1. The “Bam-Bam“Bam-Bam-Bam” Bam” in the second bar 2. The UK’s Favorite 3. The Ten Walls Bassline 4. The Classic Deep House Pattern 5. The Simple 4-notes Bassline 6. The 2-notes Deep Tribal Bassline 7. The Double On Beat Bassline We’ll use as our workstation, but you can follow this with any DAW. Most of the bassline sounds are coming from the Massive and Sylenth1 VSTs. We’ll show how to create not just the bassline pattern, but also how to write the entire midi sequence. We could just give give you you the .midi files, files, but there’s there’s a greater chance of learning something from this post. Just make sure to pay attention to the Ableton grid settings in the right corner of every image. Also, if you have any questions or suggestions just get in touch with us at
[email protected]! And a final note, don’t take this post too seriously. Okay then, let’s start.
As in EDX in EDX – Reckless Reckless Ardor , or as in Construction Kit 1 from our Deep our Deep House Maniac Pack : :
The tempo is let’s jump into it.
and the track is in the
– Create a 2 bars long clip and insert 9
scale. The big thing here is the impact of the three notes just before the end of the second bar. So, notes:
It should sound like this: – Starting with the third
It should sound like this:
move all the notes to
:
– Duplicate these 2 bars so you’ll get a 4 bars clip. In the last 2 bars, move the to so the bassline will continue the progression from the first 2 bars. Now, to create an ascending sequence, move 2 notes to and the rest of the notes to :
It should sound like this: – After we inserted our progression, it’s now time to create that “bam-bam-bam” effect at the end of every 2 bars. This is why we left that space empty so far. So, just before the end of the second bar, insert a (1/8), followed by (1/16) one octave lower and (1/16). To distinguish the second bar from the fourth bar, we’ll do something similar, but with a different sequence of three longer notes: , and . And we’re done!
The bassline should sound like this: And with all elements:
As in Construction Kit 10 from ou r House Addiction Pack :
The tempo is and the track is in the scale. The main thing here is the unexpected climb and change of pattern in the last bar, after 3 bars of a stable, one-note repetitive bassline pattern. So, let’s see how to do that. – Create a new clip, one bar long and insert 5 hits on the note such that the first two are hitting with the kick:
It should sound like this: – Duplicate this bar four times, so you’ll get a 4 bars clip. We’ll leave now the first 3 bars just like this as we want to build up the tension towards the last bar. So, to create an ascending motion in the last bar, move the first 3 notes to , and the rest of the notes to and (one octave higher):
It should sound like this: – Now that we have the main progression, just to add some finishing touches, move the last note before the end of the third bar to bar, insert another to fill the third on beat spot. And we’re done!
The bassline should sound like this: And with all elements:
. In the last
As in Ten Walls – Walking with Elephants , Luca Guerrieri – Harmony , or as in Con struction Kit 10 from our House Constructor Pack :
The tempo is and the track is in the scale. The Ten Walls’ bassline is described by the unique trombone/tuba texture. For this demonstration, we’ll use the Synth Lead preset called “ ” that comes with Ableton Live 9. Okay, let’s start. – Create a 2 bars long clip. Insert 5 long notes (3/16) such that the the 1st, 3rd and 5th are hitting with the kick. The 2nd and 4th will play offbeat:
It should sound like this: – Now let’s create a progression that climbs up towards the second bar but then descends back to . So, move the notes to ,
, and then back
to
It should sound like this: – Notice that we left a space of 3/16 between each note. Now we’re gonna fill this space with the same notes, but one second note will always be one octave higher:
higher. Here the
It should sound like this: – Extend the length of the clip to 4 bars. In these 2 new bars, we’ll stop the motion from the the first 2 bars by inserting a long note. This gives the bassline some time to prepare for the next motion that we’ll create in Step 5:
It should sound like this: – Duplicate these 4 bars that we created so far, so you’ll have a 8 bars clip. Delete the notes from the 5th and 6th bar as we’ll do something different here in order to completely change the vibe of the track. Here, instead of ascending, the notes will be . So, instead of the progression we’ll be creating and back to . Not only this, but now the higher notes go first. So instead of it will go . This creates a big impact after the long break in the 3rd and 4th bar:
It should sound like this: – Finally, for some finishing touches we’ll do something similar as in the first bassline style from this post. Just before the e nd of 4th bar, decrease the length of the long note, and insert three shorter notes (1/8) – one octave lower – , and :
The bassline should sound like this: And with all elements:
As in Construction Kit 7 from ou r Deep House Maniac Pack :
The tempo is and the track is in the scale. The bassline follows a very common pattern in Deep House (also common for chords) and a very common progression: playing a higher note each bar. Okay, let’s take a look. – Create a 1 bar long clip and draw this common pattern of 5 notes with
(every 3/16):
It should sound like this: – Duplicate this bar four times, so we’ll have a 4 bars clip to insert the progression. The 2nd bar ascends to . The 3rd bar will go even further to . The last bar will come back to . Thus, we have the progression :
It should sound like this: – So now that we have our progression, we can create a smoother transition between these bars. Between the 1st and 2nd bar, insert an Between the 2nd and 3rd bar and between the 3rd and 4th bar insert an . At the end of the last bar, insert the . And we’re done
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The bassline should sound like this: And with all elements:
As in Construction Kit 10 from our Deep House Maniac Pack :
The tempo is and the track is in the scale. This is a simple and quick way to create a Deep House bassline. However, the track needs a solid melodic structure which builds on this bassline, so the attention will be shifted towards other instruments (the pad in this case). This is so simple that it requires a single step! – Create a new clip, one bar long and insert 4 notes, on beat (hitting with the kick):
. That’s it.
The bassline should sound like this: And will all elements:
As in Construction Kit 3 from our House Constructor Pack :
The tempo is and the track is in the scale. For Deep-Tribal-House tracks, when you got a solid groove of organic percussions, stabs, mallets or vocals, you can get away with a very simple 2-notes bassline. Let’s see how to do it. – Create a 1 bar long clip and using the key, draw this simple pattern:
It should sound like this: Duplicate this bar once, so you’ll get a 2 bars long clip. A simple common technique is to insert an additional, lower note, off -beat, just before the end of the 2nd bar. In this case, . A very simple bassline but it goes well with the percussion:
The bassline should sound like this: And with all elements:
As in Construction Kit 5 from ou r Deep House Maniac Pack :
The tempo is and the track is in the scale. This bassline follows the old-school trance style double off-beat bass, known as the “gallop”. Basically, the trance pattern plays two short notes (1/8) in an off-beat sequence. However, for our Deep House bassline, we’ll play these notes on-beat. Let’s take a look! – Create a new clip, one bar long. On the 1st beat, insert a (1/8), followed by another (1/8). Now copy these notes on the 3rd beat and move them to :
It should sound like this: – Duplicate this bar four times, so you’ll have a 4 bars clip:
We didn’t do anything to the actual notes, we just increased the length of the clip to 4 bars so we can insert some additiona l notes.
– Let’s add more notes, but this time, off-beat. So, on the 2nd off beat spot in the 2nd and 4th bar draw a similar structure of 2 keys:
It should sound like this: – We can add some small changes in the last bar to make the bassline sound not so repetitive. For example, move the group of there goes our last bassline pattern for today!
It should sound like this: And with all elements:
notes to . And
