I’m going to explain the concept of irrational time signatures and how this seemingly complex subject can be utilised by music producers and beat makers on a digital audio workstation (DAW). Rather than on a score sheet where it is more commonly used in the case of more traditional music composers.
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I created a lofi synthwave beat we’ll call it a Miami Vaporwave style beat… This actually came off of me resampling my own work and reinterpreting it into a different style. This is where it started…
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I decided to do a bit of Oppenheimer online beat making. By that I mean I took one of the original soundtracks of the film Oppenheimer and did a bit of sample chopping and flipping to make a Hip Hop beat out of it. Given the Oscars 2024 aren’t that far away, the likes of Oppenheimer is being talked about a lot. I can’t deny the quality of the soundtrack from what I’ve heard. So it seemed like a good opportunity to take something in the current sphere and create something out of it.
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This is my first video of me making a rap beat with the TV Show Theme from the classic sitcom ‘Seinfeld’. I’m taking the theme tune and utilising samples of it to create a UK Garage beat.
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In this video I’m working on rapping in 3/4 time. It’s as part of this obscure song I’m working on called, “Rephrased Yesterdays” which incorporates a combination of experimentalism and vaporwave sounds. This song will incorporate numerous time signatures but one part is in the 3/4 time signature so I thought I’d demonstrate how I go about constructing a verse like this in real time.
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I thought I’d tell you some of my experiences releasing my first indie album and how I feel about the project looking back 10 years on since I released it. Especially given we’ve just passed Halloween 2023 and the crazy album is called, “Lord of the Dead” – A Concept Rap Album about living in the mist of Zombie Apocalypse…
This is my first experimental lofi vlog where I experiment with numerous creative ideas I have running through my mind, visually and musically. I titled this vlog WHY WORK? Where I loosely look at the concept of work and utlise the thoughts of late anthropologist David Graeber in one of his talks on the subject of ‘BS Jobs’….
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Here are 3 AMAZING TIPS on Sampling Everyday Sounds in Music and how to take samples from everyday life and flip them into something musical…
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Here’s a quick video showing How to Recreate the Korg M1 Organ Sound well known sound in a lot of classic 90s House and Garage Music….
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In this video I show you how to do Grime Basslines… Or rather I show you the basics in how to create 2 different styles of what could broadly be described as Grime basslines. These are often commonly used in UK Garage and Jungle or Drum & Bass which are of course significant influences on Grime as a genre.Continue reading