By binger0
Sat Jan 31, 2004 12:53 pm
For all the new jacks out there I want to say a little sumthin
I find to make my beats ill they have have to be in the right key.
If you don't know what key is, it goes like this:
the piano is laid out like this (from the first white key with 2 black keys than 3 black keys in a row)
the first note CDEFGABC (white keys)
the blacks key are sharps and flats of the white keys below them
If you take a guitar riff get a keyboard and go up the keys until you hit the note that sounds in harmony (perfect tone for sample and key note) with the sample. You have to find the root note of the sample. This is usally the note that is first played and ended on in a phrase. Once you get that you can sync your basslines and other sounds to that sample by playin that key.
You then have to play a couple of different scales till you get a good riff going. A scale is a group of note in succesion that are start on that root. There are tons of scales online do a search on google.com.
One that I like is a blues scale
If you start on C jump to the second black key before the two whites (EF) are together. D# then jump to F then G then jump to B# (which is the last black key) You can jam out in this scale to build a melody. Just go kinda in order but replay keys and skip keys in that scale. This site can help you build a library of scales to play
http://www.looknohands.com/chordhouse/piano/
This is music theory 101. If you need to get you samples in the right key, this program is cool
http://www.analogx.com/contents/downloa ... totune.htm
You can just drop multiple samples on it and the will go to whatever key you want. (For best results don't put a number in just a letter like C, It will change the freq to the nearest C in that feq range instead of like the C1 oct) Also make sure you have a copy of your sample in case you don't like the results, I think it is permenant.
PEACE BEEYOTCHS
I find to make my beats ill they have have to be in the right key.
If you don't know what key is, it goes like this:
the piano is laid out like this (from the first white key with 2 black keys than 3 black keys in a row)
the first note CDEFGABC (white keys)
the blacks key are sharps and flats of the white keys below them
If you take a guitar riff get a keyboard and go up the keys until you hit the note that sounds in harmony (perfect tone for sample and key note) with the sample. You have to find the root note of the sample. This is usally the note that is first played and ended on in a phrase. Once you get that you can sync your basslines and other sounds to that sample by playin that key.
You then have to play a couple of different scales till you get a good riff going. A scale is a group of note in succesion that are start on that root. There are tons of scales online do a search on google.com.
One that I like is a blues scale
If you start on C jump to the second black key before the two whites (EF) are together. D# then jump to F then G then jump to B# (which is the last black key) You can jam out in this scale to build a melody. Just go kinda in order but replay keys and skip keys in that scale. This site can help you build a library of scales to play
http://www.looknohands.com/chordhouse/piano/
This is music theory 101. If you need to get you samples in the right key, this program is cool
http://www.analogx.com/contents/downloa ... totune.htm
You can just drop multiple samples on it and the will go to whatever key you want. (For best results don't put a number in just a letter like C, It will change the freq to the nearest C in that feq range instead of like the C1 oct) Also make sure you have a copy of your sample in case you don't like the results, I think it is permenant.
PEACE BEEYOTCHS