￥Do you listen to chill hip-hop beats and wonder how they do it

 

Are you curious how these producers achieve that gritty vintage sound

 

Do you wish you could make your own beats to study, chill, or relax to

 

Now you can.

 

If you’ve listened to study beats on Youtube or Spotify then you know what I’m talking about.

 

Those beats that are so chill you put them on when you’re working or just kicking it.

 

You think they’ve gotta be a piece of cake to make.

 

Lofi beats seem simple on the surface there’s more to them than you’d expect.

 

How do you get your drums to bounce

 

How do you achieve that gritty, dusty, analogue sound

 

Where do you find the right samples for this genre

 

It took me hundreds of beats to finally figure out what was missing in my production.

 

I tried to learn on my own through random youtube tutorials and blogs I read online.

 

I spun my wheels for years.

 

And after teaching hundreds of students I know now why.

 

The answer is simple:

 

We think because the information is out there we can do it ourselves.

 

But with the internet sending us new tutorials every other day it leaves us feeling even more confused than when we started.

 

How do you apply sidechain compression

 

What plug-ins are best for lofi beats

 

How do you manipulate audio to chop better samples

 

There’s no clear cut path.

 

It took me years of trial-and-error, wasting time trying to learn concepts I thought I needed only to end up months later in the same spot.

 

So what’s the alternative