producing is a great tool for writing, it makes music easier to make for the average person, and it can create sounds not achievable anywhere else, but when you use producing to sound like real instruments then its stupid unless you cant get real instruments, i just want to let people know that yes a drum machine is perfect, it will never fall out of time, but it will also never "groove" like a person, the reason you like music is the human element whether you think so or not.
You can absolutely play and program a drum machine to have micro timing issues and swing to give a "human" feel. Most of the time acoustic drums are tracked now, they're lined perfectly to grid anyway. But I am a huge fan of using at least 1 or 2 organic elements to give a production life. This track had live tracked guitars and a couple perc loops that I played myself and then processed :D
I swap around the mic and pres depending on the song at hand. I’ve covered processing my vocals in a few videos though. Check the How to Mix Pop Vocals Like A Pro video!
Does not matter. Think about many huge celloists or pianists. It's not possible to do everything. This is the reason we need pianists, drummers, singers, writers AND producers. And even then you need people who are awesome sound-engineers and mixers/masteringpeople. Music-production ALWAYS is teamwork :)
One of the best “beginning to end” production tutorials I’ve seen in a long time. Perfect if you already learned all the “tricks” and know your DAW and just need the process laid out. You just got a “like & subscribe” from me. Thanks a million. Exactly what I’ve been looking for for months.
finally a POP tutorial, I keep seeing trap beat tutorials lol, this was a great video I am definitely subbing! Also the song gives me major Lauv vibes lol
Found your channel about a week ago, and I just want to thank you for such amazing content. I feel like I just cant even describe how grateful I am to you. Not knowing how to produce the sound that is in my head was one of the most frustrating things for me as an artist. Thanks to you I can finally make those dreams/sounds a reality. Plus you make such great music it's insane! Love Make Pop Music, you have a permanent fan here!
It's crazy how you always stack up all of these elements, but the tracks all ways sound cohesive. Thanks so much for tutorials, they have helped me out countless times. Love from Brooklyn New York!
Hey, man, I felt like saying this, this video does have a lot of comments already, but yet, I still wanna say a big thank you for all the work done. It must be a lot of hours of a background work, such as recording vocals etc, a lot of arrangement, like those little things ike keeping your instruments in separate color folders etc. So, honestly I'm blown away by how organic the video is while it's so hard to keep that kind of the workflow so smooth. Basically that's what I'm impressed by. When I do stuff like that, my projects do take time because of the workflow and how instruments sit in the track too tight, fighting each other sometimes, that's how many ideas I usually have. And this one here came out quite organic, organized and nice. So, good job and thanks for all of your work. Here's a high five man! :)
as a beginner, I didn't know how to translate every little thing in my mind into the DAW until I saw this video. Thanks so much! See you on the red carpet!
When I'm using the camel crusher to distort the bongo like you did but it sounds more static-y and messy... Is there another processing step that I need to take? Is this an issue with the sample? Your bongo loop sounds so much cleaner even without the gate and eq... Thanks for the tutorials! I'm learning a lot from all your videos!
Austin, your channel is pure gold for me. I'm just starting out producing, I'm a guitarist and songwriter and at first really hit a roadblock because production it can be so overwhelming and frustrating, but I'm starting to see first results and i am super pumped to dive deeper into production and learn as much as I can and your tutorials are like shortcuts that help so much. Thanks so much!!
Man, this is one of your simpler videos and I still feel like I’m a long way from where producing my own stuff is fun and not frustrating. I wish you’d produce me 😭 You are an Artist.
I’m not a pop music fan at all .. mainly because I only listen to progressive rock and jazz … I’m a guitar player and music theory nut… I want to thank you for all your videos … the music is growing on me due to your videos… but what I love most about your videos. You force me to simplify my music … and not analyzing my own stuff to death … I’m a new fan and subscriber … your lessons can apply to any style .. from simple to advanced… your a great reminder the audience needs to connect to the music …. They don’t always understand advanced formulas of music theory… thanks for making music fun again 🙏
This tutorial is PURE GOLD! thank you. I'm definitely subscribing. The step by step detail you don't entirely see anywhere else. This video just makes sense, at least for me.
