Do you have any advice for making unique and creative beats that are not really mainstream and just kinda different. Thanks for all that you do. Appreciate you bro. ✌🏿 Peace and blessings.
@@HS-AZ.7 my question for you would be what’s your goal with the beats, no right answer, but do you still want sell them, or just like making them and maybe they sell, maybe the don’t?
@@DillyDGIB got it bro. Thank you for the simple, valuable answer. I definitely have a clear perspective of how I should go about it now. The video is super informative and helpful btw. Love bro.
😂 Knowing that Kanye asked the pizza guy what he thought of his beat, make me feel less crazy.. a few weeks ago I was making beats on my break at work, I asked this one girl what she thought of the beat I was making. (didn’t know her at all) I let her listen and asked her to be VERY critical on what she doesn’t like and not what she does. She said the beat sounds, Very “Christmas-y” gave her Christmas vibes, Lmao and she didn’t like the how loud the open hats and rim shots were were💔😭.. but I took that criticism and sat on it. A few days later I went back into that beat, pitched the chords down lower, took out a few keys, took the BPM down a few notches, added base lines, mixed it all over again, and added a sample to compliment the beat. (She didn’t get to hear the final result, because I got a new job) so I don’t know if it sounds better or worse lol.. but I’m always open to criticism. I don’t care if you know music or you don’t. Doesn’t even matter what genre you like. Like you said Dilly, people don’t gaf abt the process of making a beat. They wanna hear something tht moves them or touches the soul 💯.. but Appreciate these videos tho bro. Much love 💪🏾
haha love this attitude, yeah I do the same I ask anyone and everyone for feedback, you'll get a wide variety of responses for sure. Thanks for watching, and I appreciate the comment!
Dilly… you are the reason I will start my Beatstars journey soon! Making Beats / Songs since 15 years! I am more than ready to take over! Thank you for the inspiration!!! Much love and Greetz from Germany ❤️
Dilly for president. You are so right about feeling and emotion, it's something I know to be true but it's so easy to lose perspective and forget how important that is. I think the same goes for importance of actually having a great song vs having a great beat
Hahah thank you! True! It’s so simple and obvious, but I feel for some reason people (myself included) lose sight of this when you spend a lot of time on something
Great advice, thank you! I gotta say, the only beat I've sold is the one I didn't make as a 'beat'. I was just inspired to make music and did one, originally, for myself but I decided to post it and say "what the hell", let's see if I could actually sell a beat. I sold the exclusive not long after that. Since then, I tried to sell more beats but I couldn't, I think it's because I made them with a "beat selling" mentality and not to make something great.
I sent you messages thanking you for each video on Instagram, but I'm just stopping by to thank you here for all your videos that have helped me so much to fulfill my dream! Thank you so much for everything! Greetings from Chile
I resonated so much with what you said about getting stuck in a routine and just uploading for the sake of it. Happy to hear that other producers have been in that situation and that we instead should focus on making the best ideas possible. Thanks bro! 🙏🏼
Solid points - Thanks :) A video about balancing between "too little vs too much" would be nice. Meaning how to make a beat feel full but still leave room for the singer to fit in. Also maybe a video about song structure aka how many Verses and Choruses? How long they should be? Hooks, and etc.. Great stuff Im following for a while now :)
Thanks for watching. That’s a good idea! Short answer is to not go crazy with a lead melody, that’s the artists job, have everything support the artist, you can usually go crazy with chords and melody’s within the chord and if you do runs, just do them quickly as transitions, that’s helped me a lot!
Dilly! I had to put this vid on pause and had to say you really improved the editing on this one. The cc's the whole vid, the little cuts to show clips about what you saying, everything was leveled up on this one. Also very much informative video. thanks!!
Thank you very much for this! 🙏 You deserve much love when you try to help people like you do. Hope you will have all the success that you want in your life, you deserve it!
