How to AFRO HOUSE (like Black Coffee)
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Learn how to make Afro House in Ableton Live in the style of Black Coffee in this Afro House tutorial.
In this step-by-step Afro House production tutorial, I use the stock plugins that come with Ableton Live 11, and you can download it for free and play ’til your little heart’s content - breaking apart my methods and using them yourself.
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If you’ve ever wondered how to make music like Black Coffee, this will give you an insight into how to achieve similar results.
This isn’t only a tutorial on how to make Afro House in Ableton Live, though…you can use the same methods in FL Studio or Logic X, to produce your own house music in the style of Black Coffee and other Afro House artists.
In this tutorial, we cover…
00:00 - Afro House Introduction
00:46 - Setting up
01:55 - Organ chord progression
05:11 - Low synth percussion
08:05 - Bass groove
11:24 - African percussion
16:55 - Room reverb
18:16 - Rhythmic synth stab
23:14 - Piano
27:22 - Tweaking the synth
28:15 - Piano jamming
29:04 - Arrangement & automation
30:06 - Drone
32:20 - Arrangement
34:47 - Vocals
36:24 - 5 Steps to Afro House
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Will
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He's our bro from SA, one of the best my bru. We wish him a speedy recovery. Your tutorials are very helpful. Thanks ❤
wow amazing work loved it and thanks for the tutorials much appreciated!!
Love Black Coffee!
Amen, brother ❤
You killed it❤
so happy he came back to the stab synth, he's too good. nailed it on the second
Always a pleasure to watch your tutorials !
Appreciate it! 🙌🙏
Your tutorials are great everytime 👏🔊
Thank you for your comment! Happy to hear!
amen brother
🙏🙌
one of the best tutorials I've seen, thanks Sensei❤
You're very welcome! Thank you for the comment and support! 🙂
Hell yeah! As always, well done Will. I look forward to your next video. 😃
Thank you so much for the comment and support!
More of it, please 🙂
AMEN, BROTHER!!! Love afro-house and have been wanting to dip my toes in the water. This is the perfect tutorial to build alongside and take the plunge. Thanks, Will!
You're very welcome!! Thanks as always for watching and supporting! Happy my tutorial is helpful! :)
Thank you for this tutorial. I learn a lot and just subscribed hoping to have more of these tutorials.
Well, looks like I've done my job then! 😉 Thanks for subscribing and I hope you continue to enjoy the content! 🙌🏻
Thanks so much for sharing your professionalism and passion ! 🙏🙌😇🙂
You are so welcome, and thank you for watching! :)
Hell Yeah 🤘Thanks Will!
You’re welcome! Glad you enjoyed it! :)
Greetings from El Paso Tx! I’ve recently changed genres from singing indie pop to now producing melodic techno (following what I love deep down).. but it’s a HUGE learning curve, but thanks to your videos I’ve progressed tremendously in such a short period of time! I’m truly grateful for channels like yours sir I tip my hat off to you thank you!
Stoked to hear that, Roman! Keep up at it and don't give up! Thanks for watching and supporting the channel 🙂🙌🏻
Nice lesson, track amazing ...thnx masster💯🙌
So happy to hear! My pleasure!
Great stuff! Amen Brother!
Cheers man!🙏
This is genius! Love the vibe ❤
Thank you very much for the support!❤️
@@EDMTips Thank You for all the inspiration Will!
LOV THIS SO MUCH !!!!
Happy to hear! Thank you for the support!🙏
Amen Brothah! ❤
Cheers! :)
Thank you for providing us with the content we want to see
Love to hear that mate!
Great tutorial! As always.
Cheers, glad you liked it! 🙌🏻
I didn’t know even this genre. I just love it.
Happy to hear!
Were you locked up in Guantanamo?? I feel like even the inmates there know about Afro House and are sick of it can't escape it.
Love this Will! Thanks for the time and effort you put in these videos. It would be awesome if you have a dedicated Afro house course on your website.
Perhaps in the future, Ahmed! In the meantime, thanks for watching and supporting the channel 🙂🙏
Raul Rincon, Ian Carey, warren clarke…amazing bass
Amaizing what you can learn and thank you so much for this content helping me so much.
You're very welcome! Always a pleasure to read such feedback! :) Thanks as always for watching and supporting!
