So you picked a beat that immediately starts with a sound you can't identify or produce? Sounds to me like you just don't wanna get to work. You could have even made the beat around the sounds you couldn't make. Stop lying to yourself and get to work.
If you can't make the beat you can't make the beat. Pick something easier for you, or you can even make the beat around the missing sounds. Bottom line is 'doing nothing' is definitely not the answer.
Can be any beat just a few conditions:
Please pick a beat you're capable of making because I don't want anyone getting discouraged and pulling out. Also obviously not something you've already done either. I will offer up several options of beats I've been thinking of remaking, you offer up...
There's a song, I can't remember who it was. I believe it was a group of women. Around 2/3 of the way through the song it goes into a break beat and James Brown lets out a very Wilson Pickett-esque "uhh" sound.
You should just make it like you need X amount of posts or X amount of time here to vote if that's the case. I mean the only people who would have a problem with something like that would be people who at best aren't interested in sticking around anyways.
Yes I need to throw scratch noises over the odd beat so let me go out and spend $8K on a pair of CDJ's and a mixer. Maybe while I'm at it I could buy an amp and a bunch of 15" speaker cabs too. Hopefully I never need any type of orchestral sounds because I don't think I'd be able to afford...
I agree.
OG Bama you just have to really keep forcing yourself to buckle down and do more. I know it's super uncomfortable. I've been there and I still am many times when it comes to learning new things and applying them. I remember when I first started learning Reason, I'd literally be...
Those are two that I consider to be. Notice both employ several techniques like letting notes ring out against choppy stuff, short runs that go back and forth. Like they're both perfectly interesting enough, not too much or too little.
Here are a couple of my beat covers:
This is just a couple bar loop of 'Big Brother' by Kanye West: https://vocaroo.com/1eesiZodnQwE
Obviously needs work on mix as well as make the rest of it and putting rest of instruments. I'm kind of mad because I somehow misplaced the drums on the track...
Works best with a MIDI controller of some sort that has a knob/slider/rotary input.
If not I believe it's still useable you just need to automate the knob that you link parameters to.