Watch Me Make A Beat

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Lots of love
RKC
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[@pikzel]

”It should be about how those chords with that sound make you feel at this time” Yes, this is so true. Don’t overthink it. Feel it.

[@straplocked4171]

Great video! Gotta say though, that while you're 100% right about the song in terms of feeling and not getting hung up on theory, the idea with music theory is to use it WHEN you're hung up and not to start with it. People that get hung up about music theory doesn't mean that music theory is bad, it just means that the individual is making poor choices while producing / composing. As with anything, the more knowledge you have on a subject, the better. Music theory when applied correctly means a bigger vocabulary that you have while producing.

[@VampireHeart518]

Yeah, and the thing is that, as with ANY subject / field I'd say, having freshly-gained knowledge blocks you a bit... because it can get overwhelming and your brain is operating with all that info. But it goes away!! That feeling of ''oh knowledge kills the vibes'' :D once you assimilated it it's in the background... and you have mental tools on hand to help you out when needed. Granted, it can take a long while for this process... p.s.: does the native english speaking world refer to the discipline of harmony and chord progressions etc as 'music theory'? 'Cause where I am, music theory is really the more objective side of music, like: ear training, learning about scales and modes, harmonic resonance... That would explain why they get an allergic reaction to it, like ''ugh, you're telling me what chord SHOULD go where? no thanks'' :))

[@VKJ85]

Naming things right before mixing. Welll that works. First You create chaos and then You arrange the chaos to be more organized. (Tidying up)

[@hansaugustsson7288]

"I went to the shop and bought some biscuits", I love you Rachel.

[@fsddevelopment4513]

With no musical talent myself, this is absolutely fascinating. More of these please, would love to see the full hour, wort's and all

[@biggnomo825]

Live streams👀

[@Bati_]

Musical talent is a myth

[@alhadinon]

1h of producing... Me: just finishing my kick drum sound design 🙈 RKC: creating an entire song with lyrics and all 😎 Super nice and inspirational session here! It shows that you don't need to be super perfect to create an awesome hookie track which will stuck in your head for a couple of days 😁

[@damelos4039]

Agreed. RKC's "mess" is other people's polished final product. Including myself here. LOL You're a true artist, Rachel.

[@steve808_]

If you make 3 favorit kicks in a folder, you won’t waste to much time + you will be more creative, if you tweak a kick for an hour your creativity gets lost in my opinion.

[@alhadinon]

@scoot manke Yeah, I don't waste an entire hour on a kick, that was more thought as a hyperbole. 😁 It should just point out how unimportant perfection could be 🤔 @thiskingbuisness yeah, that's a clever move, will be looking into it next time 😊

[@SpeedomusicSM]

The voice is crazy with the reverb

[@dtreestudio]

YOU are Awesome! Thanks! INSPIRATION to the MAX😌

[@jarrald6227]

The song sounds great. Some very useful workflow tips too

[@firstclasspassenger]

This threw my heartbeat into a flurry. Excited, suspenseful, inspired, then in awe. Great work, in just over 10min, we got to witness 60 minutes of straight improv'd composition; we were treated to an astonishing vibe'd concoction!!

[@cwalshie]

Love the honesty and candour in your videos. Thanks for de-mystifying the process!

[@AishawithanEye]

I love the way you produce! It's so enjoyable and your accent is the added icing on the cake of watching your process unfold!

[@1959ticktock]

Fascinating watching you create Rachel. Very enjoyable.

[@MrOlish]

Thanks Rachel! Very helpful for the competition 🤗

[@rayderrich]

Super fun watching you work in that 'mess of yours' and come out with something beautiful.

[@temetnosce7482]

Thanks for sharing! It's great to see your creative process and the ways you avoid getting stuck and your willingness to redo things - not overly invested in what's come so far.

[@Dagardmusic]

love the music and your art of inspiration

[@SimonMac]

I love seeing the process! Thanks for sharing :)

[@alejandrofanjul]

@Rachel you have the best and efective Gaming Chair I've ever seen !

[@LeeMitchell]

Please make more videos like this Rachel, absolutly awsome!

[@Oscuros]

Really like your sequencing and editing. Thanks for the great tips as well.

[@guillaumed4145]

Thanks for sharing Rachel, really cool workflow :)

[@ElektroHaus]

Another amazing video, thanks for sharing!

[@JarusBowers1]

This is great. I enjoyed seeing the creativity of it. Inspiring

[@tommyleaps]

Yes, Rachel. Sounds sick. 🔥💖

[@darrenday1955]

I love your workflow. This is inspiring. Thank you for this.

[@nolidcreations]

This is awesome... What a vibe, and energy.... Great work 🙏🏾💜

[@dougfa3515]

Nicely done!