Amen brother 🙏Great video Will ❤ afro house keep them coming 🔥🔥👌
Thanks for watching and for the kind words of support! 🙂
Amen brother 🙏🏻
Appreciate it! 🙂🙏🏻🙌🏻
Hell yeah🎉
😎🙌
It was great to see you tinkling the ivories instead of drawing everything on screen. Nice piano vibes.
Cheers, glad you liked it! 🙂 Anyone else you'd like me to cover in this series?
Only recently clocked on to this amazing act! After I missed him at White Dubai I finally saw him live here in Riyadh playing in a venue made of shipping containers - it was a spiritual experience as he closed off day 2 of SoundStorm at 3am and his sound was the perfect closure. Inspirational person and Rapture just hits me every time! Incredible that you are already showing his methodology- big thank you for that! There are just too many genres in EDM to choose from and focus on producing!
You’re welcome! Thanks for watching and for the kind words of support! The variety in EDM is exactly one of many aspects I love about it! 🙂
This is amazing.🔥🔥Ive always loved that deep afro sound and I especially appreciate how you tweaked Serum, which is what I struggle with the most..many thanks mate, from Oakland, California!🙏🙏🤙👊
Much much appreciated!!🙏 You're welcome! :)
Informative and down to the point I’ve been an Afrohouse producer for a while and this is the first time I can comprehend the genre in the simplest way All the love Will and wishes of speedy recovery for black coffee ❤
Thank you so much for the comment!🙌 ❤️
Love it!
Happy to hear man!
thank u so much for this video, learned so much
Really glad you enjoyed it! Any point in particular you found useful?
Fantastic content! Subscribed.
Well, looks like I've done my job then! 😉 Thanks for subscribing and I hope you continue to enjoy the content! 🙌🏻
Niceee Brazilian house upppp in next video
Great work sharing your techniques with us! It will allow me to progress in this genre a lot quicker. But I was missing a little extra polyrhythmic approaches to some of the elements. Maybe something to add to a new tutorial someday. 🎉
Hell yeah!
Cheers! :)
hi, you are one of the most inspiring bloggers on youtube, thanks for what you are doing.
You’re welcome! Thanks for watching and for the kind words of support! 🙂
Will I love you brother!
Appreciate it! Thank you for watching and supporting the channel 🙂🙌🏻
WOW !
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching and supporting 🙂
king
Appreciate it! Thanks for watching and supporting 🙂🙌🏻🙏🏻
Hell yeaaaaah
Excellent tuto Will i like it :)
Love to hear that! :)
Hey Will, love your videos man, and I think you just might be the guy to break down a style that no one seems to want to attempt- and perhaps it’s because no one is quite sure what style it would even fit into- I’m talking about the psy-bass-tribal house-acid dub-chill offerings of talented producers like Kalya Scintilla, desert dwellers, atyya, whitebear, etc. please refer to Lionize by Kalya Scintilla , this is what I’m after. Hope to see you tackle this unique style, thanks!!
very nice thank you for tuto
Thank you for the support!
That's wonderful! Pls stay in touch!
Appreciate it! :)
Nice
Amen my most holy friend.
Haha cheers mate!!
i m waiting for this video for over a year:)
So glad it's here for you finally! :)
UK garage or UK bass tutorial please 🙏
Nice video will I have my production too your level and it is very nice and sa production thats cool
GoodMorning Bro Fish here from SA can you please do a video on how to mix a track from start to finish as well as mastering it using Waves Plugins🙏🏽🙌🏽 And keep on showing us how dope Ableton it is your the best God Bless you🙌🏽
I’ve done a video on mixing recently, I recommend checking it out here: kzhead.info/sun/iNJpiqaSg4eqf6s/bejne.htmlsi=ae_Gdxe7hVJhhh7-
Hope Black coffee recovers asap and get back to the music scene
Hey Will.. please make a tutorial on the genre of Indie Dance 🎵🎵🎵
Great suggestion! Any particular artists or tracks you're digging at the moment?
Amen🙏💯💥💣
This video is a 37:39 second Masterclass! I hit the subscribe button. I will be watching more of what you have! Do you do anything in Logic or is Ableton your DAW of choice?
Ableton is my DAW of choice, my tool of the trade. :) But the vast majority of my videos contain tips that can be applied in any DAW! Thank you for your support! Much appreciated!🙏
Great guide to the basics in Afrohouse! Thx so much mate!
