chrisgroove Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 I just produced, performed, and filmed a new beat ..... wanna see? This is another exercise in Harmonic Scratch Production. http://youtu.be/4xSnCupbQIs 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mighty atom Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Dope 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waxdestroyer Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 nice..sounds original 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Symatic Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 nice work man! i reckon the flute bit could be simpler so it becomes more catchy other than that its 'slammin' as my gran would say 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doppelkorn Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 What exactly is harmonic scratching? It sounds like another thing that passed me by like fretless faders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Symatic Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 he just means he cut up all his samples in ableton so that they were all in key with each other (and also in time). so he's kinda made a track, deconstructed it, then reconstructed it live. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doppelkorn Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 It's funny, after nearly five years on this forum, watching scratch videos with admittedly low levels of interest, I've still got very little idea of what's going on. It's just a blur of hands. My secret shame. But on another, more positive note I'll be celebrating my five year anniversary in about a month, although I'll be on holiday so I'm going to brief Jimmy on what to do, how much cake/condoms to buy etc. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisgroove Posted August 12, 2014 Author Share Posted August 12, 2014 PMSL doppelkorn !!!! But yeah, basically what sy said....i wrote the beat in a specific musical key, and set out samples in the right order/timing/musical key to create a scratch track that i can play out live Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisgroove Posted August 12, 2014 Author Share Posted August 12, 2014 And yeah Sy, i agree, the flute needs simplifying Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 Nice work man, though I'm not sure I agree with the need to call it 'harmonically matched/harmonic scratch production'. Things should be in key as standard innit. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisgroove Posted August 12, 2014 Author Share Posted August 12, 2014 Yes Jon, i agree....which is probably why i haven't won a DMC title yet Until now, i have only really been playing with timed scratch sentences, it really didn't occur to me to be making in key musical cuts until i played with the Scratch Science Daily Thrill. Until now its pretty much been freestyle cuts over beats....now I'm trying to be more "setting it out as a song" in my approach to production. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doppelkorn Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 Actually, am I missing something here? If you've got all your samples in key, and you then start scratching them, isn't that going to put them at all different frequencies - and therefore out of key - as you move the record around a different speeds? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisgroove Posted August 14, 2014 Author Share Posted August 14, 2014 As long as you don't push on your forwards, the sample should drop in key Theres also a bit of a knack required to get the right intonations i guess, but if you have ever spent time making chirps go up and down in tone, it should be fairly easy to drop nicely.... It's funny....i been using harmonics in mixes for years....just never thought of applying it to cuts until now!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 Word it's a good thing that sometimes gets overlooked in scratching, especially before the days of customs in battles! Check Birdy Nam Nam's old videos, 2tall's loop station performances and Ricci Rucker's projects from the early 2000s for some killer scratch music all in key 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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