How To Make Beats with Tay Keith | Jobs Unlisted

the music industry changes seemingly every few years but what doesn't is the need for producers the people making the beats for the biggest artists in the world now the sound of mainstream music is often dictated by region and so that's why it's perfect that I'm starting right here in a place with one of the hottest sounds in recent time Memphis Tennessee Tech Heath is arguably the hottest producer in hip-hop right now and he'll be guiding me through the process of doing what he does but before hopping in the studio and trying to become a music producer I got to learn the roots of southern sound and I hear that Stax is a great place to start we are in the Stax Museum of American soul music it was just at the original site of Stax Records and this is where all the artists got their start like Otis Redding Isaac Hayes Belletti and the MGS Wilson Pickett anybody who was influential in the southern soul movement and recorded at Stax recorded right on this very spot would you mind taking me in so we can look at still alone [Applause] I've never been to a music museum before and there was mad relevant history to learn like you know the song Otis by jay-z and Kanye and the song cream by wu-tang those were sampled from Stax Records I definitely started to see the connections between artists that I listen to now and where some of them got their inspiration talk to me a little bit about some of the things that we've seen like the church that's to show the african-american church roots of soul music which is the strongest influence on everybody in the soul music this is because they all grew up in churches like that and all that sort of morphed into doo-wop and rock and roll and you know eventually hip-hop talked to me about the progression of how music is made you had everybody in the room together you had a drummer over here and a organ player over here and horns over here now on one track you may have to sort like take Keith was at his house and then you got Drake who's you're on the other side of the world yeah and it's kind of like piecemealed they had to be in this room with a sound guy at a sound board engineering the music it was coming here sing your song you got two hours we're gonna put it on a record with us see how it does man so much has changed and who would have thought that music made in this room sixty years ago and of a completely different genre would still be present in hip-hop today there were 300 albums and 800 singles recorded here so there's a lot of music that nobody's real familiar with but it translates into hip hop in a really big way so you've got Kanye West and all these people who have done just stacks songs over and over and over I've got lists and lists of hip hop artists who have sampled Stax you know from masters I always hear rappers talk about owning your masters if you own your masters then you own that music and you can do what with that music whatever you want to including having hip-hop artists sample it or have people do covers of it your masters or your gold if you're in the record business [Music] got a super quick history lesson on the roots of soul the progression of music production and the legalities that come with this business but the biggest takeaway of all for me at least was seeing how we wouldn't be where we are today without having what came before us [Music] after a day in Memphis it was off to Nashville Tennessee and it's time to meet up with take Keith a producer that's worked with Drake and Travis Scott and has a number one hit song all before graduating college his records are grammy-nominated and played all over the world but he's still right here at Middle Tennessee State University finishing up his degree in media management basically when I started adduce and I was like maybe 14 15 it was like me putting bees on YouTube a little wine type b yo gotti type B when did you even start getting into music in the first place I'll probably say like middle school I just got serious about it I had like a keyboard and I used to like remake like songs out here and on the keyboards just playing it that eventually led to me download fruit loops and like you know on a demo mode you just can't say them the beat so every time you make a beat you click off well you got to start off alright basically what you can do with fruit loops is make a beat and save the mp3 file you know so I started like saving mp3 files and making a beat around it what kind of music were your parents listen what kind of stuff do you remember hearing any criminal I remember hearing Jeezy a lot of Jeezy yeah a lot of Jesus I remember like Jeezy had a big influence on myself so kind of like helped me mold what sound I really wanted to go to they down South Memphis grimy sound you know from that point on that's what I wanted to do you know [Music] any of you guys were in his shoes we just still be students at this one of the hottest producers in the country goes to the same school he's like gives me motivation Marty do you think that there's kids on this campus who don't know who you are yeah I'm pretty sure he'll know what's up but you know I am are you doing alright okay maybe she doesn't she's right yeah hey excuse me do you know where I am how did I know CCO no I am and I was good I was trying to make a fool just let me know you helped to make the point yeah Taiki have a good day take care all right so later on we're gonna get in the studio I'm gonna try to become a producer for a day I need you to help me make a beat what do you expect you think I'm gonna suck you think I mean great what do you think you try to learn how to do it I could teach you or something yeah what did they come on no I'm coming with open mind so I'm ready yeah I guess I got some let's show you listen I've got to know take youth as a person but now it was time known as a producer yo the crew was still setting up all the gear and take he's just joking around cooked up a beat in like five minutes of the time when you make a beat and the song pops off do you sell the beat for a flat amount or you kind of get royalties how does it work just the bushes and that's the worst part is volume I got it you got a like they kind of take away like time for like the music it's the phone for this one part is being only eight to the team like yeah where do you normally make your beats in the studio at the crib where's your your home base would you say I say the crew the robot maybe like in my room look alive I made it in my room so you know in theory then you don't even need this whole thing all you need is this is take me from the beginning so we're using fruity loops right we got all the sounds how does one even begin to make a beat Oh first what I say start with the high heads start with the highest I would high attack wait there's these little buttons but and I'm just kind of clicking them in you know that's the easy way to do it but I want to flex down long so now that we've laid out the groundwork we just keep on building I like that I sound higher with it you almost get it almost it sounds like okay all right so we've locked in the hi-hats and the snares now it's time to find the melody I like that yeah what you think about it event right in the beginning it was definitely tough but now I'm getting comfortable and it's gonna be smooth sailing from here on out [Music] how do I know when to be this done no are we good do you like this I want to do a producer tag though yeah you got a record zante yeah but I don't want it I want you to do it it's not a speedy oh my god that's good you got it so the first one say like the dance me the slow down damn speedy slow down okay Sam speedy you want to go boys - I know we have passed that mic over a bit and say instead of speeding slow down the exam slow down speedy Sam slow down speedy oh I think that was the one the record isn't complete unless there are bars to go along with it so Jay had his friend cam and up-and-coming rapper come through and do his thing Tay you and I cooked up this B cam you wrapped our I think it's time for the moment of truth let's hear how this thing sounds all right let's do it let's do it that tag is hard what the sauce can't cook the same you feel me to be putting the same look above all the rich design even the flakes speedy slow down at this hidden complex your boy is the green almost taking notice these making noises we talk arrest more we take a list see I'm a king got a kiss on my chest I'm in here with saying we live in our best as we beats in the worse and then we own the next [Music] one thing that you had that any producers ahead whenever they're making a beat is that you had that bounce no saying it's all that matter we have that bounce and you got everybody tagged if it's whacked ellen is a good beat it's a good beat I would've thought build like a real song you know you asked me out right i'ma praise being in a studio session is actually mad fun it might seem like a museum in Memphis and twenty-two-year-old take Keith have nothing to do with each other but that isn't the case music is ever-evolving and we can only think those who came before us for what we have today Tennessee is a place with a very rich musical history and a future that's even brighter and even though the way we've consumed music has changed there is certainly no shortage of it now some pros of the job you have full creative control to cook up whatever you want some cons of the job though is that there are a bunch of legalities that can take the fun right out of the craft I can honestly say that this is a job that I would actually do because we low-key just cooked up a hit [Music] who's gonna press play

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Length: 12min 21sec (741 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 12 2019

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