The 7 8 gives almost natural live groove to the drums, sounds fresh probably because it's not something I hear or do alot.

Try this again, but this time think about breaking up 7 into smaller parts; my favorite is 2 - 2 - 3. It will be easier to follow when you have the rhythm in your mind to begin with. Great idea to break out of what you know, it turned out great!

Love 7/8, swings great, some of my favorite breakcore/jungle tracks are almost exclusively in 7/8. artists: Venetian snares, acrnym to name a couple, use 7/8 frequently.

just wanna say that your filming skills are also inspiring as like as your music.

Anything not 4/4 hurts my brain. Or at least when I’m producing it, that is. I was just making a song with my church band and one of the artists made a song with partial 4/4 to 2/4 and the chorus bleeds into the verse (and vice versa). I am all self taught and everything I understand is 4/4. It’s forcing me to grow. I got recommended your video in the perfect ‘timing’ 😂 great video

7/8 is usually counted in "groups" of eighth notes. 1-2-3 / 1-2 / 1-2 is very common (here's an example of a "beat" I made that switches time signatures, but starts in 7/8 counted 1-2-3 / 1-2 / 1-2 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gLuah5VnxNXJgn0.html) I would consider counting 7 quarter notes as 7/4.

We on the Balkans call that a regular day. 😁 7/8 , 9/8 , 11/8 ...all folklore.

@2:16 "Twee Do Kah Daaah" 🎶 🎵

These are local ryhtms in Turkish music and being used for ages :) Gives you lots of opportunities to go around and explore. Good Content Matt congrats

I made beats for a solid 10 years and I sometimes miss it. The business killed my enthusiasm almost completely when I was starting to work with bigger artist. I made many mistakes along the way but this makes me want to compose again. Thanks for sharing.

You're a great inspiration Matt, thanks for giving us an insight in your production process!

The algorythm showed me this video and im glad it did. Love your musicality. Subbed and looking forward to the next.

You are putting language to how I think and how I produce...love it. Thanks for doing this. Yeah...this is 🔥

This is amazing. Honestly I was getting tired of making music these days since all my beats end up sounding the same, but I realized that I can spice things up by changing time signature or even tempo in the middle of a track. It's like I'm learning to make music all over again and it feels great!

Finish It!!😉 Beautiful bars Matt - love your vulnerable and adventurous spirit in this vid. Thanks for sharing - it is super refreshing to see the subtleties in a similar workflow. We have a couple of "odd" meters in the "maybe" folder and cant wait to polish something off with the right touch. You've got it already. 🎄❤‍🔥

This is awesome!

Nice way to experiment and do something new. The beat came out nice. The video gives me inspiration to try different time sigs.

i really enjoyed watching your process making this beat. Definitely makes me want to experiment more with my own stuff.

That piano sounds amazing ❤

Love it when beatmakers are actual musicians too! Thats how it should always be imho...

A neat thing to keep in my kind to make rhythms sound natural is to realize that at it core all rhythms consists of 1-2, and/or 1-2-3. So 4/4 has two 1-2, 3/4 has one 1-2-3, while 6/8 either has three 1-2’s or two 1-2-3 (mostly the last one is very popular). So, 7/8 has two 1-2, and one 1-2-3. The reason you struggled while playing along, and the reason the song doesn’t sound that natural, is because you cut up a 4/4 beat, basically making it into a 1-2 and a 1, without the 2 basically. And that kinda sounds weird. If you would finger drum your own beat, you would do a natural 1-2-3 at everything would click because you expect the next beat to come. But now, it feels like the natural cadence is kind of cut off and you have to compensate with the other elements and a lot of repetition. The piano for example, doesn’t have this 1-2-3 feel that clicks to the end, marking your downbeat with a little swing beat. Basically I’d recommend you listen to some Balkan/gypsy music, there is a lot of very natural/danceable party beats; but under the hood they feature these interesting time signatures.

Really cool live feeling time signature and vibe!

I like the vibe this video is giving off. Very cozy

Great vibes,

awesome groove!

bro this is so sick, helping me so much just in how you think about producing, articulated super well too thank you man it's gonna help me with this album I'm makin!!!!

Great stuff man

This is a crazy jam!!! Very inspiring work man

So chilled, great vid

First time watching one of your vids. Awesome work, very professional but also simple enough to engage a broad audience. Definitely a new sub here. Great inspiration.

Very cool 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Excellent love-it !!!

This is my introduction to your channel and I must say that I love this kind of content! Please keep it up!

very cool and inspiring. great vibes.

