Hi mate, hope you can appreciate som feedback.
The progressive house/trance of today leans a lot on the bass and percussion grooves as these elements bring a lot more movement to the arrangement. There is still a lot more to work on, but focussing on these things may yield the fastest results for you.
Perhaps these video's might be of help:
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As your arrangement(s) seems to be a bit stale. Try to bring a bit more variety to the track, mix things up a little by deviating a bit more from the default on-beat kick/hihat/clap pattern.
A little trick that might help is by progressively expanding around a existing loop. For instance:
- Start with your basic 4 beat loop (kick, HiHat, bass)
- Add an 8 beat loop (More hats/shakers, claps, another bass)
- Add another 16 beat percussion loop and/or arp loop
- Make a 32 beat FX , chord, melody loop
- 64 beat FX/riser loop
etc.
By doing this, and adding all the loops, you automatically force yourself to think outside your default short loop patterns. Key to this is to push yourself towards adding little variations in each loop sections.
Extra video (with regards to percussion) that might help:
Hope this helps