Ableton Live Underground Hip Hop Beat Clinic 1 ... Drum Chopping Tutorial

[noblesimple]

Dope tutorial! Lots of great points and this is the first tutorial for this style of beat making that I've been able to find! I'm definitely gona keep following.

[561kush]

VISIT MY PAGE listen to funk instrumental

Chill hip hop beat made in Ableton Live 8.

[Defin8te]

awesome man

[0patman0]

nice tutorials man

[DJSkribblzHD]

I could have swore you were gonna say Jason DEEERRRUUUULLLLOOOO!!! whn you introduced yourself

[rahulrpatel]

my maaaan finally smeone that speaks my language. make more tutorial vids please cuzzo im tryna excavavte dat boom bap frm ableton

[UGKIDD33]

thnx my dude.. I'm new to ableton n this video made the most sense out of all of em I've seen

[DENNIS9456]

man that's so great ! thnx a lot ! respect from Moldova

[56KINGDOM]

how do you save your ableton live set as an mp3 file?

[Cydux]

thanks dude. very informative. love that sample.

[spacenoise5]

dude sounds dope, thanks for the help! :)

[saintjasin]

@WestBeatz96 i googled "drum loops wav" and was especially looking for "impeach the president" by the honey drippers

[Drinks4450]

hey man! I gotta say nice job although that was quite a talkative intro but nontheless you demonstrated that well. I have also been using Live for about 2 years now and naturally theres always tons of stuff to learn but I enjoy it. Do you teach anyone or any classes?

[theoryallogist]

SICK WEBSITE! AND THANKS FOR THE TIPS!

[hugboat808]

Use Drum rack and you'll be able to add effects to each sound individually. Drum Rack FTW

[saintjasin]

@hugboat808 yeah but I think its quicker to access drums this way, and easier to isolate them and drop them out in session view if they are on a track.

[foggydigg]

nice check out my beats

[DanielDavisMusic]

more clinics please!

[bmf3122]

yo new guy the ableton.. got an mpk25 just to throw that out there.. but a very basic and probably stupid question to you, but where do you get all the drum loops that you work with on these videos, really like what your teaching but I wanna find a solid resource for sampling so I can get started on my own.. thanks for any help

[saintjasin]

@bmf3122 If you go to my website under drum kits I have a USB key for sale that contains all the drum sounds I have purchsed, found, smapled and downloaded over the years. Over 10,000 sounds.

[ChristopherPaulson]

how did you screen capture? what program? thanks

[Banchuba]

Thanks for shareing your knowhow!

[Unify34]

you nice with it my nigz

[ThoughtseizeBeats]

Like it man! =D

[1watchman]

Great character, very humble in teaching this tutorial, put some more ableton videos up.

[tylus17]

Dont it suck to be on a mac where u cant hold and use a shit load of vst because of low ram and hdd space?

[saintjasin]

@tylus17 Macs are basically industry standard. I don't know why you think that they are limited in those areas. They are probably harder to PIRATE VSTs on. But...

[jbyrd117]

@tylus17 does it suck to still be breast feeding on your mother?

[inkstar82]

@tylus17 lol, not when you have Shit load of ram and shit load of hdd space

[WC7495]

Good tut man. You are spot on that you don't need hardware anymore to do ANY type of sample based music. Ableton is king and I'm glad to see some hip hop coming out of it.

[sakis7074]

This was worth it for the high pass filter and resonance tip alone. Nice one!

[floetry626]

Representing ableton live for hip hop heads!



[bigbolo73]

good video. thanks

[dankirouac]

How do you deal with background noise on breaks? I don't mind a little crackle throughout the whole track, but I have problems when I chop out my individual drums, as opposed to just looping a break. For example if I was to isolate my kick there would be a significant boost in noise/hiss when each one is triggered. I can put a low pass filter on to take out some noise but this kills the sound of the drum.

[saintjasin]

@dankirouac that is a problem. sometimes it will not show depending on your arrangement of everything else, sometimes it means getting a better sample, sometimes it means using a noise reduction plug in, aggressive eq, multiband dynamics, hiding it with reverb etc... The solutions that work for me are usually a multiband compressor, and making sure your chops last 1/16th. dont play the hat chops over kicks that have hats or snares with hats. Or just leave it if it sound funky fuck it.

