For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Production Tips from RZA! Thread starter Mr. Vintage Start date Oct 24, Vintage New member. Yes, you look at the news, you see the papers, you hear the polar bears cryin', the Middle East bleeding and the religious zealots choking on their own excrement, and it's hard to immediately agree.
But consider this: How many generations can rightfully claim being witness to the unlikely birth, rapid rise and glorious apex of one of the world's most influential musical genres?
While hip-hop was gaining credible steam in attempting to prove itself as more than just a passing fad through the '80s, there was a clan of cats from the streets of Staten Island, N. They embraced the culture that they lived in, immersed themselves in the movement and locked themselves in a chamber.
What they emerged with grabbed the music world by its horns, turned it upside down and shook the hell out of it until any semblance of doubt fell from its pockets. Embraced by everyone from computer geeks to Australian pop-rock bands to every hood this side of the prime meridian , Wu-Tang exploded with a five-year plan to take over the hip-hop world — masterfully crafted by its de-facto ringleader Robert Diggs, aka RZA.
And the plan worked. Within the 14 years following the release of its raw and dirty debut masterpiece, Enter the Wu-Tang 36 Chambers [RCA, ], the Wu managed to build not only a hip-hop supergroup composed of nine of the most talented MCs on the planet but also a multifaceted cross-generational superpersona that has spawned an entire industry.
With the successful solo projects of each of its members not to mention countless affiliates and an internationally recognized clothing line, video game and comic book, the Wu exploited a wide appeal based on obscure kung fu samples, keen cultural commentaries and an identity dominated by its Shaolin ideologies and references.
He also enlisted master wordsmith and former honorary member Cappadonna as an official member. The Wu refocused, realigned and, thankfully, soldiered on.
We promised this to the people, so now it's time to deliver The 8 Diagrams. It's gonna be in their veins. I know how to play piano on an intermediate level. I know how to play guitar on an intermediate level. Harmonic progression, that's what I mostly studied. In hip-hop, you don't need melody because the voice and the rhymes are the melody, so you need harmony. That's a secret right there. Dre's doing…I still never had that wide-EQ produced quality.
I got the same SSL they got, the same big speakers, the same system. I just don't hear it how they hear it. I hear it how I hear it. You got like 15 things making one sound. I take all these different elements and make it one tone, but if you move anything, it falls apart like a card-house.
Sometimes my bass note isn't even the same key as my kick note. A long time ago I realized music isn't only a note and a melody and a harmony, it's also a pulse. With this dude, the snare may come in on an off-beat, but when it come in, it come in with a smack.
It come in and announce itself. That's the difference between him and a lot of other producers. Matching on-the-move designs with supreme playability and heavyweight features, the FP-X series represents a fresh generation of portable pianos. All-in-one song production with authentic Roland sounds and songwriting tools to assist modern music makers at any level.
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A native of Brooklyn, the hip-hop icon has brought his signature chopped-audio sound to Tinseltown, and film directors are fighting to get a piece of it. As a founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan, he played a vital role in shaping hip-hop history by contributing to dozens of influential releases. What follows are some of the highlights of our in-studio conversation.
Man, how I got into it is kinda crazy. I was working on the movie Blade Trinity. So I was in the store. I own the Roland MC , and I like it so much … it has one of the best time-compressors made for digital audio. I was ped off. So I called the guy at the store, he called somebody at Roland, and he figured out what the problem was: I had the old software.
So he put the new software in, spent about five minutes showing me a few things, and after that I was hooked on the MV. So I started out with a bad attitude about it, but it turned out that the MV is one of the most friendly drum-machine-type samplers out there.
Unlike the MPC, access to your sounds and editing features is at the [snaps fingers] snap of a button. My production style is chop style. And also, the sound of this machine is pretty crazy too, yo.
So with that sample, for example [ he demonstrates ] you can time-stretch it out at any tempo. I used to sell newspapers to buy more equipment, or steal something. I will never forget that when we first bought our first??? Then we wound up getting a dual cassette so you could make a tape then dub it. He had a beat machine called the , the same thing that Madtronix winded up using to make all the Just-Ice hit records. I stole it for like 3 months and he got it back when he caught up with me. Then from the , we went to the Then I was 14 going on Me, Dirty and Gza making demos with Dr Rock off the
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