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7/25/2019 Deep House Patterns

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Summary:

1. The Bam-Bam-Bam in the second bar2.

The UKs Favorite3.

The Ten Walls Bassline4. The Classic Deep House Pattern5. The Simple 4-notes Bassline6. The 2-notes Deep Tribal Bassline7.

The Double On Beat BasslineWell useAbleton Live 9as our workstation, but you can follow this with any DAW. Most of the bassline sounds are coming from the Massive and Sylenth1VSTs. Well show how to create not just the bassline pattern, but also how to write the entire midi sequence. We could just giveyou the .midi files, but theres

a greater chance of learning something from this post. Just make sure to pay attention to the Ableton grid settings in the right corner of every image. Also,if you have any questions or suggestions just get in touch with us at [email protected]! And a final note, dont take this post too seriously. Okaythen, lets start.

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Bassline Patterns

1 The Bam-Bam-Bamin the second bar.

As inEDX Reckless Ardor, or as in Construction Kit 1 from ourDeep House Maniac Pack:The tempo is 121 BPMand the track is in the D# minorscale. The big thing here is the impact of the three notes just before the end of the second bar. So,

lets jump into it.

STEP 1Create a 2 bars long clip and insert 9 D#notes:

It should sound like this:

STEP 2Starting with the third D#move all the notes to F#:

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STEP 3Duplicate these 2 bars so youll get a 4bars clip. In the last 2 bars, move the D#to F#so the bassline will continue the progression from the first2 bars. Now, to create an ascending sequence, move 2 notes to G#and the rest of the notes to A#:


STEP 4After we inserted our progression, its now time to create that bam-bam-bam effect at the end of every 2 bars. This is why we left that space

empty so far. So, just before the end of the second bar, insert a B(1/8), followed by F#(1/16) one octave lower and D#(1/16). To distinguish the secondbar from the fourth bar, well do something similar, but with a different sequence of three longer notes: D#, G#and F#. And were done!

The bassline should sound like this:And with all elements:

2) The UKs favorite.

As in Construction Kit 10 from our House Addiction Pack:

The tempo is 124 BPMand the track is in the F minorscale. The main thing here is the unexpected climb and change of pattern in the last bar, after 3 barsof a stable, one-note repetitive bassline pattern. So, lets see how to do that.

STEP 1Create a new clip, one bar long and insert 5 hits on the Fnote such that the first two are hitting with the kick:
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STEP 2Duplicate this bar four times, so youll get a 4 bars clip. Well leave now the first 3 bars just like this as we want to bui ld up the tension towards thelast bar. So, to create an ascending motion in the last bar, move the first 3 Fnotes to G, and the rest of the notes to G#and C#(one octave higher):


STEP 3 Now that we have the main progression, just to add some finishing touches, move the last Fnote before the end of the third bar to A#. In the lastbar, insert another G#to fill the third on beat spot. And were done!



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3) The Ten Walls Bassline

As inTen Walls Walking with Elephants, Luca Guerrieri Harmony,or as in Construction Kit 10 from ourHouse Constructor Pack:The tempo is 121 BPMand the track is in the C minorscale. The Ten Walls bassline is described by the unique trombone/tuba texture. For thisdemonstration, well use the Synth Lead preset called Detune1 Reso Female Lead that comes with Ableton Live 9. Okay, lets start.

STEP 1Create a 2 bars long clip. Insert 5 long Cnotes (3/16) such that the the 1st, 3rd and 5th are hitting with the kick. The 2nd and 4th Cwill play off-beat:


STEP 2Now lets create a progression that climbs up towards the second bar but then descends back to C. So, move the notes to D, D#, Fand then backto D:


STEP 3Notice that we left a space of 3/16 between each note. Now were gonna fill this space with the same notes, but one octavehigher. Here thesecond note will always be one octave higher:
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STEP 4Extend the length of the clip to 4 bars. In these 2 new bars, well stop the motion from the the first 2 bars by inserting a longCnote. This gives thebassline some time to prepare for the next motion that well create in Step 5:


STEP 5Duplicate these 4 bars that we created so far, so youll have a 8 bars clip. Delete the notes from the 5th and 6th bar as well do somethingdifferent here in order to completely change the vibe of the track. Here, instead of ascending, the notes will be descending . So, instead of theprogression C D D# F Dwell becreatingG F D# Dand back to C. Not only this, but now the higher notes go first. So instead of C1 C2 D1 D2it will go G2 G1 F2 F1. This creates a big impact after the long break in the 3rd and 4th bar:


STEP 6Finally, for some finishing touches well do something similar as in the first bassline style from this post. Just before the e nd of 4th bar, decreasethe length of the long Cnote, and insert three shorter notes (1/8) one octave lower G, G#and A#:


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4) The Classic Deep House Pattern

As in Construction Kit 7 from our Deep House Maniac Pack:The tempo is 123 BPMand the track is in the F# minorscale. The bassline follows a very common pattern in Deep House (also common for chords) and avery common progression: playing a higher note each bar. Okay, lets take a look.

STEP 1Create a 1 bar long clip and draw this common pattern of 5 notes with F#(every 3/16):


STEP 2Duplicate this bar four times, so well have a 4 bars clip to insert the progression. The 2nd bar ascends to B. The 3rd bar will go even further to D.The last bar will come back to E. Thus, we have the progression F# B D E:
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STEP 3So now that we have our progression, we can create a smoother transition between these bars. Between the 1st and 2nd bar, insert an A.Between the 2nd and 3rd bar and between the 3rd and 4th bar insert an E. At the end of the last bar, insert the F#. And were done


5) The simple 4-notes bassline

As in Construction Kit 10 from ourDeep House Maniac Pack:The tempo is 124 BPMand the track is in the A minorscale. This is a simple and quick way to create a Deep House bassline. However, the track needs a

solid melodic structure which builds on this bassline, so the attention will be shifted towards other instruments (the pad in this case). This is so simple thatit requires a single step!

STEP 1Create a new clip, one bar long and insert 4 notes, on beat (hitting with the kick): A1 C2 D2 G1. Thats it.


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The bassline should sound like this:And will all elements:

6) The 2-notes Deep Tribal Bassline

As in Construction Kit 3 from ourHouse Constructor Pack:The tempo is 125 BPMand the track is in the E minorscale. For Deep-Tribal-House tracks, when you got a solid groove of organic percussions, stabs,mallets or vocals, you can get away with a very simple 2-notes bassline. Lets see how to do it.

STEP 1Create a 1 bar long clip and using the Ekey, draw this simple pattern:


STEP 2 Duplicate this bar once, so youll get a 2 bars long clip. A simple common technique is to insert an additional, lower note, off-beat, just before theend of the 2nd bar. In this case, D. A very simple bassline but it goes well with the percussion:
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7) The Double On Beat Bassline

As in Construction Kit 5 from our Deep House Maniac Pack:The tempo is 126 BPMand the track is in the D minorscale. This bassline follows the old-school trance style double off-beat bass, known as the gallop.Basically, the trance pattern plays two short notes (1/8) in an off-beat sequence. However, for our Deep House bassline, well play these notes on-beat.Lets take a look!

STEP 1Create a new clip, one bar long. On the 1st beat, insert a D(1/8), followed by another D(1/8). Now copy these notes on the 3rd beat and movethem to A#:


STEP 2Duplicate this bar four times, so youll have a 4 bars clip:


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We didnt do anything to the actual notes, we just increased the length of the clip to 4 bars so we can insert some additional notes.

STEP 3Letsadd more notes, but this time, off-beat. So, on the 2nd off beat spot in the 2nd and 4th bar draw a similar structure of 2 Akeys:


STEP 4We can add some small changes in the last bar to make the bassline sound not so repetitive. For example, move the group of Dnotes to F. Andthere goes our last bassline pattern for today!


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