[dankirouac]

@saintjasin Thanks! I'll definitely try some of these out

[DUB955]

The real Beat Clinic Studio is in Killeen Tx., Hand Over Fist Productiion. This is not the original beat clinic. Some guy thats an imposter. The real BEAT CLINIC IS WAAAYYY BETTER!!!! COMING SOON!!!!!

[saintjasin]

@DUB955 When you get your shit together, I hope to see some dope beats man. Good luck. and if you google beat clinic, there's about 9 million results. So if you want to waste your time sending hate mail, you got a looooooooooooooooooong way to go. I suggest you spend your time learning how to make beats, cuz I got this funny hunch that you're wack.

[DJillogick]

This Live shit is pretty cool. I'm going to check it out...I just don't like to do everything w/the mouse though...

[juliusrox00]

Ssup bro. I finally found a good hiphop-producer who uses ableton as well.. You got some nice drums and samples! It sounds dope!

[randiseriss]

MY MAIN QUESTION IS CAN YOU RECORD A SAMPLE, SAY A STRING SAMPLE YOU RECORD FROM VINYL INTO ABLETON AND THEN HAVE POLYPHONIC SOUNDS OR /DIFFERENT PITCHES FROM TRIGGERING THE KEYBOARD

[djdoughmix]

Thanks saintjasin! good vids. there's not enough hiphop vids about Ableton out there. Stay up-

[Up2NoGoodMedia1]

yo thnx 4 posting your vid man highly informative and easy 2 digest !

[urfavoritedonkey]

after watching this videoi know that i still got a very long way to go:-)

[TheRuizification]

thanks for postin vids ...

[bTast3r]

where did u get all that samples ??

[saintjasin]

@bTast3r the sample is "impeach the President" by The Honeydrippers. I will be linking you guys up with a lot of resources when my website is finished.

[loczster]

dude....nice and simple. better then alot of others out there. GJ

[mpilgrim0]

How do you use the pre-click on ableton? I know its really simple but I am new to this program. thanks

[vStylerJohnG]

nice job, thanks :)

[saintjasin]

I have Ableton 8 now!!! I was blessed, and I am going to be coming back better than ever.

[DaRulerofDaSouF]

@saintjasin thanks fam

[treydeeze]

@saintjasin Hit me up I can hook you up with 8.1.4 live suite

[bernabemido]

Thanks for your videos, great help for a begginer like me.

I have a trumpet loop (wav) and i want to sustain the last trumpet note (the tail of the wav) troughout the whole next loop. How can i do this in an easy way?

Un saludo desde España

[saintjasin]

@bernabemido

If you would like to do that, open up the MIDI instrument "Sampler" or "Simpler"

There will be a button called "loop" that you can click on or off. when that button is selected, your sample will repeat for the length of your MIDI note. The loop region can be adjusted so that only the end of a sample loops, so that you get a clean tail on a sound or as long as you need. Overlap sounds by duplicating the track, and alternating.

[bernabemido]

@saintjasin Thanks for your help :D Good luck from Spain

[bernabemido]

@saintjasin Great help. Thanks a lot a good luck

[DUBLDL]

where do you get those loops man?

[saintjasin]

@DUBLDL

I will do a video that will be providing links to some resources.

[neight000]

like how you think Saintjasin, proper work. When you get up on the Live 8 (if its not in live 5) theres the drum rack and the side chain setup which allows to do all those setups from one track. Like how you put the kick and snare (if i remember correct) on one track, separate from the hihat etc. so as to bypass the limits of impulse effect add on.

Any ways, stay up brotha.

[whibley187]

I love how you transformed that break into your own..Sounds fresh!!! Those were some bangin drums brother :)

[billybarryboy]

Whats happenin man? Really appreciate the video! All goin good until 4:43.

I've done everything the same as the vid, but when I set the metronome, adjust the tempo and double click on the play button, I just hear the metronome sound (The hat noise and red visuals don't appear) I've no idea why. I'm using ableton 7. Thanks man

[saintjasin]

@billybarryboy

okay, I was playing those hats on the keyboard...sorry that I didn't make that more clear, but I press the topmost (global) play button, double click in the scene where I will be recording notes to create a 1 bar loop, then push the play button on that same scene until you see the cursor moving along with the tempo. That was not automatic, I was playing the notes, and had 16th quantization turned on so that they would fall on beat.

