How To Lo-Fi Hip Hop

Lo-Fi Hip Hop had a really big upswing in popularity in recent years. It is such a chill type of genre which makes it very meditative to produce. Today, we look at what makes a lo-fi beat shine, and then I will challenge myself to make a lo-fi track within one hour and try to give you a lot of insights into how to do it. Enjoy!

00:00 Intro
00:43 The Fundamentals
02:37 1-Hour Challenge

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Some people asked for the "Fundamentals"-Track so I decided to put it on Spotify:


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[marioneto]

Atmosfere: rain, vinyl...
harmonies: 80 bpm, slow, fender Rhodes, string
Drums: snare on 2 and 4, syncopated kick
additional synth layered with the rhodes

[ResanChea]

This genre literally helped me through years of reading academic papers.

[ibrabaskir]

What a great tutorial, thank you very much! And thanks for the advise of not focusing too much on details when choosing a sound and rather keeping the momentum going, that’s exactly what I’m so often preoccupied with unnecessarily. 🙏

[jettsters]

definitely the most applicable tutorial for me. nothing was rushed, everything kept momentum. thank you

[MujjOMusic]

As lofi producer i 100% agree with you (compliment from lofi artist)

[GiulianoDrago]

This tutorial looks amazing on my Sony Trinitron! Wowzers!!!

[peaterrepeater]

Nice, lo-fi appears to be for Kids today what trip hop was for us in the 90ies.

[MidnightCityMusic]

What a beautifully paced and edited video. The music is great too. Keep it up! :):)

[ridiculousbeats]

Nicely done! I've been producing for over 20 years and often come up with trap and West Coast beats organically, but have been trying to get into some lofi and boom-bap production. Very helpful video, and you just earned a sub!

[deadweight]

I absolutely love this kind of videos, showing how a music was made, see all the song mixing together and the final reveal at the end... And with on of my favorite type of music, great job man

[kosukenakano]

You have to nice idea!
I will make to lofi musica refering to this video!Thank you!

[Drinkyoghurt]

An underutilized technique is to take the lead sound and reverse it for the intro. Not the whole thing, but it really makes the lead into a song more interesting and most people won't notice that it's just a reversed piece. For the people that don't want to spend money on RC20, if you have Max for Live you can use Pocket Color 2 instead, it's an amazing plugin.

[dimasever_twitch]

YouTube's algorithm has chosen you, you got into recommendations, congrats! and thank you for this tutorial, love all the different camera angles when you explain the fundamentals :)

[TangentMoon]

Really great video, useful tips and a nice lofi track! Inspired to open up Ableton and get stuck in!

[yorzengaming]

Pretty dope dude I produce psytrance for a long time now and it's refreshing to go from 145+ bpm to chilled vibed mode like lofi. I'm gonna give it a shot with a little bit of psychedelic world that I'm familiar with already.. thanks great video and chillaxed track I love it man keep up the good work!

[rinovbeats]

Super easy to digest tutorial, thank you for this!!

[raymthw]

seems like the algorithm is really liking this video! this was a great breakdown of the track you made. you just made a new sub :)

[larryiscreating]

Great video. Thanks for sharing your process👍🏿

[hippovms]

only 50k views… nah thats not possible u deserve more than that