The Beat - The Dance Beat

We are now looking on how to make the traditional 'dance beat'. By dance, I mean the genre Hands up (Hard Dance, if you will).

First Load up FL studio.
Take 'this' sample, put it into your step sequencer and write four notes:

Focus on the 'clap sample' and write 2 notes:

Next thing is to load up your favorite synthesizer. We are going for a bass now, Nexus has many presets (especially for Hands Up) Set your Synthesizer as below, also choose the trancebass 9 preset:

Then go the pianoroll of the Nexus instance and write a bassline. You can write the same as below if your out of creativity:

The next is the main lead. I am using the plugin ANA VSTi which can be customized a little more than Nexus. Below is the preset I am using for the main lead:

Write a melody which goes along with the bassline (same chords) You can use mine as before if you like, they will match for sure:

Take 'this' sample, tweet the volume as below and leave it:

Assign the different instances (both samples and Vstis) to a mixer channel:

Put 'this' Maximus preset on the kick (one I prefer you can leave it without if you like I just think it makes a better sound)

Next thing is to tweet the main lead sound a bit, we want to make it more phat which is done by using reverb and eq. Load the same instances (except Blood overdrive) and tweek them as below:

Now paint the patterns made in the step sequencer as below and set your BPM (Beats per Minute) to 143.

And you are done!

Here is the FLP
http://www8.zippyshare.com/v/23425729/file.html


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Søren


The next tutorial will concern the dubstep beat!