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Time to spam some new music. I had a day off, wrote a song, 10/10 day for me and I am really loving that one
DJ Recharge - The Sun Will Rise Again
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This sounds pretty nice! Loving the soft beats, everything flows nicely. I'd advise you to try and give it some breathing room in spaces, make it go up & down a bit...that sort of thing. A little bit of variability in the climax wouldn't hurt either. But I think you nailed the mood overall. Love it!
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I actually had a small melody written, but chugged it. I finally started seeing what some people here were telling me about some of my melodies sounding strange, and although they are in key, I think I started noticing it too.
My two main thing to work on are chords and melodies. I read recently about minimalist producers. I don't think I want to go that way, but at my current level might suit me better until I find a better way to write melodies.
One thing on my last 3 songs I started using panning more and more on some elements(not that I didn't use some on some songs before) and my mixing is slightly better and easier overall.
I remember a few years ago hearing some stuff about producing in 90s from old school producers. They said we didn't care about mastering and had very little mixing. We just made stuff and let audio engineers worry about it. But we don't live in the 90s, todays producers are expected to have next to perfect mixing and most of the mastering figured down, so that's another thing I am focusing in the last few moths.
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Liking the bassline and the lush sounding pads.
The breakdown sounds really nice and spacious. The whole track has a really nice vibe!
If I were to nitpick, I'd say the percussion sounds a little bit dry and could use a bit of swing or groove to it.
Nice work overall though!
I'd say getting your mix right is the more important out of the 2 as some labels will want a professional master of your track regardless of how good your own master is.
This could help you a fair bit. Some of the stuff earlier in the vid might be a little basic, but the latter part might help a lot.
It's based around major keys, but it works exactly the same for minor keys as well.
Once you understand the concept of the roman numeral system for chord structures, you can start looking at some common chord patterns. From there, once you get a feel for which chords are the most stable in a key (Usually the 'I' (or 'i') chord and how to move to a resolve, it becomes easy to start building your own.
The breakdown sounds really nice and spacious. The whole track has a really nice vibe!
If I were to nitpick, I'd say the percussion sounds a little bit dry and could use a bit of swing or groove to it.
Nice work overall though!
Labels will have the track mixed and mastered for you, but the cost of that will potentially come out of your royalties.
I'd say getting your mix right is the more important out of the 2 as some labels will want a professional master of your track regardless of how good your own master is.
This could help you a fair bit. Some of the stuff earlier in the vid might be a little basic, but the latter part might help a lot.
It's based around major keys, but it works exactly the same for minor keys as well.
Once you understand the concept of the roman numeral system for chord structures, you can start looking at some common chord patterns. From there, once you get a feel for which chords are the most stable in a key (Usually the 'I' (or 'i') chord and how to move to a resolve, it becomes easy to start building your own.
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I've been thinking I am sort of good of making mash ups(I always knew my stronger side is djing) and I always have a ton of ideas for mash ups. Yet I rarely act on it. Here is the first one of many mash ups to come specially when both Serato Pro and Studio integrate their stems separation soon. Btw there was no stem separation here just a little bit of EQ work on my side.