I'm finally starting to let go of my perfectionist tendencies, but if I think the beat I make on a said day sucks I can't upload it. My problem is thinking that everything less that the best beat ever to me is trash. Although I'm slowly getting better I still have a lot of work to do. Once I can do that, I'll be able to consistently upload
I've been there for sure, perfectionism is definitely a battle. One thing that helps me is that I keep in mind people don't remember your misses for very long. They kind of just fade away, and the hits stick around. Also if you can make your goal to improve and to practice dealing with failure vs putting out the most perfect idea (which doesn't exist) then that can help too. And then at the same time make sure you're trying to make something amazing every day
Hey man amazing content 💣! I have bunch of questions - I hope it's Ok to ask a few ^^ I'm coming from another genre, and many things are quite different: 1) Can you tell a bit about humanising vs quantising. How far can you go off the grid, are there elements you humanise more e.g. maybe pianos and others which you keep more on the grid maybe some drums which make the main rhythm? E.g. in my main genre everything is 100% dead quantised. 2) Can you tell a bit about your mixing concept and the process. I analysed one beat of yours and it was like -10-12LUFS loudness and -0.1 TP so I assume once you put them out there the beat comes already "mastered"/limited. Do you have some levels you keep while producing e.g. for the kick, bass, main percussive elements. Are you applying limiting afterward or produce into the limiter? 3) Can you tell a bit about the low-end, as far as I saw it in R&B it's also reserved for kick &bass, so I got it right, that the elements like vocals, pads, drums don't go lower then let's say 80-100Hz, right? What about if kick & bass hits simultaneously, is it acceptable to have them summing, or is it e.g. side-chained, the lows removed from the bass or such things? i hope I didn't ask too many questions, but it's really great how you explain and you have a lot of inside knowledge.
can you do a video about tax and all that legal stuff as soon as you stared getting a regular paycheck on beatstars . And great video too bro, keep em coming 🔥🔥
Hi Dilly, thanks for the tips. In a recent video, you said that if you want to be a professional producer, "''Make the music you are inspired to make' is the worst career advice I have ever heard" "You have to make what works." But you also say that you have to create music that you really feel. Am I correct? When you create beats, how do you reconcile creating what you believe the audience will like with what comes from the heart?
Appreciate it! I usually go intro for 16 bars, 16 bars part a of the verse, 16 bars, part b of the verse, 16 bars of the hook. Sometimes variation though, it all depends. I'm just trying to make it engaging and entertaining
Hi Dilly! My name is Bryan. I'm one of your many subscribers and I love your drum sound so much it got this grimey sound and it's heavy, especially your kick and 808 are so fire🔥 And I'm just speechless how you optimized your business. And your strategy is my go-to route I'm gonna make when I get better. I'm actually Korean, 20 years old, a college student. My major has nothing to do with music but I want to be a producer like you. I've been making beats for 2 years but I was just messing around back then and now I started to take this path seriously. I was hoping if you could let me know in what year you started making beats and how long it took for you to actually upload your first song from then. It would be an honor to hear from you Dilly! Thanks for your time :)
These are some incredible videos you've been putting out. You can tell you have experience involved with everything you say. 100% relatable and thats why I'm commenting on this. Thank you for the high quality content.
Great content man! When you talk about being consistent and posting daily, were you posting a new beat everyday? How many beats would you create in a day?
Thank you for genuinely helping others in the music community. In your early days as a music creator, how did people find your beats on TH-cam? With so many excellent creators, it seems easy to get “lost” in the sea of content. To be specific, would you mind sharing what you did to attract viewers to your videos? Much gratitude!