I’ve released a handful of tracks! I’m super busy working with other artists though. And I do the MPM stuff. I would say I work on a few hundred records a year for artists 😁
I didn't know that making music is this bard but it's all worth it, thank you for this this really helped now I just need to figure out how to compose 😂
What kind of guitar is being used as the main sample? It sounds stupid, but i've always wanted to know. for example you KNOW an acoustic guitar when you hear one, a hard metal rock, etc
This was a Fender Strat Pro. It’s basically exactly the same setup and processing as the How To Make The Perfect POP Guitar Tone video we posted last week!
Once I heard the drums added, I was completely unlocked from the actual one count. To me it felt like the "e"of 4 or the and of three became the one count because the guitar lead sounds like an anacrusis where the last note finishes on one. Really confusing and I can't unhear it anymore.
Brilliant tutorial! Would love to see any tutorials related to getting a similar sound that Bieber's latest album has as that's a sound I'm really trying to achieve
All about trial and error, and getting to know your plugins and your personal style. I normally look for "what needs to be added to what I've already got? Does it need more body, more width, more warmth, more transient, more texture, etc. And then I can either make or find the sound closest to what I hear in my head, then just eq and process them so they blend together nicely.
You've got a lot of soul and funk in your production, I mean like it's not your typical 1/4 beat pop. Creative and individualized style. Sounds real good!
Great vid, really succinct and effective steps. I do some production myself and was a bit jammed up today and your video really helped get the ideas flowing again. Much love
Me too, i realized how simple and generic it is to make trap beats, like everybody can make a trap beat its just a intro, bassline and some melody loops haha but its good for starting out in DAWs
Damn thank you so much! Do you have any recommendations for what type of editing softwares or whatever to use? Idk if my laptop is powerful enough to run thee biggest ones. Any recommendations?
Really appreciate seeing stuff like this, helps give you a checklist so when you get stuck you can just move on to the next thing on the list. I get analysis and choice paralysis and get stuck but when there's a "recipe" to follow you can just move on to the next step instead of over-thinking everything and getting paralyzed.
Finally the kind of video I have been looking for... your approach feels more like how I think about music, and you show stuff that I would want to use. Cool video. Cool style. Cool personality. Thank you for the help!
Your videos are great at helping me understand popular music! I am starting to use the information you give me, but the road seems long and hard! (anyone else just getting started?) Thank you for the content you build!
Hey Austin, how did you end up with your 2 guitar tracks? The waveforms look identical but theres no phase issues. Did you just record one and duplicate it or did you record two actual different takes? Thanks again!
Hey Austin. I just wanna say I really love your positive energy. I hope I can become the same, it's really inspiring. It's just cool listen to you talk even besides for the production stuff, I enjoy the non biased approach
I am 12yrs old and I actually wrote a six songs,but the problem is I don't know how to produce it, because I don't have PC and other instrumental ,but I can play guitar,my guitar was damage and I throw it out there;I was finding some music producer to produce my songs in IG but couldn't find..HAHAHA can someone help me please!!
Hello Austin, you seem like you know your stuff so I had a question for you. Cubase (the DAW you used for this video) is really expensive (since I am a new artist and don't have the money to afford a DAW like this) and the one I use (Soundtrap) doesn't have all these features and so I was wondering if there was an affordable DAW you would recommend.
what's up man, you think you could make a video with tips and tricks for cubase workflow ? I'm trying to switch from ableton and logic after many years and i'm finding really hard to adapt with cubase.
I’ve made a video on my favorite features for Cubase. There are already tons of amazing videos on TH-cam for getting around Cubase. The videos on the official Steinberg channel are great and Chris Selim has some awesome videos!
@@MakePopMusic Thanks for the quick response, yeah..i was watching that video on favorite cubase features literally just a minute ago. Sorry wasting your time replying ^_^
i love your music austin... ton of good wishes to you...many thanks for sharing your secrets...this is the only channel where i get real arrangement tips. take a bow 🙌
Hello sir l am from lndia l have a vision for pop music from lndia to the world but l have no grp...no music equipments no one for background music...l can sing and dance...lndia have never come up in this field....
Holy shit this was elucidating. I always kept trying to add fresh parts to add depth to my tracks. I'm just gonna experiment with layering now. You have so few distinct melodies/progressions yet there's tons of contrast between the parts. Incredible!
