I really needed this. I have about a million 4-bar loops that I've come up with but I can never figure out the path forward from there. Finding a similar song and trying to trace the structure is such a good idea. Thanks for making this video!
Try creating 8 bar loops or 16 bar loops. Including longer chord progressions also. Longer loops will feel more like a song than a short 4 bar loop so it might spark more ideas later on. Also take off the producer hat and put on the dj hat once you have all your parts and wanna focus on arrangements.
I absolutely LOVE this mindset! I've finished so many more songs after adopting this. 15 years back I would have had this notion of "I have to invent the wheel every time I write a song, everything else is stealing". That creates so much constriction.
Year old comment but literally! It’s been what’s stopping me from just making music for so long, when really so long as you’re making your own sound, the arrangement is just the dimensions of your art
my preferred method - - Jam and record it all. It will sound bad for a bit then get good...then get bad again. Take the bit that was good and remix those stems. Intro, build, release, breakdown, build, outro. Give the stems to friends and have them also do remixes - they will think of things you didnt - now you have a B Side to.
I second this! recently for any beat that I feel is okay but not great, I wait a day or two, then I come back to it, I will figure out okay what is the best part of this beat? What’s the “star”? I make that the jumping off point and then destroy & rebuild everything else around it until its better than it was
man you have literally just tore down a huge brick wall in my mind. i literally have about 300 projects that sound good, that i got stuck on structurally and moved on from. Thank you for everything!
This is really a great tip. When I first got into producing years ago, like many, I struggled with arrangement of tracks. What I used to do as an exercise is similar to this "tracing" idea. I would import and correctly warp a track from an artist I liked. Then using empty midi tracks and blocks, I'd paint in what sounds where playing and when. So like chords progression A, B; melody A, B; various Drums; bassline; FXs; vocal lines; etc. After doing this, you can zoom all the way out and BAM! You've got a very complete and in depth skeleton of the track in question. What's left is almost a kind of "paint by numbers" to just filling up those empty blocks with your own sounds to complete the production.
I really appreciate that you don't overly edit your videos by cutting out blank space between words/sentences like a lot of current creators. It's super refreshing and human to just see someone explaining a concept without trying to jam as many words into one attention window. Thank you.
Been doing the block method the past year and went from being stuck in the loop stage and folders filled with “idea loops” to finishing 4 tracks in a weekend. When I say finished I mean the arrangement, and first draft. Before I come back a few days later to fine tune. I find hinting elements before the first major drop is key. Letting everything breathe. Chipping away at the track. 🙏🏼 love the content!
"Tracing song" is an absolutely correct definition of that arranging-style :) I remember how I used to "trace" The Chemical Brothers - Leave Home around 20 years ago. That was my first experiments of creating tracks. Acid by Sonic Foundry (I guess) was my first DAW, or Fruity loops maybe. As a result I created another track with nothing similar to "Leave Home". A bit later Session-workflow in Remix Live (a predecessor of Ableton Live) was a dramatic game-changer for me. Today you can make tracks in Session-workflow even using Korg Gadget on your iPad which is totally cool! Especially when you have a super combo setup like Ableton+Push-2
Love how you explain arrangement which can be a mundane part of music making but you explained it in a more meaningful organic poetic kind way making it more exciting to get back into it. Much ❤
The way he said “then the drums die” made me realize we are all humans that will also die when it’s our time, and it only contributes to the entire beautiful song of existence
This is good advice, I have literally thousands of ideas from over the years but I never finish anything. I’m at the point now where every time I sit in my studio I come up with something dope but then I just shut all my gear off and it’s in the ether. I’m going to try this next time and see what happens
Ricky, dude, first of all cheers from Kyiv, Ukraine. Big fan of yours. Been watching your youtube for quite a while now. Then started listening to you on Spotify. Big big big fan of your vibe and skills. And got to say your picture is insanely good. It's such a pleasure to watch your videos. Man, just much love! God bless you!
Loving music life since Ricky popped up as a suggestion on another MPC House video. Spending time sat on Ricky's shoulder as he creates is about the best fun, and most educational time I think I've ever had with a teacher of vibe!
Ableton looks like a fun DAW to make music. I've been tempet to try it out but I have been stuck with protools for years which I have a love and hate relationship. Great video!
Ableton changed the way I make/think of music. Don't wanna start a DAW thing here, but if you want to change the architecture of your brain on music, try it out. Nothing wrong with protools, cubase etc, but yeah...
