Great content pal. I would often struggle with the sound quality. So for instance while working in Ableton the track sounds rich and amazing but after exporting, it can be lower in volume & lack a bit of depth. I know there's a few things like phase cancellation that could be causing some problems and also monitoring the gain staging helps out. But is there a proven method or use of external hardware that is required to help stay consistent when it comes to achieving lush quality for an export of a project?
@EDM Tips Hello Will. Congratulations to you for the 100K subscribers, and I wish you all the best (what you wish yourself too), and thanks for your work. But I have an idea → would you make a "100K Live Party"- Stream, in which we can hear and talk about tracks, which have send to you the people they make it? Greatings from Daniel
Turning off the screen is immensely helpful, something I've done for years and it never fails to highlight tweaks and sometimes inspire an idea. Just don't turn it back on once you think of something, jot it down like will says, carry on listening, get a coffe or whatever and let the track loop a couple more times too.
@@EDMTips "Turning off the screen"... it`s not the same theme, but → that`s exactly this, why I love, to listen music in my car in the garage, when it`s evening or night. Than I can concentrate me more better of details in the music. Yeahhh
Absolutely what I needed to hear. As a hardcore perfectionist, I've focused so much on polishing 16 bar loops and such that it's caused me to lose the creative flow of projects. Thank you much for being straight forward. I honestly feel more motivated after watching this. Cheers!
One can post as many Charlotte De Witte and Chris Lake tutorials as one wants..... the information contained in this video is the END OF if you're serious about completing music. Will, I've been following your channel for many years, I am a big suffer'er of finishing songs... Thanks for this. Great format.....
Thanks so much man! Been getting stuck for as long as I can remember. Its like I’m not putting out tracks, but just locking an emotion in a loop and then get stuck at it till im Immensly frustrated and depressed only to do the exact same thing again. I am going to use your tips. Hopefully it Will work:). Thanks again!
I like to also give myself some constraints before starting the writing. for example; piano, a saw bass, a specific arp or lead to avoid spending tons of time on trying committing to something due to abundance of choice. Another mistake I have done in the past is choosing poor presets or source material and then try to fix it later with mixing. And also not deciding if a lead or vocal should carry the track and then not having headroom for any of them. Otherwise great tips! I use all of them, the checklist can be hellish but its the only way
Great tips! I have a similar approach. Also what was a total revolution to me was starting to mix with pink noise - gets the volume levels balanced each & every time! Then you can combine that with mixing with pink noise in mono, if you feel you have extra special OCD! 😄 👍
Great tips! I have a similar approach. Also what was a total revolution to me was starting to mix with *Pink Noise!* - Gets the volume levels balanced each & every time! Then you can combine that with mixing with pink noise in mono, if you feel you have extra special OCD! 😄 👍
Thanks again Will, I have been putting your tips and techniques to good use. From December I have managed to finish 7 tracks completely, they are still no where near pro, but they are full tracks. Just going through the whole process does make you more proficient at each stage. I then went back to revisit those old loops I had done and set the task of completing them. Thank you for your support and continued hard work. :)
Thank you for this!! It will most definitely be helpful with the limited time I have to work on music as a father of three! A video on generating ideas sounds very interesting and I'm sure it would help myself as well as many others. Thanks again Will and I look forward to the next tutorial!!
@@EDMTips mate, I’m really new to all this and started in lockdown to help my mental health, it’s been so good to have an outlet. Any tips on ideal frequency ranges would be good. Bass, mids and highs. I feel like I’m able to mix, and basic master but my track still miss that punch and clarity that I hear on other finished tracks. My stuff quickly feels muddy or too trebly (I totally overcomplicate too) 😂 Do you run a workshop or forum? Keep the vids coming, so helpful! Oh also, any tips on sound design in serum always welcome, especially for 808 for EDM.
Amen brother! All fantastic tips. But in particular, I get stuck in the loop . It's like a constant curse for me. And I didn't even realize it until watching your video! Another big one for me is to turn off the monitor and only use my ears when reviewing an arrangement. I'm always anticipating bc I'm watching the play bar progress as I'm listening. It's not even conscious. Thanks again for the amazing vids.
