not inherently

Sampling funk breaks is goat

if you chop up impeach the president and put it over literally anything is sounds goat

Feel me? Like bro if mixedbyali says for TPAB they started with drums and bass first then I don’t wanna hear s*** else because the music on that album is crazy. Wasn’t just samples chopped up it was chord progressions live instruments all of that. S*** most these niggas wish they could do. And guess what they mostly started with drums.

It doesn’t make that method “correct” but I’m still surprised how niggas is hating on a well used method by most goats

Do you mean when it’s time to lay it? Or you mean you laid it and now you tweaking it?

If it’s the latter I’m sure everyone does that. But I’d hope everyone in here uses some sorta click track when recording melodies unless you just have godly tempo

i don't record melodies i click the notes in

Bro the f***ing capture feature is CRAZY. Idk if other DAWs got it. But basically say you load up an instrument and you f***ing around to see how it sounds and you play something that’s fire but you weren’t recording yet. You can just click “capture” and it’ll add the MIDI notes of what you was just recording.

It’s like Ableton is always recording even if you aren’t actually recording.

I mean I can’t hate if that’s your method. But if you being fr I’m starting to understand why y’all have an issue with drums first lol y’all ain’t even playing actual midi controllers or instruments

i mean i never had the chance to learn how to play keys or anything so yeah

Lol

You can always work a dope beat around a perfect melody

The other way around is way more rare

Sounds like that would help you rather than tryna get jokes off on KTT

Dawg youtube has hundreds of thousands of free lessons no excuse these days

i just mean like the dilla song i posted earlier had a completely different time signature from the sample. And sometimes producers will play with a sample that doesnt match the song's bpm.

I mean I already got a lot of placements and over millions views on YouTube for tracks that I produced lol I’m doing pretty good to me

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If sampling then sample first, if from scratch drums first

Let’s talk about this. So it’s rare to do drums first and work melodies around it is what you’re saying?

So if that’s the case can one assume to be successful as a producer you should have this rare skill? Not that you NEED to work this way but you can if needed.

Because it’s rare to be a household Lasting name as a producer, obviously not everyone can do it. And to you doing drums first is rare, yet 90% of successful hip hop producers do it while those who can’t is stuck. So is that 1 of the many factors you think?

I’m not too knowledgeable with time signatures honestly I’m still learning. Everything I’ve done is 4/4

You can always be better and learn more but hey if you’re getting what you want/need out of it then who am I to tell you

I wasn’t thinking of hip hop material tbh, it’s a different type of craft

In hip hop if you don’t have a beat you’re out the game

I hope for your sake that’s 100% and not just cap. If it is true keep going but remember you can always get better and you should wanna elevate from just being a “click note” producer

If you are capping then same thing, elevate yourself is the name of the game no matter what you’ve done. It’s never enough trust me. Get more.

I don’t wanna discourage bruh but ain’t a producer that lasted long by just “clicking in notes”.....you gotta elevate and grow. And not being able to play at least a midi controller or go off drums first is very limiting to ya craft

Not capping

And I’m not saying I can get better of course i can, you get better and learn something new every day, learning how to play keys is one of my goals

Okay for sure. I mean I didn’t know ya first comment was about kissing ya dads so I can’t take y’all serious sometimes. But that’s dope.

Whatever you want theres no rules in producing