Yourself and not others! What do you wish you were told when you first started producing? Other than that it’s fair game! Your music, do what you want… Make music for Just as a reference, even if it’s just a cymbal every 8 bars or something. Try and provide something on the downbeat Starting with just off beat hats for example, it’s going to make it difficult. ![]() That’s not to say this is essential, but if you’re It’s always wise to provide some drums so As a DJ, is there anything producers should avoid doing in their tracks that could be annoying for DJ sets? So the engineer is not going to make major changes, but take this opportunity to get a professional to listen to your track in a proper studio and allow them to make the tiny tweaks where necessary. You should have complete control over all the elements of your track. Now obviously that is easy to fix, but it’s an exaggerated example. You want the bassline to be the main part of the track, but you sent your shit off for mixing and the mixing engineer has made the piano the main stay… That’s your vision gone out the window. Say you have a track with a piano and a bassline. People will disagree with that but here’s why… At it’s most basic level mixing is matching volume of the different parts of the track. Mixing is an absolute must know in my opinion. Do you think its necessary to learn how to mix and master? Speakers/headphones and thinking it’s done. (unless you know what you’re doing), listening to your music on one set of If a label gets weird about it, then chuck it out as aįree download and use it as publicity. Wouldn’t want to rip off someone’s music. JFDI… Just fucking do it! Who cares? If youĬan make a good track out of something then great! I mean, there’s a limit, you Their tracks to find the right sounding label for your tracks. Cruise beatport for the smaller labels and listen to Where is best for producers to send their demos off?īeginning, unless you’re convinced you’re making amazingly well produced music,Īim for smaller labels. Track, but yeah, it’s always some sort of melodic content, rather than a drum I will build some basic drums around it to get an idea if it can work in a ![]() So that’s always a bassline, a melody or a chord progression. I mean it helps… But you wouldn’t postpone producing because you don’t know how to play the piano right? Where do you usually start when writing a new tune?įor me, I always start a new track because Write by ear while you’re learning and you can pick up basic music theory to improve your writing when you’re ready to publish. You can hear by ear if notes are in key or not, and at the start, you won’t be releasing music. No, it’s more important to learn your daw, mixing, and songwriting. What are the 3 main things any budding producer needs without breakingĭifferently… Monitors, audio interface and acoustic treatment for your room! Do you think it’s important to learn music theory or an instrument Teach you more about your daw than most people can! So if you’re using FL Studio, looks up Image Line’s YouTube channel. Something that people ALWAYS overlook is the tutorials put on by your own DAW! Music tutorials are a melting pot of knowledge and useful tips. Have you got any suggestions for tutorials people can search online? Into this as a habit, but it can be useful in the beginning. Has a spectrum display so while your ears are still learning you can use theĭisplay to start to recognise where certain frequencies are. Use the Mini Moog) and a decent EQ – I recommend Fab Filter as a beginner as it If you’ve really got that urge, then some sort of moog emulation as a synth (I When you start it is NOT about plugins, but What plugins should someone start off with? So for me, FL Studio! I looked at Ableton but found it too complicated, to begin with, and found FL Studio was easy to get a beat down as an amateur because of the step sequencer. ![]() One EDM: What software would you recommend to a beginner?īlank Page: It’s hard to answer this in a non-bias way… Everyone always recommends whatever he or she started with. Greg has achieved a great deal in his relatively short career as his follow-up EP went on to gain support from BBC Introducing and since then he has been signed to labels such as Plasmapool, Xtrxx, and Club Restricted Records. Progressive, Deep, and Melodic London-based DJ and producer Greg Newman who is otherwise known as Blank Page have been rising his way through the ranks after his debut release ‘ Autumn’ reached the top 3 in the Trackitdown charts.
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