Hi Will! I'd love a fresh video about where you go through step by step what to do when you finished a track? I'm gonna upload the EP to an aggregator called Amuse. Is that a good strategy? What platforms are good or bad? What are the typical rookie mistakes you've noticed? I wanna hit that stride where I; Create 8-16 bar loop, arrange, polish, master, create album cover then lastly upload/send it - Done! Then ofc rinse and repeat. Find myself stuck at the last step Thanks for all the great content you provide!
THIS IS PURE GOLD!!!! Thank you very much man!!! Those are the stuff that people need to also focus to improve themselves. Yes, they may sound boring but they definitely pay off!!
@EDM Tips Hello Will. Congratulations to you for the 100K subscribers, and I wish you all the best (what you wish yourself too), and thanks for your work. But I have an idea → would you make a "100K Live Party"- Stream, in which we can hear and talk about tracks, which have send to you the people they make it? Greatings from Daniel
4 minutes into the video, I opened up an idea in Live from earlier today, grabbed a reference track, and laid out the first half. was about to stop cuz i didnt think i had enough material. Decided to finished it anyways. Now its arranged and I can add as much as i want and wont half to look at a 8 bar loop anymore. Thanks, its so simple and i still wanted to quit haha.
Please help with generating ideas by posting a video on that. I have like 6 songs that are all halfway done and this video was a huge help but I could always use more. KEEP ON!!
Love these videos. You have helped me so much over time. So thank you! Just like the turning your monitor off I do something very similar. So I bounce it to audio then listen to it on my headphones what I use daily. Not only can you not see it and anticipate what's coming, it let's me hear it on different headphones and pick up on new sounds that I can hear in on those specific headphones. Then I'll listen to it on my souundbar
Me personally I follow the structure explained by Fatboy slim in an interview. "Is like having sex, you start with a foreplay then you stablish a rythm, you go up, you go down and then you start building up to the gran climax and you relax at the end." And I stretch or retract as needed within that structure. I stopped doing loops, I heard Stephan Bodzin say that he plays the parts all along the track while recording, that gives a human element to the music. And both things combined have worked for me so far. ...and yes I also give it time, let it rest for a day or two and come back and listen with fresh ears, it may take me a week or two to have a track finished, but hey, I have no pressure whatsoever. I'm not known.
Thanks again Will! trying to stay working in arrangement view, until i get this down. I have pretty much everything else down, one step at a time, need to finish bad arrangement before i can make good ones, right?
i pledged to release my first track sometime this year, and you are helping me hold me to that! it might not be pretty or original, but i will compose and release an original arrangement at least 5 minutes!
Hi Will! Great video! Can you make a video teaching how to produce like Stylo? Mostly like his last release Tempter ft. Goom Gum. I will love if you can remake that song kkkkk Thanks a lot!!! 🙏🏼
As a longtime watcher of your vids and someone who has bought and makes use of your creative toolkit constantly, I'm curious about something. I know you teach courses and have had students chart on Beatport but I'm wondering what your most successful track is? I'm not asking this in a passive aggressive "who does this youtuber think he is" kind of way, I'm a genuine fan and I've learned a lot from you.. I guess it's really a 2-part question - what's your biggest commercial success for 1 and then for 2, what do you think is your personal best track? As a follow up I suppose I'd ask what your favourite genre to create is? You cover trance, house, techno and everything in tutorials but as a producer do you gravitate to a particular style or does it depend on whatever mood your in on the day? Also, how much has your UA-cam career influenced the kind of music you make, if at all? I might be alone in being interested in these kinds of questions, I don't know but I suspect a lot of fans, subscribers etc would be interested to know more about your career, tastes, successes, failures etc. Maybe a video about your own journey pre and post youtube could be something worth considering?
