Re: Tips on Getting Tracks Finished
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 12:32 pm
Yeah, with the slight modification of saying 'climax' instead of neccessarily 'drop' (because the high point of the tune might be something that drops hard suddenly or something that you build to gradually) I'd say this really helps. It basically stops you writing a bunch of loops, starting to arrange from the beginning of the tune, and then realizing that two minutes in you've played all the cards in your hand and the tune has no sense of direction and then having to start writing some new bits and pieces that end up sounding a bit artificial and don't really work as well as the existing stuff and then you lose interest and go onto something else...kaiori breathe wrote:Most people write chronologically.
I.e., they write a song as they usually hear one.
So they'll write their intro then their drop then a mid section then a 2nd drop then an outro.
This is a really bad way to write music I think. It's highly ineffective and makes you work twice as hard as you have to.
A better way to write a track is to START with the drop. Then just simplify it and re-arrange it and voice it in different ways to make the other sections. The first way of writing a track, the way most people work with, forces you to expand on every section to make the next, writing my way you have one idea then you reduce it, it takes less thought, it's more efficient and it's far more practical and logical.
I've done this with every single track I've ever put together.
I guarantee if you start with your drop you'll get more tracks finished.