This isn't mixed. Just a rough mix as I produce. I always kind of mix as I go, and then I personally go back once the production is finalized and make my tweaks and do the fine detailed mixing. If I wasn't going to mix it myself, I would wrap up my production and print the stems then with my processing AI do as I go.
Hey Austin, maybe can you make a tutorial or even split it into like 3 parts on creating an arrangement and production for your song before you record vocals, because I can speak for myself and I’ve already written lyrics and melodies but I cant seem to make the production kind of sync with it, no matter what I try I can’t fit my bass and snaps to anything? Anyways I saved your songs on Spotify, thanks for viewing this whether or not you can help me I don’t know but keep up the good work anyways!! 👍 😊
My problem is don't know how to make the tracks sound good. I can play the instruments and sing but it sounds like garbage well I try to make the complete song and record it
This is the first production tutorial I've seen where the production is actually 100% viable in today's market
Look up LXGEND, he's seriously great!
You sound like a cop
Hogman 5000 he the feds
imagine if he did it in FL studio
You can’t call this crap a song
producing is a great tool for writing, it makes music easier to make for the average person, and it can create sounds not achievable anywhere else, but when you use producing to sound like real instruments then its stupid unless you cant get real instruments, i just want to let people know that yes a drum machine is perfect, it will never fall out of time, but it will also never "groove" like a person, the reason you like music is the human element whether you think so or not.
You can absolutely play and program a drum machine to have micro timing issues and swing to give a "human" feel. Most of the time acoustic drums are tracked now, they're lined perfectly to grid anyway. But I am a huge fan of using at least 1 or 2 organic elements to give a production life. This track had live tracked guitars and a couple perc loops that I played myself and then processed :D
Thank you, Austin.
damn... you are my favourite person ..thankyou so much for all this knowledge
Cubase has the best reverbs built in any DAW
I would like to take a moment and say how good the vocals sound who is the artist ?
It’s my vocal 😁
@@MakePopMusic whatttt its really good Austin, mind sharing ur vocal chain if you havent already ?
I swap around the mic and pres depending on the song at hand. I’ve covered processing my vocals in a few videos though. Check the How to Mix Pop Vocals Like A Pro video!
Is there is fix instruments for making pop music , Please clear my doubt.
What program is thsi
a lyrics and writing tutorial too, much needed for us beginners
Yes please and how to create vocal melodies !!
Okay!
I'm pretty sure he had a livestream about that, don't know if it's still up
write write write
study songs u like
You feed us with top charts stuff friend. So generously. So positively. You were born for this. Top performance too. Keep it up.
It’s so crazy that this information is FREE i can’t express how grateful i am for your channel
For me making lyrics is easy but making the song or producing it like I still need to learn
Does not matter. Think about many huge celloists or pianists. It's not possible to do everything. This is the reason we need pianists, drummers, singers, writers AND producers. And even then you need people who are awesome sound-engineers and mixers/masteringpeople.
Music-production ALWAYS is teamwork :)
@@MarcShake aww thankyou so much I just woke up and this is the first thing I saw... THANKYOU IT REALLY MEANS ALOT!!. ❤️✨
@@thisismelol3429 can u write lyrics for me brother or can u give some of ur song's which u've written ?
Wanna write for me? I produce and sing
I'm the exact opposite! Getting an instrumental down is super easy for me, but finding something to write about...
One of the best “beginning to end” production tutorials I’ve seen in a long time. Perfect if you already learned all the “tricks” and know your DAW and just need the process laid out. You just got a “like & subscribe” from me. Thanks a million. Exactly what I’ve been looking for for months.
When you think you're good at music production but then you are watching this video and you rethink your whole past.
Never doubt or underestimate yourself
Just keep making music and you will gain experience so fast
finally a POP tutorial, I keep seeing trap beat tutorials lol, this was a great video I am definitely subbing!
Also the song gives me major Lauv vibes lol
You make it look so easy. It is a pretty insane feat for anyone to make a production like this. Well done.
Found your channel about a week ago, and I just want to thank you for such amazing content. I feel like I just cant even describe how grateful I am to you. Not knowing how to produce the sound that is in my head was one of the most frustrating things for me as an artist. Thanks to you I can finally make those dreams/sounds a reality. Plus you make such great music it's insane! Love Make Pop Music, you have a permanent fan here!