I know this vid is 2 years old but has rly helped me work towards finishing a project ive kinda had for 3 years now(hopefully i can get it done very soon), so you've earned yourself a new sub :)
Awesome track. Genius method. As always. Shout out to Nord. At once the most abundantly used (professionally) yet consistently underrated and under reviewed music machine makers.
This is easily the best method for anyone who struggles with arrangement, I've been doing exactly the same thing for a while now and finally finish tracks. I used to be terrified of building out a track, best thing I ever did was to start filling my whole arrangement with everything and then chipping away, following the structure of someone else's track. Good work Ricky for documenting it, I wish this video existed 5 years ago
Dude thank you. I used to be able to get songs done so quickly. Then about 2 or 3 years ago I got stuck in a 4/8 bar loop curse. You’re really inspiring me to finish my 8 different genre folders (house, Gqom, Amapiano, uk Garage, ambient, IDM, 140 dub, and Old skool jungle)
I do this method very often, it is definitely a fun way to create. I never thought of doing it with one of my own tracks :D But, it really does help with finishing music faster in my experience.
Not sure how i found this, but damn-wish i had known about you sooner. What a fantastic presentation-your voice, demeanor, manner of explaining things.... Before you went into your painters analogy, i was thinking the same thing. This is an idea i thought of a long time ago, but tried to implement in a different way. But, yes, you're right-there are a billion songs out there, and using one out of that billion as a 'roadmap' for designing your own is in no way 'cheating' and it won't result in anything but your own music. Song structure isn't that unique, so mimicking a set of broad patterns is harmless. // I'm subscribing, but now i have to go back to see everything you've put out and i have a feeling i'm going to be very busy for a very long time.... Thank you.
Great content, I don’t know why I didn’t realise the performance view was hindering me until watching this. With arrangement view you can get your track laid out and then start zoning into your individual elements and tweak and modulate them through the whole track and not just an 8 bar loop which gets super repetitive.
..thanks a lot for this video..love the way of sketching your track around an existing one you like..struggling a lot with 4 to 8 bar ideas and stuck with arranging them to a track 🖤
First time i did anything even like this, i was trying to analyze Salva's Komodo. I was digging up the rhythm in that track. Anyway, Nice track Ricky! Thanks for all your help
Sounds like the Super Loop (I think ill gates?) process where you have all elements playing in a 8/16 bar loop and then you mute out elements and bring them in. Also add automation on top or add one shots where you see fit. The DAW really excels at this method. This is such great advice! Arrangement is the skill that gets you out of the loop.
Hah, I see you found that dirty little secret! TrackTracing, "Arrangement sampling" that's the name it went by back then, when it was pass down to me when I started Dabbling in music production. I am sure, with this presentation, you have assisted many in converting their loops in full fledged tracks and bringing them much joy in the process. Thank you for that!
Hey Ricky, great spot as always. Can you maybe touch more on being an Ableton user who doesn’t really like session view? I’m recent to the Ableton game and it constantly feels like everyone is always focused on clips and scenes. I realize most people get Ableton specifically for that feature, but I’m not really feelin’ it and could use a pro user like yourself to put things into perspective. If that makes any sense. Hahah! ✌🏽
the one thing that really strikes me when using it is that it never feels like im making progess. every combo of clips i have launched feels like the beginning of the song.
@@RickyTinez I find it’s pretty kool to build up drum loops of different sorts and then be able to fire them over to the arranged timeline. But the fun and convenience sorta ends there for me. It just struck me that all your vids pretty much use arrange only and I vibe with that!
The arrangement view and session view are just different ways of working with music. To me, arranging is the whole song as a single entity that you build (or trace) as a living entity. Its the more traditional way of dealing with audio. Session view to me always feels more live performing friendly. Your clips or groups of clips may make a complete song but I always feel like its a collection of lego pieces that work together to build a thing. Whereas the arrangement view is a watercolour painting that you flow together. "Jamming" has also become a lot more popular in recent years, instead of focusing on making full tracks in arrangement view, where the performance of that track is really just playing it - maybe soloing over top - turning effects off and on. Session view allows you to take a bunch of pieces which by themselves aren't full songs, but you trigger them in a pleasing way on a live stream for 10 minutes and BAM, record it, and you've got a live session to sell as an EP :). I might not be explaining that right, but to me they're just different - If you're new to ableton, there's nothing wrong with using one or the other or both (some folks open the second window in Ableton and work in both side by side.
