Once you came up with a nice chord progression you can try to add some “chord inversions” Just pick a keynote, skip a white key, skip another white key and skip a white key one more time (the fourth note however is optional).
The cool part is that this is basically everything you need to know about writing chords. Notice how “jazzy” this immediately sounds? The special thing about LoFi chords is that you can go one step further by skipping another white key and writing a G. This means that the routenote of my scale is A and that I can use all of the white keys to write chords and some nice melodies. In this case, I decided to go for A Minor. This way you can use only the white keys (no worries, once you’re done with the chord progression you can transpose it to another key). My tip: go for either A Minor or C Major. The first thing you should do is picking a scale.
Since I don’t know exactly how much you already know about music theory I’ll just start with the basics. I’ll start off with some simple music theory and will later on show you how to make your digital chords sound like real samples + how to actually work with real samples. So now that you hooked yourself up with some fitting sounds we can get to work. They’re basically filled with everything you need and licensed as royalty-free so you can use them for your own productions without having to worry about copyright problems 🙂 Step 2: Writing LoFi Chords Here are some free LoFi packs you can download before we move on:
I mean, technically it would be possible to create a LoFi beat with a Dubstep sample pack for example, but let’s put that challenge to the side for another day. Step 1: Sound SelectionĮvery genre has its own, unique characteristics so it’s always a good idea to get yourself some fitting drum samples and presets before opening up your DAW. Here’s how to make a LoFi beat (step by step). but instead of just sounding “bad” it actually triggers certain emotions in us like nostalgia or melancholy. While the majority of modern producers approach a perfect result, with clean recordings and exact pitch, LoFi producers do the exact opposite. Some of those artifacts can be noise, vinyl crackles, distortion or imperfections in pitch and they can usually be recreated in your DAW without the need to buy expensive analog tape machines anything like that. LoFi music (short for low fidelity, also known as Lo-Fi) is music that sounds like it was recorded with “bad” or old equipment, which sometimes is actually the case, but doesn’t necessarily need to be.
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