Honestly, it's amazing to see that you take all this time to just help people and properly explain both the basics and the advanced techniques for pretty much anyone to see. Thanks man, you're helping me a great bunch!
as a dj I appreciate the thought of producers making outros and intros to make my life easier. But I would prefer something that isn't. Actually the more challenging the intro and outro the better. I would even mix it live on video and send it back to you. Thank you for the great instructional video. Keep it up. Us dj's need guys like you
You have some epic quotes in this video. "The second track is where rules go to die" and "I've never really cared about that. I'm paid for it" lol Beautiful bro. Niiiccce
"Regular music" - nail on the head. I'm happy to say that after stealing your "Sometime ft. Veela" presets for years now, I finally figured out to see if you had any videos. Gah, finally. It's like enlightenment being beamed right into my skull. +1
Thanks for the video and the direction, Seamless. As a novice producer, it's difficult to wrap my head around the aspects of composition that are involved in the production process while in the moment and actively making a track. This breakdown of the typical EDM format really helped me improve my work flow and overall approach to my music. I really can't thank you enough. That being said, I deeply appreciate your work and your effort in teaching up-and-coming nobodies like myself the fundamentals of a well-rounded artist. My only hope is that those noble efforts are properly rewarded, respected, appreciated and compensated for by all who benefit from them. Peace.
Thanks seamless - I've been struggling with arrangement for a while now. I've been working on the same song for 3 month's! Wish I watched this before...
This video was very helpful to me! I am making a music album for a school project, and I found this super interesting and it really taught me how a song is structured.
Thank you sooooo much for this! I have been working on edm songs and not getting the structure examples right..Now I have a good start to writing better song!
At least the best tutorial channel on youtube. Also i was wandering how many times it takes to you to make a song like this. Looking at everything, starting with designing your own sound and ending with mastering, to me it would take like 6 months
thanks,...it was very clear and logic. easy to understand and a good orginized direction like the intro and outro parts doesnt matter too much, and can do almost everything you want. also how you have the same structure for the drops and breaks repeating but just making small changes of those. and also the parts you can go crazy with.
I think the R stands for Riddler. 14:57 before we hear a note. . . Until then the Riddler be all like: Sometimes you can do it this way but on Sundays if it's sunny and if I'd had a nice brunch I might do it that way but not last week because I had an appointment at babblers anonymous but anyways the second break is where rules go to die as I've been quoted as saying, well actually I've never been quoted as such but I've said it, well actually I thought it, well actually I just came up with it but anyway that's a thing that you can do but there is always the need to be less than specific and concurrently consistent in segwaying, a monologue of my trajectory traversing trapping tangents about my talents. Lol. Still, I very much enjoyed it all. Top dude, top vid, top production.
The biggest thing I have trouble with is expanding upon an idea. I'll get a four to eight measure loop that sounds pretty good and... that's it. I don't have much theory training beyond being able to read sheet music and knowing scales/keys, but would you have any advice for someone who has trouble expanding upon an idea? A video on analytical listening would be awesome as well =)
The worse thing to do, in my opinion, and this is something that many producers do, is start from drums and spending a ridiculous amount of time on making drums sound good (or any instrument). This sucks out any ideas or inspiration (sometimes I simply forget my original idea because of time spent on altering the sound). I divide my production in stages and only focus on one at a time. That is to say, there are 3 stages for me: sound-design (making sounds of course), production (composing, arranging and editing), and then finally the mix-down (making sonic/timbre changes and possibly arrangement alterations too). I don't do two things at once. Because one thing distracts me from the other. If I have an idea, I want to be able to grab a sound and then get that idea down and repeat this process without coming across any distractions or obstacles. If I stop to start focusing on engineering and being fiddly with frequencies and such, the motivation and ideas simply dissipate.