I mix as I go but when finally finishing, I rebalance the mix, re-mix aspects of it, and then go to mastering... Yet sooo many times I'm coming back to the mix, changing one thing, rexporting etc over weeks and weeks.
i have a album, that is work in progress, but i go live with it in mid september. so i have my deadline, and its really close, which quite stresses me out. because i also need to make the visuals and learn how to properly perform the track... gonna be a challenge
Sigh! After writing new scripts, improving workflow, documenting new keyboard shortcuts, enhancing project templates, and analysing plugins in PluginDoctor I have no time left to write/produce music. And so it is for a Reaper geek. 😁😁😁
Never had that problem! I produce modern EDM-Music. Under 3 minutes, clear structure,.... so as soon as the idea is packed into an 8bar-loop, it takes only a view days to finish the song..... yeah, but then waiting for the vocal from the singer and mixing in properly takes another 2 days.
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Thanks for watching and I hope you found this video useful. Let me know what tip helps you to finish your tracks ✍
Great content pal. I would often struggle with the sound quality. So for instance while working in Ableton the track sounds rich and amazing but after exporting, it can be lower in volume & lack a bit of depth. I know there's a few things like phase cancellation that could be causing some problems and also monitoring the gain staging helps out. But is there a proven method or use of external hardware that is required to help stay consistent when it comes to achieving lush quality for an export of a project?
This video was right on time for me. I'm just progressing to the point of finishing tracks and caught some really great ideas here
Tip Nº5 is defineltly the most important to get the music donne!
Nice helped.. Good to see a video on generating or coming up with ideas video would be good
@EDM Tips Hello Will. Congratulations to you for the 100K subscribers, and I wish you all the best (what you wish yourself too), and thanks for your work. But I have an idea → would you make a "100K Live Party"- Stream, in which we can hear and talk about tracks, which have send to you the people they make it?
Greatings from Daniel
Turning off the screen is immensely helpful, something I've done for years and it never fails to highlight tweaks and sometimes inspire an idea. Just don't turn it back on once you think of something, jot it down like will says, carry on listening, get a coffe or whatever and let the track loop a couple more times too.
Great suggestions! Thank you :)
@@EDMTips "Turning off the screen"... it`s not the same theme, but → that`s exactly this, why I love, to listen music in my car in the garage, when it`s evening or night. Than I can concentrate me more better of details in the music. Yeahhh
I have never turned my screen off but I do close my eyes when listening to my loops for edits aha does that count lol
Absolutely what I needed to hear. As a hardcore perfectionist, I've focused so much on polishing 16 bar loops and such that it's caused me to lose the creative flow of projects. Thank you much for being straight forward. I honestly feel more motivated after watching this.
Cheers!
BOOM! 🙌🙌 😎 It's time Toine finish that track!
One can post as many Charlotte De Witte and Chris Lake tutorials as one wants..... the information contained in this video is the END OF if you're serious about completing music. Will, I've been following your channel for many years, I am a big suffer'er of finishing songs... Thanks for this. Great format.....
You're welcome! Anything else you're struggling with?
Such a great analogy with the vases!
Thanks so much man! Been getting stuck for as long as I can remember. Its like I’m not putting out tracks, but just locking an emotion in a loop and then get stuck at it till im Immensly frustrated and depressed only to do the exact same thing again. I am going to use your tips. Hopefully it Will work:). Thanks again!
You're welcome, Giel! Just keep up at it and don't give up :)
I like to also give myself some constraints before starting the writing. for example; piano, a saw bass, a specific arp or lead to avoid spending tons of time on trying committing to something due to abundance of choice. Another mistake I have done in the past is choosing poor presets or source material and then try to fix it later with mixing. And also not deciding if a lead or vocal should carry the track and then not having headroom for any of them. Otherwise great tips! I use all of them, the checklist can be hellish but its the only way
Great tips! I have a similar approach. Also what was a total revolution to me was starting to mix with pink noise - gets the volume levels balanced each & every time! Then you can combine that with mixing with pink noise in mono, if you feel you have extra special OCD! 😄 👍
@@tredfxman awesome I will look into pink noise!
