Making Bollywood Style Beats using FL Studio

In last FL studio post, I provided instructions on how to make a dance style beats which sound close to what LMFAO used in their Party rock anthem song.

This tutorial will be dealing with making a Bollywood style beat using Fl studio instruments. The entire process is shown in the video below. For the full guide continue reading the post.

Open a new FL studio project.

• Add a Fruit Kick and two slayer patches to the template.
• On the options menu, go to project settings and change the beat structure of the project to a 7 bar 8 beat pattern from the default 4/4 pattern. This is very important as most famous Bollywood tracks follow this pattern, used extensively when there is a Tabla involved in the track. Basically the count for the pattern will be a 3/4 + 4/4 ( 1 2 3 1 2 3 4). If what I have said does not make sense just use this count as a metronome when the kick track plays in the video above.
• For one of the Fl Slayer patches, go to presets and choose the Auto Natural patch. On the mode select none. It should start sounding like a simple clean electric guitar.
• For the other patch choose any Ebass from presets.
• Make the patterns for each of the instrument as shown below.
• Claps

•  Hats



 

•  Kicks

• For the lead and bass track, its up to you to figure out what you want. Listen to my compositions in the video, they will give you lot of ideas to practice and come up with your own tunes for the beat pattern
• Fl Slayer is a decent sounding guitar patch, but if you are looking for a better sound then invest in a good starter guitar and record it directly onto your system.

Have fun making some great sounding Indian style music with in built FL studio sounds. Next tutorial will feature tutorials on tweaking one of the most powerful FL patches called Styrus.

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