Hey Seamless - well done, I like how you structure your vids. Keep it going - music style is not my favorite but I do appreciate your creativity and it sounds very thight :). Wishing you good success and a lot of fun producing and playing your tunes. Cheers
Thank you so much mang I have followed you from how to bass 1. Everything I have learned is from you. from automation to fm synthesis all I use is sytrus and harmor now for bass. I was lost in how to arrange my songs now I got the idea. QUESTION. What is the keyboard short cut for note slide in piano roll. I have tryed every combination of keys. I see you use all sorts of short cuts but I just cant find that one.
Shortcut for Slide is "S" while in the Piano roll window :), also you can press F1 while viewing a piano roll window and it will open up the designated section of the Help Manual, wich has all the shorcuts for the piano roll in a list.
you deserve more subs man you actually know what your talking about and I wish to shit I was as good at making music as u I have fl studio 11 and dont even know where to start. I found a few sounds on the internet but i dont even know how to sample my own or what plugins are worth buying. that tutorial was dope tho bout to watch the music theory one u made.
So would you first make the basic arrangement and than play around with it? Also what would you suggest as a start off in the track after you get your arrangement. Also, how would you know how to build the track? Reply whenever Thanks
Ztars K SeamlessR Ok so I wanting to learn more on theory of Verse, Chorus and Bridge structure then. Because I have watched countless tutorials and I just can't seem to figure out what the hell is going on. I too am just winging it by what sounds good in my head and that's how I play off my structure.
My intros are nearly always Pad, melodic Percussions, building up lead (not Same instrument like in the dance parte/ bass part) until 1min. Than bass part. Than brake: strings always strings, violins/ cello. With a mod. Version of the. Melodie. Than build up #2 than bass part ( not exactly the same as first). At least strings outro~1 min. Actually it sounds nice :) I also often use strings as a drop. Thats also amazing.
as someone who plays guitar, sings, and plays a bit of piano, and knows how to record all of those things, I can't help but feel so frustrated when trying to follow along with all this 16 bar this a couple bars for this drop ughh, I'm really trying to better my skills at self producing music so learning this is very helpful. However holy shit I've never once thought in my life when writing a song to first consider its tempo or its measurements in such an organized way. I don't understand how people emotionally accomplish anything that way. I appreciate the video though
Hi SeamlessR, do you know why in fl studio when I have sounds coming from a channel and then when I add another channel, the original one sounds softer? Another instance is when I tested having a channel going from the left to the right channel and another channel playing a mono kick beat, and even though the kick is supposed to be central, it seems to go the opposite way of the other channel, and it goes a little right to a little left. Is there a way in mixing to fix this? Sorry if I sounds very complicated.. Thanks!
Sometimes dragging the actual song into the sequencer and matching the tempo helps me wrap my head around weird arrangements that sound good. There's usually patterns in there that you don't notice but can subconsciously feel when just listening to the song.
After hearing what you said about Djing your own tracks and failing I can totally relate! hahaha, I usually make my music listener friendly but definitely not DJ friendly.
just gotta say thank you as I'm a trance / house dj, and I'm looking at production right now. I'm constantly pissed at myself as I'm pretty damn shite at making a melody, and as a musically minded person....... it sucks.... big time but ur videos are helping a lot so thanks very much from me Trancemattiks in the uk bless up .
Could you possibly do this for terminologies? Just all the basic ones u can find? Like, "A Bar is ____". "Compression is when you _______." "Threshold is_______." And with each of these could you maybe do a brief explanation of the meaning and what it does. I've had this problem forever and I'm asking you to do this because whenever I ask friends that I think could help me with production for tips or feedback on a song prior to release, they hit me with one of these terms and I make a fool of myself. A video explaining terminology would be awesome!
Nice tutorial. It is named "Dance Music Structure (Production Basics 2)" on ADSR Tutorials and there is no Part 1 (by this name). I only found Part 1 of this Tut. by coming to TH-cam.
Dodge & Fuski say the second drop should be the same because most DJs will mostly just use the first drop and therefore the second will just be ignored. But to me, tracks should be made for listeners, not DJs. But DJs should definitely be considered.
