How To Turn Your Loop Into A Song – Production and Arrangement
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Today I show how you can take a simple idea with some potential into a bigger concept and eventually a song by trying a few simple production techniques, arrangement ideas and creativity hacks. This video is aimed at beginners who are not familiar with arrangement and song structure. I start with a simple chord loop and try to arrange it into a structure and add some variety to the song.
The video covers 3 topics:
1) Finding a theme for your song
2) Filling out the song with rhythm and tone
3) How to arrange your music into a structure that makes sense
Time Stamps –
0:30 – The original loop
1:00 – Improvising to form new ideas
3:30 – New chord ideas and humanizing the loop
4:00 – Song structure
4:50 – Adding rhythm and tone
6:30 – Adding a synth to keep the tempo
8:00 – Adding a bass to match the song
9:10 – Drums
10:00 – More synths!
11:00 – Strings
12:45 – re arranging the song (using multiple playlists)
14:30 – Transitions
16:00 – Recording some guitar
You can see from the video that I am not getting into the mixing and mastering as I create a song. This is after a few years of taking the mixing far too seriously in the early stages. Some prefer to mix everything as they go but I have found that it kills the creative energy for me! I try to match sounds well so that I don’t need huge amounts of EQ and Compression right away. There are no rights and wrongs when making music.
Common Structures for a song include:
Intro (4 Bars)
Verse (8 -16 Bars) + Prechorus (Optional)
Chorus(8 – 16 Bars)
2nd Verse (8 – 16 Bars) + Prechorus (Optional)
Chorus (8-16 Bars)
Sometime pre choruses are used depending on the genre, in my case I don’t really have a pre chorus but in many genres it’s essential to create build up and energy for the Chorus/Drop.
Hopefully it helps you out. Should I make more advanced videos about arrangement and structure?
Let me know in the comments below :)
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