101 Beginner Tip: Remake Songs | Be A Better Producer 🙇‍♂️🎶

DECAP discusses a beginner tip on why remaking songs helps you become a better producer overtime, distinguishing the difference between stealing and growing into your own sound.

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[SynthHackerTV]

This is pretty much how I learned sound design. It is frustrating at times but even if you don't get anywhere close, you'll always learn something new on the way. You have to emulate before you can innovate!

[flostack]

The guitar comparison really opened my eyes

[joechapman]

Absolutely the way. It's completely normal in most genres–soul, rock, jazz, whatever–to do cover versions at first while you learn your craft and still be doing them late in your career even after you've written hundreds of your own pieces, but for some reason it's frowned upon in the hip-hop/electronic end of music. There's much more to be learned from trying to emulate a piece of music you love than just churning out type beats based on a formula from a video tutorial.

[rogerssombe]

Its a cool and fast way to learn. Get who inspires you and remake one of their songs - you get to know how music works. In science they call it reverse engineering! Deconstruction and reconstruction

[Ray-lxle]

Yo great tip I just want to add to it as it’s something I still do after 12 years of production (always learning!)- every week I set myself a rule to remake the top song I have been inspired by that week. When I say re make I’ll sit there and listen to 15 seconds for hours till I get the exact notes and the almost identical sound design. This is great for a few reasons. First is I will engrain a new musical idea into my head from listening and staring at the midi till it’s perfect which allot of the time helps me break song block as midi writing gets you stuck in patterns allot. It helps me think about how all the musical parts syncopate together from a melodic, rhythmic and harmonic standpoint. Also this is great for another reason - once I have made the exact sound I will then use ableton to save my instrument rack and then I’ll save it as let’s say - Porter Robinson something comforting guitar- then I’ll make the exact pad with the exact sound and exact strings and then get my synths sounding exact and keep them in a instrument rack bank with every other song that inspired me. Reason for this is simple - I won’t go in and make a replica of the song when I write my own but I have next to perfect sounds to use that I know work well together and will work well with other sounds from other songs and I use them as reference if I can’t decide if there is a sonic flaw or musical flaw. I also use the sounds as a foundation to work from sometimes to put my ideas together. So I can pull let’s say a Porter guitar in for my arp guitar and then I can layer it with Jupiter thriller saws and then use a perfect replica of a bass I’ve emulated from another song and use these all as either fillers for sounds I’m struggling with or using them as references. But never all together- it’s more cherry picking at this point. This helps mix quicker as they will already be at a good sound design level for elements to sit together and if you remake the song you have a good idea which octave works best for the sounds, therefore whatever sound you choose next can respectfully sit within the frequency range it was intended for. Once it sounds actually spot on you have freedom to change the sounds and blend them into your own to produce your own tones and re sample how find fit but at least you know they sonically sound good. Always use your own sounds aswell but know how to find a blend which creates complete originality but something that sounds familiar. I have 100s of ableton instrument racks from over the years and they have kept me from failing with ear fatigue and helped keep the song block away.

[bboymac]

Funny I’ve been doing this… guess I’m on the right track 😁👍🏽

[meekrowhave]

I remember spending all day in FL studio trying to remake Day n Nite Kid Cudi's MOTM is the reason I started making beats

[realdiole]

Tried remaking my favorite Young Thug song, it was so frustrating just to get the melody rhythm right, but I was learning a lot, especially how some kicks were off-grid to create bounce, ended up incorporating that into my beat. I want to get back at it with full force, get frustrated more and learn a lot in the process.

[Fraend]

EVERYTHING IS A COMBINATION! that's it, I love it

[Proc]

I love that you referenced cool edit. I started out on cool edit and early versions of FRuity loops. Cool edit to me was a starting point and was a useful tool that really projected my song writing forward. Cool edit was the poor man’s pro tools 😂 I attribute my current level of mixing and producing to the early years on cool edit pro and I immediately find familiarity with anyone who came up on it as well. Respect and Thanks

[vuks-fjfl]

I've been remaking hella songs lately 👌

[MiketheNerdRanger]

I can't stomach remaking a song that already exists, especially if I like the song as it is.

[moonTerfixx.]

man i really like the dunes track from serious sam the first encounter idk how damjan (the producer) made that shit but when i tried to recreate it i ended up with a shitshow that sounded nowhere NEAR as good as the original one. im really new to music production (i dont plan on making a career over it i just do it as a side hobby sometimes whenever i get motivation) so yeah thats why it probably sounded like a shitshow but also cause i also couldnt find the proper instruments to make it sound good

[HasanRammal]

The Neptunes inspired my whole career.

[AstrixMusic]

I think some of us think that developing your own sound is not a thing. When I listen to all the most prolific producers they all sound very different from each other. I know we all learn differently and there's no single formula for getting on your path, but is type beats really the way?

[ronnellwrestlingthemes]

how do you find the samples songs use or remake them

[mylifeasme]

song/beat at the beginning from this video?

[hhhhj]

Bro how is there not a single video explaining how to do this?