Have you watched my how to grow a type beat video? I think I answer this super in depth in that. The link is in the description of this video, lmk if you still have questions though
Thanks! I usually go intro for 16 bars, 16 bars part a of the verse, 16 bars, part b of the verse, 16 bars of the hook. Sometimes it varies though, it all depends. I'm just trying to make it engaging and entertaining
Lol dude (where's my car) every time it shows you listening to your music with your mouth agape...you low-key look like a version of Matthew McConaughey...."alright alright alright" 😅. Awesome info man, love it! Learning gems 💎 👀✍️ Thanks a million 🙌
@@DillyDGIB lol you see it?! Hey y'all might be cousins 🤔....maybe he can get you a music placement in one of his future movies 😁🤞 And for sure man, thanks for sharing your journey. It's inspiration I needed. Dabbled in FL Studio for like 4-5 months then stopped for a year, barely got back into it like a week ago after seeing one of your videos. Thanks for reigniting the fire ❤️🔥 I jumped the gun and sent un-mixed beats to Internet Money on TH-cam Live a year ago. They roasted me 😐🤦 I must "master the craft" and strike back with a vengeance! 🥷😈🤜💥🎶🎵
What genre do you want to make that'll change the answer, but a quick one for dummies would be use a lot of 1-5 chord progressions and move as little as possible across the keyboard. So if you're in A minor (white keys) go from an A minor chord to an E minor chord. Travis Scott and Drake do this all the time
It actually is a numbers game. Theres no way around it. Theres a reason why 90% of major labels revenue comes from 10% of their roster. (Source: The Song Machine Inside The Hit Factory by John Seabrook) The best you can do is create a process where you feel youre not selling a low quality product. Yes you look at your analytics to try to find patterns but even after all that research youre going to end with a shit ratio of songs that didnt do well vs the ones that did. You play an educated and adjusting numbers game is I guess one way to put it which can still be super profitable. Closing clients at 15% is a shit ratio but close 15% out of a million still gives you alot of money.
Good point! I totally agree with you, I guess I was just saying it’s not strictly a numbers game, and this is just what’s worked for me but I think going for something great, instead of not low quality is the move. But no way around it, volume matters.
Ask yourself why you're doing it? You may be too focused on numbers or sales, instead of trying to make people feel something with your music. Learn some new techniques, breakdown some of your favorite beats. If you've just been going ridiculously hard, maybe take a quick break
Hey man just found your content and I had been submitting a track to Spotify playlists and the feedback is so mixed man ! Some love some hate … but that quote on something wrong but not having the correct critique hits !!! Have to keep hitting the drawing board to come up with something better ! Appreciate it man
I’m trying to start making beats and eventually make money. Got caught up with an idea that I need to perfect piano skills, music composition skills, etc. I mean that could go on forever. I hear that beat makers use samples as the main melodic pad. For example the one you show in this video. So is this beat making more like LEGOing using samples, or more like composing from scratch? I mean I kinda don’t get this ratio. Could you comment on that? And also how much in depth I need to learn say FL studio to start? BTW, I’ve seen your collegues such as Servida and KyleBeats, which are amazing as they are. But what I admire in you, is that consistency stuff. This is just crazy to me! Thank you for sharing all this.
Thanks bro! Everyone's process is different, I do it always, sometimes I'll use samples and LEGO it like you said, that's worked for me, but I also sometimes write a melodic idea and flip it myself. The second idea I broke down I actually did all from scratch. It depends on what skills you have/want to learn. I would say majority of beatmakers do Lego it and brand it and package it in a discoverable way.
Dilly, I wonder why so many say you should upload a beat a day. How can that beat be any good? Isnt it better to upload a beat every week/ or even once a month and then that beat is 10x better or is it never paying off? Similar to releasing songs on spotify, quality should be > than quantity? Or is it different in the beat selling business (im new to that business in particular). Thanks for any answer @Dilly 🙌🙌
Can you talk abit about using soul samples and if you’ve had any bumps using soul samples while on BeatStars. I understand if you can’t if it could seem as legal advice so if that’s the case can you talk about: how you export and organize your beats for sale ? Thanks man been listening for ages to your stuff. Would definitely collab one day if I ever had the chance 🔥
super random - I flipped the same sample of the background beat playing and would love to send it to you to hear your take on it! always love seeing the similarities/differences
Hey Dilly, superb content brother. I am considering building a revenue stream with beats and sample packs. I have a question if I may. I'm OK with posting beats on TH-cam, yet I am still trying to figure out how you manage to keep track of anything used that has not being bought - do you use Beatstars to track that? What's the process to wrap all that sort of stuff up? And one more question if a beat is for sale for 1000 people lets say, can that essentially mean 1000 songs are then produced, what happens with the TH-cam Content ID etc...? I may be over thinking it? Got any resources for that side of stuff?
