The Bass Line Of “I Feel Love” On A TB-303
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- Today we show you how to reproduce the bass line of 'I Feel Love' by Donna Summers with Roland Bass Line TB-303. #roland #303 #drummachine
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40 years later this line still is epic and fill dancefloors by its hook
Yes, that's right! I agree with you.
There is only one hope for humanity.
_THE SYNTHESIZER._
O.K. DJ!!!
Okay Xangelix, better look out for those absolutely killer tritones!
@@Kagama121 easy ! Killer tritons will be killed 4 sea soup at lunch. Enjoy music!
amen
damm right !
The baseline so simple but it has a insane effect on the mind, makes me wanna dance
I wanna dance with somebody
the correct bassline is even simpler
it was simple 8th notes through a 8th note tape delay...no octave down notes (!) as was done here.
unfortunately the 303 has no 2nd oscillator to provide the second octave that is "ghosted" by the delay into a much more solid sound when it's mixed together.
so as the EG is hyperactively re-triggering at twice the rate while VCO is switching octaves, it also throws the filter tracking all over the place.
@@shaft9000 very interesting. What was the original synth used?
@@Raphael3032 Some old Moog modular synth.
All these years since the 70’s I am 61 and never knew exactly how that bass line was made until now! Thank you! And thank you Giorgio and Donna Summer, RIP Queen Of Disco , you will never be forgotten!
This isn't the instrument used on the original track. The TB303 was released four years later in 1981.
Feel the same way! All these years had no idea and this posting is much appreciated 🎉
sh(he) is in hell now waiting for you to join
Of course, late diva Donna Summer will never be forgotten!
I could honestly listen to that riff for 24 hours non-stop. There are long 12" mixes of I Feel Love out there of course but none will ever be long ENOUGH! :D
Absolutely same. I could live in that song.
this melody has got a nice ring to it...
Bart F best comment
Bart F
LOOOOOL
That comment has the ring of truth, sir.
He should make a song out of it and it would be a hit! :D
this arrangement is a dead ringer for the original! I think this song went gold.
My word! What!? I had no idea this lil unit could act like a vintage synth!!! Mind blown!!!
hmmm...maybe it _is_ a vintage synth?
the plot thickens
1983 is definitely getting vintage .
I just got the Behringer clone and this is the first thing I programmed in. I went from buyer's remorse to considering buying another one in about 15 seconds! Thank you!
Recreating history of one of the most iconic electronic songs in 4 minutes
bro the singing elevated that lonely bass! YO!
hahahaha!!!
@IngLouisSchreurs - Correct.
This one has always been one of my favorite dance bases to play.
Thanks for this Doctor Mix. My 303 clone arrived today and I am new to all of this. So now my 303 is programmed with: "I feel love"; "Blue Monday"; and "higher state of consciousness". When I look back at these quarantine and isolation times, I will look back in fondness at the day my 303 arrived. I also got myself a Moog Theremini to play with. Sometimes it's a shame that I can work from home! Keep safe and keep up the good work. Dr Mix you are keeping me inspired!
I'd love to see a video of your Josh Wink take! I'm still grappling with the 303 interface!
My name is Giovanni Giorgio, but everybody calls me Giorgio!
Yeah!! Well quoted
@@Doctormix hey man I love this video❤
My son is called georgio
daft punk are gods
imgoat Nah Gods create their own shit
I'm absolutely fan of your work. I love your enthusiasm and your good mood, you are a real kid in front of your machines, and I love it
Love Donna Summer and love this song. The queen of disco.
Yes, me too!
For the Donna Summer Beat I will keep you forever in my 💗💗💗 I recovered it with a TD3. It works great. Thanks for this.😻😎
He truly is the lord of the rings.
Also that is brilliant ✌️
lol you guys
Bwaha
1:22 At this point I was thinking "What, those aren't the notes! This is going to sound rubbish!" And then he hit the play button: "Ohhh, that is PERFECT."
It also works perfectly with a Behringer TD-3. Just followed the reproduction, and when you are experimenting a bit, not expecting to end up with 100% matching knob settings, it does sound exactly same!
