Spend most time creating songs? Recreating songs? Breaking down songs?
A plan I had thought for myself would be to recreate music, break down how each instrument interacts with each other and the music theory involved, note the sounds used, etc. Basically note every little detail in the song. Then after 3-5 songs, compile those techniques, figure out a song idea, and create it - eventually I will have my own style. Since I've got a pretty blank slate, this is what I think will help me improve my skills.
However having no guide, teacher, or any reference results that this works, every other day I find myself questioning this plan.
What is the ideal plan for becoming great at EDM production?
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- Banned
- 146 posts since 9 Oct, 2012
Load a few tracks and start chopping them into bits and pieces. Then remix (reorder) the lot with EQ, compressor and a reverb. Actual synthesis and composition are more difficult and should wait for later.
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- Banned
- 10196 posts since 12 Mar, 2012 from the Bavarian Alps to my feet and the globe around my head
The best teacher for EDM music is to listen to other EDM music and finding out how the songs are made... 
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- KVRist
- 65 posts since 16 Oct, 2004
Best plan:
Stop planning and do. Just go. Make it.
Make crappy stuff to start, cause that's what you're gonna do. And learn from it. And keep going until the stuff isn't quite as crappy anymore. Then keep going.
Don't over think it.
Stop planning and do. Just go. Make it.
Make crappy stuff to start, cause that's what you're gonna do. And learn from it. And keep going until the stuff isn't quite as crappy anymore. Then keep going.
Don't over think it.
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- KVRian
- 826 posts since 26 Aug, 2005 from Oregon, USA
Listen a lot to *Non-EDM* music *). Means you are not tainted and you start to develop your own musical ear that then expresses your ideas in EDM.
*) Frank Zappa is a good choice.
*) Frank Zappa is a good choice.
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- KVRian
- 621 posts since 11 Jun, 2011 from Detroit
Go study.
No, really. Go learn about production related topics.....learn how to make sounds, what compression is, the difference between a phaser and a flanger, etc. Learn little bits as you go, and apply that knowledge to what you are doing.
Figure out what kind of music you're making, because "EDM" is way too broad of a term. Are you making pop EDM, like David Guetta? Are you making Techno? House? Which sub-genre? These are things you have to figure out before you start making music, because if have no place to start from as a reference, then you wont know where to go with your productions.
Learn your DAW. Learn your instruments and effects, at least enough to use them correctly.
Doing all that would be a good start....
No, really. Go learn about production related topics.....learn how to make sounds, what compression is, the difference between a phaser and a flanger, etc. Learn little bits as you go, and apply that knowledge to what you are doing.
Figure out what kind of music you're making, because "EDM" is way too broad of a term. Are you making pop EDM, like David Guetta? Are you making Techno? House? Which sub-genre? These are things you have to figure out before you start making music, because if have no place to start from as a reference, then you wont know where to go with your productions.
Learn your DAW. Learn your instruments and effects, at least enough to use them correctly.
Doing all that would be a good start....