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    Producer Development Series

    I think it's a good idea Afrique - keeping track of your progress is really useful - even just to take stock of your accomplishments. Also, when you explain a technique or a situation you can often gain clarity and perspective that you may have missed otherwise. I've started an artist blog that...
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    Your (reverb) techniques on drums?

    Formant - just wondering about this technique of rendering a dry loop, reversing it, processing it with reverb and then reversing back to normal orientation. I have never heard of this technique - what are the benefits and do you do this all the time or just for the main drum break? Cheers, Jake
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    Timberlake My love /Ne-yo Miss Indep. synth

    It's a 'trance-gate' or 'chopper'.The keyboardist is playing a chord progression and then putting a gate in as an insert effect, which applies a staccato muting of the audio / midi output. Timbaland and Danja use them a lot, and when done right a pretty pedestrian chord progression turns into a...
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    Piano or keyboard chord progression

    http://www.dolmetsch.com/index.htm Fantastic online resource. Learn some basic music theory, known your scales and modes, practice your fingering and your music skill and the quality of your beats will increase ten-fold. Not only will you be able to mix original music with samples, you will...
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    looky what I found/stole...

    Cool, thanks man, I've been looking for some fresh videos.
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    what bpm's do you use? popular songs bpms?

    Sticking to one set bpm range is really gonna make your style sound stale. You have to think about the mood of the song, the lyrical content, the message you're trying to get across. Also, if you're chopping samples then there are certain restrictions; timestretching or pitch-shifting too...
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    Sam Ock on the Motif XS - "Flowers"

    Sam - great work man, I really dig the way the video cuts to you adding each section, the songs builds just enough to make me want to hear more, I can definitely envisage the right rapper making that the kind of track that can have cross-over appeal, hip-hop / pop, not in a bad way. Can't wait...
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