I felt like putting together another lesson, so here we go.

LESSON 2: FILTERED BASSThis lesson is about a technique that was popular in the early to mid '90s (the golden age of hip hop, in my opinion). Referred to by some as "filtered bass", this is essentially where you take an old soul record and apply a low-pass filter to it, making the bass ( Read more... )

So I've been feeling an urge for about a week now to put together some of my thoughts on how hip hop music works, in a technical, production sense. I'm starting today and this will be something I occasionally assemble for my LiveJournal. They'll be short form essays with accompanying music, some created by me and some clips of classic hip hop songs ( Read more... )