Yep when i used to use Ableton, i only used the arrangement view. I never used the session view, however some people like to start there to build ideas then move into the arrangement
I treat it like an MPC and using track mutes. That really helps me out. The goal for me is to get the basic skeleton idea down and then I go to arrange view and automate, add new parts..etc. May want to try it that way.
Love your videos Ricky - so cinematic & calming to watch. I love this method - I feel like I'm going insane trying to make Session View work for me, so it was refreshing to hear you immediately mention your relationship with it
This is a QUALITY TRACK !!!!! I would buy this in a heartbeat ???. Please make this available to buy !!!! My genres are usually RnB, Neo Soul and Hip Hop that i produce but this is exceptional !!!!Keep up the great work and on the strength of this track alone , I've now subscribed !!!
Fantastic video, and just really well shot and edited also. You achieved the rare blend of making a video long enough to feel natural and conversational, without getting verbose or ranting. Subscribed!
I really like how you didnt edit out you needed to think about the word "multitask" . so many youtuber jump cut so much its really annoying. this feels like im having a session with a homie. big up
Love your studio. What a great atmosphere you have created. Even the light in this video is really nice. I couldn’t stop watching even though the content is not urgent for me. But you as an artist have originality which is pretty uncommon these days when everything is streamlined. If I had some more patience I would leave logic for a while and learn Ableton... But there are so many new things to learn with the development of studio gear, so maybe that has to wait. Cheers!🎹🎧👍
wow... probably the most inspiring music tutorial I have seen. One of those "ermm, why didn't I come up with this idea years ago"-moments. (I am a life long untalented hobby musician with no loops longer than 4 bars) :D Thanks.
Solid advice. Useful tips. Already knew most of this, but there were a couple ideas I had overlooked, and the whole thing was a good and much needed reminder. Thanks for posting this!
“Please don’t blow my ears” is exactly what I say every time I’m setting an external effect on Live (too many times they blew though) 😄 Lovely video Ricky, best before bedtime as usual.
You’re a humble beast on those creation skills! Your videos are always edited so well. Thank you for sharing that hotness! Looking forward to the album purchase for sure! Just let me know when it’s ready, please!
11:30 That little melody right there is very similar to "Lagrimagua" from Nils Frahm's first album. Only the last note is different. You probably haven't heard it, but it's even in the same key.
I don't listen to this type of music but I respect your advice a lot. Your tips are so I depth. 🔥 I can tell that you love creating. The way you piece everything together so seamlessly is inspiration. I finally subbed to keep gettingmore inspired. 🙌 Thank you, I'll see next time.
Really inspiring stuff, even if you're just using this method to break out of a loop momentarily and rekindle some inspiration seems very helpful, and as we can see it didn't take long of you using this technique to be fully in the music not relying on the trace track at all! Great video
With my working methods - hardly finish songs. Anyway, thanks for the tip! Seem like a sure way to get going with arrangement and learning from other artist's ideas at the same time.
This is seriously legit advice. Think about how many songs have an AABA structure, or ABCA, or use a ii-V-I progression, or use a VII/I slash chord or whatever-- so much of music is borrowing. I love this idea. (Or -- watching the rest of this, let's be honest Ricky -- using a Rhodes sound over house music. ;-)
Dude, what a great video. I love the idea of following the outline of a song and creating something new using those guidelines. Gives you plenty of room to be creative but also keeps you on track (pun intended)!
Tried this method about 20 years ago, kinda half worked. Great vid, reminded me of the technique...think I’ll give it a go again, as I’m at a complete standstill musically..love playing..just get bogged down in loops 🤨
Mono tasking, poly tasking/easy peasy beautiful cover girl...dude you're on fire
I´m modular tasking (sometimes patched wierd)
I really needed this. I have about a million 4-bar loops that I've come up with but I can never figure out the path forward from there. Finding a similar song and trying to trace the structure is such a good idea. Thanks for making this video!
So now you have about 5 million new sections to record, have fun!
same here. thank *YOU* Ricky.
What’s your SoundCloud?
Srsly 4-8 bar loop world the common trap I fell into also
Try creating 8 bar loops or 16 bar loops. Including longer chord progressions also. Longer loops will feel more like a song than a short 4 bar loop so it might spark more ideas later on.
Also take off the producer hat and put on the dj hat once you have all your parts and wanna focus on arrangements.
