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House Song Structure
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| lostfrequency |
| So I'm working on a Tech House track and I'm kinda puzzled. Whats a basic structure to follow in a House track? |
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| System101 |
| structure it however you'd like. the only requirement is to make it sound good.:haha: :haha: |
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| T-Soma |
The best way is to just listen to some tracks.
Id say that house generaly does not have as high an emotional peak as trance does. A trance track commonly builds up to a single peak highest where it is ment to blow peoples minds in some way or make them feel something. Where with house the entire track is moving and more rounded without the hightend peak.
Got to have a catchy or moving bassline. |
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| Floorfiller |
i don't want to sound mean, but here's the score. all of you people having trouble making a new genre are having trouble because you never took the time to teach yourself about music and instead tried to follow set guidelines with trance music. learn about music before you start trying to make music or else you aren't going to go very far in it. this is exactly the problem with producers today...they know how to do a trance track because they spent all their time learning the structures like intro, breakdown, outro or saw pad stuff, but they don't actually know how to make music outside of that when those rules don't apply...
so my advice is reteach yourself music outside the context of trance. you're productions will end up a lot better. |
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| Biatchzxz |
Honestly There isnt a structure at ALLL to music..
For House - Techno thats different than trance is just basically t-soma said. The Bassline is important and your percussion is.. Just pretty much use your imagination.. Listen to tracks that you really really like that are in that genre and try to just copy the structure they are using.. Try taking one track you really like. And try to recreate it. Obviously changing it around to suit your needs. But that will teach you what is included in each track and so forth. I was (trying) producing trance for a while and switched over to More of the Progressive House/Trance Side. And there really wasnt any downtime for me. Because the reason i started leaning is cause of the tracks i was listening to before hand. So i kind of memorized the patterns and how it was structure and tried to just use my skills to what i do best. So give that a thought. |
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| extacy_bomb |
| quote: | Originally posted by Floorfiller
i don't want to sound mean, but here's the score. all of you people having trouble making a new genre are having trouble because you never took the time to teach yourself about music and instead tried to follow set guidelines with trance music. learn about music before you start trying to make music or else you aren't going to go very far in it. this is exactly the problem with producers today...they know how to do a trance track because they spent all their time learning the structures like intro, breakdown, outro or saw pad stuff, but they don't actually know how to make music outside of that when those rules don't apply...
so my advice is reteach yourself music outside the context of trance. you're productions will end up a lot better. |
+1!
Well saied dude.
This is a problem with alot of producer wanna be'es. It's sad to see some people that think producing electronic music is like playing a video game!
Cause it's music and needs alot of practise on some baisc music concepts.
A producer should know how to read/write music and atleast be able to play an instrument |
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| DigiNut |
Floorfiller's got a point.
Not meaning to be rude either but if you have to ask what the structure of a track should be, then you shouldn't be producing. At the very least, if you really believe that there is a structure, couldn't you pick that up from listening to a couple of house tunes? And if you don't hear any pattern, perhaps that means that there isn't one? |
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| thoughtlessjex |
In my experience, House and Techno tracks tend to have "simpler" structures to them. That is to say, they're based more on structures like AABA, ABAC, ABCD, etc. Come up with 2-4 rhythmic elements, take each one and repeat it until it sounds like the song needs to make a change, throw in a transition effect, and repeat the process for the next rhythmic element. Once you've done that, you might go through the whole thing again just for the hell of it. Maybe changing some aspect that was uniform through the first section.
You may also throw in an intro for house tracks, techno sometimes has intros, but other times it just gets right down to things. |
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