How to keep your track interesting?
As a music producer you can apply certain
track arrangement tricks to prevent your track
from getting boring.
This video is especially useful if you are
starting out with music production and want
to know which elements that you can use to
make your track.
I give you some tips and I'm gonna analyse
an electronic music track, so a track deconstruction.
To keep your listeners hooked until the end
of your track, then you have to do a track
breakdown so you can see what others are doing.
As a music producer you are always thinking
of your own tracks that they are the best
and super interesting, but that is maybe not
the case.
Important to keep your track interesting is
that there is a flow in the song.
So the arrangement of the song parts.
We have quieter parts, that can be a little
bit slower, we call those the break.
And we have recognizable louder parts in a
song and we call those the drops.
Also don't give away the main melody at the
beginning of your song.
Tease it a little bit in the intro.
In music production we work with structural
elements of 4 beats, mostly 8 and sometimes
16 beats, we call phrases.
Melodies tend to repeat every phrase and we
tend to use a track arrangement in which we
change up little elements every phrase.
And a lot of songs have unique phrases, although
they sound the same, they are technically
not.
We add little elements or subtract little
elements to keep it interesting every single
time, so there is something fresh, something
new every single time.
Later in this video you'll see two high hat
rhythms, the first one is introduced, then
the second in the next phrase, then the first
one is taken out, and is added later again
in a later phrase.
You'll see that in the second drop two extra
melodies are added.
What you could also do to change things up,
is to repeat the same melody in the next phrase
but use a different synthesizer.
What you could also do is make a melody in
which two synthesizers answer each other.
They call that: call and response.
To introduce the next phrase we often use
risers.
In the example that I show you, the riser
is not used that way.
But what is used that way, is the cutoff of
the synthesizer.
To keep things interesting we also use drum
fills a lot at the end of a phrase, or a weird
vocal stab, or a weird synth shot at the end
of a phrase.
But that is not in this example.
I found a free track in the Youtube library
called Cologne 1983 that I' gonna do a track
track breakdown on.
Can you distinct all the different sounds
in the song?
Or maybe I missed one, let me know in the
comments below with the hashtag: music producer.
if you are struggling with track arrangement
you can watch my special video about the subject.
The link is here in the screen or download
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