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Yeah my name's Preditah.
I'm a music composer, producer.
I'm from Birmingham, in the UK and I produce mainly grime music. Don't know if you've heard of that but that's what I produce mainly.
Grime hasn't actually got a defining sound. It's the same tempo as dubstep
but it's more bouncier.
I grew up on gospel music... A little bit of hip hop, reggae... but obviously grime itself has only been around for like ten or eleven years now
so it's still a new genre of music.
When you're listening to music naturally you get your own ideas. If I heard a reggae tune on radio,
I'd randomly get a remix in my head of that reggae tune. Naturally I'd turned into a producer just by
listening to music and thinking of my own ideas.
I'm a bassist. I play the bass guitar but I didn't actually know you can make your own beats
until I came across Reason 1.0... "Oh you can make your own beats. That's sick!"
Back then it was more like Dr. Rex loops and stuff like that and I think my beats were just literally Reason sounds just looped over and over again for ages.
I'm still learning now but it's definitely one of those things that you learn as you're going.
My target really is "the riff." Because I think once you've got a catchy riff that everyone will remember,
whether it's for the club, radio, I mean... my Nan... As long as I can remember the melody
that's when I think I'm winning.
Alright, what I've done here is I've made a simple riff that I came up with.
It goes something like this.
Okay so it's got an eight bar intro which is that and obviously it filters up and then it goes an octave higher when it drops in.
What I did on this instrumental in particular, I made every single drum hit on its own Reason - it's own Redrum, sorry.
But usually I'll make the actual pattern on one Redrum, obviously, then I'll go to "Tool" and explode it into different sections.
The melody is from Predator. The bass sounds are made by myself. I've got sound FX in there as well, which I have to put in instrumentals.
So when it drops in I've got this upwards effect going up.
It's a pretty much simple instrumental. I've got a string section there as well, just a little chord that comes in.
Now I've got a sub bass that's doing its own pattern.
As you go along there's more sounds that add into it like obviously you've got like arpeggiator kind of vibe.
That just keeps it bubbling. Like, I could do that with the hi hats but I thought I'd do it with the Malstršm instead, so what it does...it...
Just keeps it flowing.
Something a little bit different but, again, I think it fits in with this instrumental.
I've got a few vocal samples as well that don't come in for the whole tune. They only come in randomly on...
So just stuff like that, and then...
Yeah... that's what I've done with this, really.
With Reason, obviously you have the rack. Like, you've got a real rack and you've got real compressors and reverbs and that.
That made it feel real. Even though I didn't know about hardware, because I'm a software generation guy, it still felt real.
Using the wires behind... it was cool.
I use a lot of Thor. Obviously the Combinator to attach different sounds into one.
I mean I use Redrum mainly because that's my baby, that is, from since when I was fourteen years old.
Grime is a lot, is experimental music mainly so I don't have a template. I literally start with a blank sheet and dive in randomly.
That's what I'm going into really, which is making people realize how good grime is.
Because I mean dubstep is a very big sound now. At the same time, though, everyone knows what a dubstep tune is.
But with grime you don't... you can't say that. You can make grime into pop music and people wouldn't even
They'll be like, "What is this? This is new? Oh it's grime! Okay. I like that grime sound!"