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Each time I start a song, I'll make the chorus quite easily and after about an hour I'll have a 4-8 bar loop but when I've finished I always get stuck and can't form any kind of build up, literally everytime and I'll just end up scrapping the whole project because I've spent so long on it with no progress

Does anyone else experience this?

JamesHanvey wrote:Each time I start a song, I'll make the chorus quite easily and after about an hour I'll have a 4-8 bar loop but when I've finished I always get stuck and can't form any kind of build up, literally everytime and I'll just end up scrapping the whole project because I've spent so long on it with no progress

Does anyone else experience this?

Cheap way = do what every non-underground house artist does these days: snare-snare-snare-snare-snare-snare-snare-snare-sna-sna-sna-sna-sna-sna-sna-sna-sssssssssssssssss [random vocal sample here] *DROP*

Another super common way = just keep adding instruments one by one towards the drop, makes the song pretty boring tho. I see this especially used in liquid dnb.

Lttle bit harder way = make a "bridge" to keep things flowing smoothly to chorus.

what super fun ideas, think I might try the liquid dnb one

I like designing sounds/instruments just for the bridge. Then continue to use that instrument every once in a while from then on in the song. Doing a complex evolving pads/atmo stuff can be cool too for a bridge. For versus, try starting with beat and bassline change ups.

fragments wrote:I like designing sounds/instruments just for the bridge. Then continue to use that instrument every once in a while from then on in the song. Doing a complex evolving pads/atmo stuff can be cool too for a bridge. For versus, try starting with beat and bassline change ups.

Yeah, I design some sounds exclusively for the intro most of the time, but also the other way round, i mean teasing different elements from the drop makes the song sound much more coherent I think. But you really have to be careful to leave some of the more powerful sounds out or tone them down a bit to preserve the impact of the drop if that's what you're going for.

bRRRz wrote:

fragments wrote:I like designing sounds/instruments just for the bridge. Then continue to use that instrument every once in a while from then on in the song. Doing a complex evolving pads/atmo stuff can be cool too for a bridge. For versus, try starting with beat and bassline change ups.

Yeah, I design some sounds exclusively for the intro most of the time, but also the other way round, i mean teasing different elements from the drop makes the song sound much more coherent I think. But you really have to be careful to leave some of the more powerful sounds out or tone them down a bit to preserve the impact of the drop if that's what you're going for.

Since I don't really write songs with "drops" it isn't an issue.