Chords for From Scratch: a Brooklyn Drill song in 7 minutes | FL Studio Tutorial

[Gbm] Today we'll be making a Brooklyn Drill style track. _
Usually when drill gets brought up in conversations nowadays,
it's thought of as a genre that was created and popularized by artists in the UK.
However, drill music's origins are actually based in the US city of Chicago.
Chicago-based artists like King Louie and Chief Keef were crafting the template for the style
years before the genre [G] actually surfaced in the UK.
When drill [Gbm] initially found its way to the UK, early UK drill artists like Stix,
M.Dard,. and the [Ebm] rap group 6ix7ine were [Em] all rapping [Gbm] on Chicago drill style instrumentals. [Bm] Listening to [D] 6ix7ine's 2015 mixtape entitled In Skanks We [G] Trust, you can hear the beginnings of the sound that we know today as UK drill music. [Gb] Now things have come full circle, and rappers from the US city [G] of Brooklyn are [A] taking UK drill style beats and rapping over [G] them in the same way that [D] UK drill artists took Chicago drill style beats to rap over them during the period between [A] 2012 and [G] 2014. I'm referring to Brooklyn-based artists like Pop Smoke and 5eo4in, who picked up the mantle after Pop Smoke's untimely and tragic passing earlier this year. I'm genuinely curious as to whether or not we'll see an evolution of the sound [A] of Brooklyn drill [G] music that will render it a unique export of Brooklyn. In the coming years, will the production and aesthetic of Brooklyn drill [Gb] distinguish itself from its UK counterpart, [Gbm] or will the differences between the two remain relatively shallow, [G] coming down primarily [A] to regional accents and cadence? [Gbm] Let's get into the cook-up. First I pulled up this preset in Nexit, and I started laying down a melody in D minor. _ _ [Bm] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
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[F] _ _ _ _ _ Personally, I've found that the app makes [Dm] learning to play much more [Em] engaging than traditional learning [G] methods, and it's almost like a game. Another large benefit is that you can track your progress easily, and get [Ab] instant feedback in [F] regards to how you're performing, in comparison to past performances. If this sounds like something you'd be interested [Dm] in checking out, just click [Bm] the link in the [G] description section of this video. Use promo code JRENT20 to get a discount on your purchase. I [Cm] applied the Gross Beat half speed preset, and I moved all the notes [Gm] up an octave, in order to keep the melody within the same pitch range. [Cm] Next I applied a Bandpass EQ. Here's what the melody sounds [Eb] like [Dm] now. _ _ _ [Bb] I _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _
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opened up [Cm] this preset in Komplete Kontrol, and I just copy and [Gm] pasted the chords from earlier. [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ [Cm] I opened up this preset in Harmor, and I added a few notes. [B] _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ I [Cm] opened up this preset, and I added a counter melody for a later [Gm] part in the track. _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ _ _ Added an EQ, some delay, and reverb. Here's what the melody sounds like now. _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Cm] I laid down a snare. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
In order to make it a drill type of snare, we're going to set the snap [Gm] to beat and move the second and fourth snare over by one beat. _ _ _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ _
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I made this 808 [Am] pattern. _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ I made this kick pattern [Cm] that just follows the 808. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ I laid down a perk. _ _ _ I _ _ _ _ _ _ added this sound effect. [N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ I [C] added a bell sound. [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ Here's what the drums [Eb] sound like all together. _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
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Now it's time to add some lyrics. Drill lyrics aren't too different from regular trap lyrics, although they [A] may tend to emphasize the violent aspect of hip-hop culture a little bit more. Well, that's pretty much everything. Let's see what we've come up [Dm] with. _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
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Uh, [Bb] yeah. She already [E] Aquafina. Ain't no limit on the [A] Visa. I be selling out [Dm] arenas. Uh, [Bb] yeah. Screech hotter than a [Em] fever. Smoke opps like [A] reefer. Line them up. [Dm] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
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