Thank you so much! You are the best teacher anyone could wish for.
Thank you! I actually went to school to be a teacher so I’m glad it’s paying off 😂😂😂
Who else came from their newsletter mail...
It's crazy how you always stack up all of these elements, but the tracks all ways sound cohesive. Thanks so much for tutorials, they have helped me out countless times. Love from Brooklyn New York!
Hey, man, I felt like saying this, this video does have a lot of comments already, but yet, I still wanna say a big thank you for all the work done. It must be a lot of hours of a background work, such as recording vocals etc, a lot of arrangement, like those little things ike keeping your instruments in separate color folders etc. So, honestly I'm blown away by how organic the video is while it's so hard to keep that kind of the workflow so smooth. Basically that's what I'm impressed by. When I do stuff like that, my projects do take time because of the workflow and how instruments sit in the track too tight, fighting each other sometimes, that's how many ideas I usually have. And this one here came out quite organic, organized and nice. So, good job and thanks for all of your work. Here's a high five man! :)
I don't know how many times I have watched this, whenever I get stuck I always seem to end up back here! Thank you!
as a beginner, I didn't know how to translate every little thing in my mind into the DAW until I saw this video. Thanks so much! See you on the red carpet!
When I'm using the camel crusher to distort the bongo like you did but it sounds more static-y and messy... Is there another processing step that I need to take? Is this an issue with the sample? Your bongo loop sounds so much cleaner even without the gate and eq... Thanks for the tutorials! I'm learning a lot from all your videos!
you just need a cleaner sample probably :)
i was literally just looking for something like this last night lol, thank you for all the really helpful content
Austin, your channel is pure gold for me. I'm just starting out producing, I'm a guitarist and songwriter and at first really hit a roadblock because production it can be so overwhelming and frustrating, but I'm starting to see first results and i am super pumped to dive deeper into production and learn as much as I can and your tutorials are like shortcuts that help so much. Thanks so much!!
Man, this is one of your simpler videos and I still feel like I’m a long way from where producing my own stuff is fun and not frustrating. I wish you’d produce me 😭 You are an Artist.
For me its actually fun to produce, but he make it seems so easy
I feel the same, shits rough
Yeah drop that knowledge
I’m not a pop music fan at all .. mainly because I only listen to progressive rock and jazz … I’m a guitar player and music theory nut… I want to thank you for all your videos … the music is growing on me due to your videos… but what I love most about your videos. You force me to simplify my music … and not analyzing my own stuff to death … I’m a new fan and subscriber … your lessons can apply to any style .. from simple to advanced… your a great reminder the audience needs to connect to the music …. They don’t always understand advanced formulas of music theory… thanks for making music fun again 🙏
Hi, this is really cool! May I ask what program you use to compose it?
Looool I got an add telling me how useless this tutorial will be and you just proved it wrong
Love the step by step guide, just starting to take my singer songwriter act to recording and producing, learnt so much about the process here, thanks.
This tutorial is PURE GOLD! thank you. I'm definitely subscribing. The step by step detail you don't entirely see anywhere else. This video just makes sense, at least for me.
YOU'RE A GENIUS GOD LIKE FIGURE OF MUSIC!!!!
Dude. Why don’t you have albums out? Or do you? You are literally a pop star. 🙌🏾
Minor socialist yeah. It’s awesome! Often better than what is out there too.
I’ve released a handful of tracks! I’m super busy working with other artists though. And I do the MPM stuff. I would say I work on a few hundred records a year for artists 😁
@@MakePopMusic That's awesome man! If you are looking any keys/synths players on any projects, let me know!
Can we put 808 in pop music?🤔
that vocoder sounds incredible
KMACK'S serious channel eh?
This is a gem! I'm so glad to know that generous people like you exist! 😊
I've watched a lot of your videos, Austin. Always awesome stuff but this was your best yet. Learned a ton, and what a great song. Congrats!
Thank you for this! Starting to produce my own songs and this is exactly what I need to get started.
Bro. I think a video on song arrangement from top to bottom would be killer. How to vary the different sections and fill in a complete song.
