Producing music: Building from scratch -Tips for beginners (Ableton Live 9)

“The music is not in the notes,
but in the silence between.”

It is a Mozart quote...a lot of famous musicians said similar things and this sentence completely changed my perception about music. True words of a musical genius, and once you get what he meant by that, you never go back.

You have a catchy tune but you don't know how to expand and spice it up?
USE THE SAME NOTES!!!
Right. Use the same key combinations as in your main tune, just play with the length and the distance of the notes.

For this presentation I've created a 8 bar long tune and then I made a track for only three different key combinations (2 bar long each) which are included in my main tune, I've just changed the "silence between".
Everything you will hear was built up from these, no trickery, just simple, short tunes.

First I'll show you the lead tune, and these 3 combinations separately on a piano:

That's all it takes, now I have plenty of materials to work with.
Let's add them together, and then transfer each track into a different instrument (3 in total).

• For the main tune I chose a Lead Synth
• The high notes became a soft precussion jingle...also would work fine with brass/flute or a string instrument.
• The low notes are giving the bassline.
• ....and a little drum track in addition just for the fun. I've added a basic trap beat, which you can learn about here.

Together:

Very little work, and now you have a full concept that you can expand with no limits. All it took was creating a tune, and repeating its notes in a different manner.

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STEEM ON!