I like the idea, it's a great way to escape the horrors of arranging a song and lack of inspiration.
Horrors indeed!
yea man, and that alone can keep you from making a dope track! Thanks for coming through Marlow
I sold my mpc live and came back into ableton because of this stuff
100%…
I absolutely LOVE this mindset! I've finished so many more songs after adopting this. 15 years back I would have had this notion of "I have to invent the wheel every time I write a song, everything else is stealing". That creates so much constriction.
Year old comment but literally! It’s been what’s stopping me from just making music for so long, when really so long as you’re making your own sound, the arrangement is just the dimensions of your art
my preferred method - - Jam and record it all. It will sound bad for a bit then get good...then get bad again. Take the bit that was good and remix those stems. Intro, build, release, breakdown, build, outro. Give the stems to friends and have them also do remixes - they will think of things you didnt - now you have a B Side to.
finding willing friends is hard often though
I second this! recently for any beat that I feel is okay but not great, I wait a day or two, then I come back to it, I will figure out okay what is the best part of this beat? What’s the “star”? I make that the jumping off point and then destroy & rebuild everything else around it until its better than it was
man you have literally just tore down a huge brick wall in my mind. i literally have about 300 projects that sound good, that i got stuck on structurally and moved on from. Thank you for everything!
When I was a kid I would turn on Bob Ross to relax and learn, now I watch your videos to relax and learn.
Bob Ross! The ASMR OG!!
I'm sure that guy smoked weed because he was too chilled.👀
@Stephen Anthony Its a joke. People on here are too serious.
I know some people are just mellow and I'm happy they are.
@Stephen Anthony Not everyone who does drugs is an addict, either.
Stephen Anthony come again?
This is really a great tip. When I first got into producing years ago, like many, I struggled with arrangement of tracks.
What I used to do as an exercise is similar to this "tracing" idea. I would import and correctly warp a track from an artist I liked. Then using empty midi tracks and blocks, I'd paint in what sounds where playing and when. So like chords progression A, B; melody A, B; various Drums; bassline; FXs; vocal lines; etc.
After doing this, you can zoom all the way out and BAM! You've got a very complete and in depth skeleton of the track in question. What's left is almost a kind of "paint by numbers" to just filling up those empty blocks with your own sounds to complete the production.
I dig this approach too. I would do this mainly when working on cover or remix. A good way to get the core going before doing your own stuff.
This sounds really cool to do!!!! I should try this!
I really appreciate that you don't overly edit your videos by cutting out blank space between words/sentences like a lot of current creators. It's super refreshing and human to just see someone explaining a concept without trying to jam as many words into one attention window. Thank you.
Been doing the block method the past year and went from being stuck in the loop stage and folders filled with “idea loops” to finishing 4 tracks in a weekend. When I say finished I mean the arrangement, and first draft. Before I come back a few days later to fine tune. I find hinting elements before the first major drop is key. Letting everything breathe. Chipping away at the track. 🙏🏼 love the content!
Ayy, that's a great shot of Morro Rock! Also, I've really been digging the EP.
one of my favorite places in CA
"Tracing song" is an absolutely correct definition of that arranging-style :) I remember how I used to "trace" The Chemical Brothers - Leave Home around 20 years ago. That was my first experiments of creating tracks. Acid by Sonic Foundry (I guess) was my first DAW, or Fruity loops maybe. As a result I created another track with nothing similar to "Leave Home". A bit later Session-workflow in Remix Live (a predecessor of Ableton Live) was a dramatic game-changer for me. Today you can make tracks in Session-workflow even using Korg Gadget on your iPad which is totally cool! Especially when you have a super combo setup like Ableton+Push-2
Love how you explain arrangement which can be a mundane part of music making but you explained it in a more meaningful organic poetic kind way making it more exciting to get back into it. Much ❤
I DID IT RICKY I'M POLYTASKING MY MULTITIMBRAL BRAIN!
hahahaha
😂😂
This!!! I've done a similar thing on pen and paper, to try to grasp the building blocks behind "x" song. But doing your thing MAKES SO MUCH SENSE
I love how your camera looks and just the whole warm / homey vibe of your studio and and how it matches to the warm sound of your music.
