This is the technique that I use to easily get chord progressions for West Coast Instrumentals. 1. First you need a starting melody. You need to come up with a melody that will serve as a base for your chord progression. Preferably something relatively simple. 2. Next, you need to build chords. For every note …

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EDIT: This tutorial is a bit outdated. I no longer use some of the techniques I presented in this article. Some of them I still use though. G-Funk is a sub-genre of hip hop music that developed from the West Coast hip hop of the early 1990s. It is well known for using elements of …

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A video tutorial on how to use the TAL-Filter-II plugin to get the Wah-Wah effect. This effects works best on guitars, electric pianos, synths, and it’s a good effect to use in G-Funk beats. The TAL-Filter-II is a free plugin. The Wah-Wah effect is basically just the result of quickly adjusting cutoff frequency on a …

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A video tutorial on how to get the G-Funk synth bass sound to use in your G-Funk beats. You can also use this sound as a synth lead if you play it at higher pitches. In order to get that type of bass, you need to understand how to use ADSR (Attack-Decay-Sustain-Release) envelopes. Most synthesizer …

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A video tutorial on how to get the classic Boom Bap/East Coast lo-fi sound in FL Studio. It’s all about adding noise (vinyl noises, crackles, clicks etc.) and distorting the sound (by reducing samplerate and the bitrate, and adding distortion fx). For this I used the following plugins: Izotope Vinyl (to add vinyl sound effects). …

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A video explaining what chords to use in G-Funk beats and how to find them easily in the FL Studio menus. Recommended chords: Minor/Major Ninth (m9/Maj9), Minor/Major 7th (m7/Maj7). Just use some of these chords in your beats and you will get a smoother sound. You can also add some effects. For G-Funk beats, if …

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