How to make the COLDEST trap melodies

[00:00:00]What's good everyone? It's Chambers.

[00:00:01]Welcome back again to the studio. Today we brought the keys out.

[00:00:05]>> [music] >> I want to get super melodic today and show you as many cool tips and techniques as I can. But before we start, if you haven't heard, [music] I'm doing 40% off absolutely everything this summer with code summer40. [music] That's all my drum kits, sample packs, and the online class. Link is down below for everything. So we got a cool electric piano loaded up. I want to figure out if I want to do like chords >> [music] >> or if we want to do like a faster pace melody built into it.

[00:00:40]>> [music] >> Oh, wait.

[00:00:45]>> [music] >> All right, so we're in the F minor scale for this.

[00:00:52]Count those notes in order. Our one is the F and the five is C.

[00:00:56]So in the bass hand, my left hand, I'm playing >> [music] >> the one and the five back and forth. In the melody hand, my right hand over here, I'm just going to be going up the scale. Start with a slide like this.

[00:01:07]>> [music] >> And then we go jump up to that four from the F. So 1 2 3 4, we're at A sharp. Head back down the scale.

[00:01:21]>> [music] >> Back to >> [music] >> This is where playing by hand comes in really handy because I love the velocity differences. If this was all just the same, it [music] would lose any human characteristics. So I love to have it sound more natural. Add some effects like reverb.

[00:01:53]See, that gives it that [music] ambience.

[00:01:55]I make two versions. So we'll make this one unique and then we'll simplify it.

[00:02:00]>> [music] >> Super simple.

[00:02:03]So, now I want maybe a string sound that we could kind of hold out.

[00:02:13]That's cool because even with the chord change, we could still hold this.

[00:02:16]It's a very tense chord. So, basically we would have an F minor triad.

[00:02:21]Take this middle note.

[00:02:22]Drop it down one semitone, down to the G.

[00:02:26]And then we can actually hold that and sustain it through the whole thing.

[00:02:35]Time for a layer with some bass in it.

[00:02:37]So, I love a nice piano. Very simple, just following the root notes F up to A sharp.

[00:02:49]>> [music] >> When you play melodies by hand, >> [music] >> it just allows you to come up with things that you would have never came up with just clicking in. Now, when you combine that with actual music theory knowledge, you're going to be able to make incredible things. Not just trap beats. If you want to do more R&B, >> [music] >> these skills are extremely valuable to learn and they're all things that I teach. [music] I have over 100 detailed course videos going over things like chords and melodies and scales, but not just music theory, also drums [music] and mixing and arrangement. I don't only teach you things to get your skills up, I also give you seven of my best kits included in the class completely free.

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[00:03:38]So, we have our main foundation done.

[00:03:39]Now, we can move into the smaller ear candy sounds. to start with a bell. I'm going to use the one on the five again, our F and our C.

[00:03:55]>> [music] >> Trying to find the right choir.

[00:04:01]We're making more tense. This time I'm doing an inversion with the C and drop it down an octave from here down to here. So we have and then we move up to here.

[00:04:18]>> [music] >> Let's go 300 down on everyone.

[00:04:27]>> [music] [music] >> I'm going straight to Iconic cuz I need an 808 that's actually going to Might be this one down three from F, so that's going to make it 1 2 3.

[00:04:44]>> [music] >> And then stop it right at the clap each time. So even though it looks really small, these little gaps in between the 808s are super important.

[00:05:00]>> [music] >> Open crisp from Iconic 2, just layer it right there.

[00:05:10]August sizzling, reverse it right here, make this pattern unique, and then we'll have it just >> [music] >> That's tough.

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[00:05:44]>> [music] >> And I'm going to fill it up a little bit more with some hi-hat rolls.

[00:05:52]>> [music] >> Down, down, down, down.

[00:05:57]Then of course the percussion, straight from Iconic 2.

[00:06:00]>> [music] [music] >> Do do do do. Make sure you tune it and we'll just do do do do do do do at the very end.

[00:06:14]Woohoo!

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[00:07:00]Thank you all so much for watching and I'll see you in the next one. Peace.

[00:07:07]>> [music] >> Jee mad >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Hey.

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