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Builds should not be sudden. To induce trance, the best way is to build incrementally. It's all about adding the clap here, the sixteenth note run here, the acid line here, or a brief chord change to bring the energy up a step higher. Eventually, you get a feel for when to introduce these elements and mold the track's energy to your will. The best way to get this feel is listening to other tracks. Some tracks I'd suggest with excellent builds are Atmos - Klein Aber Docter, Odysee of Noises - Firedance (Sunrise) and Taylor - Xenophobe. Note how, although some of these tracks have breakdowns to help bring the energy to it's lowest, but the point after these breakdowns is not the peak of the track. Xenophobe's biggest breakdown ends nearly three minutes before the actual peak of the track. This is because after the break, Taylor just adds element after element, one element actually builds for the entire duration of those two minutes fifteen seconds.
The point: the breakdown is inherently the lowest point in the track. Don't use it to make the jump from low energy to high energy that much more apparent and powerful; use it to make the actual build even longer,
However, don't just get to your peak without telling the listener that you're there. Use a tasteful snare roll, drum fill or drop to indicate that the track is about to reach a high point. This fills a sort of expectancy. Without it, the listener reaches the peak and still expects more, so when the denoument begins, they're left somewhat unsatisfied.
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