Buddah Bless: Placement Strategies, How to Get Paid First! Free Beats? Sampling Problems, Branding
Buddah Bless This Breaks down his come up story on how he started making beats, Learning music, Working w artist like Travis Porter all the way to 2chainz, Drake, Young Thug, Migos, Travis Scott and more. Buddah Breaks down having a manager, getting placements, business side works, even step by step plays to network in the city.
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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:55 BuddahBlessThisBeat Credits
01:19 Background story, being from New York, raised in Atlanta, playing in church
03:12 Music Theory, Loops & Keyboards, working w/ Honorable C Note
07:30 Buddah Bless Sound
09:14 Ways to learn music theory
10:50 Thoughts on producers depending on loops
16:15 Make beats with artists in the studio or send beats to email?
20:23 Dropping out of high school, working with local Atlanta producers & artists
24:03 Networking gems, working w/ Street Execs
26:05 1st major placement with 2 Chainz & Drake “Big Amount”
30:27 BuddahBless getting a manager at 19
32:45 Business process & paperwork for placements, mixtape era
34:27 Getting paid as a producer after record drops
37:00 Advice for producers, give away free beats?
41:43 How to build your brand with artists, being patient for 10 years
47:22 2nd major placement with Migos “Call Casting”
49:42 Quavo & Travis Scott “Modern Slavery” placement, Kanye West “Otis” inspiration
52:22 Sampling records process, bridging generations of artist
54:44 Splits for sampling records, sampling Hi-Tek & 50 Cent for “Needed” Migos & Youngboy
58:00 Remake sample for lower split percentage, Sade record with YFN Lucci
01:00:23 “Supastars” on Madden, getting paid for video games placement
01:01:51 Beatmaker vs Producer, what’s coming out the speakers? It’s all competition
01:12:50 Staying true to your sound and making beats with your own sauce
01:14:30 Following trends in music production
01:15:30 Thoughts on “type beats”, people who copy the originators of a sound
01:17:25 Southside, 808 Mafia, Metro Boomin, producers that are trendsetters pushing sounds
01:18:32 What kinds of beats to play for artists, what type beats to send artists
01:19:25 Reading the room when playing beats for artists & selling it to the room, Megan Thee Stallion album
01:23:35 Routine for scaling a room in the studio, selling beats to artists with more confidence
01:26:16 Overrated Underrated: Traveling to meet artists
01:28:15 Younger producers DMing producers they want to work with, WHAT NOT TO DO
01:31:45 Overrated Underrated: Knowing music theory & using MIDI files
01:33:55 Overrated Underrated: Sampling old songs
01:36:00 Overrated Underrated: Using expensive VSTs
01:36:56 What Buddah Bless invested in after getting major placements
01:41:39 Building brand with an artist through producing entire albums
01:44:47 How to make moves in Atlanta in the clubs to get connected with DJs & artists
01:53:46 Other people to get beats to for placements, networking gems
01:59:19 Young Thug & Travis Scott “Out West” placement
02:00:42 Instagram submitted questions for Buddah Bless, How he makes hit records & Outro