Stephen, I noticed that when you were playing through the riser, the riser quickly rose in pitch as if it started right there. Whenever I try to play a project in the middle of a riser, it just doesn't play, how do I go about this?
SeamlessR At 3:47 you are saying "8 bar build and 8 bar rises". Did you mean to say "8 bar break and 8 bar rises"?? Sorry for nitpicking but I am really learning a lot by this and... I want to get it right. ;)
Hey if anyone out there can answer this question for me I would greatly appreciate it! I have an FL Studio 11 download file and my version of Windows XP can't find a way to open it. I thought of a solution to that but I don't know if it will work or not; I was thinking of downloading the demo off of the imageline server so that the download wizard could be on my computer. Then I could send the download file to the wizard to download the full version program. So yeah I'm just wondering if that will work and again I would greatly appreciate anyone's help with this. Thanks!
I assume u named your flp's after the bpm and the number of the flp :), do you saved them all? Im interested in how your first projects sounds? Greets thijmen
"Or you can not do that, and get signed to spinning" shots fired
Spinnin' and yup i hear you
Honestly, it's amazing to see that you take all this time to just help people and properly explain both the basics and the advanced techniques for pretty much anyone to see. Thanks man, you're helping me a great bunch!
In 6 years of TH-cam I have never seen a tutorial that was as informative and helpful as this. Thank you :)
I don't even care that you're not that active anymore, you are a legend
"heres my intro"
Plays the most epic 8 bars of my life. Doesnt even phase him.
+Dylan Arcedd He didnt even flinch when the drop hit
+Arcedd ikr lol dude is a god at production
those fucking bass envelopes... sickness
"or you could not do that and get signed to Spinnin" LMAO
It's so sad but true xD
Hah!
I followed Spinning for a while before I realised that there was only like one or two songs that they signed that I ever liked xD
as a dj I appreciate the thought of producers making outros and intros to make my life easier. But I would prefer something that isn't. Actually the more challenging the intro and outro the better. I would even mix it live on video and send it back to you. Thank you for the great instructional video. Keep it up. Us dj's need guys like you
OOOOOOOO I USED TO WATCH YOU YEARSSSS AGOOOO SOOOOO HAPPY THIS CAME UP!
You have some epic quotes in this video. "The second track is where rules go to die" and "I've never really cared about that. I'm paid for it" lol Beautiful bro. Niiiccce
At 128bpm every 16 bars is exactly 30 seconds. I've only just noticed this. Mind = blown!
It’s 34.1 seconds
@@bobnish9006 nah dude check this up
@@bobnish9006 just math 128 beats / 1 minute = 128 beats / 60 seconds = 64 beats / 30 seconds = 16 * 4 beats / 30 seconds = 16 bars / 30 second.
Who the hell is disliking this? People need this kind of intelligence in their lives!!! Go on Seamless!!
People disliking just had their screen upside-down and thought it was the like button
"today is a day"
this got me hooked
Step 1 - Pryda Snare
Step 2 - Export to MP3
Indeed
+QBanklerMusic Did you seriously comment, and then come back and agree with yourself a month later?
Lol, someone replied, then I replied to them. Then they took down their comment :P.
I'm not that narcissistic.
Sublime jajajajajajaja
hahaha it looks like you though "no-one will comment so I will do it" haha
"Regular music" - nail on the head. I'm happy to say that after stealing your "Sometime ft. Veela" presets for years now, I finally figured out to see if you had any videos. Gah, finally. It's like enlightenment being beamed right into my skull. +1
I like the little shot at Spinnin' you had at the end.
Thanks for the video and the direction, Seamless.
As a novice producer, it's difficult to wrap my head around the aspects of composition that are involved in the production process while in the moment and actively making a track. This breakdown of the typical EDM format really helped me improve my work flow and overall approach to my music. I really can't thank you enough.
