Easiest Way To Start A Song
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- Опубліковано 28 гру 2024
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MY GEAR:
DAW (Music making software): Logic Pro and Ableton Live
Studio monitors (speakers): Yamaha HS8's
Headphones: Audeze LCD X (open back)
Camera: Canon 80d
Computer: Mac Studio with M2 Ultra chip and 2 TB hardrive
Midi controller (keyboard): Komplete Kontrol 61
Interface: Scarlett Clarett 2 pre
Desk: a cheap one from ikea
Chair: also a cheap one from ikea
My favorite plugins that I use the most:
XFER Serum
Sylenth 1
Nexus 3
Kontakt
RC 20
Valhalla Shimmer
Valhalla Vintage Verb
Shaperbox 3
XFER OTT
Fab Filter Saturn 2
Fab Filter Pro C 2
Arturia Pigments
Baby Audio Comeback Kid
Output Thermal and Portal
LABS Soft Piano
Hardware that I use behind the scenes but not in videos:
Elektron Octatrack (my fav)
Elektron Digitakt
Korg Minilogue XD
I love how stoked Alex gets over little things it reminds me of my favorite part about making music
Me too
Beginner edm producer here and I have to say this tutorial was awesome! I appreciate your work and the teachings you make. This helps a lot💯 thank you
this is exactly how I start my songs!! awesome method, works every time:)
I am no one. I didn't even take any lesson to learn playing instruments. But since the Covid strikes and spent lots of time at home, I train a lot by playing virtual drum following with any different songs. Without any knowledge in music, I've created so far around 9 - 10 songs... I don't know how that happen but I really want to make music in the future. Just like the other professional musicians. Currently, I'm using the FL Studio 20 (trial mode). So far, just few of them were posted in my channel. Good to have you as a guider, mr. Alex Rome.
Love your videos, they have been really helpful to me just beginning to make music. Thank you and please keep em coming!
Interval game strong and a good way to start off the track. I normally start with chords (which is 2 or more notes so I guess an interval), but never thought about how you did it adding the bassline. Dope vibe in the end with the production. A more chill don diablo haha
Yeah literally all chords are based on specific intervals
Niko I'm your fan in your great melody pack u sell
you're one of the gods of music production tuts bro I swear
You gotta make this one into a full length song! 🔥🔥🔥👌🙌🙌 It’s soo good 🤩😃
Organic Sound 💚💚💚
I love the nuts and bolts of your channel! The simplicity is what makes music so good. I swear a lot people and bad teachers enjoy over-complicating things for a good ol' ego rubbing. This is refreshing! Thank you! My experience consisted in using fruity loops to make farty sounding synth music back in the late 90s as a 10 year old. It never got better than migraine inducing stuff 🤣 Everyone cleared the room it was so bad 😆
man your awesome. thanks again for a concise and informative video. always learn something new. lol and I love how jazzed up you get when you build the track
Love this guy, only wish he'd upload more. THANK YOU for everything.
This is prob my fav video of yours so far :)
You never fail to deliver quality content. Big ups to you man!
Cool presentation - it's nice to see the process take shape in a rapid format.
Great video with Great Value !!! Thanks
Fire bro, you inspire me!! Loved the Vocalchops, those were siiiiick!
Bro I'm writing a song, you are the one I need for the production, I love your work
Another great video and dope track in the end, Legend!
Superb as usual
This was really dope bro great work
the GOAT 🦌 delivers again 🔥🔥🔥
I love this guy
Very nice video Alex
awesome video Alex 🙂
This would sound great in a movie or series.
You are the best
inspirational craftwork
That hoodie looks comfortable asf
Amazing! 🔥🔥🔥🙌
Genius !!!
well-illustrated thanks
Great video. Have been looking for a sample pack like this
Big fan sir
I cant wait till im at this level
keep em coming Alex ,up the gunners!!!!
very useful. thankyou
i like the commentary after finishing a section
How do you know the things that you need? Do they just come up to your mind and that´s it?
I'm from Cameroon ,the very day I went across your video ,what the fork I'm proud of my self ,
Thank you .
Please best side to download good Acapella?
Very nice track!
Dope video. Got real Lane 8 vibes from the song
is there a tutorial on how you made the drop chords wobble?
Smooth 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾
Brooooo u r freakin awesome🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
man thats bautiful
i actually learned so much
So what software are you using? I’m new at this and don’t know where to start. Thanks for the tut!
Alex I think you can do amapiano try please you are good.
Nice work.
Can you make a vital sample pack plz?