When you sit down to make a beat or a loop or sample from scratch, do you already have the exact idea of how you want it to sound or do you just play around on the keys and make whatever comes to mind?
For me it's like I'm going on a search. I know there's something dope out there, I just have to put in the work to discover it. I have no idea what the final form is going to sound like. I have ideas and paths I want to try to go down, but it could turn out to be anything
Hi Man, just discovered your channel. It's been a while I have been thinking about starting a youtube channel and starting on my beatstars profil. So far, I was just interested in getting placement, which to me was "the only way" but I realise that I can actually explore different ways. Your business seems to be established now, but what about people who get started now? Is it too late, due to the business being over saturated ? What would your advice be ? Thanks a lot, hoping to read from you soon. Cheers. Pat.
If you ever had any questions for me ask them here, I'm responding to EVERYTHING
Can we get a midi pack though!?
@@sharifeady6834 never thought about it, would that be valuable? Like piano starters?
Do you have any advice for making unique and creative beats that are not really mainstream and just kinda different. Thanks for all that you do. Appreciate you bro. ✌🏿 Peace and blessings.
@@HS-AZ.7 my question for you would be what’s your goal with the beats, no right answer, but do you still want sell them, or just like making them and maybe they sell, maybe the don’t?
@@DillyDGIB got it bro. Thank you for the simple, valuable answer. I definitely have a clear perspective of how I should go about it now. The video is super informative and helpful btw. Love bro.
😂 Knowing that Kanye asked the pizza guy what he thought of his beat, make me feel less crazy.. a few weeks ago I was making beats on my break at work, I asked this one girl what she thought of the beat I was making. (didn’t know her at all) I let her listen and asked her to be VERY critical on what she doesn’t like and not what she does. She said the beat sounds, Very “Christmas-y” gave her Christmas vibes, Lmao and she didn’t like the how loud the open hats and rim shots were were💔😭.. but I took that criticism and sat on it. A few days later I went back into that beat, pitched the chords down lower, took out a few keys, took the BPM down a few notches, added base lines, mixed it all over again, and added a sample to compliment the beat. (She didn’t get to hear the final result, because I got a new job) so I don’t know if it sounds better or worse lol.. but I’m always open to criticism. I don’t care if you know music or you don’t. Doesn’t even matter what genre you like. Like you said Dilly, people don’t gaf abt the process of making a beat. They wanna hear something tht moves them or touches the soul 💯.. but Appreciate these videos tho bro. Much love 💪🏾
haha love this attitude, yeah I do the same I ask anyone and everyone for feedback, you'll get a wide variety of responses for sure. Thanks for watching, and I appreciate the comment!
sorry for taking a while with this one, I'm working on my workflow, I'm hoping I can get the next one out within a week
Dilly… you are the reason I will start my Beatstars journey soon! Making Beats / Songs since 15 years! I am more than ready to take over! Thank you for the inspiration!!!
Much love and Greetz from Germany ❤️
You got this bro! Thanks for watching!
Can't tell you how much I've appreciated you as inspiration Dilly. It's so cool to see how far you've come, and it inspires more patience in me 👊
That means a lot, thanks for watching!
Actual gems instead of generic advice!
That’s the best feedback!
Dilly for president. You are so right about feeling and emotion, it's something I know to be true but it's so easy to lose perspective and forget how important that is. I think the same goes for importance of actually having a great song vs having a great beat
Hahah thank you!
True! It’s so simple and obvious, but I feel for some reason people (myself included) lose sight of this when you spend a lot of time on something
Great advice, thank you! I gotta say, the only beat I've sold is the one I didn't make as a 'beat'. I was just inspired to make music and did one, originally, for myself but I decided to post it and say "what the hell", let's see if I could actually sell a beat. I sold the exclusive not long after that. Since then, I tried to sell more beats but I couldn't, I think it's because I made them with a "beat selling" mentality and not to make something great.