That being said, I deeply appreciate your work and your effort in teaching up-and-coming nobodies like myself the fundamentals of a well-rounded artist. My only hope is that those noble efforts are properly rewarded, respected, appreciated and compensated for by all who benefit from them.
Peace.
This is really dope man. I needed this. Finally a fairly simple way to understand what to put where. Thank you
Thanks seamless - I've been struggling with arrangement for a while now. I've been working on the same song for 3 month's! Wish I watched this before...
bro you probably wont even see this but you're nasty with the production skills, and the quality matches how dope the song is.
SeamlessR made the best tutorials in the good old days
This video was very helpful to me! I am making a music album for a school project, and I found this super interesting and it really taught me how a song is structured.
Thank you sooooo much for this! I have been working on edm songs and not getting the structure examples right..Now I have a good start to writing better song!
At least the best tutorial channel on youtube. Also i was wandering how many times it takes to you to make a song like this. Looking at everything, starting with designing your own sound and ending with mastering, to me it would take like 6 months
You did a great job on laying it all out... Thanks!
thanks,...it was very clear and logic.
easy to understand and a good orginized direction
like the intro and outro parts doesnt matter too much, and can do almost everything you want.
also how you have the same structure for the drops and breaks repeating but just making small changes of those.
and also the parts you can go crazy with.
You have made my life with these Production Basics.
This is like a magician revealing his tricks. Amazing stuff
Best tutorial on this topic!
I'm seeing it for the 3rd time.
Now I'm listen to the tracks differently.
Thank you SeamlessR.
I think the R stands for Riddler. 14:57 before we hear a note. . . Until then the Riddler be all like: Sometimes you can do it this way but on Sundays if it's sunny and if I'd had a nice brunch I might do it that way but not last week because I had an appointment at babblers anonymous but anyways the second break is where rules go to die as I've been quoted as saying, well actually I've never been quoted as such but I've said it, well actually I thought it, well actually I just came up with it but anyway that's a thing that you can do but there is always the need to be less than specific and concurrently consistent in segwaying, a monologue of my trajectory traversing trapping tangents about my talents. Lol. Still, I very much enjoyed it all. Top dude, top vid, top production.
Despite how fast you talk, the auto-caption actually transcribes your videos better than a lot of others.
I need to watch all of your videos !!! You are brilliant !
Thanks for giving the song structure in the 128-130 example as I'm aiming for house music this helped alot!
The biggest thing I have trouble with is expanding upon an idea. I'll get a four to eight measure loop that sounds pretty good and... that's it. I don't have much theory training beyond being able to read sheet music and knowing scales/keys, but would you have any advice for someone who has trouble expanding upon an idea?
A video on analytical listening would be awesome as well =)
Same here :/
^Same here..
Same problem...: /
We're all fucked. Welcome to Club Fuck, where everything is not as fun as it sounds. :/
The worse thing to do, in my opinion, and this is something that many producers do, is start from drums and spending a ridiculous amount of time on making drums sound good (or any instrument). This sucks out any ideas or inspiration (sometimes I simply forget my original idea because of time spent on altering the sound).
I divide my production in stages and only focus on one at a time. That is to say, there are 3 stages for me: sound-design (making sounds of course), production (composing, arranging and editing), and then finally the mix-down (making sonic/timbre changes and possibly arrangement alterations too). I don't do two things at once. Because one thing distracts me from the other. If I have an idea, I want to be able to grab a sound and then get that idea down and repeat this process without coming across any distractions or obstacles. If I stop to start focusing on engineering and being fiddly with frequencies and such, the motivation and ideas simply dissipate.
Hi, I'm Seamless... and today is... a day! Best Channel Ever!
this was one phenomenal 'class'
THANK YOU!
Cant wait work on something tomorrow!!
Mad talent bro! Great video!
Oh mighty SeamlessR, thank you for teaching us.
its alot of work involved in these type of tracks. Great Job
Hey Seamless - well done, I like how you structure your vids. Keep it going - music style is not my favorite but I do appreciate your creativity and it sounds very thight :). Wishing you good success and a lot of fun producing and playing your tunes. Cheers
Very nice video dude (even 4 years after). Very informative.
