for many producers being experimental with your Beats can easily lead to making garbage for Mad Lib being experimental leads to having three of the top 20 albums of all time feature your production there's a reason why guys like Kanye want his Beats you have to get like some more Madeline beats for the next in the next projects and why the Alchemist says this about him he's in another position planted on his own he's his own genre So today we're going to explore exactly why Mad Lib is considered one of the greats the beat techniques that
he brought to hip hop and some of the ideas that you can use in your Beats too personally I used to love playing Mad Libs as a kid you know that fun little word game so let's play a quick one before we start the video people who like And subscribe to this video are blank the correct answer is cool awesome or I would accept fat spell with a pH so like And subscribe now let's start with idea number one behind me is a poster of another beat making Legend J Della and the history between madlib
and J dilla might actually surprise you bill has never been influenced by somebody so strongly as he was by madlib influencing another Legend is a feat in itself but what was this influence exactly well Dilla says it himself that's how it's just down to me anyway real wrong Mad Lib and rawness go hand in hand and a great example of a beat that showcases this rawness is what a day used by Tyler the so let's break this beat down to really explain what raw means here's a sample that was used in this beat [Music] now
if you give this sample to many other producers they would probably get detailed with it there are really high-tech tools nowadays that lets you split samples apart like this [Music] using unique effects to manipulate your samples is also very common and from here most producers would add more layers and sounds to make a complete beat [Music] [Music] but here's what Mad Lib does instead he keeps his Beats raw sticking to the fundamentals just chopping rearranging looping pitch shifting and stretching and oftentimes that's it [Music] for the day and this is practically the whole beat most
producers obsess over the smallest details squeezing in that tiny texture two minutes into the beat or trying to perfectly EQ every single sound thinking that's what matters most but Mad Lib doesn't obsess over these things and he's responsible for some of the most highly acclaimed albums of all time dude just Loop that up ask my sound like I'm a loop Digger so I almost want to leave it like that just make it dirtier than what it was some people don't really understand it it really makes you rethink what actually matters in a beat which brings
me to idea number two Mad Lib is legendarily known for making hundreds of beats per week squeezing every possibility out of every sample a great example of this is Paul mauliffe by Freddie Gibbs okay Seasons [Music] so we have another raw beat here this is the sample that was used [Music] music and for the most part this beats a loop with some smaller interjections throughout the Full Beat arrangement foreign but here's what's amazing on this Same album the song right after Paul moliv is another song called fake names and guess what this beat actually uses
the exact same sample just a different part of it and this is a major key for anyone who samples whenever I give my course members an assignment where they have to use a specific sample some producers become overly precious they worry about picking the perfect pieces to chop this leads to overthinking and becoming paralyzed at the idea of ruining the sample by making an imperfect beat but madlib here shows us that what matters most is creating pick and choose your ideas that you like afterwards but you should at least start by creating them to begin
with instead of over obsessing about reaching some level of perfection I usually make beats out the whole record while it's right there the whole album yeah every best piece of the record and just move on after that now you're probably noticing a theme with Mad Lib and how much his philosophy might make you rethink your own for example there is a huge portion of producers who have Hardware fetishes I see people leaving angry comments all the time about how you can't make specific kinds of Beats on FL Studio or whatever beat making program you use
and yet here's one of the biggest beats Mad Libs ever made no more parties in La by Kanye West hey baby you forget your Ravens and my sheets still Orange from your spray tan and here's what he said about how this beat was made actually that beat was made off the iPad okay really yeah yeah that's right so you probably have the exact same equipment as mad lib same thing with the samples that he uses he rips them off YouTube just like the rest of us so stop stressing over equipment or thinking that you just
don't have access to the right resources to make great music you definitely do and there's one last thing that separates Mad Lib from many other producers While most producers are stuck in jazz and soul mode Mad Lib is sampling Brazilian music [Music] and Indian music for his Beats [Music] he really explores now when Mad Lib is looking for samples he does have a specific strategy he focuses on instruments played the release year and the artists that are on the album so here's a hack that you can use let's say you find a cool sample off
of YouTube along with me if you go to discogs.com and search that song or album up it'll give you a ton of valuable information for finding even more good samples for example let's say you really like the keys on a song you can look up who the artist was that played them on the actual record and from there you can see what else they made another really helpful one is seeing the record label labels really like to put out specific kinds of music so if you really like a song that came from a specific label
there might be even more samples from that label that would be perfect for your Beats and seeing who the producer of a song is can also be a great idea if a producer structures their songs in a very sampleable way that can be another Pathway to more great samples overall if there's one thing that Madlibs career shows us it's that ideas are king not what kind of instruments you're using or how long you spend on the tiny sounds in your Arrangement personally I think this philosophy can really help a lot of producers focus on the
right things having said that if you are looking for more Hands-On in-depth beat making techniques that madlib does with his Beats I do have a full video on it I made it a while back if you for more specifics it should be showing up next to me otherwise hopefully you like this video If so like And subscribe and uh yeah I will see you next week but check out the video next to me