Wow, I loved reading this comment. That’s exactly what I’ve noticed for myself!
i ain’t ever heard lessons or tips like this fr inspiring
Love hearing that, thanks fro watching bro!
dayum bro your content is FKING AMAZING
Great vid. Super insightful 👏
Thanks!
I sent you messages thanking you for each video on Instagram, but I'm just stopping by to thank you here for all your videos that have helped me so much to fulfill my dream! Thank you so much for everything! Greetings from Chile
You're a legend thanks for watching. It's amazing to hear that these help, that's what it's all for!
Every video on this producer style channel just gets better and better !
Thanks Daniel, I’ve been working on editing and animating a ton. I’m pumped you noticed!
I resonated so much with what you said about getting stuck in a routine and just uploading for the sake of it. Happy to hear that other producers have been in that situation and that we instead should focus on making the best ideas possible. Thanks bro! 🙏🏼
Facts, it's something I have to remind myself of often!
Everything you said on point!
Glad you liked it!
You’re awesome dude
this whole thing is gems
Great content fella!!
Thank you 🙏🏽 I deleted all my old stuff and now starting all over again. This definitely helps.
🔥 keep going bro
Great video bro! Nice touch on the Hungarian minor scale over an altered dominant ninth chord
haha thanks bro!
Dilly always dropping gems 💎 ✨️ 💯💯⚡️
Thanks for watching!
No doubt your videos are the best on this beat selling game bro, thanks for share this many details... always watching !!!
Thanks bro!
Great vid, keep them coming! Cooking up with the Limitless pack a little later today 🙌
Send me what you make on IG!
@@DillyDGIB gotchu! 🙏🏾
Bruv I’ve been listening to your stuff for a couple of years now. With that being said, I’d be very happy to see you earn mainstream
Fame soon
I just finished watching KXVIs vid and now im here, please upload more
Kxvi is a legend, trying to as much as possible!
Great video bro can always count on you for good advice!
This whole video was perfectly well said
Appreciate it bro!
Solid points - Thanks :) A video about balancing between "too little vs too much" would be nice.
Meaning how to make a beat feel full but still leave room for the singer to fit in.
Also maybe a video about song structure aka how many Verses and Choruses? How long they should be? Hooks, and etc..
Great stuff Im following for a while now :)
Thanks for watching.
That’s a good idea! Short answer is to not go crazy with a lead melody, that’s the artists job, have everything support the artist, you can usually go crazy with chords and melody’s within the chord and if you do runs, just do them quickly as transitions, that’s helped me a lot!
@@DillyDGIB cool, thanks!
This video has some gold info. I'll be rewatching this from time to time! Thanks!
Dilly! I had to put this vid on pause and had to say you really improved the editing on this one. The cc's the whole vid, the little cuts to show clips about what you saying, everything was leveled up on this one. Also very much informative video. thanks!!
Appreciate it, I’ve been working on editing animations a ton, glad you noticed! Thanks for watching!
Appreciate the time you took to share.
Dilly you’ve seriously inspired me so much thank you
Love to hear that, that’s the goal, thanks for watching!
Thank you very much for this! 🙏 You deserve much love when you try to help people like you do. Hope you will have all the success that you want in your life, you deserve it!
Great tips Dilly, keep it up.
Super helpful, Dilly thank you🙏
Love your channel. Learning a lot of from you.
I'm glad I can help, thanks for watching!
very inspiring 🤝 I appreciate the effort u give in your content. Solid.👊
Thanks bro! Appreciate you watching!
King dilly 👑
Right back at you bro, your new video is gonna go crazy!
Thank you for these videos! Keep doing more of these🙏🏾🙏🏾
Thanks for watching, will do!
Thank you for sharing your experience man
💚💚💚
Thank you for watching!
Great advice
Thanks!
I'm inspired brother, keep uplifting 🙏
So much gems in this video im glad i subbed 🔥💪🏽
Thanks for watching!
@@DillyDGIB keep up the great work bro ur a true inspiration 💯
this an awesome video dilly
:)
Your awesome, thanks for watching!