4 is the magic number of music
I say 140 ;)
I honestly don't know what the hell I'm doing. xD
9/8 is my magic number
Thank you so much mang I have followed you from how to bass 1. Everything I have learned is from you. from automation to fm synthesis all I use is sytrus and harmor now for bass. I was lost in how to arrange my songs now I got the idea. QUESTION. What is the keyboard short cut for note slide in piano roll. I have tryed every combination of keys. I see you use all sorts of short cuts but I just cant find that one.
Shortcut for Slide is "S" while in the Piano roll window :), also you can press F1 while viewing a piano roll window and it will open up the designated section of the Help Manual, wich has all the shorcuts for the piano roll in a list.
Yesss! I really needed this, thanks Seamless
Is this tutorial still relevant for today's edm music? I'm not sure if I should follow this old guide
Thanks man! I loved that bit at the end about Spinnin ;) Awesome track btw
Hi I'm Seamles and today.... is a day xD
you deserve more subs man you actually know what your talking about and I wish to shit I was as good at making music as u I have fl studio 11 and dont even know where to start. I found a few sounds on the internet but i dont even know how to sample my own or what plugins are worth buying. that tutorial was dope tho bout to watch the music theory one u made.
This is great video, very informative for someone like me. Thumbs up.
So would you first make the basic arrangement and than play around with it? Also what would you suggest as a start off in the track after you get your arrangement.
Also, how would you know how to build the track?
Reply whenever
Thanks
Ztars K All of that is basically answered with "whatever you want", or "whatever works best for you".
Ztars K SeamlessR Ok so I wanting to learn more on theory of Verse, Chorus and Bridge structure then. Because I have watched countless tutorials and I just can't seem to figure out what the hell is going on. I too am just winging it by what sounds good in my head and that's how I play off my structure.
I AM OFICIALLY IN LOVE! THIS IS SIMPLY GORGEOUS AND HYPNOTYZING! Your track, I mean. Thanks for the tutorial olso)
My intros are nearly always Pad, melodic Percussions, building up lead (not Same instrument like in the dance parte/ bass part) until 1min. Than bass part. Than brake: strings always strings, violins/ cello. With a mod. Version of the. Melodie. Than build up #2 than bass part ( not exactly the same as first). At least strings outro~1 min. Actually it sounds nice :)
I also often use strings as a drop. Thats also amazing.
youre the best just wanna say thanks for all this
THAAAAAANK YOUUU FOR EVERYTHIIIIING!
Gotta love B parts of the drop.
as someone who plays guitar, sings, and plays a bit of piano, and knows how to record all of those things, I can't help
but feel so frustrated when trying to follow along with all this 16 bar this a couple bars for this drop ughh, I'm really trying
to better my skills at self producing music so learning this is very helpful. However holy shit I've never once thought in my life when writing a song to first consider its tempo or its measurements in such an organized way. I don't understand how people emotionally accomplish anything that way. I appreciate the video though
spinnin records signs anyone seamless is too good
Hi SeamlessR, do you know why in fl studio when I have sounds coming from a channel and then when I add another channel, the original one sounds softer? Another instance is when I tested having a channel going from the left to the right channel and another channel playing a mono kick beat, and even though the kick is supposed to be central, it seems to go the opposite way of the other channel, and it goes a little right to a little left. Is there a way in mixing to fix this? Sorry if I sounds very complicated.. Thanks!
Excellent video. Thanks
The part where you pfftpft! At 6:05-6:06 got me rolling on the floor laughing 😂 😂 😂
This is amazing! :D
Sometimes dragging the actual song into the sequencer and matching the tempo helps me wrap my head around weird arrangements that sound good. There's usually patterns in there that you don't notice but can subconsciously feel when just listening to the song.
