voicings. Some of these progressions may have sounded off because it didn't fit into on e of these inversion types, which can actually alter it into a completely different chord in some cases. That actually happens in your 3-7-1 example, since the sample is playing an EMaj Chord over that F# in your bass. You actually turned the chord under it into an F#7b5sus2 (thats a mouthful, lol) chord, which will alter the vibe of the track -- with this one being a very dissonant diminished chord in this case. If you aren't using seventh chords in your song, you can ignore the third inversion and just go with a standard, first, or second inversion. The reason F# sounded so good to start each progression is because F# is the third of the Dmaj7 chord, and the third is the note in a chord that has the strongest resolution. The 5th (A in this case) also would sound good, but not quite as good as the 3rd. This also applies to melodies - try targeting thirds and fifths in a melody on the down beat and see what I mean. This opened up my musical expression a lot when I was taught this particular trick when I was learning jazz. In any case, creating a bassline following these "rules" will ensure it basically always sounds good, and doesn't sound wonky. Search up chord inversions and functional harmony here on youtube for more info. There's tons of great info around it. And sorry if you already knew this, but it might be useful for someone else who comes along!
Yeah man. Love that you're dropping in some basic music theory. Too many "producers" sleeping on that. Just knowing some basics will open up a whole new world if you're starting out producing and you'll feel like you've actually created something rather than just playing sonic Lego with samples and midi packs.
Dude the way you started this video out was amazing! Also "May not even hit the root note and thats ok, as long as it sounds good" Best Music theory ive heard in a while haha! Keep up the videos no doubt you will be over 100k Subs soon.
Supposing you're not on a chromatic scale, then build simple chords over your bassline, harmonize them by ear. Now you can break those chords down to various single notes to be used to construct a melody.
You should be getting money from ableton. I gave up on logic, bought ableton. Then i bought push2 and now my little universe is a complete place :D I bought it after going thru Your tutorials, and got annoyed with translating LIVE to Logic
So I appreciate all the sharing you do I realise the title is a little click baity! BUT damn I really hate the attitude warning people about sharing things; it’s so so gate keepery 😅
Fk nah brah. TH-camr bullshit. It's like when an influencer or TH-camr starts a vid with "a lot of people have asked me..." when what they really mean is one random dude.
I just watched some of your videos and I don't find anything useful so far. You're just adding a filter to a saw and that's all. It doesn't sound professional or like the basses you find in actual dnb. I don't use to write bad reviews, this is my first one.
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Please do this for neurofunk dnb as well dude, would be so awesome!
@@kiliankeil1985Neuro usually does 1-2-1-2 etc. With the occasional octave in there. Also, just 1-1-1-1 is very common.
No lie, this may be one of the most helpful videos I've seen. I am naturally an over-thinker and this made starting chord progressions easier to understand.
This is actually the worst ever piece of information online. What this does is misleading and making you think you got it by just sticking a bunch of pre made chord progressions. This is about making music, and making music is about making your own, so the advice I can give you is to go actually learn about progressions within a music environment instead of learning it from a random producer online.
@@leonardodruscovich2131 This is exactly learning progressions typical of liquid drum and bass. This is root note selection and certainly useful theoretical knowledge for any budding producer
In FL Studio you can enable Scale highlighting for a specific scale in the piano roll via the top left menu > View > Scale Highlighting. LIFESAVER TIP: If you rightclick the Scale/Root Note it changes the settings, but is not closing the menu :D
Also if you opened the piano roll menu you can jump to this option by inputting V > Enter > S > S > Enter
(if you input a character it jumps to the menu option with the same beginning letter, enter leads to the submenu).
Working on a liquid tune as we speak and was looking for exactly this when it popped up in my recommended. Brilliant timing Stranjah haha
This happens a lot. It really is nice when it does.
Ur an absolute legend and THE MOST helpful when learning how to produce good quality dnb. Respect ❤
Stranjah out here carrying the DNB community on his back. Thanks for this, dude!
This stuff is amazing info. Would have needed this 10 years ago when I started. With all these tools around now I need to start producing again haha.
What an awesome gift for today!!!
Crazy value inside this video, for example the scale feature in Ableton
I've been using Ableton for about 3 years now and I didn't know that was a thing
Love these "common patterns" videos, keep it up!
best way to start christmas! happy holidays stranjah :)
Hey stranjah! Great tutorial as always! I wanted to point out one minor mistake in this video and the last - I actually caught it in the breaks video. Your sample is in the key of B Minor, not F# minor. Most of the baselines still work because you are essentially treating the 5th of the key as the tonic, but there are a few that end up with notes not in the key of the sample and there’s a bit of dissonance which is why some of these progressions sound better than others.
