I make a tune with the DARK SOLDIER BREAK 😈

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The Dark Soldier break is one of the most used roller breaks. It just sounds so good with it's rolling shuffles. I make a tune with this break. Beginner's Ableton DnB Jungle tutorial.
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0:00 Intro
1:42 Dark Soldier Break - How to Chop and Patterns
9:15 Sponsored Message
10:50 Part 2 - Adding Bass
13:26 BEST TRICK to write use 2 bass sounds!!
16:16 Part 3 - Adding Harmonic Sounds
19:21 Part 4 - AMEN Switch Up!
25:04 Part 5 - How to Arrange
26:48 FULL TRACK
27:35 Final Thoughts

[@STRANJAH]

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[@atomaalatonal]

if you add an arpeggiator infront of simpler, set simpler slice by BEATS and the beat to 1/4 or 1/8 , then steps to your likings and distance to 1st or 2st or 3st and gate to 101 and then play some notes on your controller to get the hang of it. tons of break madness. of course thats highly experimental and the way stranjahs showed it is the "maximum control about the beat way". anyway nice tut again dr. stranj ^^

[@sweetspike]

Mr stranjah, why are you the best ? ❤

[@ASH-ou4cg]

Sounds really polished. The mix and presentation on this, sounds spot on. Even with the cliche samples, it sounds like a banger of a track, that wouldn't have been unheard of in the late 90s.

[@bunbun2181]

Man you are probably my favourite youtuber making FREE videos on how to make your music sound better. I have just recently started learning how to use FL Studio and your videos have been a really good way for me to improve! I love some of your older tutorials and your way of explaining what you are doing really works well for me. Great content man!

[@1disturbedjunglist]

Siiiick. Love the choppage and call and responses. Seems like ur in ur natural environment working on this 'original jungle sound'

[@countorringtonludlow5211]

These are great. Love the zeroing in on classic breaks. So few on here do that deep dive and it's timelessly helpful

[@SyneArtistry]

I love it!, "You can do a wub here" ( beat plays "Wub" ... "Wub" ) I love it! thank you for the smile today!

[@STRANJAH]

They did say a wub a day keeps the doctor at the rave 😄

[@neurokinetik64ES]

Good stuff as always

[@r00m_dnb]

always a good idea clicking on your latest video, thanks mate!!!

[@freeradical82]

um utter legend mate! thank u so much for the breaks!

[@namagenshu]

nice one Stranjah! always liked this break and now i need to go dig through my records to have a Ray Keith listening session.

[@GarsideMusic]

this video has literally evolved the way i process my breaks, i used to chop them up manually (instant schooled by this video, and i have been making beats a while) this turned my 5/10 breaks now sounding like a 10/10. you learn something new every day. big up

[@STRANJAH]

That’s crazy. Really happy to hear that!

[@martinlucko2136]

Really nice video and content Mr. Stranjah! Welldone! Changed my mind about live composing view. Such great way for a fast and creative workflow ;) Thanks ;)👌👏

[@mb2776]

+ extra tip: transpose each snare roll hit higher and higher to get another classic snare jungle sound. your welcome :)

[@darukumusic3931]

Nice vid brother keep it up!

[@ytscratchpad7650]

Love these vids where you deep dive into classic breaks!

[@RaverOperatorGeeza]

Me too!

[@SaekoMumblesOfficialChannel]

That dark soldier sheiiiit! !!!!! Hey, I want your #1 fan on facebook lmao

[@riddimfernandez5139]

dope vid dude.

[@blkrbbt]

Love you Stranjah

[@djmastergroove946]

Really interested in that skillshare thing definitely checking that out.

[@faulderrr]

Great tutorial, plenty of nuggets in there. Thanks for the breaks :)

[@tonystarkcoins2014]

Bro you are a beast at creating dance music. I am not even a producer but I like watching your videos as I enjoy how you make it look easy and see the theory and choices you make creating killer tunes.

[@skrillexboostedz250]

@ 5:28 you can slowly hear his computer fan begin its flying sequence if you have the volume up😅😂

[@musicmediaproductions]

Great video!!! The good days of recycle!! A very power old school program!! We use to use it heavy with reason! We sometimes miss recycle and those Rex files! lol Never new we could open Rex files in Ableton Live! Thanks again for the great video and have a fabulous day!

[@sam_serif]

as soon as you said Fresh i knew it was heavyweight uugghhhh such a chune!

[@zonteeq]

Nastyyyy, thanks 😈

[@mildsteven77]

Ray Popped up on my Suggested FB friends after I watched this. The algorithm knows all!

[@marcelvanderben3786]

I didn't know that Recycle still existed. Especially not after time stretch updates in DAWs

[@musicforthemind3421]

You mentioned Lemon D, but there is no Ray Keith without the real badman Nookie 💯

[@SaekoMumblesOfficialChannel]

It reminds me of old school pwer puff girls, and quite honestly that was my sheiiit!

[@djmastergroove946]

I use to chop up all my breaks in recycle. But I've found it so much easier now in reason 11 you can literally bounce any breaks in Rex and chop my beats up that's already in the DAW. So much fun and it nicely makes it crisp, snappy and tight. Respect Stranjah great channel.

