The most educational bass (the Moroder Bassline)
If you have any questions about how to program basslines, start here: the Moroder bassline. This rolling 16th-note subtractive bass style teaches you the foundations of sound design, programming and music theory, which you can use as a starting point to create your own flavour of bass.
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Contents:
0:00 Examples
1:05 Features of the Moroder bassline
1:40 Programming a Moroder bassline
2:58 How to synthesise a bassline
7:02 Adding some minimal techno drums
7:50 Bass plays the root note (music theory)
9:27 Timbre edits and FX to add aliveness
11:55 Next steps
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Technically the Moroder bassline is playing on every 1/8 step, like in "The Chase", the 1/16 feeling is made by a delay (like in "I Feel Love"), that's a big part of the bassline groove
It's true there are probably more examples of 1/8th ones... Oh well :) same principles apply, mostly.
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Moreover, the bass in I Feel Love goes to one side channel, and delay to another side, it makes the idea.
I'm going to use all these ideas. Thanks everyone :)
No, technically the Moroder baseline is 1/16th notes, but the same results can be obtained with 1/8th notes and delay. Either way would work.
Love the simplicity of the explanations and how well you break down the concept in a short, but thorough video. Subscribed and will definitely be checking out more of your tutorials!
Bless this man, educational and on point as always. Thank you!
Thank you sooo MUCH for taking the time to share and make all these AMAZING videos for us!
i love how excited and enthusiastic you are about this. i can tell from your voice and the way you say things that you can't wait to move on to showing us the next piece of knowledge you have. you clearly derive a lot of pleasure about sharing ideas and skills - you're an inspiration bro!
Oscar, your videos are always great, no exception. The way everything is explained and shown, with always just the right amount of music theory / knowledge beamed right into my brain. Thanks for your efforts. I'm gonna try to replicate this on my Mono Station and / or the Crave later, today. 👌
Cracking tutorial. Absolutely made so much sense & did help me understand the synths much more. Keep it simple and build!
Such a great teacher! So much passion in your way of presenting knowledge! Thank you!
Thank you for the lessons; your videos are excellent and educational! Bless!
I started to make techno a few weeks ago and I am loving it. But I am even more loving it now that I can educate myself with such a nice guy. Thank you my man!
Damn this video has everything; theory, hisotry, excercises. Pure gold and a must watch for any edm producer.
you are so good at showing the core of a concept. great teaching!
I only watch your videos once every couple months. But I think you're a likable dude. Perfects amounts of cool, cheesy, and enthusiastic.
Great video. I knew this had to be called something but thank you for explaining how to get there! So simple yet so versatile.
i JUST found your channel and I will be binge watching it in the near future. i love the manner in which you explain everything.
I paused as you went along and did the steps myself and that helped a TON.
Excellent tutorial and transferable to hardware. I use this in modular often but still learned a lot so thanks. I'm such a fan of his work, Einzelgänger and the Donna Summer stuff in particular that I named my little label Moroderik (a portmanteau of Moroder and Motorik, because I love Krautrock too). One of the acts I play in, a hardware only duo called TRIPLE X SNAXXX, mines Italo, Kraut, and early Techno pretty hard so when it came to naming the label it was GIORGIO! CIAOOOOO! time. Thanks again for these videos. Even a relatively seasoned hand like me always learns so much.
Hi, Oscar I`m a completely beginner and your videos are awesome to give me a start point in the electronic music. Thank you for posting!
Thank you. This is a very useful and really an "essential" thing to know.
Thanks for some valuable advice look forward to implementing on my projects 👍😎
Thanks for sharing this great idea with the bass lines.. I found it very educational & fun to listen too ❤
This is a great video - very easy to understand and well explained!
Simple, yet super powerful & satisfying! Thanks :)
Excellent video, Oscar! Thank you so much. I ❤️ this kind of videos of yours: you give us a masterclass onhow to be creative and use Ableton in all its possibilities
Your channel is like a wondrous, interactive museum of pure creative inspiration. 11/10
Thanks! I love the Way you explain things, always calm and relaxed!
Grew up along Thomas Moroder. He is also a multi-talented musician & educated Mechanic. He raised and taught me the Piano, took me to Mayrhofen South Tyrol - in Austria where their family roots stem from. I was then shown around Albin’s old Studio. Albin was his granpa, and Albins brother I recall is the grandpa to Giorgio Moroder. Which make Thomas & Giorgio Gran cousins. They never met each other though. But their deep lineage of family artistry lives on! Lately i regret not meeting him, as its quite a struggle to break through musically, & I have so much material accumulated over the past 15 years & more 🍻 He truly have become an inspiration to many! :)
Mind blown! great video and explanation.