(to be fair: you have to experiment considerably less if you first make sure that you are not overdriving your soundcard input - otherwise you might experiement for a while... :-))
This was the first thing that came up when I got my td-3 and searched for info om how to program a bassline on the damn thing.
Dr mix to the rescue!
@@JH-lo9ut TB apparently is not the abbreviation of User Friendly ;-)
@@fritsvanzanten3573 I just a used TB-03 off Reverb and arrives tomorrow. I did not due my research and just recently found out about the TD-3. I have no problem selling the Roland if you are suggesting the TD-3 is much more user friendly. I like to keep things simple. Thanks for your input.
You might be too young to remember but, the original song on the Casablanca 45 RPM had each note alternating from left to right. So, if you listened to the left channel only, you heard eighth notes and in the right channel, you heard sixteenth notes shifted to follow. That's what made the song so hypnotic. Unfortunately, people today don't listen in stereo anymore. We used to sit in front of the stereo while the record was playing.
People don't listen in stereo? BIT of a sweeping statement, wouldn't you say?
We? What, you got a mouse in your pocket?
I don't think anybody is listening in mono, what are you talking about?
Um, Robert? Do you see those strange white things hanging from everyone’s ears? Those are called earbuds, a kind of headphone. They give you maximum stereo separation. Most people listen in stereo, just not in front of a stereo.
@@DisgruntledPigumon The trouble with headphones/earphones is they don’t work with stereo soundtracks very well-all the instruments sound like they’re in your head. They would work better with binaural recordings.
its nice that the first knob on the top left is heart shaped, I must be feeling love
I'm enjoying this video, and I want to tell you a thing: I was a rocker in the heyday of disco, and I went along with the other rockers who didn't like disco...until I heard "I Feel Love" played through a club sound system, and could no longer hate something that sounded so good. I'm saying that this is a special song that healed something in me.
Five stars for song choice, five stars for nailing the bass line, four educational stars for showing how its done. I only gave you 3 stars for your vocals (try some falsetto. It's not really that hard), but it still comes out to an overall average of 4-1/4 stars plus bonus points for conveying excitement.
HEY!!
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@@telecincotelecinco5645 The name is "Roland TB-303". It is very hard to find and it is expensive ~ €2000 - €3000.
You can buy a different machine, which can make similar sounds. This machine has the name "Roland TB-03 Boutique" (€200-€300).
There is one more machine, "Behringer TD-3"- €100.
As a 44 year old life long lover of synthesizers and electronic music I'm loving your work.
Fucking awesome.
Wow. One of the very best all time records - "I Feel Love" by Donna Summer. Giorgio Moroder the Genius behind it. Patrick Cowley did that 15 minute extended version, which was terrific. 1977 - truly amazing.
It's one of the great moments in music! And that bass pluck on the original track takes it to the next level
Your enthusiasm is boundless. Wonderful stuff.
Amazing vocal. Even better than oryginal.
Absolutely 😂
No……not really 😮😢
@@jdau2b that was the joke bozo
This video makes me happy- it shows how simple synth love can be! great work
This demo almost made me forget that it was done with a Minimoog and an external sequencer. That’s how awesomely you out it together.
Incidentally, one of my favorite examples of the 303 up to the present.
no, it was played by hand on modular system with an echo creating the 16ths
this video is way off
Er, right. And which sequencer would that have been in early 1977..?
Wait, what, THIS IS YOUR Favorite 303 sound??? O.O
The ONLY way this can happen is if you had never listened to this!!
th-cam.com/video/FBmT2_SxXeI/w-d-xo.html
I think I have heard that track,@@AntonAdelson - or others like it. I listened to them back to back, and I think what I wrote above stands.
No offense, since that track is definitely a cool one, but I tend to be more of a song crafting kind of guy than a standalone sequence kind of guy.
Yes, some say it's echo. If so, then it's not alternating octaves?
This is the gold standard of how to explain any sort of technology in a video. Concise, to the point, a clear and amazing example of how To use it to accomplish a very relatable task.
