Hi there! i didn't know where to post, admins can feel free to take it to another tread

Well, ive been doing stuff in Fl studio for some months now and im really frustrated atm, i can do shit! and i know it takes time to learn fl studio and the whole music theory and so on.

Everything i make sounds like avicii ( Hope some of you understand what i mean) and ofc its because im a fan of him but i want to make my own style! or kinda.. the melodys i come up with are just shit!

And the reaquest i came here for is. Dose anyone know how to make the kind og melodys that is in that video? Starts at 6:07 and the other at 7:06 ?
im pretty sure its sylenth1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbS3d5JLdac&feature=plcp

And please if you got the time, give me the flp. would make it soo much easyer than just explaining it


I know it takes time and practise to be gofsod at fl studio and other producer programs but if anyone got any tips for me, shout out! need everything!

i know some of you have been in this position before!

Thanks!

Maybe get structured in what you do:
a) what are you going to do
b) how are you going to do it

If you jump back and forth too much between these two it will take forever.

You mention how to make a melody, but you talk about the sound and synth used play it.

So you mix up the musical part with the arrangement part.

1. Get the musical part ready first
Use whatever instrument you are most comfortable with.

Sometimes you get inspiration from a beat, sometimes a riff or sometimes a melody comes to you.

And make a preliminary structure of the song, how many measures of this and that etc.

2. Start thinking more about which instruments do what, what will make the beat, what bass will be, and what will represent mid and high frequencies.

Something like that might be a way to come forward.
Have fun.

Thanks!!

ill take youre word to my self!!

But you dont know how to make the kind og melodys that i linked?

I think you mix up melodies with the synth sounds.

Aderito has good advice on melodies. That is artistic work.

From what I heard at about 6.09 I have no idea what synth is used - but portamento is used on it - getting the sweeping frequency sound between two notes. Usually there is a setting for portamento, and how fast it should go to the next note.

The basic oscillator is probably a saw waveform. And there is probably an effect like chorus or something to make it that fat.

Have fun.

Hi

I've been at that point you are right now. And my problem was confusing melodies with instrument sounds.
But remember they are separate things.
Whole symphonies were composed using only a piano and you hear it on a 70 piece orchestra!
Sure, certain melodies don't make sense in certain sounds... But... A perfect melody will sound good in a $10 Casio
Don't believe? I will post a link to that later.

Anyway I started by getting one thing at a time. Trying to come up with the melodies, chords and basslines on the most boring instrument, the electric piano (apologies to the fans but I find it boring as hell) which in this case was good because I didn't get distracted by the sound.

And only then I started looking for the right synth sound (thank god for presets) and then tweaking that.

Hope it helps.

So true. I would only add to this, that setting yourself the challenge of trying to sound like someone else first, is perhaps too much to ask. Try to just have some fun first... Make some shit music, and enjoy it! Learn what youre good at and what you're bad at. Then keep doing it for hours every day of every week of every month of every year... Make something totally different and crazy, and you'll learn so much more.

Exactly Kane

And just convince yourself that the first few tracks you make will probably be the worst you'll ever make... because you're still learning!
It's always up hill from there