Love it! Great tips, Em F 🤙
It's a game changer, you can check it out here: ua-cam.com/video/5qyl1_UC6y0/v-deo.html
@@EDMTips epic that u had this covered! will check it
Great tips! I have a similar approach. Also what was a total revolution to me was starting to mix with *Pink Noise!* - Gets the volume levels balanced each & every time! Then you can combine that with mixing with pink noise in mono, if you feel you have extra special OCD! 😄 👍
I totally second that!
Great! Thanks
Great help & tips as usual will,
What helps me is taking regular breaks, after an hour I'll be getting nowhere fast so I stick the kettle on!!.
You're welcome, and thanks for the support! 🙂
Congrats on 100k Will! Keep it up
Thanks man! I'm absolutely stoked!
Thanks again Will, I have been putting your tips and techniques to good use. From December I have managed to finish 7 tracks completely, they are still no where near pro, but they are full tracks. Just going through the whole process does make you more proficient at each stage. I then went back to revisit those old loops I had done and set the task of completing them. Thank you for your support and continued hard work. :)
Thats awesome! Keep up the good work the quality will improve with time :)
Thank you for this!! It will most definitely be helpful with the limited time I have to work on music as a father of three! A video on generating ideas sounds very interesting and I'm sure it would help myself as well as many others. Thanks again Will and I look forward to the next tutorial!!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching and for the kind words of support :) I'll cover idea generation shortly :)
So helpful mate, thanks for this! I got so stuck in this space for ages. Keep the great content coming. Many thanks.
You're welcome, glad it was helpful! Anything else you're struggling with?
@@EDMTips mate, I’m really new to all this and started in lockdown to help my mental health, it’s been so good to have an outlet. Any tips on ideal frequency ranges would be good. Bass, mids and highs. I feel like I’m able to mix, and basic master but my track still miss that punch and clarity that I hear on other finished tracks. My stuff quickly feels muddy or too trebly (I totally overcomplicate too) 😂 Do you run a workshop or forum? Keep the vids coming, so helpful! Oh also, any tips on sound design in serum always welcome, especially for 808 for EDM.
Amen brother! All fantastic tips. But in particular, I get stuck in the loop . It's like a constant curse for me. And I didn't even realize it until watching your video! Another big one for me is to turn off the monitor and only use my ears when reviewing an arrangement. I'm always anticipating bc I'm watching the play bar progress as I'm listening. It's not even conscious. Thanks again for the amazing vids.
So true! You're welcome, thanks for watching and for the kind words of support :)
Such a great and important video. Thx for making this.
Glad it was helpful! Anything else you're struggling with?
Great tips, Will! I have so many loops that need arranging. I'll use these tips!
You can do it!
Ayyyy so close to 100k 🔥🔥🔥finally the play button will be yours and I’m looking forward to see you getting it🙏amen brother 🙏
I honestly can't wait to reach this milestone! Thanks for watching and for the support :)
Much needed bro 🔥
Thanks for watching and hope you enjoy :)
Great video!!! The best!
Hi Will! I'd love a fresh video about where you go through step by step what to do when you finished a track? I'm gonna upload the EP to an aggregator called Amuse. Is that a good strategy? What platforms are good or bad? What are the typical rookie mistakes you've noticed?
I wanna hit that stride where I; Create 8-16 bar loop, arrange, polish, master, create album cover then lastly upload/send it - Done! Then ofc rinse and repeat. Find myself stuck at the last step
Thanks for all the great content you provide!
Super tips! Thanks a lot 🙏🎹
You're welcome, thanks for watching and the support! 🙌🏻
THIS IS PURE GOLD!!!! Thank you very much man!!! Those are the stuff that people need to also focus to improve themselves. Yes, they may sound boring but they definitely pay off!!
Rock on! You're welcome! 🙂
Great info-thx 👍👍👍
You're welcome...Thanks for watching and supporting! 🙌🏻
A plan for generating new ideas definitely sounds like another great video. Thanks for all the tips!
