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just listened to half of pretti love u 2 and fw it heavy any similar artists I should listen to? I like making beats and learning diff genres

Saw him live for the first time before Ken loved his set

ik ken probably isnt considered ug but songs like knocking, yvngvamp, run + ran, nightcore, x, jetlggd (lone) are some of my favs because of the high energy + positive feel to them. I started out making dark orchestral trap beats when I started 3-4 months ago but ngl they kill my vibe lol

I studied those remakes on YouTube but also looked at some tutorials of beats that matched it and stuff like chord progressions with movement (as opposed to being held long), motif's with wide ranges in the notes helped add to the type of sound im looking for plus being mindful of sound selection & playing in higher octaves.

not going to self promote but I pulled a bunch of serum sounds I like yday and made a beat I was really proud of and is exactly what im going for, now im trying to remake 10 variations of it without copying the same general idea/chords and kinda stuck now lol

edit: if anyone has some artists or songs I should study too, always open to hearing more sounds

-$20k, seeing how excited this sub got on a tiny little bump proves it’s gonna just dump another 15-20%.

If the stock dumped on sp500 inclusion and earnings beat imagine what happens when it has one bad earnings

my lil cousin can’t go and we love Ken’s music, so now idk if i wanna go alone. When xperiment dropped I was listening to it nonstop and was waiting for his tour dates to drop

All my friends who I go to edm festivals with don’t fuck with rage/hyperpop but Ken’s music grew on me a ton the last couple years and he’s the only rapper I’ve ever wanted to see live.

I run a music IG acct for fun where I post a mix of my own stuff and some meme/reviews of music that comes out with my face in it and I noticed my audience that engages are literally high schoolers. I never felt weird about it bc it’s a public music social media page

Any uncs here go to these opium shows and can comment? Most of the fun I’ve had going to music events is everyone vibing with each other even if we’re all strangers but i don’t wanna do that in this case lmao.

edit: im 27 also

I’ve been at it for 3 months and ngl I’m really proud of my progress but when I listen to songs like knocking, get dripped , rockstar lifestyle, sky, run + ran etc (ik it’s not ug) how tf do they make the melodies so majestic and memorable? is it because it’s a different sound to the ear versus prior stuff?

everyone I try to focus on being intentional with melodies and making them exciting they end sounding corny or random so I resort to basic brass + strings n focus on drums lol but I wanna start making melodies I’m proud of, my beats are starting to get pretty repetitive.

I was listening to basement freestyle prod. by Luger and always wondered how the beat was so energetic and fun, I kept obsessing over picking the right sounds, chords, melodies, etc and would make loops nonstop until I heard something i liked

then on a random walk (of course)…i realized it’s the arrangement and automations when I listened to the instrumental (shits crazy I recommend)

Then I stopped obsessing over making loops and focused more on arranging and learning how to make it fun and always moving.

High pass filter automations, gross beat stutters/retriggers and vinyl stops are my fav. I’ll occasionally use a full 1-2 silence break. I’ll try to change up the drums too and make small changes in the melodies to create more suspense n drops

AGC (ts was the hardest ngl): I need u

xperiment: knocking

Project X: run + ran

Teen X: yale

X: X

More Chaos: off the meter

Got into music production a few months ago and would love to start meeting people who are into it too, whether that’s open sets/mics, weekly live music events, etc. I used to hang out on OB & North park a lot when I first moved here and loved the vibes there

Can’t stop looping it 🧘‍♂️

I think all of Travis’ work is top notch except jb2 but srs DBR hits different. I see it as utopia’s other half since the production on it is clean and modern vs dbr

dbr’s got that rager cheap/vintage made feel to it, def gotta give it to Mike dean/luger/metro for the production side. it sounds like it was made on a shitty studio setup but ironically makes it sound better

basement freestyle sounds like a song you’d hear at some sketchy warehouse underground show at 4am where the speakers are rattling and about to fall apart from the baseline/distortion and it’s a 100 people tops packed raging to it

ive looped sweet sweet and Quintana pt 2 about 50 times each laying on my bed the last couple days I need some new stuff🫩

1. 4x4
2. da wizard
3. 2000 excursion
4. dumbo
5. champain & vacay

smth like nightcore or I need u

I noticed lone gets a lot of hate now a days but I still like his music, I’ve been looping the same 4-5 songs (knocking, wrist , wheredoistart, outofmybody, interlude/stars) and played this one and it’s def up there for me now I like it

there was this man sitting next to me on the plane who look like he had a famous aura but I couldn’t put a finger on it. I asked what he does for a living and he said he was a rapper for opium.

i asked what opium was and he was like “you know Playboi Carti? that kind of music” and I was like “ohhh that’s so fkn cool I love Carti.”

he then stared into my soul and said “if looks could kill, you’d be the fashion demon.”

never got his name but nice fella

my fl (legit version) on Mac light crashes nonstop and takes forever to load, im about to just buy serum and learn how to sound design lmao