[@virtuaknert]

Was hoping to hear that vocal over the beat at the end! So impressive!

[@muteqx]

Nice to see how others are doing it. Thanks for the window on your world!

[@AlbertoMartinez-bk8ll]

Amazing!! Sounds really fresh and love your workflow! Boom!

[@dinfluence30]

I like your approach.Thanks

[@NiliaAhn]

Love this so much! Would love to see more videos like this.

[@jokotole036]

That was so cool...,i love it👍🏻😊...thank you so much for sharing this video to us....🙏🏻😊

[@MrNeilfatmonkey]

You’re inspiring and amazingly talented.

[@soundsofnik]

i really loved that melody Rachel ... wanted to hear what the rest of the soundtrack would sound like

[@disastrousrobots]

Loved it very inspirational

[@pierrelaporteeee]

just awesome vibe! good work Rachel :)

[@gigo20]

Love it. Hope it becomes a whole track.

[@andyrechenberg]

I was feelin that riff when you were starting out. Love watching your creative process. Finished product is dope!

[@ashitanojoe69]

YOU ARE AWESOME. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE HOW TO YOU CREATE YOUR TRACKS. LOVE YOUR SOUND!!!

[@wprado1]

Love it!

[@cislunarofficial6015]

That was great Rachel, thank you! I've studied singing for a while long time ago but I gave it up, I should definitely try and record something myself!

[@brindl]

I learned so much from this and I love the tune! 🎛️🎶✨

[@DylanParisMusic]

Fantastic work Rachel! I gotta do more of these with Ableton

[@WasabiNoise]

Marvelous as always!

[@urbanloops]

Cool song. Well done.

[@emopunkrockerepr]

Awesome! I feel it 😊

[@Whally]

love the beat and synth ❤😍

[@itonuoro3813]

Amazing stuff!

[@chrismyers8274]

This was fantastic!

[@knobsstrings]

Awesome! Makes me wanna do even more music!

[@augusteghislaindupin]

love your so spontaneous way of work. F***ing love it.

[@yobay1495]

rachel it is just amazing to see your workflow, tools and tips. very inspirational. and i loved the song

[@RachelKCollierRKC]

Thanks Onur x

[@TonyThomas10000]

Great vid! Love your spontaneity! Melody is the most important thing. Chords are just harmony...

[@DopamineOverload]

Freakin' brilliant as always.

[@Bronwyn031]

More of these "Rapid Fires" please! You'd be surprised what you can come up with when you're under a time limit. 😉

[@damelos4039]

Yes, it's helpful to just force yourself into that space periodically. Sometimes, there's a real gem in the process.

[@scottmurray9393]

Agree with the session view vibes. That's the magic of Ableton Live. If you want a linear timeline, use any DAW. Literally....except now Logic has this feature, even though it's rudimentary right now.

[@PowerGearPerformance]

Awesome work there

[@DeepFuture]

Fantastic, great voice.

[@by_antony]

Hey Rachel, love your comment at 8mins on the nose. "You don't have to be a great singer..." I am 52 from Hertfordshire and I don't have a great singing voice, but I try.... I wish that I had got into electronic music production years ago. Right now, I find myself in northeast Thailand and have no music-making buddies to confer or collaborate with... Love your videos and the vids you did for Ableton.....

[@adnanshahidaziz]

You need to make a full fledged track out of this! This is brilliant 🔥. Looking forward!

[@thematurikusu]

These videos are honestly getting me back into making music after a several year hiatus! Thanks a bunch for that!

[@Mamotreco]

Great video getting into the process!

[@tk1ngatk1nga]

Thank you, great stuff.

[@Algorythm-C]

dope work. i like your style

[@pianoshaun7147]

Love It 👐🎵🎶🎹🎹💗

[@fischek]

it all makes perfect sense

[@saren6538]

Such an inspiration Rachel :) love your content

[@mendebil]

You are such an inspiration.

[@josiasgaspar6233]

So amazing!!!

[@Steve81M]

Crushing hard!

[@VampireHeart518]

I really like it! Both your process & your results are soo fun!

[@kingrueone]

Excellent!

[@RodieOsc]

WHen she started singing got to my heart

[@djdel1122]

You are an inspiration!!!

[@ChoClateMilk2]

This was a really good video, really inspiring and cool to see your process!

[@renatocann5142]

Loving the track! And dang Valhalla Supermassive is so much fun playing with it now, thanks for the heads up!! :)

[@GaloAzin]

Amazing!