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This works perfectly on the Behringer TD3. Thank you. Brilliant and well explained tutorial 👍
I just bought a used TB-03 which arrivs I think tomorrow not even knowing about the TD-3. Do you think the TD-3 is an easier unit to use as I have no issue selling the TB-03 and buying a TD-3 and also the Crave which looks pretty dope and the two seem to play nicely together. Love to hear your thoughts. Thanks.
@@director2bob Hey bud. I've never used a tb 3. But I hear that both are a pain in the arse to program unfortunately. Also I've had issues with both of mine going out of sequence. 👍
I love you man. My Behringer TD3 will arrive today and this will be the first patch I'm going to play with! What a wonderful time to be alive!
Loved hearing and watching that. I LOVE Donna and Giorgio. So sad to have lost Donna so young 💕
I remember when 303s were £150 but i thought "i don't want that old shit, I'm going to buy a yamaha dx21. Then came acid music...
I rember the day i was broke and sold my TB303 for 300 €
Behringer just dropped a 150 quid clone yesterday.
Amazing how 303s are $150 again. Thank you Behringer.
I want one..
Hahaha.. I got mine for free when I bought a bass guitar.. they couldn’t get rite of them so they gave them away when you bought a new bass guitar.
STILL to my ears - one of THE BEST dance tracks EVER produced. Timeless. Honestly - for pop/dance music, this track is the start of true acid-house/techno. It STILL blows my mind. His sounds worked perfectly with her voice. It never fails to move a dance-floor in any era.
Dr.Mix takes all the mystery out of so many classic songs and the equipment used to make them!
It’s great to learn from
The channel and see someone who is genuinely having fun with no ego. This dude is great!
It's just screaming for a kick to come in!
You mean a sound of the future?
@Darkoalas Was thinkin that too whole video!
Same same 🤣
JUST ADD A TR808
@@fullfunk - More like a Linn Drum.
Love this! The TB-303 is such a nice machine
This just never gets boring. Love how you manage to make something so legendary look so simple. 🙌🤘
This channel is pure gold. The best ones you tube has. All my support here 🙌🏼🔥
Well, that’s tonight’s “what should I do after work?” taken care of. It’ll be slightly different on my tb3 but should be able to figure it out.
Thanks for posting this
If you let the first pattern start a note earlier, you get the bass line from Shudder/King of Snake by Underworld.
That is in incredibly good nick for something that's the best part of 40 years old
What I like about this is that you make it clear this can be done FAST. Most manuals and tutorials make it look like this is supposed to take ages.
It can be done MUCH faster than this video (incorrectly) was.
In fact it is easily played by hand on most any synth that has 2 oscillators and a filter envelope, exactly as it was in the recording:
- First of all: _Listen to the source recording._ It is important to know precisely what to aim for - this can hone your insight beyond any doubts.
- It is 3 simple 8th notes. THREE notes (the first is repeated). Notice there is no octave jump in the original.
- Now start your drum machine...
- ....and then set a delay or echo unit to a 3/8 ratio of the beat, while sending the synth through the delay. This is to produce the psuedo-16th note echoes.
Done! ...or was it really just getting started? :)
Just listening to the Donna Summer track.. it sounds so modern! I remember when the film "American Hustle" came out and it was in the sound track, I looked it up the date (1977) because I couldn't believe it was the proper period track!
The man is a visionary
they didnt live in the stone age back then.
@@klaasj7808 Not the point. The point is how well this track has aged. It could be released today and still be contemporary.
Seb Brosig 😂😂😂 the only reason this statement could possibly be true is because you listen to neo-synth wave or something. It’s a fire track but at best it sounds like it’s from the 80’s.
MeTube only because guys like Bruno Mars have brought the sound back. It’s truly an 80’s sound, ahead of it’s time.. but only by about 5 years.
3yrs late, but that was really cool. Was bopping along and singing.
Always cool when a video takes a fucking entire minute before what you came here for actually starts
i fookin love the way his mic sounds
I never learned the transpositions so thank you, and the singing was great. Well done.
that was really helpful .. just did the same as you, step by step with my td3 .. and it works GREAT!
Absolutely amazing use of classic Roland tech for an electronic classic. Could listen to that arpeggio for hours.
