All language subtitles for 12-03 - The deadmau5 Process Practice - deadmau5 Teaches Electronic Music Production

I don't have

You know that ability

Like I'm not a piano so I can't just sit down at a

Piano on a midi keyboard and wired up to

You know my work station and and then play the card

And then I scored neck what I can't even do that

The way I work on songs from start to finish in their entirety or like always and little piece

Is Karen there it just doesn't go ABCDEFG ABCDEFG

What happens is that all dry routenote

And then another note

You know and then and then just have like a to hold the bass

It's right and then

Lairon

You know some

Counter Melody notes with it and then

And then go from the last cord to the second cord

So the first chord the end of the third quarter and then just keep juggling around until it's complete

You know you can go in here

I mean just start

Plotting away your malady

So

Here's where you would

Either hook up a midi controller and go in and you don't play the notes that you know how to play or you can

Simply just

Dramamine

So

There've got a root setup

But

Way out of

Lincare

Thought some stuff around and then you know why I do this pretty quick now but you know before 8 he was a little come

Cumbersome using a mouse and keyboard on that stop that

It is becoming familiar with your. And knowing it do you want that up an octave while I could sit here and then

And then go up an octave

Or if you know you know the shortcut you know you just had shift and then one of these arrows now and you're just

Doing an intervals

So it it it's it's really handy that you don't become super familiar with the tools that you're using me

They're all designed to save time and

And do all this stuff so

And then once I kind of have a base structure set in all

Change the password

Increase the polysemy armor

And then

Just start

Doing something

No that's alright

That's how I kind of come up with my cord structures here

Oh but then I want to Major there sure why not

Drop that down 7

Three cords right no particular time are they going to shut that metronome off is driving crazy where I'm going or not

Okay so then

I kind of like a

This is how I would start a song so there you have your kind of your route cord there

I wouldn't begin shaping any kind of sound style out of it I just

So I kind of like the way that those notes go together then and then it comes about phrasing

Alright so

What you actually can do in this is what I find this most useful for is

Going into like a sound Library like this Vengeance guys is all they do is they s*** out these

Music libraries are drum Loop Library so they just

The stuff like that but I just basically used as

Temporary metronome

If you will show up

I said there's a lot of websites out there to read likes

Splice.com that you

Have

Terabytes upon terabytes of libraries from different musicians and artists that go in and then create these

Loop libraries where you can go and download you know this or that

At the end of the day you're going to get like stuff like this where

And then it's

Of course you got to spend some time to go and

Find Sunita moderately works but

Just

For humor sake will will use this and what this is going to do is just going to keep a

A time for me

Tannerite

Sad part is is half a truck right there

Now I use that Loop

Not

Heading out print in my production because that's just lazy as hell I mean you can do that and lots of people do

Shockingly enough

But I'm just going to use that as just kind of a bad

Thing to hold

X Y know where these chords going to go so I'm just going to kind of

50 is out

For a second

That's who I know why won't my first chord to go there and then

And then second cord there

Shutdown

And I'm not going to get carried onto the end of those four bars so you're like halfway done your

Being right there

So I'm going to consolidate

That within the Don you going to learn all these tricks within the dawso so I can know who control Jay basically takes like a whole thing and

Consolidated into one big clip

Ableton you'll find is very like Cliff based and then

Actually all are more or less kind of Clippers

I'm so now I have this

The series of you know four bars here that's just doing that now it needs a

I'll resolve

Or a dozen I don't know I feel it should

Because that's just my taste but

Okay go down for the road just for a second half and then we'll call it that I mean you could you could

The town on this and do the whole track that

Stone Miner

Fashionable Bangladesh

Alright

SMS my life right now because if I could just play it I'd play it but I can

Can't so I have to

Drive

Article good enough so there is a

8 bar Loop

Now that I've kind of got something in there

I'm going to need that loot there because now I know where the timing says everything. Alternatively you can just music

Anything just as long as you know where that thing is now you sending Temple

LOL

F******

Sure good enough you can find kind of year

Where your

Your base is going to set that's why I say so students of the root notes here basically meaning that

These are all going to get like you know either octave down or something to for a baseline to follow or something like that this is just one