I'm finally starting to let go of my perfectionist tendencies, but if I think the beat I make on a said day sucks I can't upload it. My problem is thinking that everything less that the best beat ever to me is trash. Although I'm slowly getting better I still have a lot of work to do. Once I can do that, I'll be able to consistently upload
I've been there for sure, perfectionism is definitely a battle. One thing that helps me is that I keep in mind people don't remember your misses for very long. They kind of just fade away, and the hits stick around. Also if you can make your goal to improve and to practice dealing with failure vs putting out the most perfect idea (which doesn't exist) then that can help too. And then at the same time make sure you're trying to make something amazing every day
@@DillyDGIB That's really great advice seriously, thanks for being a mentor figure to amateur producers. Helps a ton
You just gave me motivation
Thank you for sharing
Hey man amazing content 💣! I have bunch of questions - I hope it's Ok to ask a few ^^ I'm coming from another genre, and many things are quite different:
1) Can you tell a bit about humanising vs quantising. How far can you go off the grid, are there elements you humanise more e.g. maybe pianos and others which you keep more on the grid maybe some drums which make the main rhythm? E.g. in my main genre everything is 100% dead quantised.
2) Can you tell a bit about your mixing concept and the process. I analysed one beat of yours and it was like -10-12LUFS loudness and -0.1 TP so I assume once you put them out there the beat comes already "mastered"/limited. Do you have some levels you keep while producing e.g. for the kick, bass, main percussive elements. Are you applying limiting afterward or produce into the limiter?
3) Can you tell a bit about the low-end, as far as I saw it in R&B it's also reserved for kick &bass, so I got it right, that the elements like vocals, pads, drums don't go lower then let's say 80-100Hz, right? What about if kick & bass hits simultaneously, is it acceptable to have them summing, or is it e.g. side-chained, the lows removed from the bass or such things?
i hope I didn't ask too many questions, but it's really great how you explain and you have a lot of inside knowledge.
OK I HEAR YOU DILLYYYYY THAT FIRST BEAT GOT ME SO TICKLED 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 I like that lol
"How can people selfishly use my music" Wow Dilly, you have such great insights and explain them so clearly, amazing video
That always helps me get in the right mindset. Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it 🙏
Thanks Dilly. This content is really valuable to me and goals.
can you do a video about tax and all that legal stuff as soon as you stared getting a regular paycheck on beatstars .
And great video too bro, keep em coming 🔥🔥
That could be a valuable video, taxes are the worst part of all this, I'm not great at taxes tbh. A CPA really helps out with this.
Thanks for sharing your experience 🔥 That motivated me to start again 💪
Love to hear that!
I love your music bro keep at it
Thanks for listening, will do!
Your videos are some of the most helpful I've found so thanks! I have tried on and off this music thing without sucess. Now it's the time to crush it
dilly u the man
Right back at you bro!
These videos are really helpful and inspiring bro💯
Love to hear it! Thanks for watching!
Hi Dilly, thanks for the tips. In a recent video, you said that if you want to be a professional producer, "''Make the music you are inspired to make' is the worst career advice I have ever heard" "You have to make what works." But you also say that you have to create music that you really feel. Am I correct? When you create beats, how do you reconcile creating what you believe the audience will like with what comes from the heart?
gems!
Ayyye appreciate it!!
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🙏🙏
Dilly you're such an inspiration. Thank you for these videos!
Thank you for your insight
No problem, thanks for watching!
How do you arrange your beats? Great channel btw .....
Appreciate it! I usually go intro for 16 bars, 16 bars part a of the verse, 16 bars, part b of the verse, 16 bars of the hook. Sometimes variation though, it all depends. I'm just trying to make it engaging and entertaining
i love this guy
Right back at you man, thanks for watching!
Hi Dilly! My name is Bryan. I'm one of your many subscribers and I love your drum sound so much it got this grimey sound and it's heavy, especially your kick and 808 are so fire🔥
And I'm just speechless how you optimized your business. And your strategy is my go-to route I'm gonna make when I get better.
I'm actually Korean, 20 years old, a college student. My major has nothing to do with music but I want to be a producer like you. I've been making beats for 2 years but I was just messing around back then and now I started to take this path seriously.
