david guetta says music is a lot about tension and release. im pretty sure i agree with him. id like to work more on the tension part and how to make it longer and longer
the secret to making music is clicking the little bubbles into ableton
nah i like this one. pretty shit but itss always nice to get something made, this streak club website helps me to do it
i think reese bass is probably my new favorite instrument of all time
im putting a list of my 80 favorite basslines in the comments. i like to have them in a randomizer, then when im starting writing ill often start with bassline. i dont really start with basslines anymore but its still a good randomizer to have when youre bored or need a seed for an idea. i more just start with rootnote of the minorkey at the moment. todays upload the bassline is just the rootnote the whole time
anyway the upload today was alright. i wanna get back to making buildup-drops. caus theres so many layers and theyre fun to make, feel like i could learn a lot. i used to like making short loops more, but now i find making loops fairly dull. i like 1 minute arrangements at the moment. specifically buildup to drop segments are always full of different layers and patterns switching, and you can use different presets for different things.
one thing ive enjoyed lately is taking my favorite pad presets and turning them into 8bar or 16bar pitch risers in serum, then resaving them as a preset tagged with riser in serum 2's new tagging system. eventually ill have some good riser options.
just a lil loop, i wanted to make some brass trap. i listen to an amount of brass trap but every time i go to make it i have no idea what im doing. much more comfortable with these 3 instruments: piano, reese, hardwave lead. so i went to make brass trap and got this loop instead. nothing like brass trap but ok. serum 2 has a few reallllllly nice piano sample-based banks i like. serum 2 is fucking awesome. free download if you bought serum 1
listened to this too many times, added more details than usual. found it challenging making an intro and buildup for the drop, since the drop was just kind of piano and glockenspiel type instruments.
Drop Layers:
bass layers: reese, reverbed brass stab, slaphouse pluckbass (same midi for all 3)
melody layers: piano reverbed a bit, glockenspiel-type preset that already had reverb, some other reverby sustained lead preset (same midi for all 3 layers)
other: cymbal crash at start of each 8 bar section, some other reverbed+phased crash that does a repetitive 1/4note pattern at -32db (can barely hear it but it sort of maybe adds something), kick, no snare for some reason, string melody in second half of drop (returns from the intro), piano chords playing bassnote+octave above+fifth above
i like this one. i never have really tried to make short things in arrangement. it was a lot of fun though. a lot of eq automation, presets that already had a lot of distortion, volume automation and leveling.
Back making electronic music. Haven't made any arrangements in a while. I thought the first thing back might be cool, sometimes happens but nah this is just okay.
I like the presets and the combination of presets - I didn't make the presets though, so idk if its weird to be happy about. Another thing I liked was not all the melody notes are on gridlines, possibly caus ive been noodling on midi keyboard with a lot of mono presets lately.
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not all music has to be easy listening
i like the tracks ive mixed where its almost painful when the drop hits hahaha
no im not a mix engineer. keep trying to emulate kygo, or whatever edm producers try and emulate nowadays
my ideal track has the buildup snap from 100% volume to 200% volume soon as the drop hits. its gonna sound good
i have played enough music where im not worried about the drop part
i dont really care about drops. if the intro and buildup are solid enough then i will write a drop after i hear it
i think its a more interesting thing to think about for me, than buildup intro drop. whats the difference between the buildup and the intro, really?
im not at the level where i could do a minute 50 seconds. i could maybe do 45 seconds on a good day before i blow the load
drop happens at 1:50. about 2 minutes of straight TIME UNDER TENSION
id love to learn how to do this
tension building for at least a minute and a half now
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then weird fucking violin thing or some shit and then it gets crazy already a bit
good start. vocally sounding pad. cant really lose on vocal-sounding shit
let me listen to Aero Chord - Surface and see what i think of it
i like this kind of thing, i find making 2 drops boring
i have always admired Aero Chord - Surface as a masterpiece of time-under-tension. it builds for a bout 2 minutes and then explodes, then fades into black slowly. or maybe it fades into grey and then into black. its a good track
im not really producing at the moment so i gotta get back into clicking the little bubbles into the computer to make the sounds, make the money
david guetta gainz, time under tension
i dunno i like the idea of instead of me thinking about 'intro - buildup - drop'. i think about "time under tension". its a fucking workout phrase lmao if u cant do more reps for whatever reason u increase the time under tension
if i could create this music tension for 2 minutes straight id be impressed with myself. ive seen tracks where guys can do it for a minute or 1 and half minute. i can last about 45 seconds to a minute but u cant blow ur load too early