[rickmanary]

that was a tight video i love the tip on clearing up the kick

[LILSCB]

koo,

everybody

creates thier own way of using thier tools.

i use ableton on my day-to-day music.

its been good to me for three yrs,

i grown acustom to using it. workflow is great.

thankz for ur post migtht make a video on my lil tricks i have learned.

[DaRulerofDaSouF]

i got ableton i cant get to my instruments how u get to em

[saintjasin]

@DaRulerofDaSouF

in the upper left corner, there should be a vertical column of 6 or 7 icons, right under the TAP button. The second one, that looks like tiny Ableton window is the Ableton instruments, the third one that looks like a plug are your third-party VST plug-ins. If you have any third party AU or VST instruments, you have to make sure they are in the correct folder, or set a custom folder for Live to scan

[djhaiezone]

been lookin for some hip hop vids on ableton,I'm tryin to learn the basics on this software.dope shit man keep makin that boom bap hip hop!!!!

[tbmagis]

Man, even though I can't see the Ableton screen too much, I really enjoy your vid. Thanks bro.

[ratman30]

Dude When You go do another vid , we miss you out here man!!!

[ratman30]

I am feeling you man.I was a MPC dude back in the day and Live is the best thing going if you are comming from the hard ware side.All of these programs are what you make of it man.I just compress and eq to add punch to the drums myself.

[superaxel1981]

Very nice tricks man, i love hip hop althought thats not what i do i am into electronic music but i ran into your tutorial watching Ableton's clinics and i think its way better than all that crap you see on the tube. Peace ;)

[Erredmek]

Jason - that was some excellent training, man -- thanks for taking the time to do this!

I am just starting out with Ableton and feel so lost in all that it can do, so I am looking for vids by others who are figuring it out and can show me the easy ways to make the music happen.

Take care man!

[MrFIXX420]

hey how come when i drop impulse on top of a midi track it switches it to an impulse track instead of stayin a midi track??

[JerkCough1]

how do you apply resonance and low filter pass to your kick outside of using drum rack or any of the other midi effects..

[saintjasin]

@JerkCough1 you have to use some sort of VST plug in that has those features...the easiest way is in the actual drum rack

[JerkCough1]

yeah good looking anyway.. man this nice for them chunky drums.. when is your next vid coming?

[du2xmedia]

great job explaining... this was really clear and helpful! thanks!

[iromeku]

Nice one.

[saeroner]

Nice vid man...

Man, I forgot how time consuming this used to be back in Live 5... really.

You have to get 8. Slice that loop to new midi track and then everything is all laid out individually so you can add effects or whatever settings - save the setting so it's just one click next time - crazyy... drop the MPC swing or whatever u want... i love this shit... nothing better than live. I used an MPC for years

[saintjasin]

yeah I know I gotta get the dough to upgrade...I dont really like the new warp system much yet and I was just gonnna sit on 5 for a while, but I upgraded my OS and now it has bugs on 5, so I gotta upgrade. I got so used to not having slice to midi that I dont even do beats that way no more...I will have to get used to it again...my controller is mad dusty lol

[JerkCough1]

yes zir basic tips can go a long way....Although I'm a hardware head mpc / ASR 10..Ableton is probably one of the best software programs out that will get the job done..I use it with my hardware mostly for tracking.

[1rmw]

good vid,, cant follow normally but got all yours,,ta

[anbruce99]

you dont need to make a seperate midi track for the drum rack, you can add effects to each individual sound and expand the channels in the mixer for full control. thats why the drum rack is so cool!

[sirloathsome]

I picked up quite a few handy tips from you, thanks! :)

[sirloathsome]

Great video. man! Keep it up

[comptongameLA]

hey nice vid. can you tell me pls how i can let the samples play. you see... when I put down a sample to my drum rack. and hit the trigger on my MPD. it just plays the part as long as i put the trigger. i want to hit the trigger and let the whole sample play... how can i do that? thanks!!

[saintjasin]

all you do is turn the release all the way up. it is the fourth parameter from the left on the drum rack when you first open it

[comptongameLA]

@saintjasin OMG THANK YOU SOOO MUCH! I'VE TRIED EVERYTHING IN THIS WORLD MAN.... I'M SO THANKFUL! AGAIN THANKS BROH FOR THIS!

[oxfordskeet]

thank you very much jason..u are my new teacher bro..DONT LET ME DOWN..keep em comming. can u do one on timestreching samples and show anuther tip/trik also Thanks again man!