I didn't know that making music is this bard but it's all worth it, thank you for this this really helped now I just need to figure out how to compose 😂
What kind of guitar is being used as the main sample? It sounds stupid, but i've always wanted to know. for example you KNOW an acoustic guitar when you hear one, a hard metal rock, etc
This was a Fender Strat Pro. It’s basically exactly the same setup and processing as the How To Make The Perfect POP Guitar Tone video we posted last week!
this channel is underrated, deserves more attention!
Not underrated at all. Read the comments.
Shit mate, that's a ton of info. THANKS!
This guy is bomb but no ones gonna tell me where can I listen to this song 😂 ?
In the end of the video 😀
Once I heard the drums added, I was completely unlocked from the actual one count. To me it felt like the "e"of 4 or the and of three became the one count because the guitar lead sounds like an anacrusis where the last note finishes on one. Really confusing and I can't unhear it anymore.
U should make a How to make a Jaden "Cabin Fever" track
yes!
Another professional & useful video, Great job Austin !
Brilliant tutorial! Would love to see any tutorials related to getting a similar sound that Bieber's latest album has as that's a sound I'm really trying to achieve
We did one! Go check the channel 😁
@@MakePopMusic Legend!
This track is amazing mannnnnn!!! You are a BEAST!!!
How long did this take to make? OoO Also, could we get a video that groups together basic technique for creating moods and music genres?
How do you know which sounds/instruments to actually use when you LAYER, LAYER, LAYER? I think that's where I go wrong.
All about trial and error, and getting to know your plugins and your personal style. I normally look for "what needs to be added to what I've already got? Does it need more body, more width, more warmth, more transient, more texture, etc. And then I can either make or find the sound closest to what I hear in my head, then just eq and process them so they blend together nicely.
Lauv. & Lany would love everything about this
I couldn't figure out why I could make hip hop easy but not pop. This tutorial was laid out perfectly. Thank you!
Thank you so much!
You've got a lot of soul and funk in your production, I mean like it's not your typical 1/4 beat pop. Creative and individualized style. Sounds real good!
Great vid, really succinct and effective steps. I do some production myself and was a bit jammed up today and your video really helped get the ideas flowing again. Much love
Excellent insights into writing pop music Austin! Thank you for this great and thorough breakdown
thanks bro, just switching from Trap/ Trap soul and R&B to pop
Me too, i realized how simple and generic it is to make trap beats, like everybody can make a trap beat its just a intro, bassline and some melody loops haha but its good for starting out in DAWs
Simply inspirational, makes you want to get out of bed at 2 AM and start creating.
Let’s make a song!!
Damn thank you so much!
Do you have any recommendations for what type of editing softwares or whatever to use?
Idk if my laptop is powerful enough to run thee biggest ones.
Any recommendations?
Finally a pop channel, im subscribed to so 200+ trap producers but now i have finally found someone thats going to teach me pop.
That snare at 13:27 is so "Fine Young Cannibals" ;)
Austin, your content is incredibly helpful. Keep it up!
Great Tutorial! But you're talking way tooo fast man.. you sound like I got my TH-cam Playback Speed on 1.75 😂😂😂
This the tutorial I was waiting for since I followed your channel 😅
Really appreciate seeing stuff like this, helps give you a checklist so when you get stuck you can just move on to the next thing on the list. I get analysis and choice paralysis and get stuck but when there's a "recipe" to follow you can just move on to the next step instead of over-thinking everything and getting paralyzed.
Finally the kind of video I have been looking for... your approach feels more like how I think about music, and you show stuff that I would want to use. Cool video. Cool style. Cool personality. Thank you for the help!
Amazing tutorial! Also, your vocals remind me of Justin Bieber or Lauv very much, which is a compliment. :D Keep it up!
Звучит очень вкусно! Желаю успехов в Вашем деле. Буду смотреть и учиться.
Your videos are great at helping me understand popular music! I am starting to use the information you give me, but the road seems long and hard! (anyone else just getting started?) Thank you for the content you build!
Hey Austin, how did you end up with your 2 guitar tracks? The waveforms look identical but theres no phase issues. Did you just record one and duplicate it or did you record two actual different takes? Thanks again!
Played the same riff twice, once for left channel panned 100% and once on the right 100% and bounced it to one stereo file
@@MakePopMusic Damn you played that damn near perfect like a robot! Thank you for the wisdom!
Hi! I’m really appreciate yours videos! Please how do you made these vocals chop really amazing? How was the process?
