How Do You Chop And Screw Songs?
Ever wanted to chop and screw your songs? For those that don’t understand this term, it’s the deep pitch slurred effect and scratching of vocals. Artist such as Paul Wall, Three Six Mafia, Lil’ Wayne, Slim Thug and a long list of others take advantage of this music style. The phrase “Chopped and Screwed” hails from DJ Screw of Houston Texas. Although he has passed, he lives threw the form of music he created that people still mimic today. Whether you’re using turntables or digital audio programs such as Cakewalk Sonar, Ableton Live, Cubase or MOTU, you can use this method to screw and chop songs. How to Screw: The first step to giving your tracks the slurred feeling it needs is to “screw” (slow down) the vocals. If you don’t insist on slowing down the whole song, then just focus on the set of vocals you want for now. You’re going to need to slow down the pitch of the vocals somewhere between the ranges of -1 to -3. That would be my recommendation, but adjust it to however you want your
