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#How to make music sound professional professional
Summary: Compose Music that Sound Professional You want to develop your own system of coloring all your parts to represent their main role in the track. Like drums and percussion or very short staccato notes.īut again, the main point here is to use colors to help yourself when you compose your track. 9 instruments instead of a piano or a single string ensemble patch, but you would still not clutter the composition, because it would still be the same A minor chord.Īnother point is that with very short sounds, you can get away with more going on at the same time. Then you might have 3 different instruments playing the A, another 3 playing the C, another another 3 playing the E note. Meaning layers of unison or octaves.įor example, let’s say you have a chord progression where the first chord is a simple A minor. This will be like a warning sign…but remember…sometimes you can have lots of tracks even with the same role in the track, but then most of them will do the same thing. This way you will clearly see when you get too much of any one color in a section. The Colors of MusicĪnother way which I have started using, is to color all parts in my track according to their role in the composition.įor example, the bass parts are red, the melodic drive parts are orange, the backing parts like chords and comping are blue, and the main theme, harmony lines and counterpoint are different shades of yellow. If you want to be really clear, you can even write in that centre pitch in the naming of the audio part in your sequencer.Īlways have a clear overview of the distribution of notes and frequencies in your composition. The point is to find a note that you feel is the pitch centre of that specific part. But what I find even better, is to select for example a piano track in your DAW, then as you listen to for example the vocal part…pick out the melody on the piano.
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Then you look at the analyzer to see the main focal centre of the part. Well, that’s when you bring out a frequency analyzer for that track, which is something almost all DAWs has. Sometimes you don’t have MIDI available, for example when you recorded guitars or vocals. Consider either removing a part that “clouds” another, or transposing a part up or down. If you find clutter in any section and range. You simply select all parts of any section in your track and look at how the notes are distributed in the piano roll editor. The Note Distribution in the OctavesĪlways keeping an eye on the MIDI notes for all parts is one of the best ways to make sure you don’t clutter any octave with too many different parts. The secret to getting a great overall sound in your music is basically like having the mindset of a master chef. And they prepare everything before they even start to cook. Well, have you ever seen the strict order a master chef has in his kitchen? Everything in its place. If you carefully structure all drawers and cabinets so that you can easily find and access everything you need, you will have a much more efficient kitchen, right? Everything in its PlaceĬreating a focused music composition with a high degree of clarity and separation, is almost like organising your kitchen. Oh, and these guidelines are very powerful, because you apply them before the mixing stage of your music production.
#How to make music sound professional how to
– Mike here, and I am going to share my top guidelines on how to get a professional sounding music composition.
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The answer does not lie in the production and mixing, but the very composing stage.Īnd the main solution is to make sure that no section of your composition is too cluttered. So you want to make your music sound better? You want a crystal clear sound, with shimmering highs, focused mids and powerful lows, right? =)