FL Studio 21 Melody Tutorial for 2024

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00:00What's good, I am Slime Green Beats, and this is an FL Studio Melody Tutorial for 2024.

00:07What's up, y'all? Hold up. Hold up.

00:14Trust me, I try to start every video highly organized and professional.

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00:51Okay. So, we're going to make a melody here. I'm just going to show you the whole process

00:57and just talk about it and whatnot. So, the first thing is you want to find a nice sound.

01:07And also, let's save our beat. Let's save our beat and call it good sound. I mean,

01:13you don't have to call it that, but... All right. So, I always save just because

01:18they still like it in case it crashes for whatever reason. It's happened to me before,

01:23but anyways. So, Flex is a nice place to find nice sounds, really nice natural sounds. Everybody has

01:35Flex. Flex is a newer VST, brought to you by FL Studio. FL Studio is homegrown VST, I'm pretty

01:44sure. Again, just go to Add, Flex. And you can also sort here by Simple. I like it in Simple,

01:51so it's alphabetical. And just pick a sound. Central Pianos is good. I like piano sounds. So,

02:00this is kind of like where you kind of put your own personality. Like, what type of sound do you

02:03like? I like synths. I like guitars. I like pianos. We'll do piano today. So, let's just pick a nice

02:10piano sound. I'll switch to, like, the keyboard cam so you can kind of see what's going on here,

02:16playing-wise. All right. This is a solid piano sound.

02:40Okay. So, like, when I'm playing, just for beginners, we'll just focus on just the white

02:53keys this time. I'm not going to talk about the black keys, but definitely study Piano Theory.

02:59It'll teach you all about playing piano. It's actually a lot easier than you probably think.

03:03I just started studying Piano Theory not too long ago. I've just been practicing on my own and just

03:08kind of, like, picking sounds that I think sound good. But I think Piano Theory has helped me a bit.

03:13And basically, you're just, like, kind of skipping, like, every other note

03:17when you're, like, playing. So, I wouldn't play, like... Let's go to, like, this thing here.

03:22I wouldn't play, like, these two notes, like that. And that sounds trash. But if you skip them,

03:29it's like... See how much better that sounds than that? So, it's like, you're skipping them. It's

03:34the same thing with the black keys. I'll just demo. But you do kind of want to listen and make

03:44sure you're just hitting the right keys. Like, I don't have every single scale memorized. I think

03:48that's just unrealistic. But if you just study Piano Theory, you'll, like, understand, like...

03:57Like, what they're supposed to sound like. So, we'll just, like, do that. There's a lot of

04:00different ways to play piano, obviously. Like, you know, you could literally make, like, a thousand

04:04trillion different patterns. And, like, you know... That's kind of the beauty of it. The beauty of

04:11music. It's, like, it's kind of, like, infinite. All right. So, anyways. So, like, I'll just record

04:18basically like this. I'll just be, like...

04:32Oh, yeah. I try to, like, sing along with it to see, like... This is an important step because

04:48it's, like... It needs to be, like... If we're going to have a vocal artist on it, it needs to

04:52be, like, vocal capable, if you will. So, I'm just, like...

05:06So, something like that. Let's just get that right on beat. So, like...

05:29That's about it.

05:36That's cool.

05:49All right. So, I'll just, like, turn it off. That's why... That's the beauty of FL. You can

05:56edit it. It doesn't have to be perfect. You can play it.

05:59I don't know why it's so off-pitch.

06:15Yeah.

06:20Ooh. So, this is a... What looks like a seven bar pattern.

06:35A little unusual, but... I'm trying to... I'm trying to make it even, like, make it eight, but...

06:43All right. Let's go, like, alt... Alt-R. I always do this. So, I control-A, alt-R, highlight

06:55everything, and kind of randomize it. So, the randomizing, it just kind of, like, randomizes

06:59the velocities of the notes. So, it just sounds more, kind of, like, natural. Like, when you're

07:06playing, you wouldn't necessarily hit all the notes exactly, like... Or, like, an actual piano,

07:11like, all super evenly, right? Let's switch to the... I like... I scale the velocity. Oh, shoot.

07:29So, I'll bring it up and down. See if I like that more.

07:37All right. We can make this even longer, too.

07:53I like a slight variation to the second part.

08:03All right. All right. So, it's, like, long fluid pattern. Sounds pretty good. Save. All right. So...

08:20All right. So, let's just copy this. What we're going to do now is... Can we find a better sound

08:25than this? Again, like, a lot of it is just the sound that you choose, and the pattern equals

08:31melody. Like, sound pattern, how you mix it, too, which I'll show. Melody. And, again, don't

08:38underestimate the sound part. I always say that in videos, but

08:42I definitely mean that. And I'm going to use a great synth known as Nexus.

08:51All right. Oh, god. Hold on a second. What do I always have to do? Sorry, I had to activate it,

08:57which was highly annoying. Okay. All right. Let's go to SynthC. What is that sound?

09:11Is that Nexus? What in the world?

09:21Oh, my god. There's always something going on when I'm recording.

09:24What is that sound? Hold on a second. Okay. That was weird, but let's move on.

09:41Okay. Copy. So, I'm going to look for another sound. Nexus is just so weird sometimes.

09:50It's like every time I pull up Nexus, something happens.

09:55All right. We're going to stick with it, though.

10:00Okay. So, now we're just going to look for another sound in Nexus.

10:13Let's go with the synth. Let's make this smaller so I can see it.

10:19Okay. Seeing the VST helps, definitely. Okay.

10:34That one's pretty good. Angels Road.

10:38I could just stop there. I really could.

10:48All right.

11:07It's pretty good, too.

11:18It sounds good, but it feels like there's a delay.

11:49All right.

11:55All right.

12:13Let's take a time here. Let's go back to that Caribbean Dream one.

12:19Kind of matches my shirt.

12:20Pretty good. Pretty good sound. I usually would turn it down a little bit.

12:26We've got to fit other sounds on this track, so I like to keep it in a very healthy green.

12:37You can mess with all these effects. I'll show some effects. Obviously, there's Fruity Convolver.

12:42If you want even more reverb, it does sound pretty nice.

12:49There's the Fruity Love filter, which I think is good for melody effects.

12:55Let's get the default sound on there.

12:59That sounds pretty dope, right?

13:08And at this point, we can end the melody process.

13:15Let's try this out.

13:23So, and at this point, you know, we can end the melody process, or we can just keep going.

13:32So at this point, I'm always, I always warn, like, you know, it could sound worse if you

13:37keep trying to add sounds, but it could sound better.

13:41So let's just keep it rolling.

13:49So sometimes you can just pick the exact same sound, let's do that, get a new pattern, put

13:56this back at one half beat, let's record a new pattern.

15:22Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

15:50yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

15:54It's gonna be hard to record.

15:58Let's add a little bit more space so I can, like, make sure I record this right.

16:04All right.

16:18Something like that.

16:19Let's just go.

16:29Hey.

16:32Where are we going?

16:49Alright, this has got a little tricky, but that's kind of what we're on with here.

17:19So obviously if we want to copy this to a different, we got to like remember where it

17:32ends and whatnot.

17:33That's it for this vid.

17:34I think I'll just wrap it up there.

17:36Obviously, you can try a bunch of different effects.

17:40There's a lot of effects.

17:41There's a lot, and they all do something different.

17:44So just have fun with that.

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17:54That's it for this video.

17:55Thank you guys for watching.

17:57Make sure again you guys check out the How to Mix Beats book, brought to you by Slime

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18:04Peace out.

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