Looking for Dance trackmaking tutorials

ava · Post by **ava** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 4:09 pm

Im getting pretty good with trial & error but am looking for free online tutorials & videos about dance trackmakng. Sort of thinks like mixing basslines chords & notes together in different ways.

If anyone has any links then please share. Please no long winded stuff...

Thanks.

nebulae · Post by **nebulae** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 4:13 pm

http://tarekith.com/assets/arranging.html

also, check youtube with "how to produce dance music"

Patch · Post by **Patch** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 4:14 pm

The best thing to do is just to sit with a buch of your favourite tunes, listen to parts of each track, and make notes on what is actually happening.

You will need a pause button.

Stuff like layering you can hear if you listen carefully enough...

This is how I (kind of...) learned arrangement.

ava · Post by **ava** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 4:29 pm

nebulae wrote:http://tarekith.com/assets/arranging.html

also, check youtube with "how to produce dance music"

Thanks for the link this subtractive sequencing idea is interesting and il read up on it but am more looking of ways chords & notes & basslines are created and not "arranged".

nebulae · Post by **nebulae** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 4:36 pm

you might just have to look into chord/music theory for some basics...but my general advice on this topic is that you don't need to make songs overly complicated to be good...some of my best songs are 1 or 2 chords, no changes, for like 5 minutes

hambone1 · Post by **hambone1** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 4:36 pm

http://www.magix.com/uk/music-maker/classic/

It's all been done. There's only so many permutations and combinations of regurgitated dance elements.

j2j · Post by **j2j** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 4:46 pm

You have to buy this book....

http://www.amazon.com/Electronica-Dance ... 0130836966

nebulae · Post by **nebulae** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 4:48 pm

j2j wrote:You have to buy this book....

http://www.amazon.com/Electronica-Dance ... 0130836966

lackluster review...refers to this one instead:
http://www.amazon.com/Dance-Music-Manua ... 030&sr=1-1

j2j · Post by **j2j** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 4:54 pm

nebulae wrote:
j2j wrote:You have to buy this book....

http://www.amazon.com/Electronica-Dance ... 0130836966
lackluster review...refers to this one instead:
http://www.amazon.com/Dance-Music-Manua ... 030&sr=1-1

Neb, I've read and own em both. I find "the dance music manual" to be very cheesy. With a lot of misinformation.

milesahead · Post by **milesahead** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 4:54 pm

i really like the tutorials from Future Music (magazine),
there`s a Bunch of Videos with the Title:
"in the studio with...."
Artists like:
Ian Carey,
Benga,
Aquasky,
D.Ramirez,
Matti Schwartz,
Stonebridge,
Benny Benassi,
Freemasons,
and my favorite: Steve Angello.

and it really is what it pretends, you are in the studio - look over the shoulder of each one, and a guy from FM is interviewing from time to time.
very good explanations of different ways of working, mostly done in logic, one is Cubase, i don`t remember wich.

see if you can find something