What Every Producer Can Learn From Apollo Brown

📌MPC COURSE & Free lesson: https://mastakraft.teachable.com/p/mpc 📌SP 404 COURSE: https://mastakraft.teachable.com/p/sp... My Drumbreak Sample Pack: https://mastakraft.sellfy.store 📌APOLLO BROWN Sample Pack: https://hiphopdrumsamples.com/ntxp7p Book a lesson: https://mastakraft.sellfy.store/p/mpc... SP Shortcuts: https://mastakraft.sellfy.store/p/sp-... For Online courses - DM to my Instagram: 📸www.instagram.com/mastakraft 💬t.me/mastakraft In this video, I break down the signature production style of Apollo Brown and explain why his beats are instantly recognizable. We’ll listen to several of his tracks and analyze the hard-hitting drums, strong swing, soulful gospel-inspired samples, aggressive sidechain compression, and the classic vinyl texture and then recreate these techniques step by step on the MPC so you can use them in your own beats. 0:00 - What makes Apollo Brown special? 00:25 - Step one: Listen to The Drums 01:37 - Recreating his Drum patterns technique 03:08 - STEP 2: What is unusual about his drums? 03:41 - How to Make Swing on MPC 05:51 - My Advice about Applying Swing 07:39 - STEP 3: What Melodic Samples He Chooses 11:04 - STEP 4: Why does it NOT sound like Apollo Brown Beat YET? 11:23 - How to make the RIGHT sidechain on MPC? 14:16 - Is Sidechain a BAD thing in Hip-Hop? 15:17 - Second way to make side chain ANYWHERE 17:39 - STEP 5: Add This little detail in EVERY track 18:46 - How to mix the track the RIGHT way? 20:41 - Add THIS plugin not only to DRUMS 21:29 - FINISHED BEAT #apollobrown #mpcxl #mpclive3