7 MUST-DOS TO IMPROVE YOUR DROPS! | Drum and Bass Tutorial 2021

7 tips to make more powerful drops. This beginner Ableton music production tutorial can be used for Drum and Bass, Dubstep, Bassline and EDM music.

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0:00 Intro
0:47 The Track
1:38 Tip 1 - Automate FX
3:36 Tip 2 - Dynamic Drum Rolls
6:22 Tip 3 - Pause Before Drop
8:34 Tip 4 - Risers and Impacts
9:57 Sponsored Message
11:02 Tip 5 - Drum Fill
12:37 Tip 6 - Mute the Drums
13:40 Tip 7 Random Delayed Sounds
14:50 Full Sequence
16:26 Listen to the Track
17:36 Final Thoughts

[kryold]

Bro your tutorials have been fire lately. I find myself recreating all your bass patches and then modifying them, or using the stuff I learned from them to modify a different patch, and ending up with crazy new results. So glad I've found your channel, keep at it!

[iantrigue]

absolute quality, I'm learning so much from these tutorials. Having listened to DnB for the last 20 years finally understanding how its made has been truly eye opening

[drewtoolive]

Each tip is on point. Whether you are new to production or not. It's great to get insight into creating urgency, tension and release, responses etc... My workflow gets better after every video. I appreciate all the drum and bass nuances you go through. Coming from years of breaks and house production there's overlap surely but to get real pro. All you video content is shaving years off my transition to dnb. Big UP!!!

[NRTKDNB]

Using FL for many years but this channel learned me a lot

[OllyF]

Pro tip for the drop: Try adding an impact/explode sample on the first kick of the drop and filter out low end so it doesn't clash with the kick. Also try a crash on the 1st beat of the drop and try adding some white noise with fast decay 🙏

[buzzandjim]

IM IN!!! Look forward to another great tutorial. Thanks again Stranjah. Learned more from you than any other manz. You will go to Jungle heaven. Brap!!

[resonatingergonomicsdnb]

Addressing the power of silence is great. Love drum rolls. Good simple insight there.

[witchdoctorwise]

I'm obsessed with these tuorials and I've never even made drum and bass (used to make jungle/hardcore on my Amiga with Octamed back in 93-95 when I was in my mid-teens and then moved on to making hip-hop and synthy electronica). It's made me want to give it a go though. To be honest I like the intro on this in itself as a kind of skippy hiphoppy beat that could have rap vocals on.

[rezilient]

A lot of these techniques I’m using! Very impactful indeed ❤️

[AndySo]

Always got to rewatch a lot of your vids when I'm about to finish a track. Leaving a comment to help the cause. Keep it going man, digging the tips!

[theoracle]

You forgot my favourite way to add impact, dip the volume of most of the sounds slowly till the drop then bump them all back up adds so much impact

[ryangunz]

So good my friend. You are an immeasurable value on production, thank you for what you do! 🙏

[georgiabliss]

excellent tutorials, thank you so much!

[zino]

Glad i found you dude finally someone i can understand and relate to

[itsfadey]

Absolutely smashed it again as per! Stranjah a real one for this <3

[jackchilly]

Your videos are easily the best tutorials man, you break it down so well!

Id love it if you could make a 'How to make a dnb bootleg of a non dnb track' video tutorial in future?

[sramirez]

I'll be coming back to this one again and again. Big up Stranjah!

[ghostcoder]

you could also fade in slowly a combination of hi/low pass filters and also reduce the stereo width, all at the same time.. fade it in slowly and gently, so that the listener did not reallise the change.. at the beginning of the drop you simply turn this effects off and it feals like the drop slamms in aggain with much more power. this trick you cann use again and again and it feels like the next part got more power than the part before which is not really true but the effect is huge.

[kannabotanika]

Stranjahs tutorials are really helpful.. I’ve watched them all and they have been a great resource.. thanks for everything you do!!

[Numocron]

Wow man this is such an awesome Drum & Bass tutorial I love it. Big up Stranjah.👊