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In tonight's session I go to town on this Dennis Chambers' 'Fatback' break. #abletonlive #breakbeat #musicproduction
Lately, I've felt a need to revisit my break work. This has definitely come from listening to Paradox/Alaska's back catalogue, and the producer's ongoing collaboration with another favourite artist of mine, Seba.
There's something so alluring about Paradox's break work. It's tight, snappy, but at the same time funky AF, and well, just sounds like nothing else.
So, it's back to revisiting the process from the ground up. I feel I've put good time into learning how to work with breaks over the past 4 years, but I can improve. And what's more, I'm happy to share my journey with you. Thankfully this session went pretty well!
The first part was spent chopping and tidying our break up. Then I went onto creating my own new patterns before some heavy processing. I showcased Monomono's latest M4L devices. If you like them and want to own them yourself, using these affiliate links will give me a small kick back:
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0:00 Intro
5:08 What we're going to do this evening
7:27 Finding a break to chop & outlining my process
12:16 The Dennis Chambers 'Fatback' beat
16:50 Using Warp markers to mark where our chops will be
21:15 Slicing to Drum Rack
22:22 Tidying the slices up
49:20 The tidied break
51:00 Creating our own new break loops
1:40:00 Processing our break with effects - Monomono 8056 Console Devices Showcasing
1:54:12 The results
2:02:25 Saving what we've created & recording new MIDI with patterns we've created
2:17:00 Recording our MIDI as audio
2:25:25 Getting the break loops out of Ableton, renaming & saving in our sample library
2:92:25 How I save things like this for ease of access
2:29:48 Comparing before and after
2:31:13 Other breaks I've been chopping recently
2:40:43 Ending & credits
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