I was hoping if you could let me know in what year you started making beats and how long it took for you to actually upload your first song from then.
It would be an honor to hear from you Dilly! Thanks for your time :)
found your channel today and I feel like it's time for me to go back making beats.
That's awesome, do it!
Your an inspiration no cap
That’s great to hear! That’s my goal 💯
Fire tips!
so true
💯💯
These are some incredible videos you've been putting out. You can tell you have experience involved with everything you say. 100% relatable and thats why I'm commenting on this. Thank you for the high quality content.
love the vids bro keep it up
Will do bro, thanks for watching!
hungarian soloed over an altered dominant chord hahaha great video bro love it
Love these…
Thanks for watching bro!
Great content man! When you talk about being consistent and posting daily, were you posting a new beat everyday? How many beats would you create in a day?
Bro ya beats are fire. Do you use pre-cleared samples for your beats or just create your own?
You really have helped me out a lot with this
Thank you for genuinely helping others in the music community. In your early days as a music creator, how did people find your beats on TH-cam? With so many excellent creators, it seems easy to get “lost” in the sea of content. To be specific, would you mind sharing what you did to attract viewers to your videos? Much gratitude!
Have you watched my how to grow a type beat video? I think I answer this super in depth in that. The link is in the description of this video, lmk if you still have questions though
Thanks for the reply! Yes, I have watched your video on creating a type beat channel. Very informative. I will go back and watch again.
Great video. Any tips on arrangement? Like how long the intro, hooks and verses should be
Thanks! I usually go intro for 16 bars, 16 bars part a of the verse, 16 bars, part b of the verse, 16 bars of the hook. Sometimes it varies though, it all depends. I'm just trying to make it engaging and entertaining
6:00 so when you listen to samples and stuff you just go by feeling and clear them later? love your channel, bro, thx! 🔥🔥
very solid advice here!
Thanks bro! You're the goat!
Great content, at what point did you decide to go fulltime into making beats, and what made you take the jump?
Lol dude (where's my car) every time it shows you listening to your music with your mouth agape...you low-key look like a version of Matthew McConaughey...."alright alright alright" 😅. Awesome info man, love it! Learning gems 💎 👀✍️ Thanks a million 🙌
hahaha, I can see totally see that. Thanks for watching man
@@DillyDGIB lol you see it?! Hey y'all might be cousins 🤔....maybe he can get you a music placement in one of his future movies 😁🤞
And for sure man, thanks for sharing your journey. It's inspiration I needed. Dabbled in FL Studio for like 4-5 months then stopped for a year, barely got back into it like a week ago after seeing one of your videos. Thanks for reigniting the fire ❤️🔥
I jumped the gun and sent un-mixed beats to Internet Money on TH-cam Live a year ago. They roasted me 😐🤦 I must "master the craft" and strike back with a vengeance! 🥷😈🤜💥🎶🎵
Dropout is my favorite album
Classic!
What are some music theory tips for dummies. I just started making beats two months ago and I’m stumped when it comes to playing the piano.
What genre do you want to make that'll change the answer, but a quick one for dummies would be use a lot of 1-5 chord progressions and move as little as possible across the keyboard. So if you're in A minor (white keys) go from an A minor chord to an E minor chord. Travis Scott and Drake do this all the time
It actually is a numbers game. Theres no way around it. Theres a reason why 90% of major labels revenue comes from 10% of their roster. (Source: The Song Machine Inside The Hit Factory by John Seabrook) The best you can do is create a process where you feel youre not selling a low quality product. Yes you look at your analytics to try to find patterns but even after all that research youre going to end with a shit ratio of songs that didnt do well vs the ones that did. You play an educated and adjusting numbers game is I guess one way to put it which can still be super profitable. Closing clients at 15% is a shit ratio but close 15% out of a million still gives you alot of money.
Good point! I totally agree with you, I guess I was just saying it’s not strictly a numbers game, and this is just what’s worked for me but I think going for something great, instead of not low quality is the move. But no way around it, volume matters.
Very insightful comment, I appreciate it!
