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What part of a track do you start producing first ?
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| aStateOfTrance |
Hey.
I am a user of Fl studio 11, and am aiming to produce Trance music, mainly uplifting trance.
However, I always, always seem to end up starting a project, scrapping it and then starting another, repeatedly!
Sometimes I will restart because I cant get a melody to fit in with the bassline, others it is to do with not being able to fluidly combining two parts of the track.
I am just wondering what part of the track you guys start with? And from then on how you progress throughout the track? |
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| Juan Paulino |
First i put my self in a state of hypnotism, then i start with the end of the track (Crash), then work my way into the climax then more hypnotizing and so on.. I hope that helps.
You can check out the best tutorial on basslines at www.meatspin.com
Cheers. |
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| aquila |
| quote: | Originally posted by Juan Paulino
You can check out the best tutorial on basslines at www.meatspin.com
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Dirty bass! |
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| cryophonik |
I start with cowbell. Then, I add more cowbell.
Actually, almost all of my tracks start at the piano with a melody and chord progression. |
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| clay |
| start with the groove. some drums and a funky baseline. everything goes on itself from there. sometimes i start with a melody but those never gets finished. |
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| chris marsh |
I'm very familiar with the situation you are describing. I think it gets better with time and experience but it can be very frustrating. I think once you have the groove down you need to start arranging the track from beginning to end. This way you know how it fits together IMO, rather than spending ages on one section, only to scrap it later as it doesn't fit into the puzzle, or track in its entirety.
Reference tracks are very useful IMO to get arrangement (or any) ideas and to pick up the conventions of your genre |
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| clay |
| think about transitions from the very beginning. transitions is often what makes a track imo. |
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| Richard Butler |
| quote: | Originally posted by aStateOfTrance
am aiming to produce Trance music, mainly uplifting trance.
I am just wondering what part of the track you guys start with?
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For uplifting I would say start with chords / melody and at that point play on from the end of the melody using say the bass keys to see 'where it wants to go'. This should help you get the basic structure pinned down from the off and make natural transitions.
You don't have to be able to play well (although it is a great help) in order to get this basic structure worked out.
If your'e doing it solely by piano roll, then I can't help as I personally cannot get into writing using that, but of course I do use it for moving notes and refining. |
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| Vernon Wanderer |
| quote: | Originally posted by cryophonik
Actually, almost all of my tracks start at the piano with a melody and chord progression. |
+1. Chords are definitely the first for me, that's the soul of the track. |
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| Juan Paulino |
| quote: | Originally posted by clay
think about transitions from the very beginning. transitions is often what makes a track imo. |
I usually think about beat matching before i do my breakdown. |
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| TranceLover007 |
| quote: | Originally posted by cryophonik
Actually, almost all of my tracks start at the piano with a melody and chord progression. |
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| quote: | Originally posted by Vernon Wanderer
+1. Chords are definitely the first for me, that's the soul of the track. |
Agree with both of you guys !!!
Darek |
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| clay |
| quote: | Originally posted by Juan Paulino
I usually think about beat matching before i do my breakdown. |
you dont have to beatmatch when producing, the tempo is set in the project lol - like 135bpm - nothing more to think about there. and when i talk about transitions i dont mean between songs like a dj would nor the breakdown. i talk about the little efex every 8 or 16 bar to make it interesting. you dont need much else than a nice groove and some cool efex here and there. |
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