How I make my music

Newgrounds

View Profile flashmac

Trying to change up the hip hop genre

Adeyemi Miando @flashmac

Age 31, Male

student

SanFrancisco,CA

Joined on 4/29/06

My Myspace

Level:: 10
Exp Points:: 920 / 1,110
Exp Rank:: 74,735
Vote Power:: 5.18 votes

Rank:: Safety Patrol
Global Rank:: 25,993
Blams:: 261
Saves:: 120
B/P Bonus:: 6%

Whistle:: Normal

Medals:: 90

How I make my music

Posted by flashmac - March 24th, 2008

I make my music real simply.
First, I make my drums. I find the sounds I want, add some effects to them, (reverb, distortion) and make a drum pattern sometimes they're complicated and sometimes they're simple. This takes me a maximum of 20 minutes.
Second, I make a melody. I find an instrument I like and that would go well with the drums and I just play random crap on the keyboard until I find something I like. This takes from 2 minutes to 30 minutes. (big difference, I know, haha)
Third, I add instruments to go along with the melody. This takes about 30 minutes.
Finally, I layer and move stuff around to create verses and such. This takes 15 minutes.

So in general, I make my stuff pretty fast and I'm not sure if that's good or bad, lol.

Comments

Log in to Comment

TimeBender 2008-03-28 19:04:59

Ah I'm more of a perfectionist.

flashmac 2008-03-28 19:04:59

Haha, we all know that, lol.
What's going on with the collab?

InGenius 2008-04-11 07:42:13

I make the melody first. I find an instrument I want to work with, then I toy with the keyboard and come up with a maintheme. It can take from 1 to 5 minutes for the first melody piece, but everything after that can take from half an hour to 3 or 4 days to really finish up. Depends on the beat or what it's being used for, how many verses, what type of layout I use (2 verse, 3 verse, break, no break, intro, outro, changeup, etc.), whether it's a free beat, for a mixtape, or for sale, etc. etc. Most of the NG tracks take less than 5 hours total time now, but the vast majority of the tracks that never hit myspace, NG or my SYG player can take a couple days to finalize as I run them through monitors, my main speaker system, the Bose in the car, etc. to make sure it sounds good everywhere. And let's not even get into how long I can toy with a sample on those rare occassions where I use a sample rather than interpret and remake the melody...that can end up being a week long endeavour.

Peace

flashmac 2008-04-11 07:42:13

Damn, you take some of tracks real seriously. That's a good thing though. But you really make a melody before the drums?

How I make my music

Comments

Log in to Comment

Main Sections

Extra, Extra!

Community

NG Related