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Summary: A professional DJ may create a techno beat or song in a recording studio before working at a club. Watch a techno beat get created in this free music career video from a professional DJ and music production instructor.
Cliff "DJ Hurricane" Melerine is the music production instructor at Scratch Miami. He has more than 15 years experience performing, producing and engineering music. Malerine's eclectic...read more
"Hey guys, today we're going to be talking about how to create a Techno Song. A lot of times with DJ's and Producer DJ's, we do a lot of this in the studio with the programs, before we go to the club that night. Today for an example, I'm using Ableton Live, with a couple of VST plugins. Trilogy and Stylus RMX. Let's get right to it. All right, next I'm going to bring in a clap. That always makes people get down and bob their head, and thirdly a hi- hat sound, now I've got the basics of a Basic Techno Beat. Now, I can throw in a bassline. I'm going to arm my track for bass, so I do that, and I'm ready to record it, and we've got a Basic Techno Beat."