Downloaded FL Studio yesterday because I want to make something. I haven't seen any tutorials at all, never made music before and don't know music theory although I do play guitar but very very poorly.
Is this acceptable as a first thing made with absolutely 0 program or music theory knowledge. I couldn't find any better instruments/sounds...
While making it I was thinking of the OST for Kaiji
Why would you download a studio in Florida?
you've got a melody and a beat down.
anyone's first attempt in a daw sounds kinda flat and lifeless even if there is a solid structure. I'd play around with adding reverb to the melody, clap, chords etc. gives it more space and life. but honestly 10x better than the first thing i ever made
I don't even know what reverb is, like echo right?.
For chords I'd just put down the notes that I'd play on guitar when playing a chord right? For example I can do that to the synth melody (not the high pitched faster one but the more sustained one)
Can you recommend any tutorial courses to get going? I'm so lost that I wouldn't even know how to add the stuff you lister or even where to add them
bumping my this bread
This pretty nice keep it up I like it
You need to look up more youtube videos of production tips. Close down the video immediatly if you suspect the guy in the video is over 34, unless its SeamlessR.
Thanks
What exactly did I do wrong here, the choice of the sounds could be better but the menus were to complicated for me so I just clicked until I found something that sounds nice.
Give some directions
Also I'd like to make some beats because I figure it's easier than this video game / anime OST that I tried going for here
This is not really a song that is fitting into any genre other than "beginner music". Sample choice sounds cheap and uninspired. Synths are very underengineered and honestly boring to listen to. The entire song is a tension waiting to resolve, into a halftime beat or something that the mind can latch on to. I'd recommend actually trying to produce a GENRE of music.
Think of it like this. Who are you to make something that is gonna break the mold, the beginner you are?
Teach yourself about the Major scale, how to build chord progressions and you want to find good sample packs that fit the genre you want to make. (Sample packs that arent FX packs are usually named after the genre you wanna make so you are lucky in that perspective.)
You might wanna download some good VST synths aswell, as FL's native synths are VERY FUCKING HARD to get a good sound out of, like good fucking luck unless you know your way around synthesizers already.
So in short, don't be a hero before you know your basics, get good sounds, look at youtube tutorials preferrably NEW ONES THAT RELEASED THIS CURRENT YEAR. I'd recommend actually straight up copying music you enjoy, structurally and melodically.
I'm sorry if im being harsh but i just dont have the slightest idea what you wanna make. If you dont know either wtf you wanna make just make chiptune, tons of tutorials on how to do that and its relatively easy if you know what melodies sound good to you.
The sample choices are truly terrible, it's the only thing I could do because that's what I found when I opened the program for the first time.
I didn't think of any specific song when I was making this yesterday at 7AM but I did kinda go for the Death Note OST / Kaiji OST vibe, at least the melody of this reminded me of it.
>The entire song is a tension waiting to resolve, into a halftime beat or something that the mind can latch on to.
So I have actually no idea what you meant by this but isn't that what the melody at 0:22 is for?
I'll binge some yt tutorials when I'm done with college chores
> While making it I was thinking of the OST for Kaiji
Then try to replicate songs from the OST for Kaiji
Literally no musician ever just sat down and start farting out music. Ever notice how whenever artists are asked how they came up with their style, they immediately start listing bands they were obsessed with?
Every artist goes through a imitation phase where they are just slavishly learning how to replicate thing they like, that is unironically the best way to develop your own voice as paradoxical as that sounds
Pretty solid last melody you added there for a first beat, otherwise a pretty cookie cutger first beat that you look back on in 2 years and compare to your new stuff and consider really simplistic. Again though, that last bit you added was above and beyond.
Here's a couple of examples of what I was thinking. I know it sounds nothing alike but this is what I'd want to make one day.
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It's hard to explain to someone thats new to music THEORY (disc. NOT production in general, if you have good melodies then sound design doesent really matter (see video game OSTS)) but i can hear that the pad in the background is not in a specific key, which makes it droning, and harsh to the ears melodically (not sound design wise).
I recommend you just use the white keys when making melodies in the beginning of your musical endeavours, because all the white keys are the major scale. From the major scale you can make any kind of melody you want, dark, light, melancholy, cool, hype, anything. The Major scale are the notes that when played in any succession, if it is just for example C Major, any progression of notes in that scale will sound good to the human ear.
Just learn theory. Should only take a year or two if you make an effort.
All of these songs except for Transparent2 and nears theme are in Major key. For the more hype songs you might want some house sample packs perhaps. For the piano stuff you want a good piano vst (they make vsts especially for piano sounds nowadays which sound just alike a piano). You might also wanna add some reverb to pianos when making more melancholy and deep/cool melodies, but dont overdo reverb its just gonna make it sound weird.
I sent a video to a friend recently on how to make chord progressions in Major. I could send it to you in a bit user.
You mean the melody at 0:22? I had kind of an idea what I wanted then tested it a few times until I got what I want.
To my understanding it should be in key because it starts at C same as the bass line and the synth.
Dont listen to this user. Most of the theory in music you like is very easy to learn. Even just the tip of only using the white keys is gonna take you as far as any pop you've ever listened to.
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VSTS FOR VIDEO GAME/ ANIME OSTS:
Keyscape
Trilian
Omnisphere 2
OTHER SHIT I HAD ON A GOOGLE DOC YOU MIGHT WANNA LOOK INTO:
GOODHERZ Plugins (banger lofi effects)
FabFilter PLUGINS (Just straight up better EQ, reverb and all that)
Effectrix (Glitch effects)
Yes user that's a very complex melody for a beginner good job.
Sure user give me the link
I'd have to learn it anyway if I ever wanted to go further with guitar so might as well learn some.
The pad in the background? Do you mean the synth that comes in before the melody and that closes out the track? Yeah, that's just clicking by ear and listening until it feels okay.
>Then try to replicate songs from the OST for Kaiji
You mean like make the same thing? Bit for bit the same or like try to make something that feels like it comes from there.
Now that I think about it making a 1:1 copy of a OST/beat I like might help me learn production, would it not? Is that a good way to learn this?
>Now that I think about it making a 1:1 copy of a OST/beat I like might help me learn production, would it not? Is that a good way to learn this?
It's a fantastic way to learn it.
Need to take a depression nap then do college chores but I'll save this whole reply and check it out later.
Thanks.
Thank you.
Why stop at the most basic music theory that you learn in the 3rd grade? Why not learn baroque polyphony/classical harmony/jazz harmony? Once the ball is rolling, don't stop. Do not become another 3 chord faggot. I yearn for interesting progressions in popular music, stop propagating drivel.
As the other user said, the last melody is actually pretty cool for someone that doesn't know music theory. Even if it's by trial and error you still had the idea in your head so it seems you're gifted enough for making music.
the major scale has more than 1 chord progression thank you very much. Actually, most jazz harmony can be looked at through the lens of the major scale.