How to get started with music production
Do you find yourself intrigued by producing music online? There are many people, especially musically inclined, who are catching on to this fantastic technological advancement. You no longer have to pay lots of money to hire a studio or pay a producer to create cool beats for you. Technology advancing so quickly makes it very affordable and easy to produce your own music from your personal home computer!
You will find that most musicians will express during your search for good online music production software that the beat making software has become quite user friendly and is compatible to most programming systems. This is indeed an accurate finding! You can still find yourself in between a rock and a hard place with online music production. It’s easy, but you might find yourself going with the flow although a point may come where you realize that the same type of sound is being repeated again and again. You need to be adventurous and explore enough to be great at your online music production!
There are a few tricks that can help you to create a more original final musical score as you utilize the music production software which fairly simple to use.
It of course depends what you are wanting to do online music production for. There are some people who want to create a hot new beat for their own rap or hip hop songs, and there are some people who want an easy less costly way of producing online. There are also videographers who want to produce great quality sound tracks to their films. You will find that this is good advice no matter which category you fall under.
Music relies on its beats to carry it, and that is the most important element of any musical score, regardless of the genre or use. So create your drum beat and lay down that loop first.
Once you have done that you can then lay down the bass, which will help set the mood of your piece. Your bass and drums helps to create the pace and rhythm of the song you are creating. Now you have the vital components that build the foundation for any good music, you have the basics of online music production. Let your creative juices flow now that it’s time!
On top of your bass and drums you can improvise and see what works best, try everything, don’t get stuck in only using the same instruments because you know them well, or only adding similar sorts of samples.
You want to continue being creative through finding unfamiliar or unpopular songs with different and interesting vocal pitch. Spice it up!
On any online music production software there should be included folders of loops and instrumentals that you can use for free. Test them all out, be surprised what sort of sounds you can get from really random instruments, try the xylophone instead of using a guitar every time, don’t remain traditional!
Many great songs and soundtracks use rhythmic percussion and sound effects that create a cool texture of sound that becomes musical, try everything, from sounds on the street to an old record.
Most of all, have lots of fun! Once you find your new sound, you can be most successful at music production!
Takenm from the Cubase Online Course at Point Blank Online Music School. More information at http://www.pointblankonline.net/sequencing-skills-audio.php
Hans talks about his musical styles/tastes.
Rare Old school jazz funk jam
Created by Vancouver Film School students through the following VFS