After hearing what you said about Djing your own tracks and failing I can totally relate! hahaha, I usually make my music listener friendly but definitely not DJ friendly.
Good for you. DJ friendly tracks don't ever hold up on their own, and as the person who made the damn thing, you want it to be able to hold it's own.
this makes alot of sense seamless
This is exactly what i was looking for thanks man
I like your videos bro, you the real pro!
love the hell out of your videos dude!
just gotta say thank you as I'm a trance / house dj, and I'm looking at production right now. I'm constantly pissed at myself as I'm pretty damn shite at making a melody, and as a musically minded person....... it sucks.... big time but ur videos are helping a lot so thanks very much from me Trancemattiks in the uk bless up .
How about some drum tutorials? WHat samples to pick and how to mix them and how to make a nice beat?
Love your krakatoa top!
Is there such thing as EDM Basic Elements? The very basic or important things that should not miss out when you produce a track? Thanks!
Where could we find a complete projects of "hit" songs for FL to get into that analyzes? :)
This was exactly what I was looking for thanks alot!
Subscribed :)
And BTW SeamlessR what plugin i should get, NI Massive, Harmor or Sylenth?
Thanks for your tutorials.
awesome track you did it
Could you possibly do this for terminologies? Just all the basic ones u can find? Like, "A Bar is ____". "Compression is when you _______." "Threshold is_______." And with each of these could you maybe do a brief explanation of the meaning and what it does. I've had this problem forever and I'm asking you to do this because whenever I ask friends that I think could help me with production for tips or feedback on a song prior to release, they hit me with one of these terms and I make a fool of myself. A video explaining terminology would be awesome!
Thank you, Seamless.
is it possible to uplouad flp of thoose emepty patterens that is placed correct pleace
how do yo make the pulse baseline in your intro?
Nice tutorial. It is named "Dance Music Structure (Production Basics 2)" on ADSR Tutorials and there is no Part 1 (by this name). I only found Part 1 of this Tut. by coming to TH-cam.
Seamless please make a series on how to make Dubstep songs!
Thanks, can you make a part 2?
Very helpful tutorial, thks!
beautiful track, way to make awesome melodic dubstep when a lot of edm is becoming super basic
great videos! very helpful!
Hi there! Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge :-) Definitely helpful.
Dude that song should be in a movie lol Awesome
Did you use sytrus in you track?
Dodge & Fuski say the second drop should be the same because most DJs will mostly just use the first drop and therefore the second will just be ignored. But to me, tracks should be made for listeners, not DJs. But DJs should definitely be considered.
Stephen, I noticed that when you were playing through the riser, the riser quickly rose in pitch as if it started right there. Whenever I try to play a project in the middle of a riser, it just doesn't play, how do I go about this?
SeamlessR At 3:47 you are saying "8 bar build and 8 bar rises". Did you mean to say "8 bar break and 8 bar rises"?? Sorry for nitpicking but I am really learning a lot by this and... I want to get it right. ;)
How long is your structure? How structure should be used to achieve 3minutes in 126bpm
Seamless te amo.
whats this track called?
How did you duplicate the patterns on 3:18 ?
+טל יעקב Ctrl+B with a pattern selected.
Wow Thanks! :)
You are really good!!
Do you really count the Sometime instrumental as a different project?
wao u r really seamless please make a tutorial to how to make bass which u done in this track please do this
How can you find anything? That's insane, I think I'd go crazy.
Hey if anyone out there can answer this question for me I would greatly appreciate it! I have an FL Studio 11 download file and my version of Windows XP can't find a way to open it. I thought of a solution to that but I don't know if it will work or not; I was thinking of downloading the demo off of the imageline server so that the download wizard could be on my computer. Then I could send the download file to the wizard to download the full version program. So yeah I'm just wondering if that will work and again I would greatly appreciate anyone's help with this.
Thanks!
I assume u named your flp's after the bpm and the number of the flp :), do you saved them all? Im interested in how your first projects sounds?
Greets thijmen