Kenny Beats - Talking About Beat Arrangement *Make Your Beats More Interesting!*

still gorgeous after 1 year, no cap

Did that Kenny and Leon song ever come out?

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Such good advice

People often forget that the beat is only half of the equation

Ngl.. this is probably the best music production video I've seen in a while!

Dropping gems from the past

How many bars in 4/4 would be in a section a, b, and c?

damn my mom had a c section

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watching these streams in honor of kennys bday today and i never realized how good he is at speaking. one of the goats fr

The hard part is to get your different sections to sound like they fit together and compliment each other. That’s why the ideas need to be similar but still different. Otherwise you run the risk of sounding like you have to separate songs in one song, as opposed to one cohesive song.

Extremely great advice, I've always done "Combo meals" where I include multiple sections in one beat. As someone who does 3D rendering and graphics work, I love how he spoke about the intro to the beat being "introducing someone to this world" that the beat is from, so I love World-building in soundscapes. Thanks fliko!

What I like to do is just hum on the beat and if it feels like something needs to change or be cut that’s where I mark and make some sort of change at

Bro I have countless projects on my computer that are never finished cause of burnout.

Beautifully put

I’m going to have to remember the names of chords so I can figure how to make new chord progressions in new keys

I love arrangement talk it’s energizing ☺️

Kenny out here preaching the beatgods gospel,

This sermon jus hit different,

Preach🫡💪🏾🙏🏿

fck he's so awesome, great thinker

I'm just wonder if this c section will leave a scar

RIP to all the beats that never became what we imagined in our heads

J dilla just looping on his beat just keep great...

Just to add a bit to Kenny's advice, I've found it very helpful to be "concise" when arranging. Say you have the opposite problem where you've got a 4 minute track that is repetitive. I always ask myself, "can I tell the same story in 2 and half minutes?" It might be that you drop one of the verse/hooks, but I've found this idea of being "concise" has really gotten me great results.

The great thing about getting a track down from 4 minutes to 2 and a half, is that it leaves you with more room to go further. Perhaps you do in fact want it to be a 4 minute long track, but now you have the space to do a beat-switch, a BPM change, and shift down 4 steps, etc. Now you have more room to tell more in your story, now that you've told the same story in 2 and a half minutes

So... songwriting? How the turn tables.

I tend to work on the B section first, then break that down to form the A section/intro.

It’s called the the rule of 3 don’t let 2 loops go by without by changing something

Really insightful

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Oloff's music helps me to process my feelings about 9/11.

Rumour has it that one time Oloff was sat next to Jar Jar Binks on a flight. Jar Jar kept kicking the chair in front of him and generally being obnoxious, nobody knew what to do. Eventually one of the flight attendants came over and asked Oloff if he would perform one of his songs to calm Jar Jar down, and when Oloff began rapping the first verse to Doing It Stealthy, Jar Jar immediately relaxed. To this day the two are still close friends.

Oloff is the biggest sensation since Hitler. Except this time it's in a good way.

I can't think of a single man I would rather have kids with than Oloff. That man has a brain the size of a bowling ball.

Mad smart

Pitch the melody up or down, drop the drums a couple semitones, throw a LPF on the melody, switch the drums to half time, just a couple examples. Sometimes and I will make two simliar beats in the same key and then put them together (Drake beats do this all the time).

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speaking facts bro, man I feel like im only good at making hooks, the longer I spend on a beat like you said arranging and changing stuff it loses the feel I had from the beggining when I made the beat.

good shit!!!!

Kenny should stick to producing and leave Djing alone.

Arrangements/songs are about tension & release

It's literally the reason why I haven't tried selling a beat yet, because they're not finished because of that. But I would really like to be able to sell them and stop working for an hourly wage.

I think what makes arrangement pretty difficult is how to transition smoothly to the next section. Drums fills, transition sfx, silence, etc.

A recent song with really good transitions from section to section is haruno - d(evil) ft yama

What makes d(evil) transition so good is the variety of transitions and how well it’s written to fit the other elements of the song. Drum fills are what I struggle the most with in the production phase.

I can never get my B sections to sound good with my A sections. They'll both sound good but I cant arrange them into the same song.

Definitely not the case for me. I think I have the most fun arranging a track. That’s the part where you get to mess with tension and release. That’s when you get to mess with people’s expectations and really make things interesting.

I find sometimes working from chords or adding chords to a melody/idea can really help write the next section. Find the notes which fit together with your track/melody and use them to either write a chord or a new melody. Your patterns/melodies don't always need to be busy.

sumtiem u jus gota put 2 beat in 1 beat 💯👍🏽🦍🍔

I needed this so bad that I feel like god suggested this video

kenny giving out free gems as always. this dude has had such a huge influence on the scene man.. what a guy!!!