The way he said “then the drums die” made me realize we are all humans that will also die when it’s our time, and it only contributes to the entire beautiful song of existence
This is good advice, I have literally thousands of ideas from over the years but I never finish anything. I’m at the point now where every time I sit in my studio I come up with something dope but then I just shut all my gear off and it’s in the ether. I’m going to try this next time and see what happens
Ricky, dude, first of all cheers from Kyiv, Ukraine. Big fan of yours. Been watching your youtube for quite a while now. Then started listening to you on Spotify. Big big big fan of your vibe and skills. And got to say your picture is insanely good. It's such a pleasure to watch your videos. Man, just much love! God bless you!
Loving music life since Ricky popped up as a suggestion on another MPC House video.
Spending time sat on Ricky's shoulder as he creates is about the best fun, and most educational time I think I've ever had with a teacher of vibe!
Thanks for the kind words PilzE!
Ableton looks like a fun DAW to make music. I've been tempet to try it out but I have been stuck with protools for years which I have a love and hate relationship. Great video!
Ableton changed the way I make/think of music. Don't wanna start a DAW thing here, but if you want to change the architecture of your brain on music, try it out. Nothing wrong with protools, cubase etc, but yeah...
I know this vid is 2 years old but has rly helped me work towards finishing a project ive kinda had for 3 years now(hopefully i can get it done very soon), so you've earned yourself a new sub :)
Ricky, you are so inspiring, many thanks for your videos
Thank you Vitaly for kicking it, i appreciate you
“Polytasking”!!! Hahaha nice one.
total brainfart haha, still laughing about it now
Finally a detailed explanation of using reference tracks for arrangement 😊
this guy is the best find I ever had on music production... kudos
That's basically how we can learn to produce, or even learn anything by this way. Great video
Awesome track. Genius method. As always.
Shout out to Nord. At once the most abundantly used (professionally) yet consistently underrated and under reviewed music machine makers.
This is easily the best method for anyone who struggles with arrangement, I've been doing exactly the same thing for a while now and finally finish tracks. I used to be terrified of building out a track, best thing I ever did was to start filling my whole arrangement with everything and then chipping away, following the structure of someone else's track. Good work Ricky for documenting it, I wish this video existed 5 years ago
Dude thank you. I used to be able to get songs done so quickly. Then about 2 or 3 years ago I got stuck in a 4/8 bar loop curse. You’re really inspiring me to finish my 8 different genre folders (house, Gqom, Amapiano, uk Garage, ambient, IDM, 140 dub, and Old skool jungle)
You need to do a masterclass -- your voice and attitude are perfectly suited to teaching this stuff. I would absolutely take a class from you.
I do this method very often, it is definitely a fun way to create. I never thought of doing it with one of my own tracks :D But, it really does help with finishing music faster in my experience.
i'm absolutely certain it is easy peasy beautiful cover girl.
Not sure how i found this, but damn-wish i had known about you sooner. What a fantastic presentation-your voice, demeanor, manner of explaining things.... Before you went into your painters analogy, i was thinking the same thing. This is an idea i thought of a long time ago, but tried to implement in a different way. But, yes, you're right-there are a billion songs out there, and using one out of that billion as a 'roadmap' for designing your own is in no way 'cheating' and it won't result in anything but your own music. Song structure isn't that unique, so mimicking a set of broad patterns is harmless. // I'm subscribing, but now i have to go back to see everything you've put out and i have a feeling i'm going to be very busy for a very long time.... Thank you.
Ricky is great, you're in for a treat.
Great content, I don’t know why I didn’t realise the performance view was hindering me until watching this. With arrangement view you can get your track laid out and then start zoning into your individual elements and tweak and modulate them through the whole track and not just an 8 bar loop which gets super repetitive.
Just realized that recently also!! Arrangement view i believe will help me better
You're Videos are the perfekt thing for me to calm down. At the time I have 40° Celsius fever. It's perfekt to get distracted!
I would love to have a course from you on video and coloring, i really love the vibe your videos have because of how you film and color them
That "kick trick" is pretty cool.Thanks man
This is a great approach. Soloing a muted track is a clever idea!
I'm absolutely mind blown. I thank you so much seriously wow.
Thanks for this I’m really struggling to arrange and finish my ideas. Big help thank you again 😊
this is the formula to be able to execute anything
simply the best video about track finishing, thanks :)
Been looking for a tutorial like this. You are a GOAT!
