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by anigbrowl
1252 days ago
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FULL VELOCITY at all times If you want to make bangers the priority is to get your groove down as fast as possible and add nuance at the mix stage. If you want to craft stuff with velocity sensitivity, layering etc, you're now more into composing than recording and the speed of your workflow is gonna be significantly slower, more half-written abandoned tracks etc. I am in the latter class btw, because that's the kind of tweaking I enjoy. But the best way to finish tracks is to have a timer running and just bang shit out without thinking too much, pure instinct. |
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This ^^
Especially in the jamming or "feeling" phase, it's about having your tools (in this case, a few pre-made sounds, or kits) available as quickly as you need them, so you can get into the flow of the track and not lose it. It's also why when I make beats or tracks, I oftentimes find myself composing the peak of the track almost by default and work backwards from there.
Also, USE TEMPLATES!!! Templates are considered a form of cheating by some, but I don't ascribe to that, and I love using templates because it can help me progress so much faster in each phase of production. My default Ableton setup for 4/4 house music literally has every section of the track already set, the default sounds (drums, samples, synths) I need to use to get a groove going, levels pre-adjusted, and everything is color-coded for ease of viewing....and I just go from there.
I saw a video put out by Ableton maybe 2 or 3 years ago that had some artist saying "just get something down in the DAW, and don't worry about what that something actually is - because you'll replace everything later when you're not in the ideation phase of production". The other thing is that if you mix the ideation and production phases, you'll get bored of your track very quickly because you aren't taking breaks, just hearing over and over what you've made so far. It's happened to me literally hundreds of times. I have probably 1k+ ideas (could be a track that's 90% done, or a few loops put together, or just a MIDI sequence that i was goofing around with) sitting on a variety of old computers and hard drives. None will ever be finished, partially due to my inability to set a goal, accomplish it, and close the DAW.
Some of the best production content I've seen has been "Against The Clock" videos where the artist (or artists) have 10 minutes to make something. They just flow for a bit, and then revisit it later if need be.