Welcome to my "MEATING MY BEAT" series where i explain how i meat my beat. Here is a breakdown of my latest single "ALL THAT AND MORE" from my upcoming album "TYPE J: UNLIMITED". To preface, I am not a trained musician, but a fan who grew up playing the piano and obessing over blog-era rap music and learned abelton through years of trial and error. The audio from this page should be downloadable, if not, hit me up! I would happily send you stems and would love to hear any remixes or edits.... OK! INTRO! ... whew!

This was one of the first tracks I had made for the album and it kinda set the stage for how I wanted the album to sound and feel: ethereal rnb vocal samples, window-rattling 808s, and drum breaks. This tends to be the process for how i make music.

A lot of my inspiration comes from chopping rnb samples and acapellas from songs i enjoy. The foundation of this track is an acapella of one of my alll time favorite songs ever, "i wanna know" by joe, sped up and pitched up 3 semitones:



then i threw the joe acapella into an ableton simpler and recorded this loop:



After finding a melody/grove from a sample, I like to audition other samples, drum loops, or record synthesizers over it. I happen have a felonys worth of samples ripped from the deepest trenches of the internet on my hard drive... The sample that's looped in the background is this particular video game sample of unkown origin:



I threw the sample into an ableton simpler and chopped it to 160 bpm at -11 semitones:



together they sound like this:



The meat of the beat is this amen-style break that's pitched up +5 sm.



With a kick & 808 layered on top... i tend to prefer the drag + drop sample-into-timeline-with-manual-pitch-manipulation method over using a drum rack. i process and arrange with my eyes and then shut my eyes and gyrate my limbs. If i don't immediately leave my seat to dance... it's a hard delete.



for the breakdown, i took the intro vocal from "after party" by koffee brown and chopped it, layered with a hihat loop and an alabama deep fried clap:



and that's the whole track! There is some fx automation, aux synth layers in the first half (using synplant vst), and some beat repeats here and there for transitions. The track is an intro-A-B-A-outro sequence. Thank you for listening :)