How To Add Melodies Onto Samples - Music Tutorial

what's up welcome back to the channel my name is sad to be done let's talk about samples so the kids all cooked me up with a bunch of new samples so I thought this would be a good opportunity to teach you guys how to add your own melodies onto samples this tutorial is gonna be a bit different by the end of this video you're not gonna learn this right away it takes a bit of practice so we're gonna go through a bunch of these samples and I'm gonna show you how I add my own melody step now the first step is to find the key and the course aggression now if you're lucky some of the samples will have the key signature on there for the sake of this video let's rename these we'll just call these do a bulk rename you know there we go so now there's no key signatures so we can't be cheating now there are a few ways to do this you can use a program like key finder or you know you can drag and drop it go to Ed sample look at the pitch regions like this the way I'm going to show you it's not the easiest way but it's gonna be the most beneficial for you as a musician I'm going to teach you guys how to find the key and the chord progression by ear it's gonna sample and then we're going to pull up FL keys so we have a reference let's do the sample first [Music] so when we're looking for the key we have to find the tonic note and to do this by ear it's kind of like an educated guess we have to find the most stable chord in the sample and then we have to find the root note of that so let's listen again and try to find the most stable core so I think the most stable chord is in this third bar and then the strongest note is uh I don't know what note that is so we're gonna go into FL keys and try to figure it out so I win so it's a D so if we play along with it it should work so now we know we're in the key of D minor now the reason I know it's D minor is because of the quarter quality because major sounds happy minor sounds sad this one sounds sad so we say D minor so now that we have the key it's time to find the chord progression and I do this by listening to the lowest notes because that's usually the baseline so it's a bit hard to hear it into this instance so a trick you can do is load it up to a mixer put in a high-cut and then you can just isolate the bass manually [Music] let's do that now [Music] yes so this is the baseline so now that we have our baseline anarchy it's pretty easy to fill this out so let me do the notes in the scale first to show you guys okay so you start here right there this here the e we already know this is D minor and this goes here [Music] let me show you another one okay let's listen at this one [Music] so in the last example I did it really slowly so I can show you guys step by step but usually when I'm doing this on my own I go straight for the chord progression because that dictates what the key is and we can find those at the exact same time so let me show you how I would usually do it so let's have the new chords now so first we listen to the bass line so I hear [Music] is that so here's the full baseline laws listing in the sample I thought that this was the most stable note so I think we're in D sharp minor and now that we know that we can fill out these notes pretty easily let's listen to it now [Music] so now let's actually talk about making countermelodies now you have a lot of freedom when it comes to making melodies but there are a few things you should consider so one thing you should take into account is the rhythm of the original melody now the melody in this sample has a really distinct rhythm and it's your choice whether you want to follow that rhythm or do something to contrast that so let's do one that balls it for now and now that we know the chord progression making the counter melody is a lot easier so right now I'm just following the chords so in this counter melody I mimic the rhythm so let's do one where we contrast it [Music] now this melody I made this in contrast of the other one so the other one was playing in these areas and I play right after so it's like a color response [Music] let's do another example so first thing is first once again we listen for the bass okay so once again we have our chord progression I thought to see at the beginning was the most stable so I think it's in C minor let's test it out okay so now we know that we can pull up the rest of the chords pretty easily that's gonna be a minor that's gonna be a major very easy if you guys don't do it this fast don't be discouraged it takes a lot of practice there is another thing you have to consider and it's where the sample plays in the frequency spectrum so if the sample is playing somewhere here you don't want to make a melody there you want to make something up here or down here but in addition to that you can actually just pitch the sample up or down or just remove those frequencies altogether so this sample takes the higher frequencies up so let's do something in the low end the mid so let's add a base and since we know the cords this should be pretty easy let's add one more instrument let's keep in mind of the rhythm again so this one is just playing a straight quarter note so let's do something a bit faster [Music] and there we go thank you so much for watching this video I hope you enjoyed it big thank you to the Kip club for sponsoring this video they have so many great samples in their library I suggest you check them out I'll leave their link in the description and I'll see you guys soon if you have any suggestions leave a comment if you'd like this video leave a like if you really like this video subscribe if you didn't like this video leave just leave

Channel: Servida Music

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Length: 7min 56sec (476 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 23 2018