Still, great stuff!
Was wondering about that. Alas I still have much to learn about music theory!
@@STRANJAH No sweat man, we're all eternal students in this biz! I'm not sure if you know this, but the title of a sample usually contains the key it is in. For your vocal stem and keys sample, it had "Bm" in the title. I first noticed it on Tracklib in your breaks video though, where it said on the site underneath the song the key that it was in. Have a look in your last video when talking about Tracklib and your sample choice to see what I mean. :)
@@thenoobasaurus7840 Yes I knew it was Bm, but most of the basslines that sounded good to me started at F#, which made me wonder. Did they label the key incorrectly. Help me understand what's going on with my perception of the keys.
I didn't notice it. But I find it funny how easy I can tell when someone's bass is offkey, but when I get to work with a sample I'm always second guessing myself. It's a good idea to hide the notes of your own chords and then make a bass line to train your ear for it. It's definitely something that took me a while with no musical experience, but the best way I can describe it is that the bass should hit mainly on the least wobbly note for the duration of each chord.
@STRANJAH I got out my guitar to see what was going on with the original track, and you are right -- the song follows a chord progression of DMaj7 / E Maj / D Maj 7 / F Minor. So yes, the song is actually mislabeled, and it is in the key of A Major/F# Minor. The vocal lines are mostly sung in the F# Minor Pentatonic scale.
The reason some of the basslines sound off is because of a chord building concept known as "inversions." The bass note of a chord is actually fairly important because it identifies which inversion the chord is. There are 4 common types, which I'll demonstrate with a D Major7 chord, since that's the chord this track revolves around:
Standard - D F# A C# (Standard stacked 3rd chord)
First Inversion - F# D A C# (Third in the bass)
Second Inversion - A C# F# D (Fifth in the bass)
Third inversion - C# A F# D (Seventh in the bass)
If you notice in my example above, the order of the notes above the bass note don't actually matter, and you can shuffle them into different octaves to make different chord voicings. Some of these progressions may have sounded off because it didn't fit into on e of these inversion types, which can actually alter it into a completely different chord in some cases. That actually happens in your 3-7-1 example, since the sample is playing an EMaj Chord over that F# in your bass. You actually turned the chord under it into an F#7b5sus2 (thats a mouthful, lol) chord, which will alter the vibe of the track -- with this one being a very dissonant diminished chord in this case. If you aren't using seventh chords in your song, you can ignore the third inversion and just go with a standard, first, or second inversion.
The reason F# sounded so good to start each progression is because F# is the third of the Dmaj7 chord, and the third is the note in a chord that has the strongest resolution. The 5th (A in this case) also would sound good, but not quite as good as the 3rd. This also applies to melodies - try targeting thirds and fifths in a melody on the down beat and see what I mean. This opened up my musical expression a lot when I was taught this particular trick when I was learning jazz. In any case, creating a bassline following these "rules" will ensure it basically always sounds good, and doesn't sound wonky. Search up chord inversions and functional harmony here on youtube for more info. There's tons of great info around it. And sorry if you already knew this, but it might be useful for someone else who comes along!
Great video Alan! Happy Holidays
Thanks so much, I've been struggling to understand this type stuff recently and this video has made it click for me
You mentioned Seba. Seba's "It Aint the Weather" is one of my all time favourite dnb tunes.
Seba's probably the most consistently outstanding DnB producer in the biz. And he's been in the game for So Long...
@@neurokinetik I agree. I also love S.P.Y., Visages and Mystic State
That gets played nearly everytime in my car when listening to Seba!! that's one of my driving tracks!!
Seba is s legend 🔥🔥👊🏾😎
@@neurokinetik I see what you did there, even though it was Camouflaged.
Many thanks Stranjah. Primo content as always. I really enjoy and appreciate your teachings mate. Respect
Yeah man. Love that you're dropping in some basic music theory. Too many "producers" sleeping on that. Just knowing some basics will open up a whole new world if you're starting out producing and you'll feel like you've actually created something rather than just playing sonic Lego with samples and midi packs.
Really great video. Workflow technique like this is solid gold.
Thanks!
As always, giving tips that will actually help me complete songs.
Dude the way you started this video out was amazing! Also "May not even hit the root note and thats ok, as long as it sounds good" Best Music theory ive heard in a while haha! Keep up the videos no doubt you will be over 100k Subs soon.
