I've been trying to develop my composition and sound making and mixing skills for about the last 5 to 6 years and frankly, I just don't see a whole lot of progress.
Partly because my day job keeps me really busy, raising a family keeps me really busy and I've basically treated writing music as a hobby.
Growing up I learned how to play guitar, I learned by emulating other people's playing, taking lessons, and classes etc.
I'm getting frustrated with trying to learn how to write electronic (Trance) music though.
I think a big part of my problem is I sit down and start throwing beats and rhythms, chords and progressions together and they really don't materialize into anything I can be enthusiastic about.
So I thought maybe I should do what I did with the guitar...emulate other people's music. Learn from other people.
So here's my question; can anyone recommend some fairly basic (not utterly basic) trance music I can listen to and pick apart?
My biggest problem is song structure, everything I string together sounds unorganized and uninspired, and basically has no flow.
I realize this is probably a really annoying noob question and I apologize for this, I was hesitant to post anything here (or anywhere else for that matter) but I'm getting depressingly frustrated. I love creating sounds and I love music and I feel like I'm stuck right now.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
floyd741
Alice Deejay - Better Off Alone
I don't know about you, but recreating that song helped me a lot. Maybe it's too basic though lol.
EddieZilker
KilldaDJ
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Originally posted by floyd741
Alice Deejay - Better Off Alone
I don't know about you, but recreating that song helped me a lot. Maybe it's too basic though lol.
Originally posted by floyd741
Alice Deejay - Better Off Alone
I don't know about you, but recreating that song helped me a lot. Maybe it's too basic though lol.
No no, not too basic at all, I didn't even think about this song, thank you for reminding me!
I need to go back to basics, I'm basically starting over from scratch.
I've been spending the last year and a half listening to and creating psy-trance tracks (mainly kick and bass lines laden with sound fx), but I'm finding that to be boring...not really my cup of tea.
This is perfect I think.
DJMiakoda
Thanks for the input guys! This really does help!
Richard Butler
For me the best uplifter in the business is this guy, so that's who I'd want to tap into in terms of learning the craft
KilldaDJ
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Originally posted by Kenny Rogers
what do u mean accident?
Well the chord pattern is the same but melody is different..so i put the alice dj one on top of mine and PROFIT
Coyke
Best thing would be to start with tracks around 1999 - 2000 I think, as Trance back then was fairly simple melodic music and not that technical as it's now with all this huge sounds and layers.
Binary Finary - 1999
Universal Nation - Push
From there you should start to take steps year by year. The most enjoyable time of Trance for me was 2003 - 2006 for example. Nowadays I tend to be more into Progressive and just a very few Trance songs.
Mad for Brad
pretty simple and a nice track too.
DjStephenWiley
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Originally posted by Coyke
Best thing would be to start with tracks around 1999 - 2000