Sehr schön dargestellt dieses kleine Instrument !!! Ich liebe es !!!
I couldn't finish this video, i was distracted by the amount of rings this guy was wearing
Rocky Restivo it's a ringless world
I never started it... Got diverted by the advert starring "Big Muff"....
Lol so many rings
Hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha
They're the ring modulators
but it's even more interesting than that. the bassline also alternates from left to right in stereo so that it feels like two basslines that converge. the song is deceptively simple, but exciting in it's construction. the way they add a new harmonizing vocal track to each verse gives me the shivers. i wish i could hit those notes in that top harmony. don't drive anywhere with me.
Yes, I think you are right!
It was indeed simple 8th notes through a panned tape delay(s) set to 8th notes.
Original was much smoother w/ 2 moog VCOs tuned to an octave apart, the overtones glued by the delay - no octave down notes (!) as was done here. Filter isn't tracking very far between the notes, if at all.
Unfortunately the 303 has no 2nd oscillator to provide the second octave that is "ghosted" by the delay into a much more solid sound when it's mixed together.
So in this video as the EG is hyperactively re-triggering at twice the rate while VCO is switching octaves, it _also_ throws the filter tracking all over the place...which was already odd on a 303 since it's a 24dB/oct filter offset into performing more like it is just 18 dB/oct.
esto es tremendo amigo! gracias! ni idea como lo hiciste pero casi lloro de alegría
I just did two tabs last night so thank you for that bit at the end that was some ear candy.
In the song “I’m Sexy and I Know It” (2011), the Roland TB-303 and Roland AX-09 were heard.
Very interesting to see this on an TB-303, thank you.
THE song that got me into synth bangers, and later techno and french synth pop♥️♥️
One of my favorite Donna Summers cuts...
Sounds like Moroder originally played 8th notes and gave them a reverb. You recreated it perfectly!!
He did, and hard panned a slap back delay to the other channel, giving it a wide sound field.
Listen to the song on something you can hard pan left and right and you'll hear it.
@@simonbenefer940 I found that out accidentally in '77 when the left side of my headphones died and I immediately heard the difference.
not 'perfectly'
the EGs are triggering double, and the filter is tracking the VCO as it jumps an octave.
the o.g. version is 2 VCOs playing just 3 notes by hand, while running the synth's output through a delay line.
Absurdly simple compared to programming a 303...just to do it wrong anyways.
Sounds great, and different ways to do it but, when Giorgio Moroder created the song he used half the notes with a delay to make it sound double the notes if you know what I mean - cheers!
At 14:20 into the video Giorgio explains his process - check it out th-cam.com/video/HqOmK_JQ1qY/w-d-xo.html
yes I was going to say exactly that
@IngLouisSchreurs A bass line is notes, not kicks. Glad to help.
@@GeeEmJay No. "Arpeggio" is the term. Are you American?
@IngLouisSchreurs ..eeehm. nope
What a way to see in the new year. Even got fireworks in the background, as you'd expect. No bad thing, if you ask me.
They were cancelled this year. Here. good
I Feel Love, (The Patrick Cowley Megamix) is 16 minutes of pure dance floor magic. Very cool video
Well unfortunately that's not how it was made. The original is only one octave and performed in eighth notes, with a delay to make the 16th note repeats of the same octave. Giorgio Moroder isn't even the one who made it in 16th notes, the mix engineer applied the delay to it, and Giorgio was convinced that it sounded much better and even made the song. But it was "fixed in post" as they say, by the creative efforts of the engineer. So kudos to that man. In any case, the way it's presented here on the 303 may be completely wrong, but it may also be the only way that it can be played automatically on this instrument. Depends on if you use a sequencer or an arpeggiator, and what options are available. That being said, this may be the best and even only option on this instrument.
What’s cool is this song is (debatably) the very first EDM hit in America. I remember it well!
Disco doesn’t suck so much for me now…
though D&B is still way more badass, imo.
