I created a track called “Controlling my urges” and the genre is Breakcore and the BPM is 180, Breakcore is an often, very fast and upbeat genre with the centre of the genre being the “Amen Break”.
The Amen Break originated in 1969 on the B Side track ‘Amen Brother’ by Funk and Soul band The Winstons and was originally performed by Gregory C. Coleman. it had been sampled hundreds upon thousands of times before the band was getting any royalties from it
I used 3 different layers for the pads using a 16 bar pattern of four very extended chords ( about 8 notes per chord )
for the Intro, i used one of the pads to create a Chord that holds for 16 bars and has multiple effects on it to give it that “Breakcore” aesthetic of Lo-Fi sounds with fast beats
For the bass, I made a basic detuned low passed saw wave and pushed it down 2 octaves
For the Drums I took a simple Amen Break and adjusted it to the BPM so then it wasn’t off beat, I then chopped it up accordingly and put a Sidechain on the kicks using my favoured method of Automated Sidechain instead of Plugin Sidechain
For the first lead, I took a pre-set from Serum and modified it a little bit to make it something I would enjoy listening to
For the final Triad Choir Pad, I used a vocal lead pre-set from Vanguard and applied some reverb to it
This is the Project as a whole
As you can see, I used some Filtered Automation for the Transitions so it wouldn’t be boring to anyone and I used the master track too for the fade in before the first drop and the stop and an effect plugin automation that is on the master to give it that Filtered Bit crush effect in the intro and outro.
for the breakdown, I used the bass, the 16 bar chord and the main lead which then fades into the second drop using the lowpass filter
The small audio clips below the drops are to help the attack be almost instant like an impact so then it doesn’t feel like the pads are taking too long to fade in
the green audio clips are half-time Amen Breaks with bit crush and delay to give them an old and spacey feel to them.