How to make deep house rar

There is also a video at the end of the post, applying 5 of these tips in one single track. Just pay attention to the grid settings in the bottom right corner of every image. This one covers the use of Chord Voicing on Minor 9th chords to get a nice Deep House style organ sound. This is demonstrated in STEP 3. STEP 1 — We start off with the basic minor triad structure: C minor in the first bar, D minor in the second bar and G minor in the last two bars. There is also some side-chain compression on this organ sound:.

To get to a Minor 9th chord, add two more notes , 10 and 14 semitones above the root. It sounds like this:.

You can experiment with other arrangements, such as moving both the second and third note from your chord structures in the upper octaves:. In the sixth bar, move the D minor to F minor. STEP 1 — This is going to be our six-notes bass-line pattern:. Notice the contrary motion between the bass-line and the organ the organ is climbing to G minor, while the bassline goes down to G :. This adds a little bit of variation to our bass-line pattern:.

Same Mallet Instrument, same Arpeggiator effect, but a different chord progression with different chord structures. The point here is that you can experiment with triads, 7th or 9th chords to create some variations between bars. This one covers the use of Chord Inversion and Chord Voicing to create smoother transition between the main chords of your progression. In the last two bars, the F minor triad was extended to F minor 9th :.

With this chord progression, the second bar C minor seems to be too low for a smooth transition:. STEP 4A — In this example, playing the C minor chord in its original structure does not fit with the rest of the clip. So, to create a smoother transition between these bars we can change the bass note of the chord.

This is known as chord inversion. D minor 9th in the first two bars, C minor 9th in the third bar and G minor in the last bar. The problem here is with the last bar. The G minor is too low to fit with the other chords, as it does not contain any notes in the fourth octave :. Take the second and third note from the G minor chord and move them in the next octave :. This adds a little bit of variation to our chord progression:. This is an arrangement technique and it covers the use of two different bass patterns, playing a different sequence of notes, but under the same melody.

So this is the first bass-line pattern:. In the previous section, you can hear an organ sound accompanying the bass-line. This section covers a quick and simple technique to add a nice harmonic texture to your bass-line. The organ will play the same pattern of the same notes that are also duplicated 7 semitones above.

You can experiment with different instruments. STEP 2 — We can do the same thing for the second bass-line pattern :. This one covers the arrangement of the standard drum elements to create a better drum group. We start from the basic pattern, we add a snare, some hats and a ride sample.

STEP 1 — So we start from the basic pattern with the kick playing on every beat, the clap on the second and fourth and the hat going off-beat:. In the second bar the snare will play a different pattern:. If this is difficult to see, use this link for a better image :. There is also a side-chain compressor on the ride sample:.

There is also a small delay through the second return track:. STEP 2 — Now extend these notes into a continuous line for the pad track. Notice how the second bar is no longer using chord voicing :. STEP 3 — Now duplicate these four bars. In the last bar, shift the entire chord 12 semitones up and see how this simple trick extends our beat to 8 bars:.

This section covers one of the easiest ways to create a nice chord progression. We take a few instruments playing the same chord structure and we resample them into one audio loop. We insert the audio loop into Simpler and we try to find a nice chord progression by playing a single note on the keyboard. This is demonstrated in the first part of the next video.

So there you go. So leave a comment below and let me know which one of these you found the most interesting? Really great stuff — My fav tup is the voicing on chords. Really good tutor.

Thanks for the job! This is a great tutorial. Learned a lot and it was much fun to follow… and… I did my first real Deep House track. Loving the chords! Thank you so much for your feedback. When you guys are using inversions to create smoother chord progressions, do you typically double the root in the lower octave?

Or do you double the bass note of the inversion in the lower octave? You can use bass notes which are not the root notes for some chords. It really depends on the sound. Can you explain resampling? Chord resampling is one of the easiest ways to create chord progressions. It works like the chord effect in Live. You can play an entire chord with just one key. Check our tut on Deep House Chord Progression, where we go through chord resampling last section :. One of the best set of tutorials I have seen cant wait to give these tips a go, so useful!

Cheers guys! Keep up the good work. Can you do a tut on these call and response basslines that are being used alot at the mo — example below:.

The first part is an FM bass, but what about the second? It also sounds swung. Both although probably more the sound design. Item added to cart. Click to view cart and checkout. Today we're going to make a Deep House track from scratch using Ableton instruments only. Here's a quick preview of the track we're going to be making:. Alright, let's get into the production process! In this part we're going to focus on drums only. But before that, you need to know that the first thing I always add is It's a very important part of deep house production.

Sidechain compression is an effect which turns down the volume of a track when another track's volume goes up. Deep house tracks often have lots of elements sidechained to the kick - which creates a very cool pumping effect. But what if we want to have a sidechain effect during parts when the kick isn't playing?

That's what a separate Sidechain track is useful for. Fortunately making it is very simple:. Make sure you're in the Arrangement view first - click Tab a couple of times to make sure you're in the horizontal mode. It's the mode we're going to work in today. Select a kick sample in your browser on the left and drag it there.

We used a sample from our Deep Premium sample pack which you can find here - you can use your own samples if you like. C3 is the root note in Ableton, we don't want the kick to be transposed up or down. Extend the clip by dragging its sides onto your whole project. This way the sidechain track will always play. Now that you've got a Sidechain track, making a Kick track is easy as pie. All you have to do now is just un-mute your Kick track and you're good to go.

To make the beat more interesting, let's add a PreSnare. I inserted this Rim sample onto a new midi track:. Let's make another MIDI Clip, and this time let's play only one note in a bar - place it just like in this picture:.