Learnt loads from this tutorial, thank you very much 😊
🤯 Wow, you are a fantastic teacher! I have to watch the video about subtractive synthesis!
Great tutorial for my knowledge level! Thank you😊
When I see new stuff and try to understand how something works I always look at the fundamentals, why is this happening, and what's the purpose of it. You're doing a fantastic job explaining that.
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Thanks for this, Been looking for something like this as a basis for some 1/8th basses in some techno influenced D&B
Wow! And also... Wow! Great lesson😉
well explained and easy to understand how to build a morodor bassline with simple osc/wavetable
this man is amazing, such a great help in his tutorials, peace and love Gxxx
Amazing video, love your approach. Thank you
Great! Again a perfect tutorial for Synthwave too!
Excellent presentation ! I've been doing this since 1961, always learning ! Bill P.
Blessings to you man... I'm going thru all your sound design videos and, man... Thank you!
Man I've been wondering about replicating this type of bassline for the last year but I didn't even know that it's got a name! Perfect! Thank you so much
I'm not sure it's any kind of official name, I think I just started calling it that myself :D
It doesn’t get clearer and better than these tutotials. Big up from Amsterdam !
Thank you soooo much for this video, this really showed me, how to use synthesis in my project :D
your videos are the best, you teach me so much
Thank you for this video, you amazing teacher!
I love this channel. This is literally what I've been looking for a while.
This video got me to use a synth for the first time. Thank you. So much fun!!!
the wall of brightness and thickness . . . really cool analitics !
Loooove your videos man. Keep it up!
you made it so simple and fun.
Mind blowing easy explained, thanks a lot 🤗
As always top notch! 👌
Seriously good stuff, Well explained love it !
Merci, another Amazing vidéo tuto. Merci beaucoup. 😎🔥😊
I don't know anything about music production apart from a very small amount of fiddling with an ableton trial, but this guy makes me feel like i could learn anything
WOW this video was SO helpful!! I so appreciate you. The way you explain and demonstrate in Ableton is so clear. As an absolute beginner I was able to follow along and understand! I can't wait to learn more and practice. Thank you, thank you.
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Thank you Oscar, really interesting, very well explained, it helps a lot!!!
Thank you, Today I listened for 5 times Giorgio By Morodoer (Daft Punk) while I was driving, It inspire me so much, when I arrive to the Studio I opened my live session and the first thing that I toght was the bassline and how i can create something like that for my tracks. This video helped me a lot!!
Dude, you freaking rule. This is so informative
the shiny eyes at 5:48, when the envelope worked 😂👍
Thank you! You don't know that yet, Oscar, but you are my teacher now. This video is cool, and the one on subtractive synthesis is SUPER HELPFUL. 👍
Great tutorial, thanks!
Cheers, that was lovely!
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Bravo, excellent lesson.
Absolute legend. Nice one
Big thanks for video. Very useful
Informative, Fun, and Encouraging!
Great video as always!
Really cool lesson. Thanks.
Thank you for this lesson
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Great stuff. Thank you master.
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loving the new camera depth of field
Verrry helpful. This cuts out many guesswork n loudness issues
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Brilliant. Been making music for years and didn't know how to do this!
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Much appreciation.
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A-E-G bass figure (for Am chord for example) with 16th and 8th variations is the most popular bassline of late 1970-early 1980 disco music
Very interesting to know 👍👍👍
I did a little bit on something like this for the video about Chord Planing as well, curious what you think!
@@OscarUnderdog yes, i have watched that! I just meant that it was on trend for that time. All in all I think the bassline is the only thing that makes old disco music so groovy
@@wesleyjay8379 plus the live drums that they often used back then!
@@hoagy_ytfc do you think so? I think early 1980s were a time of single-users projects. And drum machines. "Why do I need three more people?" (Vince Clarke before leaving DM)
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To anyone with a keen ear, you just add a bit of side-chain, play along a minor scale and boom, you have the basics of a Slasher/Synthwave bassline. Also, not getting far from Darker EBM with a couple more tweaks and tempo changes. An honestly foundational bassline that's still used heavily to this day.
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Works well!! DANKEEE
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Fun fact - Moroder produced the first ever tune made with a 4x4 kick drum.
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i keep looking your eyes and your body when you listen any music .. very enjoy to watch
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For real oscar. thank you so much for all this teachfull content
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