So, the last post was all about stuff you can learn in like 24 hours. This post will contain advanced stuff that could take awhile, specifically Building percussion around your song/Building your song around percussion. This skill isn't mandatory for everyone, not like the 4/4 kick is. It's best to learn this after you've gotten melody, harmony, and rhythm down, so that you don't rely on it too much and become like an animal who was in a zoo his whole life and couldn't survive in the wild.
First thing I'm going to talk about is layering. This is something that is talked about a lot more in other music forums/communities I visit than this one. First thing you need to know, it doesn't need to be hard, but it can. A simple idea of layering with percussion, can be seen in Divinity, by Porter Robinson. At the 20 second mark, he starts using a kick and a sort of square/triangle sounding wave with it. Notice how it sounds, how it blends. This site, unfortunately, does not give as many options in the way of changing you kicks/waves as, say, FL studio does. It's no big deal, you can still accomplish similar things. Try making an extended chord with square wave, and putting a kick at the beginning. Now, I said it can be complicated. It can. Think about things like, adding a triangle to a high pitched guitar strum to give it more of a chime. Woodblock on a pluck to make it more poppy. etc.
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First thing I'm going to talk about is layering. This is something that is talked about a lot more in other music forums/communities I visit than this one. First thing you need to know, it doesn't need to be hard, but it can. A simple idea of layering with percussion, can be seen in Divinity, by Porter Robinson. At the 20 second mark, he starts using a kick and a sort of square/triangle sounding wave with it. Notice how it sounds, how it blends. This site, unfortunately, does not give as many options in the way of changing you kicks/waves as, say, FL studio does. It's no big deal, you can still accomplish similar things. Try making an extended chord with square wave, and putting a kick at the beginning. Now, I said it can be complicated. It can. Think about things like, adding a triangle to a high pitched guitar strum to give it more of a chime. Woodblock on a pluck to make it more poppy. etc.
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