Tutorial - Beat Recreation
How to Recreate a Beat
In this tutorial, you will learn:
- Intro and how to get start with recreating a beat. Deciding on the right song
- Setting up your session
- Working out Chords, Bass, Drums, Guitar and Keys and SFX
- Creating a structure
- How to describe the different concepts of Harmony, Melody, Tone Colour and Structure and break them down
Lesson 1: Intro and Getting started
This lesson will teach you what you need to do for the assessment and how to get started picking a song.
Lesson 2: Setting up your session
How to setup your session in your DAW
Lesson 3: Working out chords
This video is how to work out chords from a song in real time. The process is long so you can skip ahead or watch certain parts when you need to.
You will see a process of working chords for the piano.
Lesson 4: Working out the bass
In this lesson you will learn how to bass is made and how to work it out.
Lesson 5: Sampling Rain
Here you learn how to take a sample and loop it.
Lesson 6: Working out drums
In this lesson you will learn how to create a drum pattern and how to select and modify the right sound for the drums.
Lesson 7: Guitar parts
In this lesson, we will break down the guitar part and figure out how to recreate it with software instruments.
Lesson 8: Creating the keys
In this lesson, we will break down the keys part and figure out how to recreate it with software instruments.
Lesson 9: Working on the piano tone colour
In this lesson we revisit the sound of the piano and make it more "lofi"
Lesson 10: Sound FX
In this lesson we add SFX to the song to give it movement and momentum.
Lesson 11: Structure
In this lesson we figure out the structure and place everything where it needs to go.
Lesson 12: How to breakdown the Harmony and Pitch
In this lesson you will learn how to identify chords and keys. You will also see how melody relates to keys and chords.
Lesson 13: What is Tone Colour?
In this lesson you will learn how to breakdown Tone Colour and why it is so important in your beat.