Doing a beat a day to get like Dr. Dreeeee

Largely restricting myself to 2 hrs

Day 1 heard Chicago Died and had just seen a video explaining how to sample like Kanye well - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rto1ifvKFM&t=72s

Notes About:
Drum loop from Cymatics drove the first section

Reflection Notes:
- Verse + Hook seem disjointed
- Feels like needs more depth
- Also, “Gotta make this town his own” sounded SLIGHTLY off place
- Not sure what you’d rap on here
- “Na Na Na” section especially – maybe it would work better as an effect? Or differently textured to allow sound to come through (side chain compressor for the drums?)
Na Na Na section doesn’t sound filled out

Skills + Things Used:
- Sampled the beat and chopped up, DIDN’T use the simpler / sampler
- Kanye Speed Up	
- Un-warp sample, speed up via pitch, shift notes + tempo so they land on bars correctly - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rto1ifvKFM&t=72s 
- Missed skill: Didn’t use melodyne to pull the bassline
- Didn’t make drumline myself, pulled from a sample


Was running out of time so pulled drumline from a kit for the main verses. Worked well.

[A Beat A Day][1] Chicago Died

Day 3, wanted to do something opposite of the Ye sample and instead remade Legend which involved slowing down the sample and hiding it some instead of putting it on full display. Used some of what I learned

Also this was only done in 2 hrs so there were some missing elements near the end. The hi-hats are half YOLO'ed because they were too intricate to get exactly right. They're close though

[A Beat A Day][3] Legend (Remake)

I tried chopping the sample instead of just copy-pasting vocals which I did for Chicago Died. For IYRTITL I used the simpler, but it wasn't properly chopping. Was not happy how it turned out although the ideas were cool.

Came out messier than I liked, taught me I have a little ways to go before I can do that effectively.

[A Beat A Day][4] Oh Darling Attempt 1

Don't have time to make notes today as it's New Year's eve, will come back to do so.

Came back to this sample because I really thought there was potential there. Again, 2 hr cutoff.

- I think this version is a lot better
- Didn't get to add drums
- It might not need them because it's such a noisy sample but I think some would be good
- The first 16 bars are the general loop, the ones I shoved at the end would be cool for a hook or a bridge
- This was made at 240bpm -- speed was cranked up with a pitch up of 6 semitones. Ie, it's now 6/8 time in 120bpm (making each quarter note an eighth note instead).
- Due to the speed and number of eigth-ish notes being hit + the higher pitch of the Beatles voices, I wonder what rapping on this would be like. Might try it as one of the days to give me insight on how to make a more vocal friendly sampled beat

[A Beat A Day][5] Oh Darling Attempt 2

Want to try to pull what I learned to make another original sample-ish-based track.

Working on adding 808s and making a little more movement, + EQ'ing the sample down after some intro bars. The march-y snares will be permanent though

[A Beat A Day][6] Interjections, Part 1

This was SLIGHTLY more fleshed out, with 808s being tuned (new skill), kicks being layered in with sidechain compression, another percussion loop added to the 4 bar, and the sample adjusted to match the drums better. EQ low pass added for section for rapping so that just the melody of the sample is heard, not the vocals conflicting.

Still needs work on making it full fleshed, I wanted to make the beat come in with more ferocity for the main instrumental and I really couldn't do that

[A Beat A Day][7] Interjections Attempt 2

The beat I rap over is from Juice WRLD's Legends Never Die album. Much love and RIP, he was an amazing genuine artist who got pulled way too soon.

Young Poet