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The title sounds dumb but please take a second to read before you flame. I've been working really hard to make a sick intro for my dubstep track since it is hard to find good tutorials on how to make intros, but on 130-135 tempo its way too fast for the intro and I want it much slower. I found at 100 tempo it sounds really nice, is there a way where I can make it go progressively slow like that then back to fast at 130 tempo or is this impossible?

Automate the BPM of your track.

Depends on your daw.

If your in reason go to where it says the bpm and right click edit automation and then a channel will appear at the top of your sequencer

In logic open the globals tab at the top of the arrange and then add nodes along the line to drag up and down.

If you're using Live you can automate the tempo through the drop down box on the master channel.

if you want to avoid automating the master tempo you could just experiment with using half time. basically use longer value notes, like 1/2 instead of 1/4, etc...

lloydy wrote:In logic open the globals tab at the top of the arrange and then add nodes along the line to drag up and down.

yeah, or if you want to do it to specific audio, use the time and pitch machine

um. why would you automate the tempo because '135 is too fast.'

how about, make longer notes (instead of an 8th or 16th note, try a quarter note, or only change notes every half/full bar).. or a sparser drum pattern. kick on 1, snare on 3 (for example), as opposed to kick on 1 and 3 and snare or 2 and 4. or even a kick on the first beat of the first bar, and a snare of the first beat of the second bar.

You might wanna try working with a 3/4 time signature, at around 130 if you have say a melody over your track at 3/4 then the phrasing will change every 3 beats rather than 4, but it would also work out to be like 4/4 at around 100bpm at the same time. To show how it works more cos I cant explain things for shit listen to this:

Soundcloud

at first it is like around 100bpm, but afterwards its more like 130, but there isnt a tempo change at all, its just when he introduces the 4 to the floor kick drum it is like triplets at the 100 bpm tempo, but if you think of it as 130 it is then on every beat and the melody of the intro is now playing 3/4 at 130 rather than 4/4 at 100.

In FL Studio, right-click the tempo, create automation clip.

Jas0n wrote:In FL Studio, right-click the tempo, create automation clip.

This.

Try a gradual increase from 100 bpm to 135 and see how that sounds.