Really been loving these videos Dilly, been helping me out alot, keep it up 🙏
Love to hear it, thanks for watching!
Hey im new to all this and i wanted to know where i can get my beats heard or where i can upload them?
I would start with Beatstars and TH-cam, IG works too.
Great video Dilly! Got any thoughts on what to do to get out of/through burn out?
Ask yourself why you're doing it? You may be too focused on numbers or sales, instead of trying to make people feel something with your music. Learn some new techniques, breakdown some of your favorite beats. If you've just been going ridiculously hard, maybe take a quick break
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What's up Sharif! You're a legend
Hey man just found your content and I had been submitting a track to Spotify playlists and the feedback is so mixed man ! Some love some hate … but that quote on something wrong but not having the correct critique hits !!! Have to keep hitting the drawing board to come up with something better ! Appreciate it man
Facts! Thanks for watching!
I’m trying to start making beats and eventually make money. Got caught up with an idea that I need to perfect piano skills, music composition skills, etc. I mean that could go on forever. I hear that beat makers use samples as the main melodic pad. For example the one you show in this video. So is this beat making more like LEGOing using samples, or more like composing from scratch? I mean I kinda don’t get this ratio. Could you comment on that? And also how much in depth I need to learn say FL studio to start? BTW, I’ve seen your collegues such as Servida and KyleBeats, which are amazing as they are. But what I admire in you, is that consistency stuff. This is just crazy to me! Thank you for sharing all this.
Thanks bro! Everyone's process is different, I do it always, sometimes I'll use samples and LEGO it like you said, that's worked for me, but I also sometimes write a melodic idea and flip it myself. The second idea I broke down I actually did all from scratch. It depends on what skills you have/want to learn. I would say majority of beatmakers do Lego it and brand it and package it in a discoverable way.
Dilly, I wonder why so many say you should upload a beat a day. How can that beat be any good? Isnt it better to upload a beat every week/ or even once a month and then that beat is 10x better or is it never paying off? Similar to releasing songs on spotify, quality should be > than quantity? Or is it different in the beat selling business (im new to that business in particular). Thanks for any answer @Dilly 🙌🙌
quality comes with quantity
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The goat!!
So i see where i been lacking...an upload schedule. Wow. Man you my coach lol
There you go! If you want to be professional you have to stick to a schedule, it's a different game
Can you talk abit about using soul samples and if you’ve had any bumps using soul samples while on BeatStars. I understand if you can’t if it could seem as legal advice so if that’s the case can you talk about: how you export and organize your beats for sale ? Thanks man been listening for ages to your stuff. Would definitely collab one day if I ever had the chance 🔥
Of course this is not legal advice, but I have not had any issues myself.
super random - I flipped the same sample of the background beat playing and would love to send it to you to hear your take on it! always love seeing the similarities/differences
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Hey Dilly, superb content brother.
I am considering building a revenue stream with beats and sample packs. I have a question if I may.
I'm OK with posting beats on TH-cam, yet I am still trying to figure out how you manage to keep track of anything used that has not being bought - do you use Beatstars to track that? What's the process to wrap all that sort of stuff up?
And one more question if a beat is for sale for 1000 people lets say, can that essentially mean 1000 songs are then produced, what happens with the TH-cam Content ID etc...? I may be over thinking it? Got any resources for that side of stuff?
When you sit down to make a beat or a loop or sample from scratch, do you already have the exact idea of how you want it to sound or do you just play around on the keys and make whatever comes to mind?
For me it's like I'm going on a search. I know there's something dope out there, I just have to put in the work to discover it. I have no idea what the final form is going to sound like. I have ideas and paths I want to try to go down, but it could turn out to be anything
Hi Man, just discovered your channel. It's been a while I have been thinking about starting a youtube channel and starting on my beatstars profil. So far, I was just interested in getting placement, which to me was "the only way" but I realise that I can actually explore different ways. Your business seems to be established now, but what about people who get started now? Is it too late, due to the business being over saturated ? What would your advice be ? Thanks a lot, hoping to read from you soon. Cheers. Pat.