Ableton Live Video 3 Creating a Basic Drum and bass Beat at the Dubai DJ Academy

0:00 A simple introduction on music production, that rhymes pretty much, on

Alright ladies, you're upside down. That's better. Right, we're at the Dubai DJ Academy and if you want any more information on the Dubai DJ Academy, check out the link in the description, take you to the Facebook page. Also, it will take you to video number two and in turn video number two will take you to video number one on this selection that Ed Lewis from the Dubai DJ Academy is doing on music production. A simple introduction on music production, that rhymes pretty much, on Ableton. And in video number three, or video number one we made a house beat. In video number two we took that house beat and turned it into a hip hop beat. Video number three, we're taking that hip hop track and we're turning it into a drum and bass beat and then into a dubstep beat. Go for it. Alright. Okay, so taking a hip hop beat and turning it into a drum and bass beat is very, very easy. You'll find that a lot of drum and bass and

1:07 The big difference is the speed

Hip hop samples, because a lot of time they're coming from other records, come from similar sources. Now the big difference is the speed. So hip hop is very, very slow. Somewhere usually between about 90 and 110 beats per minute. And drum and bass is very fast, so generally between about 150 and 170 beats per minute. At the moment I've got this hip hop beat, at 105 beats per minute. And all I really need to do just to turn it into a very kind of rough and dirty drum and bass beat is just to change the speed of it. So if I take this up to say 160 beats per minute, that's it. That's an instant drum and bass beat right there. You know, no other tweaking required. I think the only major tweaking you'd have

2:17 You've got to be very clever if you want to do that

To do is the hi-hat sounds very robotic. It doesn't. At the moment, yeah. I mean, we're just kind of doing basic. Yeah, actually, yeah, we're doing the basics. Okay. Again, if you want to mix house into hip hop, it can be done, but then you've got to lower the speed of the house track down and you are mixing two almost completely separate genres. So it is quite difficult. You've got to be very clever if you want to do that. But if you do want to mix the likes of drum and bass into hip hop, then as Ed said, the whole structure of hip hop is very similar to drum and bass. It's just a lot slower. So what you will find is you may have to increase the hip hop track as much as you can, decrease the drum and bass track so they match up. But of course, the key here is to make sure

That they're at the same BPM. They have to be at the same BPM. So no, sorry. No, let me start again actually. Just forget that tiny bit. Hip hop track, you need to maybe slow down. I will explain. If your hip hop track says 100 BPM, you may have to slow your hip hop track down to say 90 BPM because the drum and bass track could say...

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