FL studio - Making Dance Beats from Party Rock Anthem - LMFAO

Party Rock Anthem from LMFAO was a viral hit, mostly due to the incredible sound of the track as well as the great video. See the official video below. Just pay close attention to the kicks and the beat pattern used in this track.

If you are music composer especially targeting younger audiences with the dance club type music, then the kick sound used in this track is awesome.

The following tutorial will guide you through simple steps on how to create such a cool sounding kick on FL studio with no external drum vsts.You will be using FL Kick, TS404, basic claps and hats for the beats. Finally you will get to hear your track and compare with the tracks I have posted at the end of the tutorial.

• Open a new project. Add a Fruit Kick channel if you dont already have a kick in the list. Select/highlight the Fruit Kick channel. Press F9 to go to the mixer panel. Right click on Insert 1 and highlight the link selected channels to this track and send kicks to channel 1.
• There should be a Clap channel, add that to insert 2.
• Finally add a TS404 bassline synth to the plugin list and assign it to mixer insert 3.

At the end of it you should have something that looks like the following screenshot. Do not worry about the volume settings just yet, but you can use the settings below as I mastered my track with the volumes set as shown. Once you have got the project set up as so continue reading.

• Click on the TS404 icon on the instrument/plugin view and you should see a window pop up. By default the window should show something like the following shot on the left. Tweak your setting as shown on the window on the right. You should hear a nice bass tone due to the sine wave mixed with the triangle and you should be able to only hear it as you approach lower notes such as C3 due to the envelope and filter settings used.

•  Moving to the FX for this channel. Go to the Mixer by pressing F9. Then on the right hand side add a EQ2 and a Reverb effect using the drop down menu. Go ahead and try to mimic the settings below as close as possible. As an exercise you can by just tweaking these two be able to get many cool sounding effects for your bass synth.

• Now go to channel 2 on the mixer which is the clap and add the following FX to it. I am using a compressor on the clap channel as the other two instruments are quick release with sustain instruments, needed the clap to release a little later and softer for the sound I was looking for.

Finally go to kick and use the EQ2 on the FX and have the following setting on it. I am cutting a lot of low energy below 40Hz to keep the kick tight and offset the low energy to the TS404.

With all this set up, the original song runs at around 130 bpm. so set up the master tempo to 130 BPM. Go ahead and make patterns with the following settings. A kick and the TS404 on every beat, clap on every second beat. For the Hats its just a normal closed hat on every beat and the open hat on half beat or the 1 - "and" - 2 part of the beat. You should end up with a pattern as shown below.

 The audio will sound like the following clips. I have included clips with and without effects on the channels just to show the difference. In future tutorials I will be posting on techniques to mix and balance instruments. Hope you had fun making the beats!

LMFAO Party Rock Anthem Tutorials by Kratos612