Ian Kirkpatrick, the producer of Dua Lipa’s 2019 hit music Don’t Begin Now, has dived into the making of the observe’s iconic funky bassline.
“The bassline is a bit of Bee Gees and a bit of Daft Punk,” Kirkpatrick advised Music Week [via Music Radar]. “It’s a bit of bit Alan Braxe and Fred Falke, if anybody is aware of these DJs – these previous Eurohouse type of elegant basslines.”
“It was the sum of me listening to superior basslines for 10 years and making an attempt to emulate that, so I’m glad individuals prefer it.”
Since its launch, the music has spawned numerous bass covers, with the preferred racking up a formidable 14 million views on YouTube. However do you know that no bass guitars had been really concerned within the unique observe?
“It’s MIDI, don’t get mad at me!” Kirkpatrick stated. “However it’s programmed responsibly, so individuals can really play it. It’s meant to sound actual and it would as properly be. If I might play bass like that, I’d!”
Elsewhere, the producer additionally spoke about how Don’t Begin Now — written by Emily Warren, Caroline Ailin, Kirkpatrick, and Dua Lipa herself — was conceived throughout a songwriting session in Warren’s Wyoming cabin.
“The lyrical idea began in January and the vibe got here from the evening earlier than,” Kirkpatrick recalled. “We’d gone out to this random bar in the course of Jackson Gap and it was disco evening, and Don’t Begin Now got here the following day.”
Kirkpatrick beforehand revealed throughout a Sound on Sound interview that he used the Scarbee MM-Bass plugin for the music’s principal bass sound.
“I performed the primary half on the keyboard, after which edited it afterwards. There’s a sub bass beneath it, and it’s blended with slaps within the drop, which is from a [Spectrasonics] Trilian bass patch, plus there’s a thumb bass,” he stated.
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