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As in everything in music production, you gotta learn how to crawl before you walk. Therefore, it’s a good idea to start by just creating a few beats of any genre to get familiar with the DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) you’re using and all the beat-making tools at your disposal.

The term “lo-fi music” gained popularity in the 1950s, when recording technology began to be available to mass markets. The low-quality of the equipment stuck in the recordings, and a natural distorted type of sound was present in the tracks.

There are countless genres within Lo-fi music. The musical style originated in Hip Hop during the 90s when producers would combine drum and bass samples from Funk with Jazz melodies and harmonies.

If you want to try listening to lo-fi music for better sleep at home, Rinaldi recommends one of his favorite playlists.

Once your chord progression is laid out, you should create a melody on top of it. Craft a memorable melody that enhances the overall atmosphere of your track. It’s also great to have the top melody come in during various parts of the song, so it’s not just a repetitive loop for 3 minutes.

Soundtrap comes with midi instrument presets that you can play over your drum beat. So pick out some cool-sounding jazz horns, dusty guitar strings, or some slick Rhodes keys and have at it.

If you like that, it's pelo guarantee you'll like this, but it's a good start. We go through the individual characters, their relationships with each other, and the background of the crazy Tekken world in this podcast. All backed by the tasty lofi beats you love...

The title of the video and the visual appearance of Donut's section are a reference to the livestream "lofi hip hop radio - beats to relax/study to", which plays a playlist of lo-fi chill music over a looped animation.

Anton Berner is a music producer, audio engineer, and songwriter from Study Lo-Fi Stockholm, Sweden. He's produced hip-hop & rap music since the early 2000s and his expertise is in vocal mixing and sample-based beat production. Anton is also the SEO & Content Manager @ Music Lo-Fi Soundtrap and manages the blog and newsroom.

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