Send

I guess what I would do is then figure out where it should sit in what key

So I can bring it down

Diaspora

And then

You know I'm just trying to find that low know that's and that's something I do

You know something that resonates well

And it's it's usually around like

Garanti

Steve to ask kind of range of 1 witches

Pretty low now like s*** I I wish I knew that the frequency of that

Whatever

Extend my knowledge of audio frequency

I don't know maybe to me around like

80 Hertz

8090

Which is like not quite sub but it's still pretty low

Stop being the frequencies that you don't really

Your butt kind of feel

So if I pull another octave down on that and then do what I was supposed to do before and

Increase the pool if me on this you don't have to do this

No sense cuz this is actually not commercially available

But All Saints do this

You got that sub now

Now within this plugin in this is like any

Since you're going to have things like you know frequency resonance and envelopes and all these different little options like unison

Now that this is no different than that it's just all the wires already connected in here and buy you know

Switching options on and off

And stuff like that is just like you know

Pulling a plug in and out of that thing so it's

This isn't really about

Synthesizing and making cool patches and Engineering the sound this is just more about music making so

And in the way I do it so

Now another thing I want to do is like I'm on a break that up

Because

Maybe there's a

Part where you know you don't want this this whole Jeron going on for the whole arrangement

There are

Number different ways to kind of switch it up and and one would be like using an arpeggiator again every

I would have one of these

In their basic ones and then they're like super more complicated ones like another

Plug-in We Roll Call Cthulhu and

Stuff like that but just for demonstration sakes

Arpeggiator will take that whole idea there and it was a little arpeggiate than out so

Praise just know by know different ways of doing that

Once you that that's like one way to do it and then of course

You know when you kind of all KY like that pattern

I want to work with that you know and then

Change some of the parameters on that

Way to do it

So

I don't know and then it comes down to it you know throwing other at the most dogs come with like their own set of built-in plug

And live comes with like a ton of like a fax and stuff so I've got a bit of Reverb on it

Point is is that once you have this track structure in the melody all laid out and stuff like that it's good to

To have it like you know in full format like that and then drag it off as Eclipse but you'll never lose the whole frame

Raise

Take it all sorts of different direction

You know your your post processing

That's kind of how I start

And what I'll do is I'll just call this like I don't know idea

This is good practice I don't normally do this but I think everyone should do this so I don't necessarily always practice

What I preach

Okay so now here is

Here's my like big Bank of

Crap like I I've just got all these clips

And ideas and end things so

Whether this track is finished or not.

For the sake of this doesn't really matter so here I got this full argolla August 2017 in

Whatever

Play the take this clip and me and you can do this with Ableton and you or you could do with Cubase whatever you want like

You can export this is midi daytime midi data is universally known throughout every dog right

But within Ableton you don't necessarily have to do that because it has its own proprietary clip format so you don't have

The export midi or anything like that

Sims 4 only working in Ableton right now

I can take this

And then drop it in here

I've got this thing called idea masterclass

And you know and whether this goes anywhere are not past this

Thing I can actually open up limiting open up saying I was working on the other night

In this is what really helps me in writing music is if I get

So stuck on an idea

Slowest fastest computer you can buy

This one

F****** it while now

Project Pat

So

Echo like a drum pattern in there and then I can probably

LOL

That's all like one big drum thing now

If I was so

Thinking it's

I have this like drums from one track I can just take my clip over and

This translates from every other day and then I can just throw it in Exton

Now I have

And of course then you start getting into you know things like compression and stuff like that

AmmoSeek

Have that sit in there a little nicer

Sidechain

Mitek

Better

Tanqueray

You know that's kind of what I mean by The Potato Head edn thing except for

By content like that and then just Stitch it together and then call it your own

Oddly enough but I mean

I I I did I do it too but I do it with all the content and clips that I've met

Now I literally shot that out without even thinking about it because I know in in my head

Certain notes resonate together nice and and

Certain notes don't but

You can't distinguish between what works and what doesn't like I said all the all the amount of

Gear and

Install for whatever is is not going to help your case

So I don't know I think I've just been

Fortunate

To train myself in listening to music enough

And know you know what what sounds good and what doesn't

Not in terms of the whole phrase but what notes go together and what notes don't

Which kind of traps you in a weird way because then all your s*** starts

Sort of sound the same but I guess that's what makes you you

I-it's

That's kind of roughly how I would put together a track