Hey everyone, Mario from Transverse audio here.
In this video, I am going to be showing you how to do the arrangement of an Electronic music track.
This is the fifth and final video in the 5 video series of How To Produce an Edm track.
And in the process, we’re going to be finishing the arrangement of the track that we’ve previously
produced so far. So stick around…
Okay to start off, let’s quickly re-visit the steps that we need to do,
to complete this track. In the previous video, we progressed all the way to the “buildup” section.
So now, we will need to arrange that section of the track, and then the drop itself.
And we will want to also make a vision in our head of how we want to structure the rest of the track.
A way we can arrange this is, to have another breakdown after the drop,
give it another 8-16 bars or so,
and have another drop.
Depending whether you want to have a 3-minute, or a 5-minute track with a long-extended intro and outro,
this is up to your imagination, and you have complete creative freedom on this,
to arrange your track however you want, but this is just how we can arrange this track for this video.
So we can just put some time markers again, to mark each section and give our project a cleaner view.
But if need be, we can change these markers and extend or shorten these sections later.
So let’s begin with the build-up. So like in the previous video, I’ve chosen a few audio samples here
and FX that we can use for the rest of the track.
These can be found in most free sample packs if you just look around the internet and type in the genre that you’re producing in.
So to arrange the build-up, we can add the chords and the lead here.
But we’re going to extend the automation filters we made in the previous video, all the way until the drop.
This will give that “faded” effect in these elements, which will fit well for the build-up.
We will also add white noise FX here as well, along with a couple more risers
and down-lifters as well, to add more to the suspense and energy, before the drop.
A good way to create more suspense for your build-up is to add a Buildup filler-audio sample in there.
This is just snare hits building up in a suspenseful way
to increase the tension. You can create this manually too,
but for the sake of this video and time, I chose an audio sample here.
So let’s add this.
I think this will do for the build-up. If you remember in the last video,
we also added a reverb and delay to the lead, so I will create an automation clip of those as well,
so we can play around with those throughout the track.
For the build-up here, I will remove the delay and reverb from the lead and extend it until the end of the build-up.
As a side note, I am a big believer though of the track constantly changing
and evolving throughout its duration, and not having the same parts being repetitive.
So keeping that in mind, we will do our best to keep each part of the track a little bit unique.
Let's arrange the drop now. So this part is supposed to reach the “peak intensity” of our track,
so we want to have all of our elements playing here.
The length of our first drop will be this long so I will extend our elements through here.
I will copy all of our elements from this part of the intro where all our percussions are playing and add them in the drop.
To make it unique I will remove the Main high hat from the first half of the drop,
to make the second half more intense along with the high hat.
Let’s do the same with this percussion too, and remove it from the first half.
To finish off the first drop, add white noise here as well.
And we will also add some “impact” audio samples at the drop points themselves.
These are pretty self-explanatory and fun to use too.
Next, will be our second breakdown, after the drop.
This is the part where the track will drop in intensity completely, and we can use this section to calm the energy of the track down
while creating an even longer build-up for the second drop of the track.
Let’s add the chords and lead here as well.
But with the eq automation clips here, let's create an even bigger cut off here,
right after the drop, so they are slowly building up, all the way until the second drop.
I will also add the FX audio samples here including the risers and down-lifters,
to create that suspenseful sound effect.
And I will also add another Buildup filler-audio sample here as well.
And to add a little bit more creativity to this second build-up,
I will add a little bit of delay and reverb in the automation clips of the lead,
and the way until the drop.
Now for the second drop, we will copy all the elements from the first drop and add them here.
But keeping in mind that we want to have all the sections in the track different,
even if it’s a tiny element or automation clip curve that makes that section just a little bit unique,
So, let's try and arrange it a bit differently here.
So for this drop, let's have all the elements playing in the first half of the drop,
and in the second half, add a new audio sample percussion.
Let’s add this shaker sample and arrange it here.
And remember, there are so many ways that we can add details and tweak every single part of this track,
to improve it and tailor it to our imagination
for how we want our final track to sound,
but we will keep it fairly simple for the sake of this video and time.
After the second drop, let’s make an outro for the track.
And for the outro, you want the track to slowly sign off and steadily drop in energy.
Let’s just copy all of our percussion elements here. And let’s also add the chords here too.
I will remove the main hat element here,
and to finish the outro I will also remove the kicks in the last bar.
Let's also remove the clap in just before the end, like this.
And for the chords, have the EQ automation clip slowly fading towards the end, like this.
If you’re interested now, stick around to hear how to whole track sounds,
having just arranged everything from the intro all the way to the outro:
*plays entire track made in this EDM Production series*
That will do it for this video. Hopefully, you’ve made it this far
and enjoyed the video and track that we produced in the process. If you’ve learned a thing or two
about arranging a track, please drop a like, and subscribe, as it helps the channel immensely.
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