trancetheory
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Theres been allot of discussion recently (recently? lol itz probly been going on since cave men first banged stones together to make noise) about what makes a good Psy Track, and how its all going down hill and not like it used to be blah blah blah, well anyway, I had a thought...
Why do artists sit down and write a *instert genre* Choon? ..or maybe they dont? Why dont Artists sit down and write a peace of music?!
Ok, well obviously we all have our own prefrences about genres etc, but it does seem to me that the musical aspect of dance music is being left behind, many artists today learn to write dance music and then learn to write music (yes I know that allot of artists are excellent musicians, just my opinion)
So I'm wondering how you guys go about writing choons, but first this is what I do...
I spend quite a bit of time on the piano and keyboard, just playing, I've written allot of stuff like this, and spend allot of time combining and chaning things I've written....while I'm playing I will often hear diffrent things going on, maybe certain drum patterns, FX, pads, synth sounds etc that I think would work....thats when I go to the computer and start to work on it and experiment...
actually this is where I am getting stuck aswell, I dont know a huge amount about Synths, to get the sound I want takes me a very long time, as I'm still experimenting allot more than just creating the sound I hear in my head
I alwayz start off with the melody of a choon, then add a drum pattern (or not if I'm not gonna use one), then bass, then padz and fx and layers etc, then I experiment with the whole thing
I never sit down and think ok I'm gonna write a Trance track or a DnB track and get stuck into it, its alwayz the piano melodies (sumtimes the bassline, esp when I start a DnB trak) that lead me to the style, as my tastes are pretty varied I guess this makes sense
anywayz...how'du do it? :ibiggrin:
(ps. if anyone feels like giving me a crash course in Synths... :ibiggrin: )
Why do artists sit down and write a *instert genre* Choon? ..or maybe they dont? Why dont Artists sit down and write a peace of music?!
Ok, well obviously we all have our own prefrences about genres etc, but it does seem to me that the musical aspect of dance music is being left behind, many artists today learn to write dance music and then learn to write music (yes I know that allot of artists are excellent musicians, just my opinion)
So I'm wondering how you guys go about writing choons, but first this is what I do...
I spend quite a bit of time on the piano and keyboard, just playing, I've written allot of stuff like this, and spend allot of time combining and chaning things I've written....while I'm playing I will often hear diffrent things going on, maybe certain drum patterns, FX, pads, synth sounds etc that I think would work....thats when I go to the computer and start to work on it and experiment...
actually this is where I am getting stuck aswell, I dont know a huge amount about Synths, to get the sound I want takes me a very long time, as I'm still experimenting allot more than just creating the sound I hear in my head
I alwayz start off with the melody of a choon, then add a drum pattern (or not if I'm not gonna use one), then bass, then padz and fx and layers etc, then I experiment with the whole thing
I never sit down and think ok I'm gonna write a Trance track or a DnB track and get stuck into it, its alwayz the piano melodies (sumtimes the bassline, esp when I start a DnB trak) that lead me to the style, as my tastes are pretty varied I guess this makes sense
anywayz...how'du do it? :ibiggrin:
(ps. if anyone feels like giving me a crash course in Synths... :ibiggrin: )