[@STRANJAH]

Nice to know!

[@sramirez1906]

Great content and killer tune! Where can we hear the final product?

[@dh1380]

Mate this is FIRE. Do you finish these and release them?

[@JC-pu3vl]

Nice video as usual! Is recycle just using forward backward looping? Like you can do in sampler in Ableton? I wish all samplers had an option for this!

[@starmadnes1401]

This will be a good Jungle video... 😆 🙋✌ 1Luv from Serbia.

[@silvertongues2]

love your videos dude. But how did you make that washing machine sound? ;-)

[@djatixofficialdnb]

Big ups bro. I done a little re edit of dark soldier years ago. Just brought the 2nd drop foward really and re cued it. Now just give me a idea for something else. 😁

[@23bit76]

"going gets tough" what a tune. Wonder which track came first?

[@henryainsley3814]

Heavy

[@reereelization]

Hey Stranjah!!! …by chance, might you link me to the dancing tutorial you made a while back; I can’t seem to find it!!! …lol, it’s literally a video where you teach us how to DnB shuffle dance. I’d really like to learn. 👍👍👍👍🙌🙌🙌💯

[@bvggie]

Bro what is that jet engine in the background at 5:40 ahaha

[@STRANJAH]

Washing machine lolol

[@chemicalstuff442]

This amen pattern is cool af, thanks for the awesome tutorial!

[@plamp]

You're a mutant? Dope!

[@Death_Rave]

Im actually blown away none of this loop had any amen in it

[@BEATZ22181]

PRETTY SURE THIS BREAK IS CALLED "SLAMMER" ON ONE OF THE MID 90'S JUNGLE WARFARE SAMPLE CD'S ASWELL .. BIG UP MATE .. TOP VIDEO ONCE AGAIN !

[@richarddower2801]

Supreme DJ Nyborn - Versatile Extension (remix) 88' - Three Times Dope - Mr. Sandman 91'

[@BEATZ22181]

@@richarddower2801 YES MAN .. THREE TIMES DOPE - MR SANDMAN kzbin.info/www/bejne/rGjHinqnnLaMpbs RESPECT !

[@BEATZ22181]

CHECK THIS OUT @ 1.38 kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZu2lGSVrtKXh9E COULD BE WHERE SOME SAMPLE CD'S GOT THE BREAK FROM TOO ?

[@FLiNToN77]

Do you know which one?

[@BEATZ22181]

@@FLiNToN77 I KNOW THERE IS 3 VOLUMES BUT NOT SURE WHICH ONE .. YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO FIND THEM AS A DOWNLOAD NOWADAYS SURELY

[@jes1128]

Anyone else hear the jet tryna take off in the background

[@Rulon-bo1ig]

Isn’t that break just hot pants layered with the snares from kool and the gang Nt ? Always thought it was

[@Adam-g-uk]

Nah its supreme dj nyborn -versatile, mixed with a gated Tommy roe -sweet pea break

[@lammacman766]

You had the pitch envelope turned on when you were using Simpler to transpose, so it was effecting each sample making it seem more digital and weird. - Otherwise, great video! Thanks

[@aksdblaka]

1:39 lol hopeless attempt at being youtube savvy.

[@CJL1969]

Hi, Can you tell me if on the Track 'Jah Know Ya Big' - Dilinja, is he using the 'Funky Drummer' Break on it.?? I seem to hear rides across the Break and no open hat at the end.?? If not can you tell me some good D'n'B Tracks where the 'Funky Drummer' Break is predominently used. Thanks for the time.. British Clarke

[@Adam-g-uk]

Ricky....terminator...

[@corvuscorax9265]

No other beat slicing soft does this type of tail stretching... I dont know why... recycle is so old and not updated anymore....

[@flyfrun2563]

Can you make some drum and bass for me please. I'll tell you what it sounds like and you can make it 👍.I can send you money for it?

[@kidsonicofficial]

Yeah it seems Ray Keith had 3 other aliases. Renegade, Armageddon and Babylon 5.

[@poohielouisletsplays2099]

Dr Wootang also

[@lunderdragon]

Renee Lavice does a pretty mean remix of Dark Soldiers, was listening to it earlier. Love that hi hat in this break

[@Cutrexxx]

at 8:06 you immediately get a new sliced clip, how do you do that?

[@STRANJAH]

When you import an RX2 file it also imports the midi pattern

[@Cutrexxx]

@@STRANJAH ah, ok thx :)

[@Adam-g-uk]

I found where Ray Keith got the break from....

[@Adam-g-uk]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oJqueHevatxjd80

[@Adam-g-uk]

Right at the end you hear 1 bar loop ....

[@spencercope5988]

NERD ALERT!!!! The actual original break came from SUPREME Dj NYBORN and the track was called Versatility. It was released in 1988 two years before 3x Dope’s Mr Sandman who they sampled it from.

[@Adam-g-uk]

And the add the that it has the tommy roe sweet pea break layered behind it...

[@0374studio]

It's kinda 🥱, and not cos it's made outa classic pipeline, but done without futuristic flavor, that's because. Btw, *work is clean* . Your mood.

[@dmomcilovic9185]

What a boring way to make music, it was a lot more fun back in the day with hardware