If it doesn't hit the rote note of the scale you selected, it's hitting the root note of a different scale. Music theory is real.
There is no such thing as 6-7-1 minor progression. This is just 1-2-3 lydian progression.
Thanks for sharing! Makes for a great Christmas gift!
Thanks for this. Really helpful! Also, really liked the track that played in the background of the Sponsor section (with the trumpets).
Look up STRANJAH Elysium
@@STRANJAH Cheers! Nice track! :)
thank you stranjah you are the best!
Any tips on how to write melodies / chords to go with these basslines?
Supposing you're not on a chromatic scale, then build simple chords over your bassline, harmonize them by ear. Now you can break those chords down to various single notes to be used to construct a melody.
Temperance is a classic! Both sides were fire.
great idea writing basslines in Roman numeral/numerical notation.
Advanced-ish producer here, thank you.
It's easy to get lost coming up with new bass lines, this was great
Thanks for the knowledge my friend
You are an absolute blessing. So much appreciation for you
Dude please do thisfor neurofunk, too.. would be awesome !
Great and inspirational 🖤 (Cool u mention Seba, great producer) Thanks!
Wow, great Idea an really helpful! Great overall channel, even for a non-DNB producer
my stocking got stuffed w/ this video!
Niiice!
I really enjoy the way you break things down. Good job dude.
Just a question, you mentioned at 01:33 an interview about contextualization. Could you post a link, because i cant find it? Thank you 🌻
37 minutes in. th-cam.com/video/zeD0g5xXo7E/w-d-xo.html
@@STRANJAH Thank you very much 🌻
Perfect timing cheers 👊
Thanks for sharing. Informative as usual.
Dude, I'm very impressed, this is exactly what I was looking for, progressions. 10/10 you rock, greetings from Spain!
1/3rd of the way through, and I've learned so much.
Another amazing video. Thanks a lot
very helpful fpr my future tracks thc mate
Hey stranjah, will you ever take a look at the sonic frontiers ost? Specifically stage 1-2, I feel like you’d like it!
Great stuff man 🎉❤
thanks bro bless up
You should be getting money from ableton. I gave up on logic, bought ableton. Then i bought push2 and now my little universe is a complete place :D I bought it after going thru Your tutorials, and got annoyed with translating LIVE to Logic
That’s a huge complement. Thank you.
Great tutorial!
Thank you!🤩
Nice one brother!
Really great info Thanks.
You're a fucking saint brother thank you so much
Imma ask at 20:59 Is this Audio without your vocalchain... Or another mic? 🤣
Recording was lost so I had to use the camera audio
@@STRANJAH aaah okay 🙏
Awesome, good man. 👍🏻
So I appreciate all the sharing you do I realise the title is a little click baity! BUT damn I really hate the attitude warning people about sharing things; it’s so so gate keepery 😅
It was harder to gatekeep back in the day..I'm all for sharing techniques also
*Cough cough* always uploads dope content *cough cough*
Thanks glad you like
Thank you so much
You're most welcome
i have ableton but cant find that scale feature u use at 3:55 😫
Big up Stranjah!
King!
Thanks
king
Great video! Vocal annoyed me to death tho
Thanks!
wheres the vocal 1-3-6-5 from?
Tracklib... Can't Refuse by J.Lamotta
Thanks Bro.
Geddon
Obrigado❤
Now how do we master to sound like hospital records??
you make dance music too ? i love dance music !
I do. Any fave songs?
@@STRANJAH i like so much different music. I grew up in the 90´s i listened all Drum and Bass. Eurodance was big then, Trance....
Amen
Make some burial bro be cool
Who warned you? Blink twice if you are in danger.
It was cymatics
He was WARNED…
…by liquid DnB producers! 😂 Look out!
Mate your channel is already highly successful. You don’t need clickbaity video titles like “I was warned not to give this away”
Just my £.02
Is someone telling you what to dress?if you dont understand...just dont share your opinion ;)
What is this title 😂😂😂
This tutorial made a click noise inside my head.
who warned you?
Did anyone actually warn you? 😮
Fk nah brah. TH-camr bullshit. It's like when an influencer or TH-camr starts a vid with "a lot of people have asked me..." when what they really mean is one random dude.
I just watched some of your videos and I don't find anything useful so far. You're just adding a filter to a saw and that's all. It doesn't sound professional or like the basses you find in actual dnb. I don't use to write bad reviews, this is my first one.
Hi @stranjah, I have trid to get the bass pack but no email came. Could you by any chance update the link?
21:40 1-6-7 is from commix - painted smile iirc