Dude thank you. Your workflow is very intuitive for me and it makes getting over that arrangement slump so much more bearable. Good shit
..thanks a lot for this video..love the way of sketching your track around an existing one you like..struggling a lot with 4 to 8 bar ideas and stuck with arranging them to a track 🖤
First time i did anything even like this, i was trying to analyze Salva's Komodo. I was digging up the rhythm in that track.
Anyway, Nice track Ricky! Thanks for all your help
This has been so helpful! I'm going to use this technique to blow up the song structures I've been using way too long. Thanks, Ricky!
Hands down one of the BEST CZcamsrs out there - thank YOU. (...but I AM going to miss seeing that gorgeous 1000 you had!) - Cheers from Dallas, Ricky!
Sounds like the Super Loop (I think ill gates?) process where you have all elements playing in a 8/16 bar loop and then you mute out elements and bring them in. Also add automation on top or add one shots where you see fit. The DAW really excels at this method. This is such great advice! Arrangement is the skill that gets you out of the loop.
Hah, I see you found that dirty little secret! TrackTracing, "Arrangement sampling" that's the name it went by back then, when it was pass down to me when I started Dabbling in music production. I am sure, with this presentation, you have assisted many in converting their loops in full fledged tracks and bringing them much joy in the process. Thank you for that!
Ricky you’re the best
Thank you so much for your work, and sharing this with us
Polytasking made my day 😂
This is so genius... Arraignment has been one of my weak points, Thank you so much for this.
Hey Ricky, great spot as always. Can you maybe touch more on being an Ableton user who doesn’t really like session view? I’m recent to the Ableton game and it constantly feels like everyone is always focused on clips and scenes. I realize most people get Ableton specifically for that feature, but I’m not really feelin’ it and could use a pro user like yourself to put things into perspective. If that makes any sense. Hahah! ✌🏽
the one thing that really strikes me when using it is that it never feels like im making progess. every combo of clips i have launched feels like the beginning of the song.
@@RickyTinez I find it’s pretty kool to build up drum loops of different sorts and then be able to fire them over to the arranged timeline. But the fun and convenience sorta ends there for me. It just struck me that all your vids pretty much use arrange only and I vibe with that!
The arrangement view and session view are just different ways of working with music. To me, arranging is the whole song as a single entity that you build (or trace) as a living entity. Its the more traditional way of dealing with audio.
Session view to me always feels more live performing friendly. Your clips or groups of clips may make a complete song but I always feel like its a collection of lego pieces that work together to build a thing. Whereas the arrangement view is a watercolour painting that you flow together.
"Jamming" has also become a lot more popular in recent years, instead of focusing on making full tracks in arrangement view, where the performance of that track is really just playing it - maybe soloing over top - turning effects off and on. Session view allows you to take a bunch of pieces which by themselves aren't full songs, but you trigger them in a pleasing way on a live stream for 10 minutes and BAM, record it, and you've got a live session to sell as an EP :).
I might not be explaining that right, but to me they're just different - If you're new to ableton, there's nothing wrong with using one or the other or both (some folks open the second window in Ableton and work in both side by side.
Yep when i used to use Ableton, i only used the arrangement view. I never used the session view, however some people like to start there to build ideas then move into the arrangement
I treat it like an MPC and using track mutes. That really helps me out. The goal for me is to get the basic skeleton idea down and then I go to arrange view and automate, add new parts..etc. May want to try it that way.
Love your videos Ricky - so cinematic & calming to watch. I love this method - I feel like I'm going insane trying to make Session View work for me, so it was refreshing to hear you immediately mention your relationship with it
This is a QUALITY TRACK !!!!! I would buy this in a heartbeat ???. Please make this available to buy !!!! My genres are usually RnB, Neo Soul and Hip Hop that i produce but this is exceptional !!!!Keep up the great work and on the strength of this track alone , I've now subscribed !!!
Fantastic video, and just really well shot and edited also. You achieved the rare blend of making a video long enough to feel natural and conversational, without getting verbose or ranting. Subscribed!
I really like how you didnt edit out you needed to think about the word "multitask" . so many youtuber jump cut so much its really annoying. this feels like im having a session with a homie. big up
One of the most needed videos online
you got a fresh energy my bro,
uplifting
Great video, thanks for this! I really needed to watch this today haha
For someone who’s new to production, this is incredibly helpful. Thank you SO much Ricky!
Love the content. Gets me in production mode 🕺Thank you 🙏
I call this ghosting a song, but tracing is actually a great way to describe it. well done Ricky. 👍
I will now use polytask forever thankyou mr tinez!!!!!
