Reason Studios | How to make a full beat from scratch in Reason 13 (Feat. Yung Skrrt) @ReasonStudios | Uploaded August 2024 | Updated October 2024, 13 hours ago.
Have you ever been stumped on how to start making music? Don't know what layers go into a melodic passage? Confused on how to turn a loop into a full beat? All these questions will be answered in this video, as Yung Skrrt takes Reason 13 and makes a beat from scratch with the new Polytone Duyal-Layer Synthesizer.

In this tutorial, Skrrt will pick Polytone patches, record original melodies with each layer, stretch them into a 32 bar passage, record drum samples into a beat, then arrange everything into a full instrumental. Break your writer's block, and try out these techniques to create a new beat of your own with Reason today!

Learn more about Reason 13:
reasonstudios.com/new-in-13

Chapters:

00:00 Intro: What Goes Into a Full Beat?
00:50 Polytone: 1st Poly Synth
03:14 Polytone: Bass
04:52 Polytone: 2nd Poly Synth
07:05 Polytone: Lead Synth
09:42 Arranging the Full 32-Bar Melody
13:28 Flipping & Repitching the Melody
15:02 Adding Drums to Make the Beat
16:59 Recording Hi Hats
18:15 Recording Clap and Percussion
19:41 Choosing and Recording an 808
22:13 Arranging the Full Beat
24:24 Outro

If you're unfamiliar with Yung Skrrt, he's been an avid Reason user since 2012, and since 2020 has been streaming on Twitch consistently making thousands of beats live.

Follow for more music, beat/song creation in Reason, and live streams:

youtube.com/yungskrrt
twitch.tv/yungskrrt
instagram.com/yungskrrt