On february I started, motivated by some friends, to make beats. The first hours on FL Studio were hard to me since I knew very little about music production and was just eating the information from Youtube tutorials and tips that my friends gave me, but, FL Studio is a very intuitive DAW and you, unaware of it, learn things on the run. That's how 'Hara-kiri' was born.
I didn't know how to sample, how to make proper hip-hop drum patterns, how to do bass lines, how to mix properly, how to eq, anything; I even didn't know the most important thing I needed to know; how to achieve that crispy and relaxing lo-fi vibe that I was after. So I started laying some simple drum patterns I learned about from Youtube videos and, while the beat was taking form, at the same time I watched a huge amount of tutorials about production and putting the things a saw on this very first project. Since I didn't know how to sample yet, I made ALL the instruments myself (By hear, since my musical knowledge was average), and I don't even know why the track ended up taking that asian inspired vibe. There are dizi flutes all over the track, shamisens and other chinese string instrument I forgot about; the bass line, a sample bass line, was took from one of the Kontakt stock library instruments.
I spent 2 weeks working on this beat, 2 WEEKS! And now I can finish a beat in a couple of hours. I think I'm come a pretty long way from that guy that didn't know why the drums still sounded louder than everything else to the guy that hears a sample somewhere and quickly chops it up and makes a beat out of nowhere within hours. And I still have too many things to learns, to many things to polish, I still need to get good at so many things, I still have a long journey to go.
Thanks a lot guys, for being part now of my journey, to listen to my music, to open up your ears to the amazing world of lo-fi hiphop and I'm thankful and honored to be one of your guides. I hope you still follow me through all the chapters to come, without the people that takes the time to give me valuable feedback and listen to the crap I make, I'd be nothing. Thanks!
Quickly update: Some of the early tracks I uploaded since I started posting on steemit regularly are now on Choon, I'll paste the links down below:
Retrospectiva choon.co/tracks/45dletgz0w/retrospectiva
Nostalgia choon.co/tracks/0guc8o6nzz7/nostalgia
I haven't forgot about you & and I wish I could choon.co/tracks/2pwhj6oxta/i-havent-forgot-about-you--i-wish-i-could
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Cool, nice to have your first beat, especially as you thought you lost it..
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You were already off to a great start! The best is yet to come!
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Wise words Zig! Thanks a lot!
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Absolutely!
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