Love your studio. What a great atmosphere you have created. Even the light in this video is really nice. I couldn’t stop watching even though the content is not urgent for me. But you as an artist have originality which is pretty uncommon these days when everything is streamlined. If I had some more patience I would leave logic for a while and learn Ableton... But there are so many new things to learn with the development of studio gear, so maybe that has to wait. Cheers!🎹🎧👍
@8:45 hahahaha "easy breezy beautiful... cover girl"
Bro, not enough producers do tutorials like you on CZcams. Keep it up man!
wow... probably the most inspiring music tutorial I have seen. One of those "ermm, why didn't I come up with this idea years ago"-moments. (I am a life long untalented hobby musician with no loops longer than 4 bars) :D Thanks.
Solid advice. Useful tips. Already knew most of this, but there were a couple ideas I had overlooked, and the whole thing was a good and much needed reminder. Thanks for posting this!
“Please don’t blow my ears” is exactly what I say every time I’m setting an external effect on Live (too many times they blew though) 😄
Lovely video Ricky, best before bedtime as usual.
Nice info man thank you, you have such cool vibe aswell, you are a cool teacher
Love this, its eye opening. Even this method of doing it. Like i've seen people use references to draft a track but this way is completely different.
You’re a humble beast on those creation skills! Your videos are always edited so well. Thank you for sharing that hotness! Looking forward to the album purchase for sure! Just let me know when it’s ready, please!
11:30 That little melody right there is very similar to "Lagrimagua" from Nils Frahm's first album. Only the last note is different. You probably haven't heard it, but it's even in the same key.
This is exactly what I needed, and it's always so inspiring to watch any of your videos. Thanks!
Finding myself here more and more, great tips and super inspiring . This video was gold dust for me - great to watch you work !
it’s been a minute since i’ve seen your videos, glad to be back here 😩🙈 they’re so damn aesthetically pleasing and informative
Dude, great video. Subscribed. Also, your judgement for making tracks is so on point.
I don't listen to this type of music but I respect your advice a lot. Your tips are so I depth. 🔥 I can tell that you love creating. The way you piece everything together so seamlessly is inspiration. I finally subbed to keep gettingmore inspired. 🙌 Thank you, I'll see next time.
Defiantly going to do some poly tasking this weekend. Love that! Cheers for more great tips 🙌
Very inspiring. Taking sound designs from one song and mashing it up with arrangement ideas from another could also work.
Cool desk by the way! Always nice to have some live playing on top of the sequencer work;
dude this is what ive been needing man!! ive been stuck in the loop for a wile ...thx!!
Nice! Finally, been stuck in 4 Bar loop that are fire. Thanks a lot for this.
Thank you for this method bro thats the exact thing that i needed right now!
really like your vibe thanks for the vid
the zen impro is dopppppppppe. as was the rest of the video. thankx for your secrets man! you share the knowledge.
Really inspiring stuff, even if you're just using this method to break out of a loop momentarily and rekindle some inspiration seems very helpful, and as we can see it didn't take long of you using this technique to be fully in the music not relying on the trace track at all! Great video
i`m exactly in same situarion, and I don`t know what to do next, thank you very much
All of your videos and tips are just so nice to follow. Keep on
Great video Ricky. I’m in the middle of an electronic project and this is exactly the kind of thing I needed to see. Thank you.
love your videos and outlook, cheers ricky
With my working methods - hardly finish songs. Anyway, thanks for the tip! Seem like a sure way to get going with arrangement and learning from other artist's ideas at the same time.
This is seriously legit advice. Think about how many songs have an AABA structure, or ABCA, or use a ii-V-I progression, or use a VII/I slash chord or whatever-- so much of music is borrowing. I love this idea. (Or -- watching the rest of this, let's be honest Ricky -- using a Rhodes sound over house music. ;-)
Very cool idea that I haven't ever thought of. Thank you!!
Dude, what a great video. I love the idea of following the outline of a song and creating something new using those guidelines. Gives you plenty of room to be creative but also keeps you on track (pun intended)!
Honestly anyone who understands that coffee is the first step has my respect. This guy gets it ;p
Tried this method about 20 years ago, kinda half worked.
Great vid, reminded me of the technique...think I’ll give it a go again,
as I’m at a complete standstill musically..love playing..just get bogged down in loops 🤨
Such a useful tip! Now I'm inspired to finish so many tracks
Congrats on your EP boss