Just found this - very impressive production and tutorial! Well done 👏🏻
What dum kits are u using?
this is the first video of yours I've seen and bro youre dope as hell. thanks for this video man.
Appreciate that ✌🏻❤️
How To Produce A Pop Song In ... Steps:
1. Compose VOCAL melody FIRST !!!
Then build up everything else to it
Hey Austin. I just wanna say I really love your positive energy. I hope I can become the same, it's really inspiring. It's just cool listen to you talk even besides for the production stuff, I enjoy the non biased approach
What tutorials do you have for a complete beginner, I'm just trying to learn how to create a complete beat and no knowledge of music.
I am 12yrs old and I actually wrote a six songs,but the problem is I don't know how to produce it, because I don't have PC and other instrumental ,but I can play guitar,my guitar was damage and I throw it out there;I was finding some music producer to produce my songs in IG but couldn't find..HAHAHA can someone help me please!!
Hello Austin, you seem like you know your stuff so I had a question for you. Cubase (the DAW you used for this video) is really expensive (since I am a new artist and don't have the money to afford a DAW like this) and the one I use (Soundtrap) doesn't have all these features and so I was wondering if there was an affordable DAW you would recommend.
what's up man, you think you could make a video with tips and tricks for cubase workflow ? I'm trying to switch from ableton and logic after many years and i'm finding really hard to adapt with cubase.
I’ve made a video on my favorite features for Cubase. There are already tons of amazing videos on TH-cam for getting around Cubase. The videos on the official Steinberg channel are great and Chris Selim has some awesome videos!
@@MakePopMusic Thanks for the quick response, yeah..i was watching that video on favorite cubase features literally just a minute ago. Sorry wasting your time replying ^_^
@@pandaghostofficial Not a waste at all! Have a great weekend!
Excellent video but the vocal synth is killing your CPU :D. I think there's just a bit too much processing and layers with vocals on chorus part.
i already loved the song before you started it this is amazing 😍😍 thank you for the essentials i love pop and this is really helpful
i love your music austin... ton of good wishes to you...many thanks for sharing your secrets...this is the only channel where i get real arrangement tips. take a bow 🙌
Which software is it??
sir please help me
please explain
? what is frequency clashing.... and reason
🙏🙏🙏🙏
its great but can u talk a bit in slow pace cuz its hard to keep up with a fast pace explanation in a slow song, its weird ik but it is what it is
Hello sir l am from lndia l have a vision for pop music from lndia to the world but l have no grp...no music equipments no one for background music...l can sing and dance...lndia have never come up in this field....
Holy shit this was elucidating. I always kept trying to add fresh parts to add depth to my tracks. I'm just gonna experiment with layering now. You have so few distinct melodies/progressions yet there's tons of contrast between the parts. Incredible!
Thank you! Pop is all about keeping the arrangement small and simple, but the sonics huge and encompassing in my opinion!
Thank you for this awesome content! I have a question: Is this already mixed? Or would you give the session to a mixing engineer afterwards?
This isn't mixed. Just a rough mix as I produce. I always kind of mix as I go, and then I personally go back once the production is finalized and make my tweaks and do the fine detailed mixing. If I wasn't going to mix it myself, I would wrap up my production and print the stems then with my processing AI do as I go.
fire man. is there any chance you could do a Flume / A.G. Cook / Hyperpop tutorial?
Man they're trying to kill youtube with these adverts. Can I confirm we all mute and scroll down to ignore them or click off if over 1 min?
What this program??
Hey Austin, maybe can you make a tutorial or even split it into like 3 parts on creating an arrangement and production for your song before you record vocals, because I can speak for myself and I’ve already written lyrics and melodies but I cant seem to make the production kind of sync with it, no matter what I try I can’t fit my bass and snaps to anything? Anyways I saved your songs on Spotify, thanks for viewing this whether or not you can help me I don’t know but keep up the good work anyways!! 👍 😊
Lol I’m watching the video and right away you say exactly what I wanted 😂
My problem is don't know how to make the tracks sound good. I can play the instruments and sing but it sounds like garbage well I try to make the complete song and record it
Anyone can help me with a 2000s Pop/R&B Song I am writing for my ex gf?
Listening to your track, I came up with my own chorus melody which I think is much catchier. Wanna hear it?
Kmac side job!