Following on from our popular ‘Synthwave Essentials’ Tech Tips we welcome back Richie aka Dirty Secretz for a set of Tech Tip videos that focus on everything to do with House Music.
Starting with how this ground-breaking genre came to be, we look at building the drums using some classic 909 hits before checking out the iconic synths used and creating some classic synth and bass patterns. We also look at how to get the right vocals to sit in the mix and making our tracks sound like they’re from that era using atmosphere and effects along with how to create our own tension building risers to get the floor pumping.
If you’re looking to make your own classic house tracks then you’ve come to the right place!
Great tutorial!!! Keep inspiring the world over!!!
What track is playing in the beginning of Tech Tips Volume 58 House Essentials/What is House before the tutorial starts??
Thank you very much, John
Really good to have Richie on SA again - he is easily likeable, and great to follow along with. I always get results with his teachings - good looking studio too
Great course, Ritchie always delivers and very easy to follow along. Surprised theres no resources tho. Although been producing for a while still picking up wee tips and tricks here and there
A very helpful, very well explained and logically structured tutorial. In contrast to other courses, this is not the self-promotion in the foreground, but the will of wanting to teach. The tutorial does not deal with the endless layering of sounds, and the subsequent correction with dozens of plugins, but to get back to a simple sound. Here is taught with simple but clever methods what it also depends on: to understand how and why you do this and that.
This is exactly the sort of thing I need. I enjoy the “Track Walkthrough” and “How to Make” courses, but the way this goes down into the basics – even the cliches! – gave me something to really sink my teeth into.
Even made a track of my own. It’s short, and not really anything special, but it’s got a beginning, a middle, and an end, and I think it sounds a bit house-y.
(I really hope SA does more of these “genre history/basics/theory” tech tips…)
You watched, enjoyed, learned and made your own track : that’s what I call completing the learning cycle
What genre would you be interested in ?
Have you seen that poll from Phil on the forums in the Tutorial Requests category ?
Feel free to get involved and let S.A staff knows what you’d like to see, the forum is here for users
Oooh … I hadn’t seen that poll. (Clearly, I need to dig into the forums more.) I’ll likely chime in there, too, but to answer your question:
Trance and Techno, because I want to make them
Chillout and Ambient, same reason
Drum and Bass, because I just don’t understand it. (Honestly, I’d at least watch any genre, just to get that understanding.)
I’ve also poked around in the Synthwave tech tips from a few weeks ago … I just haven’t managed to close the circle and actually make something, yet.
I’d also love a “here are some different sub-genres of house/trance/techno/whatever, and here’s what makes them different” style of tutorial. But, I have to think that the religious wars that would come out of that (“How dare you?!? Hyper-mega-trance-house-step is at 128 BPM. 129 is Hyper-ultra-trance-house-step!”) might not be worth the effort.
I think it’s not a bad thing at all to grasp learning from different genres, and yes, the learning circle can be really broad and it’s a bit a never ending learning curve. Things come with time & practice and the best advice is to make music that you really love, so sub-genres & your very own take on music is always a good place to create IMO, many new music came up that way in the end