I don’t even play keyboard but I’m watching the random videos TH-cam is throwing into my feed oh the joys of lockdown 😬
Got to stay positive the best bit of the video is when he goes doo da doo da😎
HILARIOUS!!!!! God! You crack me up!!! The thing is Moroder used a delay on the 8th notes, instead of playing 16th notes (or whatever they were). You can hear the delay stepping on the first bars as the pattern repeats. It still worked and nobody complained about it! Still, this is an excellent tutorial for young composers! They need to hear the original Donna Summer track to suss it out. I was just a 17 year old kid when I first heard this, dancing in the gay discos in Cincinnati Ohio! Thank God I moved to San Francisco when I was 20! I've never left!!! San Francisco is my home and there has always been incredible music accessible to those of us who love it!
I don't know what I just watched, but that was impressive :) !!
Now I want a whole series of "x classic bassline remade on 303"
Interesting, who is going to program the Primus basslines ?
They're going to need a fair amount of time and probably require at least four 303's synced to 128th note resolution. Possibly a large amount of amphetamines also.
Then after the first decade has been used up, they can get started on the Level42 basslines.
Imagine this dude wakes up every morning and takes on all those rings lol.
I love TB-303 for ever
Giorgio Moroder
but everybody calls me Giorgio
yes
Gorg morder
The sounds coming out of that thing reminded me of the early 80s movies of my childhood.
Love how you mumbled the song it worked and yes this riff is so good, timeless! 💜 you made me want a synthesizer and try it myself 😂
TY for all your hard work and content contributions
"i know i'm an amazing singer" .. love your self humor ! great video .. cool way of approaching this !
It's like having Donna Summer in the room with you!
She was one of the Hottest ebony celebrities in history
No it's not. Not at all. Not even close.
@@AndreasSaag woosh
I wish... :)
Nope. You can have only bassist
Amazing! My favorite song, these days
You are very positive and energetic soul. Make Giorgio music so clear and understood
This sounds like 1982 but this is 1977 WOW "way ahead of 1977
@Pep pretty much.
1:09 like a professional musician...
dugga dugga, dugga dugga, dugga...
Roland TB 303 is really awesome
Stumbled upon you. MUCH FUN TO WATCH. THANKS!
2:04 King of Snake-Underworld
so the love that he feels is about the 303 haha
makes perfect sense to me ;-)
Everyone needs a 303
Fantastic little thing
It was like Donna was in the room, singing the tune! Not.😂
But, really, this was very cool. Morodor could have written it on a TB-303, even if he didn’t. I love these retro videos.
Thanks for a fun vid!
I'm pretty sure he didn't make it on a tb303, it sounds quite different to me tbh
@@Chuggnuts Morodor couldn't make it on TB303, as the author said. The song is from 1977. The TB303 came out in 1982. But that's not the point!
@@TomManshreck I was going by the word "recreate" being used, I didn't watch the whole video
@@Chuggnuts It was a Moog, in 20-30 second bursts due to tuning issues. It's a remarkable accomplishment to assemble the sequence under those constraints.
@@robgrainger5314 it's wasn't even a sequence...it's just 3 notes played by hand run through a tape delay
the 303 can't get the basic waveform (2 VCOs an octave apart) right with only 1 VCO - and so it's jumping octaves and the filter is tracking all over while the EGs go bat-shit
1:36 His inner child reacted to the music 🙂 Nice
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I have no any equipment but i can't stop watching you
Early electronics on dedicated machines with singers who did not need auto tune still had tons of feeling. Yes I do love it. I even love your singing
1:47 SimCity 2000 nostalgia
Best bassline in of the whole history of electronic music,by far.
Nope. That would be Robin S show me love
@@ROBERTTONUS clearly your opinion is wrong
@@modularfoundations8552 what about Living Joy 'Dreamer'
@@de-b1221 absolutely awesome but I still think show me love wins
@@modularfoundations8552 I'll agree, but it's got to be the original Robin S Show me Love, non of these modern day remixes.
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Ooh, it's so good, it's so good
. It's so good, it's so good, it's so good.
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Me: How many rings do you own?
Doctor Mix: Yes
Wow amazing ❤️😍
Thanks man! I have zero musical talent but I love music, I love it more when I can understand how it's made.