[@themarsipan]

This is bloody awesome, love your workflow and end result is great. Thanks for the tips. :-)

[@totoosarts]

Bless your heart, thanks a lot for sharing, very helpful indeed. Cheers :)

[@jamesbarron5590]

Big fan since your “4 Producers 1 sample” production. Thanks for sharing this. It’s great to see how your mind works and how comfortable you are with your workflow. Shout out to Jade Wii also. I didn’t know you epic jammed together. 😊

[@benoitpeeters7511]

Same here! First time I heard of her was through that video. Big follower since then!

[@skateboardkid420]

that was incredible

[@sl.is.google]

Fantastic Stuffs🙏 🔥🎸🎼👍

[@mrnelsonius5631]

In my music-work path, I actually tend to get the opposite of “its been done a million times before” when it comes to chord changes haha. If it’s not common in modern popular music it’s probably “too weird”. Example: my band once wrote a song a 3/4 time that we all really liked. None of us think of that as an odd meter. It’s a waltz for gods sake, been around forever. So we started performing it live on tour and it went over like a lead balloon. We’d be rocking it out having a blast and every audience, every night, particularly the young ones, had no idea how to move to it. You could just see the discomfort and confusion. Sad day for me musically... we haven’t finished a song as a band in 3/4 since 😂. I just wrote an instrumental in 14/8 just for my ears though. Because my soul needs something different sometimes 🤷‍♂️

[@jake6766]

Check out king gizzard and the lizard wizard, they have like 30 songs in 7/4 and it works great lol

[@VampireHeart518]

I feel... so confused. :)) Are you saying that knowledge 'ruined' a song for you?... or the other way around? :-? (you don't have to know any music theory to make a song in 3/4) There are 3/4 songs in rock / popular music tho? Personally I don't think disconfort is such a bad thing to cause hahah, especially if it's in a small dose in your case. They would've gotten used to it maybe? :D I'm super bummed that you let that reaction take away from YOUR joy and your inspiration... :'( The audience can be lifted up, we don't have to go down... (at the same time, i don't know the context, maybe the song didn't work with the setlist or something else was odd about it haha) Like, maybe try a 5/4 too :D it can get super engaging

[@mrnelsonius5631]

Irina V not saying this at all. I make tons of music for me that is in odd meters, complicated, technical etc. But I’m also a full time professional musician and have been a long time. I get hired to deliver music that somebody else wants. Whether it’s “make my mix sound like this Top 40 artist” or “help me produce a song to be a radio single” etc. I wouldn’t have a career if I just did what I wanted, I’d need another job, and then I’d have way less time for music in general. My point was young people, listening to my band’s genre, did not understand that 3/4 waltz feel. They buy tickets and albums, I have an obligation as an artist to make things as quality as possible, but also an obligation to understand my audience and play to them. Not just at them. Delicate balance sometimes

[@VampireHeart518]

@@mrnelsonius5631 I get it. I'm glad you still do what you want, even if for yourself (but I hope you share it with other people, though :D ) Hey now I'm super curious, do you have that 'odd' song anywhere on the internet? (and any other songs, band *and* complicated :) ) (p.s.: sorry if i came off as condescending in any way)

[@mrnelsonius5631]

Irina V oh not at all. And the song was never released!! It really wasn’t complicated either, simple rock song. But it’s the times, “Money” by Pink Floyd was their biggest charting single at the time, back in the 70s, huge hit, and it was in 7/4. There hasn’t been a hit song in a time signature like that in a very long time. Tastes change. Hopefully more advanced music becomes popular again. Fads change 🤷‍♂️

[@jimenezp4491]

sounds like a hit!

[@ajang2005]

nice work, thx for sharing! :-)

[@JimGray65]

Awesome video Thanks!

[@BarryGrueter]

Nice to meet you today, I'm just learning Ableton now. Thanks

[@stephenwake2688]

Brilliant! It's so good to see people doing what they really do, not what they pretend. I'm just starting out in this making music thing, and it's really good to see that 'unstructured creativity' (ie "jfc what was I thinking, lets completely redo that bit" perfectionism) is a way to end up with something that sounds good! More like this please :-)

[@rgrgraterol]

you're a beast Rachel... every track has a mega hook...

[@DKay-kj2pm]

Amazing.

[@jaydekaytv]

Nice - love that curly-q high note in the bassline.

[@bordercallie07]

Love this! You are inspiring me to start up again. Your amazing 😊❤️

[@rgrgraterol]

so talented as usual Rachel... you deserve way more subscribers

[@jerombird1614]

Wonderful ! Thank you Rachelle from France.

[@RachelKCollierRKC]

Rachelle I love that!

[@prestonmccain2200]

WOW...just subscribed and fell in love all in one!

[@eddiegomez4134]

I can listen to Rachel for hours ❤️

[@FireSonix]

7:16 NICE SNARE

[@midsoulmusic]

Omg I love this 😍❤️😍❤️🔥❤️