You're welcome! I'll do idea generation in the near future too :)
@EDM Tips Hello Will. Congratulations to you for the 100K subscribers, and I wish you all the best (what you wish yourself too), and thanks for your work. But I have an idea → would you make a "100K Live Party"- Stream, in which we can hear and talk about tracks, which have send to you the people they make it?
Greatings from Daniel
Thanks, I am getting something even better and will announce next week :)
Nice dude. Thank you
You’re welcome!
4 minutes into the video, I opened up an idea in Live from earlier today, grabbed a reference track, and laid out the first half. was about to stop cuz i didnt think i had enough material. Decided to finished it anyways. Now its arranged and I can add as much as i want and wont half to look at a 8 bar loop anymore. Thanks, its so simple and i still wanted to quit haha.
Great stuff! Action is the foundation key to success!
Brilliant as always
You’re welcome! Thanks for watching and for the kind words of support :)
I would love for you to do the other video please, how to generate ideas?
I'll add this to my next poll, and we might see this video soon :)
@@EDMTips I will keep my eyes peeled. Thank you.
i love the way you think about music creation
Thanks, appreciate it! 🙌🙏
Please help with generating ideas by posting a video on that. I have like 6 songs that are all halfway done and this video was a huge help but I could always use more. KEEP ON!!
Some great guidance here, I’m going to try some of these ideas today 👍thanks heaps 🙏
Awesome! Let me know how you get on :)
Yes! To generating ideas!
Got this on my list :)
Damn everytime I'm struggle with something you release the perfect video the next day, thanks Will, great stuff 🙂👍
Really glad you enjoyed it! Anything else in particular you’re struggling with?
Hey Will , did you saw the new avatar 2 teaser trailer? The music sounded epic. Maybe you can do a break down of that?
Love these videos. You have helped me so much over time. So thank you! Just like the turning your monitor off I do something very similar. So I bounce it to audio then listen to it on my headphones what I use daily. Not only can you not see it and anticipate what's coming, it let's me hear it on different headphones and pick up on new sounds that I can hear in on those specific headphones. Then I'll listen to it on my souundbar
Love it! Great tip 🤙
I have this habit of remixing my own projects before they're finished.
Well done with 100k followers mate 👍
Thanks, I truly appreciate the support! 🙏🏻
Me personally I follow the structure explained by Fatboy slim in an interview.
"Is like having sex, you start with a foreplay then you stablish a rythm, you go up, you go down and then you start building up to the gran climax and you relax at the end." And I stretch or retract as needed within that structure.
I stopped doing loops, I heard Stephan Bodzin say that he plays the parts all along the track while recording, that gives a human element to the music.
And both things combined have worked for me so far.
...and yes I also give it time, let it rest for a day or two and come back and listen with fresh ears, it may take me a week or two to have a track finished, but hey, I have no pressure whatsoever. I'm not known.
Thank you 🤟🏽
You’re welcome! Glad you enjoyed :)
Amazing tips 😁
Glad it was helpful! Anything else you're struggling with?
@@EDMTips yeah I need a kick up the ass lol
I'm definitely gonna try the turning off the screen thing, I just realised that people who listen to it aren't looking at tracks and effect racks!!
Awesome! Let me know how it works for you :)
@@EDMTips will let you know if the track gets signed!
@@lateralshiftmusic Awesome! Fingers crossed for you, man!
Thanks again Will! trying to stay working in arrangement view, until i get this down. I have pretty much everything else down, one step at a time, need to finish bad arrangement before i can make good ones, right?
i pledged to release my first track sometime this year, and you are helping me hold me to that! it might not be pretty or original, but i will compose and release an original arrangement at least 5 minutes!
You got this!
This is a solid goal but totally achievable, Isaac! Keep up the good work!
Hi Will!
Great video!
Can you make a video teaching how to produce like Stylo?
Mostly like his last release Tempter ft. Goom Gum.
I will love if you can remake that song kkkkk
Thanks a lot!!!