You're welcome and thank you for your comment! Happy to hear!
@EDMTips Why do you always put the kicks directly on the timeline instead of using a drum rack?
AMEM BROTHER
Appreciate it! 🙌🙏Thanks for watching and supporting 🙂
Hope he gets well soon :(
Just found you. I'm on my 4th of your videos. Literally dusted off my headphones to hear properly. Subbed. Would love it if you could play the comleted track after your goodbyes. Every video I'm looking for a link or something to hear the full track. You tickle my techno mojo then hold out. Mojo tease.
Thank you for your support! :) Didn't try to tease you! haha
Could you dive into the makings of a hard techno track? Maybe in the idea of Carv, 6ejou etc
Great suggestion! What's you favourite tracks of theirs?
CARV- Say my name 6EJOU- Can you feel my heart
Old Cosmic Gates did same percussion in trance tracks
bonus tip: close your eyes and watch the tutorial back, and focus on every sound. now download that into your brain😁 you hear so much differently with your eyes closed i hear this from mixing with the masters dave pensado
Just a question, when you are building the chords is there a reason why you don’t just select all of the bass notes and make the chords that way as opposed to doing them individually?
i love you
Hey! where can we download the drums you used? (kick etc...) Great video!
The project is in the description of this video. Enjoy! :)
Im getting road blocks when you use the kontakt and the serum I don't have those
Awesome episode,... but what about AMAPIANO???
Cheers, glad you liked it! Any particular artists you have in mind?
REALLY,...? Well, Gabe Cannal - Agape album, track called THE ONE. He has many albums, but this one is sonically superior in my humble opinion. Others,... Kelvin Momo - TEARS OF BLACK MAN , Asana - GOODBYE, Man Musiq - NINI na NINI, etc. They all have many albums. The movement is getting BIG in the states. I will be creating and producing tracks for artist in this new genre sir. @@EDMTips
Paul woolford please 😊😊
Big fan of will tho
does EDM tips tour as a performer?
Great question, Jack! I do not tour as I simply don’t have time anymore 😆
Sounds really similar to the track you mentioned, are you sure you not the one behind that Black Coffee song?😅
add the 9th for once!
you're the first one i've seen who say that you can tune your kick to the third or fifth harmonic.
Yes you can! :)
@@EDMTips Hmm that comment was meant for another video. it must have switched to this one the moment i was about to type. What ever, I keep an eye on your videos too. :P
Thank you, sir! :)
Do you do 1 on 1 sessions? I have made a bunch of stuff on Ableton, but I feel like im limited to my knowledge of the software.
Explore my website for my courses and more! I appreciate your interest! :)
One thought though, these beats could sound even better with some grooves to make it a bit more human. No criticism on your track in any way though, just an afterthought.
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Where can we get the Kick Pack you are Using ?
It from my Kick collection. I shared it in my other videos, check out the videos about Kick or Low End :)
@@EDMTips thank you so much !
A video in the Kryder's style?
Great suggestion! What's your favourite track od his?
@@EDMTips i think piece of art or his remix of silence or also on the beach
I heard Witte house is cool too
Thanks for the suggestion, I will check it out!
the trick is to use the 5th of the scale and not the root! :)
What about dubstep or uk DNB
What about it?
🙂👍👍
Who produces the "World Drums" Instrument for Kontact? I can't seem to find it.
I do!
You should advertise it 😂 . Still can't find it.
original track ID?
First this time? 👀
You are!!🙌🙌
And where is this polyrythms??😊
Why do you use AU plugins in project? Not very useful on Windoze.
I prefer them this way
@@EDMTipswhy? Keep in mind you are sharing these projects & some of your audience is on windows.
Is it just me or is the link to the project not working? 😫 Ive tried 3 browsers and clear cache but no luck
Sorry to hear that! Check your spam folder, and if you still haven’t received it, please email team@edmtips.com and we’ll sort it out for you
Thanks for the response, I tried one more time today before emailing u and for some reason it, worked, must have been something wrong with my network, but cheers again! @@EDMTips
Glad it's sorted!
Why does nobody do the Kpd, David penn, quibiko, house bass….its soooo difficult
Could you suggest some songs?
0:38 💀
Always wear your seatbelts in airplanes!
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so just to be clear, afro house doesn't use claps or snares like most of other house genres?
Omg play something in atleast. I'm done.
Thanks for the feedback!