Sweet video bro and love the chill setting and presentation so big thumbs up! I think most 4/4 music sounds so machine like and i always go HAM with the repeater on all my hi hats and kicks and then after im done im cutting it down into a groove.

Love this man ! Just got your EP coming on vinyl, looking forward !

Bro i swear i love these sweat humble chords ✊ ☮️

Sounds great. There were some nice little of nuggets of wisdom dropped in there too. Keep it up bro.

Nice groove, love the vibe 🤟

your room so cozy

7/8 sounds fantastic 😢. love your musicality!

I love 7/8 as well. I have a super simple drum machine (volca beats) that has a nice “last step” function that lets you easily create odd meter time signatures. It’s so fun to discover grooves in irregular time signatures. I love syncopating rhythms right before the 1 to funk things up even further. I have some lofi vids on my page! A number of them are in 7/8!

Great video. I truly enjoyed that.

This was high quality content keep it up!

Nice work! I always look for a break point in odd signatures - for 7/8 I always think it as 4+3 which makes it easier for me to find a groove

this sounds superb!

This was so beautiful!

damn thats wild! great job

Woah that sounds so good!

Such a joy to watch! Love the creativity and playfulness! You go dude!

Fire, mate!

fire! thank you so much for sharing

Great video Matt! ❤

Great video, Matt. My music theory is basic. So, I found it useful to hear/see you think out loud and work your way through it.

Mad respect bro big vibe!

Love this man, nice vid!

You counting the piano chord progression was so adorable ! Great video .

You did it so “correctly”! Really natural

I'm so glad the algorithm served me up this vid, your other videos look cool too. You've earned yourself a subscriber

Damn, that was so fun and easy to watch!!! Definitely earned my subscription

Really fresh. Thank you!

Awesome video!

as a relatively new “producer” this was a super cool video to watch and see how your creative process goes when encountering something new :)

Nice beat n good luck with the shows

Really beautiful piece of music! Wouldn't be an easy thing to try rapping to this. Even challenging to count. Anyway thanks for putting this one out, I kind of been looking for beats with odd time signatures from time to time. Peace

comprehensive beat walkthrough 👍

This is so cool. Super chill, relaxed, and fun. Keep it up bro ❤

I loved this vid. Great vibe and sparked some ideas for my next production.

great job bro, soild succint quality video that was . credit where its due!

Thanks for the inspiration mate. Awesome groove! I just did my first 7/8 beat in my ko II sampler after watching this 👍

This was great man! Definitely continue producing stuff like this! You should run that beat through tape or a tape emulation as well. It has a really nice lo-fi feel to it!!

what an amazing jacket

7/8 is so groovy. Love what you made here

Sounds on FIRE! I am going to play around with different time signatures too, really inspiring video!

I love your video, your music and your vibe. Especially the background, it's sickkk

cool!

This video was dope. Really well put together and super interesting to see your workflow!

this is tight, i'm going to have to try this too

Good job man, I like your style of filming🔥

love the vids! subbed right away!

It's about damn time

Great video/editing! Working on new time signatures definitely makes the grey matter work overtime haha

Dope my man

Just subbed to the channel. Nice vibes man. I can tell you’re well off from the look of that lovely piano 😍

This is dope. I love 7/8

Sounding real snarky puppyish 🔥! New sub btw! Love the content!

Hey Matt that was sick brother, I really dig your style.

I love the non-traditional approach! Not immediately going for a 2+2+3, or 3+2+2 or 2+3+2 feel (I'm classically trained, so I live and breathe these non 4/4 time signatures), is really inspiring! It helped me push out of my box of always trying to follow my in instincts, when it comes to harmonic related time progressions, and placing a chord on one of those larger beats, with the drums instead of just the drums to help the listener follow along was quite refreshing! Thank you for sharing your time and talent! Much bravo!

Great vid!

this was nice

camera on the piano is so well set .. i been fucking w diff sig for a sec and its just funny to me honestly I love it

Great work man - subscribed! For the MIDI kick, you can also try a ghost sidechain where the MIDI track for the kick is muted, but bussed to the channel that you want sidechained. The MIDI signal triggers the compressor without playing any audio. Might simplify that mixing piece when layering kicks. Anyways, excited to hear more!

Genuinely excellent content. Congratulations. Informative, entertaining and soothing.

Came out fire !

i love 7/8 so much

sounds like a chilled out version of whatever DOMi & JD BECK will play

Great video

7:46 that reminds me of I thought you wanted to dance by Tyler (4'46) hahaha

Cool video

Dude i love your material big fan. I hope I can see you live. I am coming to the UK in September let me know if you have any gigs happening Keep up the excellent tunes bruv