Official Tech House Tutorial Thread

phil_johnston · August 19, 2011, 4:09pm

Drum Roll… Big Fanfare!!!

I would like to Officially announce today that the next tutorial will be a FULL tech house tutorial.

Link me with tracks (no older than 6 months) that are specifically tech house…

no progressive, techno, or basic house… tech house only.
Link me with tunes for specific techniques, sounds or ideas that you want to know about. please give times and description of the sound etc.

jjdejong0 · August 19, 2011, 4:26pm

There you go Phil, one thing i really wanna learn is how to make loops that you can practically listen to for hours and never get bored of them.

Also alot of tech house seems to have very simple but catchy melodies that i think are awesome like Columbian Soul or Word etc...

Hope this helps..

phil_johnston · August 19, 2011, 4:49pm

That afro jack tune sounds very similar to this… some nice chord borrowing going on there.

jjdejong0 · August 19, 2011, 4:52pm

Lol Phil never realised that i suppose thats why its called RADIOman haha

Nice find…

Its an awesome tune tho, ive heard it in clubs too when the bass comes in with the filter cutoff back down it sounds sooooo fat would love to know how to get a bass sounding like that…

jjdejong0 · August 19, 2011, 5:07pm

What would also be awesome to learn that you hear in a lot of tech house is how to write and produce stab riffs that complement the bassline.Also i have to share a link with one of my all time favourite tracks, one of the few tracks in all of dance music that actually has a message which is 100% true in it...

LOVE IT lol...

phil_johnston · August 19, 2011, 5:47pm

Im not sure some of those are tech house? are they? I thought it was darker.

Really not in to remixes of commercial pop tunes with a beat under them… sounds cheap to me.

(Just dont look at my discography ive done a bunch myself… oh the shame.)

ICN · August 19, 2011, 6:08pm

LOL @ Cheap

alinenunez · August 19, 2011, 9:14pm

thanks so much Phill.

about the Style of Tech House , i would love to learn how to make the percussion as the lead line. this track is very simple but seems that is super effective together with the bass line and Groove . we had many tutorials where we used many Melodic elements to build a track but i think we need something more simple and experimental like this track .

this track has been in the Tech House Chart for almost a month . really simple !!

Subject_1 · August 19, 2011, 10:00pm

thanks for trying out my ideas

Im not a huge fan of tech house but i think everyone would love to learn how to recreate those interesting percussion lines in almost every tech house tune…i also like how some tunes change it up a bit and add some vocal cuts along with their percussion and that deep bass

Here are some tunes i like

(i like the buildup on this one ) ^

Deep Bass ^

I don’t know if you’ll consider these tech house but im pretty sure they are

alinenunez · August 19, 2011, 10:05pm

[quote]Subject 1 (19/08/2011)[hr]thanks for trying out my ideas

Im not a huge fan of tech house but i think everyone would love to learn how to recreate those interesting percussion lines in almost every tech house tune…i also like how some tunes change it up a bit and add some vocal cuts along with their percussion and that deep bass

Here are some tunes i like

(i like the buildup on this one ) ^

Deep Bass ^

I don’t know if you’ll consider these tech house but im pretty sure they are

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+10000 Yessss!! this is what i am talking about

phil_johnston · August 19, 2011, 11:21pm

I think tech house is very broad in styles… Im feeling a progression from tne more minimal drum sounds of like dubfire stuff to more chunky housey groove.

I think thats probably the more current vibe… Althought its quite similar to the drums off the disco tech tutorial.

I dont want to repeat stuff weve done recently.

Ill investigate further.

Subject_1 · August 20, 2011, 7:37am

or you can just start that Minimal techno tutorial

jonsloan · August 21, 2011, 10:03am

These guys are a couple of my favourite producers at the moment. Most of their tracks are more prog but this one ticks the right boxes. Great use of percussion to build and work the groove and some pin point modulation of FX and OSCs to work the energy.

P_Shot · August 21, 2011, 10:15am

[quote]jonsloan (21/08/2011)[hr]These guys are a couple of my favourite producers at the moment. Most of their tracks are more prog but this one ticks the right boxes. Great use of percussion to build and work the groove and some pin point modulation of FX and OSCs to work the energy.

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Saw them last night at playhouse. They played a lot of great tech house. And yes, I agree they are solid producers. And although they are not straight tech house, having a tutorial on one of their tracks would be amazing

muz1903 · August 21, 2011, 10:56pm

Here are some Tech House tunes that i have been feeling over the past 6 months or so

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Pretty much love everything that Jesse Rose puts out on his labels

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Been loving &Me since F.I.R. and this is an absolute beast of a track

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Something a bit lighter than the first two tracks.

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Lots of different blippy/bleepy sounds that I like in this one.

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Can’t stop listening to Riton’s new track at the moment

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Not really anything to do with the post but it’s got Reeeton playing a 909 live with Mehdi

phil_johnston · August 21, 2011, 11:33pm

That stuff is defo what i would consider tech house.

Some top stuff there…

What do you guys think?

WTF is Tech house now?

muz1903 · August 22, 2011, 12:09am

I don’t know about anyone else but I would love to see a tutorial on the kind of stuff in the videos I’ve posted

It seems to be getting harder to tell what genre everything is these days, even Beatport seem to struggle sometimes.

I think it’s just that producers are borrowing sounds and ideas from a lot of different places, which leads to a lot of cross over between the various different styles.

At the end of the day tho a good tune is a good tune regardless of what genre it’s been catagorised as.

alinenunez · August 22, 2011, 3:20am

artist like Carte Blanche are considered more like a Detroit House in the US.

I agree this sounds is becoming very popular .would be nice to see a tutorial of any of them anyways . Good Videos

P_Shot · August 22, 2011, 9:37am

Anything by Stefano Noferini

TheAnt · August 22, 2011, 12:30pm

Looking forward to this one.