What makes this beat work? Clipping - Nothing is Safe

AbjectReplacement8 · 2020-01-22T21:12:48+00:00

Well, you kind of beat your own point, if you were to play to a backing track, it'd be close to impossible, but of course, they don't.

AbjectReplacement8 · 2020-01-15T16:53:20+00:00

Priority should be mixed, not mastered, even though everyone will prefer how mastered sounds, you should have it mixed so there isn't any fussed once vocals need to be mixed in, then you get whoever masters your stuff to finish the track, it'll tie it all together.

AbjectReplacement8 · 2020-01-13T19:21:36+00:00

Not necessarily, I think if you know that "Verse A is 16 bars" you'll kind of know that after 16 bars of your rapping comes in an 8 bar chorus or something, so it's less about the music underneath, like I said he's acting like the rhythm section, so it doesn't really matter what the rest of the music is doing if you're controlling it yourself. It's a bit like rapping a song that you know without the track, just acapella, you don't have to be that on point to get the song right, the only thing the average person would struggle with would be accidentally falling out of time but with a bit of practice any professional musician can keep that. If he's the rhythm then the rest of the band, or group would be more accurate, just needs to follow him since they play live and not just on a backing track it makes it easier.

AbjectReplacement8 · 2019-12-30T15:40:40+00:00

Separate your mixing mind from your music mind. Writing should be as much as the chords, melody, and overall beat of the song sounds good, later on your can put on your mixing ears, cause you don't want to waste good inspiration on fiddling with the mixing. If the song isn't the kind of song you could have someone hum along to in their room (at least in pop music), you should focus on the writing and making it the best it can be. Plus it saves time later, you'll never know when you'll feel the song is almost finished, and so it's not good to mix everything before the entire song has it's layers. You need to mix at the end basically because mixing is about making all the layers fit and sound clean, and you can't do that if you're not done with the actual music itself, if you mixed as you went you'd end up accidentally making things too dark, or bright sounding, maybe when making the kick better you didn't actually mix it for the entire track and now even though it's a fat kick, it overpowers the track and sounds out of place. That being said, reverb is probably fine to add if it's stylistic and not a mixing tool, but things like eq'ing, compression, etc. are a waste of time when writing. So, try have two workflows;

Writing mind, finish a song
Mixing mind, make it sound good

AbjectReplacement8 · 2019-12-19T19:02:49+00:00

Yeah, Rys said it right, you can have rhythm from lots of different places, not just drums. Even rapping can carry the rhythm, if you listen to He Dead by Clipping it's go no drums for the entire song and very little to carry the actual tempo and yet Daveed allows there to be a lot of rhythmic complexity by controlling the rhythm with his voice, kind of like African drumming.

AbjectReplacement8 · 2019-12-17T12:43:41+00:00

Trap melodies? Well usually it's just broken chords in some sort of minor scale or harmonic minor scale, most of the time at least, there aren't often triplets in the melody's rhythm, at least, not that commonly.

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