🙏🏼
Possibly, depending on how many other people vote for it :)
+1 for the idea generation video here 😬
As a longtime watcher of your vids and someone who has bought and makes use of your creative toolkit constantly, I'm curious about something. I know you teach courses and have had students chart on Beatport but I'm wondering what your most successful track is?
I'm not asking this in a passive aggressive "who does this youtuber think he is" kind of way, I'm a genuine fan and I've learned a lot from you.. I guess it's really a 2-part question - what's your biggest commercial success for 1 and then for 2, what do you think is your personal best track? As a follow up I suppose I'd ask what your favourite genre to create is? You cover trance, house, techno and everything in tutorials but as a producer do you gravitate to a particular style or does it depend on whatever mood your in on the day? Also, how much has your UA-cam career influenced the kind of music you make, if at all?
I might be alone in being interested in these kinds of questions, I don't know but I suspect a lot of fans, subscribers etc would be interested to know more about your career, tastes, successes, failures etc. Maybe a video about your own journey pre and post youtube could be something worth considering?
Also...if I were to take a plane to Portugal, could I crash on your couch? lol
I mix as I go but when finally finishing, I rebalance the mix, re-mix aspects of it, and then go to mastering... Yet sooo many times I'm coming back to the mix, changing one thing, rexporting etc over weeks and weeks.
Then I finish a banger and pitch to labels.. all for them to never even open
i have a album, that is work in progress, but i go live with it in mid september.
so i have my deadline, and its really close, which quite stresses me out.
because i also need to make the visuals and learn how to properly perform the track...
gonna be a challenge
You can do it! Keep up the good work and don't give up :)
Sigh! After writing new scripts, improving workflow, documenting new keyboard shortcuts, enhancing project templates, and analysing plugins in PluginDoctor I have no time left to write/produce music. And so it is for a Reaper geek. 😁😁😁
Ah, but a stitch in time!
3:01 "I don't have very much will power." - When even a Will admits, he doesn't has "Will"-power 😅
I am only human 😁
Very helpful
Glad it helped! Anything else you're struggling with?
Liters sitting at a restaurant eating a steak while watching this with my AirPods. That was almost creepy 🤣🤣🤣
Almost but not quite 😂
100k soon Will
I honestly can't wait :) Thanks for watching and for the support :)
thanks 😊
Welcome 😊
Will You have The Best EDM Tips :) !
Thank you, Wentny, I am glad you found my videos helpful so far! 🙂🙌🏻
Never had that problem! I produce modern EDM-Music. Under 3 minutes, clear structure,.... so as soon as the idea is packed into an 8bar-loop, it takes only a view days to finish the song..... yeah, but then waiting for the vocal from the singer and mixing in properly takes another 2 days.
Sounds awesome, Joe, perhaps this video is not for you :)
@@EDMTips But so many other of your videos are exactely for me! Thanks a lot therefor!!!
Make video how to make liquid soul tutorial music please... thank you
Maybe in the future. Let's see how many people will vote for it!
not even finished the video and im going in with a hell yeh!!
BOOM! 🙌🙌 😎
You don't have much "Will" power, that's clever, and also a little funny 😅
I try 😂
Respect for playing league of legends with a controller
Appreciate it! 🙌🙏
So many truths in just one video ...
Glad it was helpful! Anything else you're struggling with?
I always start all tracks with no.7
That's awesome! Any other trips help you finishing your tracks?
Now how do I make it not suck.
Practice makes perfect! Keep at it and don't give up!
Finish more music 👀 heard that somewhere 😂
Like .... everywhere? :)
He11 Yeah!!!
BOOM! 🙌🙌 😎
Does anyone give more to the next generation of EDM producers than Sir WIll of EDM?
He’s the man no doubt 👍
Sir Bill of EDM
You need Will Power
We all do, sometimes :)
5b) Stop watching videos like these. Instead, just start working on your own stuff. For real. 😁 Social Media is such time-stealer.
He said clicking on the video and watching it.... 😉😁
@@EDMTips haha, absolutely. I watched it first and then wrote my self-observational comment ;-) 110% guilt right here!