I will second this idea
You fire🔥💙
Dope video keep banging
I like to start my songs with a huge lead and lots of pads and energetic drums
1:27 thats like warning or alarming
This little experiment came out really good. Would be nice if you worked on it a bit more and publish it!
But how do you know which notes you can use? You seem to know even without hearing them. I don't understand music theory at all and have huge difficulities creating chord progressions. Like I can start with F#, but then what? Do I pick a random key consiting of F# and then create something out of it? That doesn't sound like a great idea tbh. I'd like to know how to start with one note and know which one could be next, and next, and next, etc.
I recommend you to learn music theory, I was like you in the past, and learning it made me feel how the chords are going to sound just by looking their notes, and this will give you much more imagination and creativity to make new songs.
You need to start training you ears to what sounds good my friend! Also i would recomend to import a reference track, and try to copy it! Then you alter the notes into your own liking! I have a video on this on my channel.
I think most of us who don't know music theory at the beginning just mess around with notes and different combinations then you pick up the rest in the process. Personally most important thing for me is to have fun while creating music. Designing own chords might be hard to start with but once you get going you will know what works.
You'd be surprised how many producers don't know much or any music theory at all. They just play around with notes until they sound good together and basically form popular scales and chords by accident just because it sounds good. Music theory isn't necessary to make good music, but learning it does save you a ton of time instead of doing trial and error.
I'm currently working on my first ever song and the biggest issue I'm running into is it's fine to do some melodies and chords and beats separatelly but it's really really hard to articulate the song altogether and bringing everything together. Do you have any advice on that?
I think completing a couple projects will help a lot
@@tarotheprod Ahah yeah for sure I imagine
@@PhO3NiX96 it really does help, also looking at pieces and analyzing them and figuring out how the sounds work together to sound full is a good way to learn.
And for sure keeping it simple trying to put down your idea with the least amount of sounds (of good quality) and basic arrangements is key
@@tarotheprod I was more talking about how to articulate the whole song, like verse bridge buildup drop etc. I have some pieces of it, but after so many listennings it's really hard to unhear what you have to articulate something new and better
@@PhO3NiX96 experiment, don't be fearful of losing what you originally had
Sounds like fade-Rome in silver
When I put bass notes lower notes, are barely heard, and the highest are more loud, what can i do Alex?
Are you listening to it on something that has a good bass range? If you are then it's probably just your high end notes muddying up the low end. That's where sidechaining and EQ come in to get the bass to shine through.
I love Your movies :D
I pre-ordered moonwake, but never got sent the email to download the full thing, only the bonus 😕
Hey, please email me asap at alex@alexromesound.com and I’ll send your pack right away.
I sent the email out but it may have gotten caught in your junk folder.
So, it's cool to just buy loops and drop them into your songs as is? I'm brand new to this and I've been avoiding using loops because I don't understand them. Feels like cheating, but if it's how things are done then I'm not gonna fight it.
2:41 that moment when you realise it sounds a lot like a Small Town Girl by Journey.
3:11 Oh, nice, Song of Time from Ocarina of Time, sneaky!
Nice
I can’t play this video for some reason
Eehm please which daw are you using and anyone here who knows much the daw he's using can let me know. I'm liking
Hmu if you know asap
Logic pro x I think
i love the chord progression but you should've gone down on the first pad instead of extended the notes again. it feels a lil more natural
Someone: How many stars out of ten would you rate this?
Me: yes
I don't know what I'm doing wrong but every time I make a song I feel like it sounds slow 🤔
Nice audio
20% better 🤯
Really like your videos dude but im cringing at how you select your sounds from your folders , you are literally making work for yourself , use the multi sampler to load up your folders for each sound you are looking for eg hat, snare, kick. This will then load them to the sampler and enable you to test them by using your midi keyboard , this also helps for making cool hat patterns rather than jumping to loops all the time. Good videos though 🤘😎
Petit Biscuit vibes
why does it sound like one of these 5 minute crafts songs xdd
anyway, nice tutorial, I'll try some of these things myself
I think the best way to start a beat, is to have 75 to 45 melody midis ready to go
There's nothing at all wrong with experimenting with pre-made sounds and rhythms and creating an otherwise meaningless ditty of some sort. But don't ever call it ''composing'' or ''writing music''. This electronic method of "writing" is like comparing a trailer to a multi-million dollar mansion. It has it's place, to be sure. And it can be incorporated into a real literal composition but left on it's on; standing alone, it devalues music products produced by real composers in my opinion. It's sort of the "Sesame Street" approach to music composition and songwriting.
its like this guy saw Tantacrul's how to compose music with no soul and completely missed the point