Blinding Lights Beat Making Tutorial

 THE WEEKND - BLINDING LIGHTS (Beat Making Tutorial)


Here are the instruments i added to recreate the track.

1. Rhythm


For Kick and snare i selected the Acoustic type drums from the KSHMR VOL 3 sound Pack. Apply Kick on 1,3,5, two beats between 6 & 7 and apply kick on 7 as well in 2 bars. Apply snare on every second kick we hear. Give hi-hats on every click we hear. Don't go for any hi-hat rolls, just keep it simple. You can also add dynamics to the hit hats to find it less robotic and more humanized. Follow this pattern:


2. Pads


While recreating the Pads try to go for a church organ type pad and mix it with a ambient pad. Layering these two will give a perfect sound. For this i selected analog ensemble(Synth category) and mixed it with ambient pad in Nexus 3. Nexus 3 is one of favourite plugins for adding edm riffs, lead, synth sounds and pads as well. Here is the pads pattern.



3. Bass


For bass I used 3 types of tone. First one is the Analog Pulse, second is Square tone and the third one is Synth Bass. Try to not make the bass sound more wobble and also equalize the low end properly as well or else it may sound horrible. For this i cut the low end in the square bass and cut the high end in the rest of the two. It gave me a really good result. For this also i used Nexus. The tones i selected was Analog Pulse, Dance Square and Synth Bass respectively. Here is the pattern to follow.


4. Saw


Select the simple lead saw and slightly cut its higher end, don't try to give the high a boost cause it may ruin the whole high end of the song. For this i selected the Electronic Synth Stock Plugin in Logic Pro X. Here is the Saw pattern.



5. Synth Lead


The Synth Lead pattern is the main portion of the song. Most people hear the song just to hear this portion only. For this i layered two church organ synth and a normal phantom synth. I layered three of these synth tones which gave me the perfect final result. For this tone also i used Nexus. Here is the Synth Lead pattern



Now you can also recreate the track with ease. Enjoy 👍




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