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    Beat remakes are in my opinion the number one greatest practice tool for making beats

    I try to always stay working on something. If I'm not making my own stuff I'm usually trying to take someone else's music apart to study it. That's how I look at it. It's a good way to stay sharp and keep learning even if I'm not feeling creative. You'll make some cool custom instruments to use...
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    acoustic foam??

    I don't think it necessarily has to be "acoustic" foam. I've always felt like that was a bit of a scam to charge an absurd price for foam. Call that stuff "acoustic foam" and now you're selling something for 100's or even 1000's of times the price it takes to make. I got lucky and a friend of...
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    Beat remakes are in my opinion the number one greatest practice tool for making beats

    This is the latest iteration and it sounds MUCH better/closer. I scrapped that lead synth and found a preset which sounded much closer, then I doubled it and pitched one down and processed it to sound closer to the song. Also noticed I added a few extra notes in there, so those are gone. I also...
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    Anybody here use music to make fun of their friends?

    That's why you needed to fire shots back in song form. You flex on "your thing" because you know they can't get back at you on your level. If I was an artist, and my friends were making fun of me, I'd draw caricatures of them and wait specifically for a party to break them out :D
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    Anybody here use music to make fun of their friends?

    LOL that's crazy but those type of things generate interest in songs. They're very often used today to the point of being annoying to me. I hear it and I'm like "somebody's trying really hard". A good example offhand is that noise Adam Levine makes in the song 'Animals', same with the song...
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    Anybody here use music to make fun of their friends?

    One of the best fringe benefits of being able to make a beat/song. We used to substitute peoples' names into songs. For example the song 'Jesse's Girl' turned into 'Carlos's Mom'. Or when Eminem said "two trailer park girls go round me outside' I switched that to one friends mother and sister's...
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    Beat remakes are in my opinion the number one greatest practice tool for making beats

    Alright I'm about another hour in bringing the total to roughly 4 hours that I've been working on this. All I did this time around was sorted an issue I was having with the strings, threw a bass on the beat and messed with the levels a little bit. The bass I currently have on the beat is not the...
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    Beat remakes are in my opinion the number one greatest practice tool for making beats

    Best put it's like practicing translating what you're hearing into your DAW. That's the name of the whole beat making game. It helps with being able to do that quickly and efficiently. You also get more familiar with your DAWs, make yourself some cool presets, etc. The only difference is when...
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    Beat remakes are in my opinion the number one greatest practice tool for making beats

    So this is the same beat but I put in about another 1.5 hours tweaking things, also started mixing it a little: https://voca.ro/1nmXE3iN2MeW
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    Beat remakes are in my opinion the number one greatest practice tool for making beats

    Here's what I have from that 'Big Brother'. I still have instruments missing I believe a few notes too, and I haven't touched it mixing yet, this is about 2.5 hours in: https://voca.ro/1n16iFG4eRXw
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    Beat remakes are in my opinion the number one greatest practice tool for making beats

    I found an old soundcloud page of mine which had one of the remakes I did. It's a great tool for improving your focus and seeing beats through, and you make some pretty awesome instruments for later use. Sadly, I haven't remade enough beats in my time so I'm starting to push for more. Last night...
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    When to use techniques?

    Distortion is good to make the sounds almost unique, really good for example on them cheesy stock FL sounds
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    What's good on some good channels re: Mixing songs?

    Man....I used to have such dope videos on mixing songs. Videos I found on Youtube and downloaded of course. These videos were from 10-15 years ago and now I believe most are gone, they were eventually taken down. Computer(s) I had the videos on died too. The videos I had were awesome because...
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    Jake One Behind the Beat G Unit "Betta Ask Somebody"

    I've watched most of them, especially liked the one for Wiz Khalifa- 'French Inhale' because I love that song. Mike Posner has such a distinctive voice. I was a fan during his little run. I still bump 'Please Don't Go' (IMO one of the greatest modern dance songs) and "Bow Chicka Wow Wow'. It's...
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    Do any of you have food restrictions?

    I tried it for about 6 months and I didn't like it. It wasn't bad, I just feel a diet with a little meat is the way to go. I eat meat but I try to limit it to one serving a day at most, I usually eat two meals a day. (An actual serving of meat is about the size of a deck of cards BTW) I try to...
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    Do any of you have food restrictions?

    Lactose intolerant here. I can't eat dairy. The food I miss more than anything is pizza. I've tried lactose free milk products and while they don't mess my stomach up nearly as bad as actual milk products, they still do bother me. I'd love to eat a nice Chicago style deep dish pizza.
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    ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF!

    Bro your beats are insane
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    Does anybody pay for drum samples? Do you recommend any libraries?

    LOL not even gonna lie that was going pretty hard. The only rock drums that don't go good in rap IMO are super dry snares.
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    Does anybody pay for drum samples? Do you recommend any libraries?

    Kind of off topic (but on topic) I know exactly what you're saying. Back in the day I used to download free samples and they were just stock FL samples, very basically layered at best. I was just acquiring tons of sounds I never used. I also get what you're saying about wet samples, I hate that...
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    Does anybody pay for drum samples? Do you recommend any libraries?

    I was listening to samples and loops from Ghosthack last night on youtube. I wasn't impressed. The drums just sounded like a bunch of techno crap, the vocal loops sounded cheesy, melodic loops sounded pretty generic, and the drum loops sounded like I could make any one of them in 30 minutes or...
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