You struggle with the Bass? Try Starting your beat with the Bass

GREAT vid....& good challenge 🤔🤔!!!

Me, feverishly working to understand how my MPC Live works, (which I just bought together with my NXS2 set about two years ago, from the money my mom left me, thinking I would be needing it when I would want to further develop as a D'nB) DJ) and after three weeks just 'grinding it out' with it, see what I could find on vids that would be helpful.
Your video came up and I the title/you idea seemed something that could be very useful.
Started the video a day later, see you behind your MPC X...
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i just learned bassline and i stumbled onto a halfass kev brown sound

I tried this method a few times...and it's like starting with drums and playing out your chops to the drumline .. so it's the same method but instead it's playing out chops trying to follow the bass pattern

i always go sample, drums, and then bass
lol starting with the bass sounds like a nightmare to me but it could be an interesting challenge

Your videos helped me with certain things.props

definitely like these videos where you just make a beat from start to finish

Thats dope bro yeah i felt like it was already on point the first time you played the rhodes and the bass together- its that jazzy swag. In glad you left the upright bass as the constant and pitched the rhodes - that was awesome

So does the MPC C already have those sounds on them or did you have to sample or upload them to the X?

"I drop the soul inside your ear hole
Add the bass line, then I hit you with a fat drum roll (Hit it!)" - loop digga, quasimoto

Começar pelo baixo é sair da zona de conforto. Obrigado pela dica!

I start with chords play them on the piano make a nice progression and know what key. Then play that on midi into mpc. Then bassline then drums and samples. If you make the riffs you don't have to muck around pitching stuff. If you know your key you can really make use of the pad performer too. A little bit of music knowledge goes a loooong way. You don't have to be mozart just lean the basic scales and some triads and a little theory. You have a good ear.

man I wouldn't start a beat with bass, no way. Comes in at the end

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yes, it's the best way doing the bass as first thing!

Yahhhhh. Big up my brother ❤️❤️❤️

thanks for the advice. only read the title ;)

Question about [Previews]
I can just make them on the MPC and hear playback
On programs Before I make an expansion pack with my sounds.Just figured if I had it Done right in the x that it would work in the expansion builder?
I watch the video a few times I’m definitely gonna watch a few more and thank you for putting it together 💯

I’m upside down. I go . Sample . Drums . Bass

I do my drums....the fo a random bassline with multiple sequence and compress....tune it - ( negative) and LFO and then do my beat ....that works for me.

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what do you mean 'struggle with bass'? it's a looped sample?

Exactly what i've been looking for

Great video as usual Marlow, an interesting concept and compositional strategy. Quick question, are you using a 303 there at the end? And are you using it as an effects chain of sorts to run your beat through?

Drums Sample Bass ✅

I start with atmosphere 💡

this is something Ive thought about doing but never done for some reason

Got damn man. Just going down the rabbit hole every day... seeing videos you posted that I missed, show up in the feed. Another perfect tutorial, Marlow. Thanks!

Marlow, do you stick all your samples into Mono like you did with the Rhodes at the start?

I've learned so much from u man for real thank you 🙏🏾

I love the simplicity and experience you put you put into you videos!

I heard Dr.Dre said he started with laying a great bass line first. Probably often atleast if he was telling the truth

That is true.. I have very oftten the same problem to put the bass after melody. I love your videos. Thanks ;-)

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Ahhh sampling Bass, good idea!
For me, the easiest and fastest workflow always is to make drums first, then samples, and then bassline. It never came across my mind you could sample a bassline since I always recorded them directly into my SP404mkII. When there is no synth in sight you could also for example take any E.Piano sound from a Piano App or so and record it mono and filter out everything above 132Hz when resampling.
And you will have yourself a fitting Bass 😉
I love your videos and beats, man! Awesome Input!! Greetings from Germany

Thanks for the great video. You can see from my last few posts, I've been really struggling with bass lines so I haven't had any in my writing. This is a great way to start. Thanks again Marco!

I usually add the bass later depending on how the beat flows as some require no additional bass added.

I used to start a beat with a beer .. now a la croix pop , 3 years sober no alcohol !

I'm just starting with the lofi/boom bap style of production after a little over 30 years playing bass. The only samples I'm using are the one shots that I'm building my drum parts off from usually I lay down drums then keys so it's kinda like setting the margins.

Miles?

Is this on Spotify?

Kick drums groove better when they follow bass lines 👍

I use do drums sample then bass but lately iv been doing bass first and getting samples to fit the bass it makes stuff u would not make doing it the other way around so always good to switch it up

i often do the bass first
it's the hardest part to do for me...

Gotta admit, I usually add bass or a bassline later once the beat is flowing or feels like it is needed. No matter the technique, the only wrong thing my book is to not try and try. Thx for sharing the jems!!

So many beat makin videos like rhythm roulette only show the part where they figured out the beat as if they always instantly know. I feel like they really miss the mark on the journey and the struggle of making the beat. Not that there has to be one, but that journey- that struggle makes that eureka moment where you figure out the beat feel just that much better. I enjoy the vids and seeing the process in em, leep it up

Yoooo them kicks is butter.

well, it's not really a basseline, but a melodic bass motif , counterpointing the Rhodes