https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/tags/techniques/beatmaking/Latest entries for the tag BeatmakingenWed, 26 Jul 2023 15:08:04 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/cloudchord-tending-the-bloom-bap-garden/The cover art for Cloudchord’s latest album, Bloom Bap, features a guitar with a neck that loops around and morphs into a branch, passing by a tree stump that doubles as a turntable. The trippy nighttime gardenscape is a fitting visual representation for Derek VanScoten’s music, in which lush layers…Wed, 26 Jul 2023 15:08:04 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/cloudchord-tending-the-bloom-bap-garden/ArtistsDownloadshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/good-timing-beatmaking-with-auto-warp-in-live-113/Auto-Warp is the feature in Live that helps you tighten up loose timing and tempo variations, detect the downbeat in any kind of audio and snap it all to the grid. In Live 11.3, you can drag longer samples or even entire tracks into your Sets and let the algorithm…Thu, 15 Jun 2023 09:50:48 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/good-timing-beatmaking-with-auto-warp-in-live-113/TutorialsVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/beat-generation-making-lo-fi-hip-hop-on-the-new-push/Watch Jamie Blake create a breezy lo-fi hip hop beat in this 10-minute tutorial on Push. Learn how he brings an organic feel to his drums, instruments and effects by mapping them all to the new expressive pads, and builds out the percussion section by auto-warping a polymetric loop. Keep…Thu, 01 Jun 2023 10:17:01 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/beat-generation-making-lo-fi-hip-hop-on-the-new-push/TutorialsVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/freshly-chopped-program-modern-uk-beats-in-live/Snappy, swung and reload-ready: in this tutorial, cnstruct breaks down some key drum programming and processing techniques to put a fresh spin on the rhythms of UK techno, garage and breaks. Learn how to use Live’s groove and choke features for shuffling hi-hats, create an Operator patch for tweakable rhythmic…Thu, 20 Apr 2023 09:43:52 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/freshly-chopped-program-modern-uk-beats-in-live/Tutorialshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/tiger-jk-the-korean-rap-legend-on-beats-rhymes-and-life/If you listen to much K-pop you’ll know that a rap verse will almost inevitably be dropped into any major hit these days – usually right after the first chorus. You could almost call it a tradition. But it wasn’t always this way with hip-hop in Korea. Back in 1995,…Fri, 01 Apr 2022 10:52:51 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/tiger-jk-the-korean-rap-legend-on-beats-rhymes-and-life/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/paradox-breakbeat-mastery/Since the late ‘70s breakbeats have been sampled and repurposed across an ever-evolving global continuum of electronic music. Over time, this method of beatmaking has become highly intricate and nuanced with some of the more technically demanding examples found in drum & bass and its sub-genre drumfunk; which is known…Thu, 27 Jan 2022 14:46:09 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/paradox-breakbeat-mastery/ArtistsDownloadshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/complex-drum-programming-with-ned-rush/As Ned Rush explains in his latest tutorial video, one of the best things about electronic drums is the ability to modulate your percussive tones to create dynamic, morphing patterns. Starting with the Drum Synth devices, Rush creates a simple MIDI pattern with Chance applied to select notes, and then…Fri, 14 Jan 2022 16:32:03 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/complex-drum-programming-with-ned-rush/TutorialsVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/kenny-beats-connecting-dots/When the late rapper and music producer Daniel Dumile (popularly known as MF DOOM) was asked how he combats writer’s block, his answer was simple: “The way that creativity works for me, it comes to you like an energy stream or something. It comes in waves. You’ve just got to…Fri, 25 Jun 2021 08:54:34 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/kenny-beats-connecting-dots/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/studies-sound-arbour-lo-fi-beats-and-musical-exploration/Though primarily known for chill lo-fi beats and study beats playlists on YouTube and Spotify, the artist known as Arbour’s origins weren’t exactly auspicious. Like many electronic musicians, the Seattle-based artist (real name Hans Watkins) got his start on a decidedly modest setup. Eighteen years old at the time, and…Fri, 26 Feb 2021 14:48:41 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/studies-sound-arbour-lo-fi-beats-and-musical-exploration/ArtistsDownloadshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/knxwledge-staying-in-go-mode/Knxwledge might be the only person on earth prepared for 2020. “Quarantine is regular over here,” remarked the 32-year-old producer over a video call from his home studio. Long before staying inside was a mandate, Knxwledge was streaming it live with Earl Sweatshirt. And before livestreaming was one of the…Fri, 09 Oct 2020 07:56:35 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/knxwledge-staying-in-go-mode/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/made-in-ableton-live-keychee/Keychee builds up a hard-stepping hit of hip hop-flavored funk using drum layering, automated envelopes, sidechain compression and master effects chains. The end result is a textured, dynamic track layered with rich synth hooks, all created in the box.Wed, 18 Jan 2023 10:56:02 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/made-in-ableton-live-keychee/ArtistsTutorialsVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/made-in-ableton-live-freddie-joachim-on-chopping-samples-beatmaking-and-more/Freddie Joachim chops up some Rhodes samples, slices drum breaks and lays down some live guitar. From turning shakers into hi-hats to creative quantizing and creating stereo width, his session is loaded with classy techniques to make a seriously smooth jam.Wed, 18 Jan 2023 09:11:40 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/made-in-ableton-live-freddie-joachim-on-chopping-samples-beatmaking-and-more/ArtistsTutorialsVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/ground-watch-tracks-being-built-our-new-series-made-ableton-live/The limitless possibilities at the start of a new project can make it hard to know where to focus your inspiration. With that in mind, the new Made In Ableton Live video series follows nine artists as they take a track from conception to completion. Every step of the way,…Thu, 04 Jun 2020 10:08:52 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/ground-watch-tracks-being-built-our-new-series-made-ableton-live/ArtistsNewsTutorialsVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/complex-beatmaking-seed-stage/Adding layers of complexity to percussive parts can take a beat from predictable to addictive. Anthony Thogmartin’s latest video on his Seed to Stage YouTube channel is all about creating snippets of extra ear candy from the beat you already have. He explores three different methods for using generative and…Thu, 16 Apr 2020 13:58:31 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/complex-beatmaking-seed-stage/TutorialsVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/make-10000-beats-story-stlndrms/Living by the mantra, “life is good, time is precious, make people smile,” Atlanta-based producer STLNDRMS’ biography reads like a Hollywood movie script. In addition to co-founding the producer collective and beat showcase Controllerise, creating the Slappy Drums sample pack, and building an Instagram audience of over 50,000, the veteran…Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:51:35 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/make-10000-beats-story-stlndrms/ArtistsDownloads