How to finish a track?

[Distorted Horizon]

There are so many tutorials on making beats but after i make a beat i get stuck. How do I progress and make a whole song? Any advice or resources?

What is your genre?

[egbert101]

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[Winstontaneous]

Commit to a deadline that makes you accountable to someone outside yourself. Could be as simple as telling family/friends/online communities that you will have something for them to listen to on a certain date.

[JerGoertz]

1) Learn your DAW's workflow and the keyboard shortcuts applicable to your way of working. Being able to work quickly and efficiently is hugely important.

2) This sounds goofy, but it works for me: Imagine a friend is sitting next to you, and explain to him/her what you're going to do next in order to progress with your song. Then do it.

[Frantz]

Call up your ghost producer and say, "Yo bro! Hurry up and finish my track and make this one a banger!"

[melomood]

What's the point of jumping right into making your own tracks if you haven't a clue how to get past a few bars of beat?
Start out with unofficial remixes the same way the old school started out playing cover songs in dives
See what goes into making a complete song. Get a feel for it. Learn the letters of some of those notes you're hitting.
Then go for it

[lobanov]

1. If you mean by "beat" drums add other instruments to them.
2. Then add after your loop an EMPTY space. Repeat yor loop twice or more, then add empty space. And fill it by something different. Compose an sequel. An extension. This way you can add more and more DIFFERENT parts.
3. Or try collaboration. You make beats, somebody makes the rest. You both create ideas and then unite them.

(May be you are drummer? )

[JerGoertz]

Oh, one more:

3) Be willing to take risks and try new stuff that might not work. The marvels of the modern "undo" and multiple file versions are your friends.

[stardustmedia]

Get a reference track (ideally before you start making beats), and follow it. The more often you do this, the less you'll need it in future because you'll get more experience and knowledge.

[vitocorleone123]

I usually poke around with a synth or some drums until something gels. I get 8 or 16 bars and then play with the tempo a bit until it seems right. Then I build on it as much as possible until I can't anymore. Then I break it down and pull it apart and have bits of it come in at different times until it builds up and I typically use that initial loop as the first chorus. Then I usually get stuck and abandon the song

But I'll keep at it and try to transition into the middle section of a song and try similar stuff, completely different stuff, etc. until I'm tired of it. If I'm tired of it repeatedly, I kind of figure maybe it wasn't meant to be and I'll come back to it some other day to be determined in the future. The middle is actually where I get stuck more often than the start at this point.

And then I start over.

Rinse. Later. Repeat.

Eventually, one of the songs clicks and it all comes together, even if it takes awhile. But as long as I'm having fun, I don't care. If the fun ends after an hour, so be it. If it's sustained over 2 weeks, even better.

Mind you that I'm doing this just for fun, not a living. I only complete a couple songs per year at the most (in part because I'll take months off from music to catch up on other things I enjoy).

[Distorted Horizon]

There are so many tutorials on making beats but after i make a beat i get stuck. How do I progress and make a whole song? Any advice or resources?

What is your genre?

BEATS

Hmm.. Though if he watched many tutorials on making beats and then made a beat, I believe he should watch many videos of making a whole song to make a whole song

[tasemeagain]

There are so many tutorials on making beats but after i make a beat i get stuck. How do I progress and make a whole song? Any advice or resources?

What is your genre?

BEATS

Hmm.. Though if he watched many tutorials on making beats and then made a beat, I believe he should watch many videos of making a whole song to make a whole song

Yeah, that's what I'm doing now.
And BTW I didn't have a preference for just one genre so i just picked future bass.
I was completely new to music theory and production a month back. Didn't know any instruments or anything at all. Or what a synth was even. Now i know a lot lot more. I was looking for trap tutorials and after a week, I realized that what I was watching was not for EDM trap, which is what I like, but for hiphop one

[mgw38]

Talent.

Practice.

Talent only influence how much practice you need. It‘s not enough just by itself.

[Distorted Horizon]

I didn't have a preference for just one genre

Okay.. Easy way IMO is that you load a track or two to your DAW and see how they're done. I can almost guess that basic house is something like "intro, build, section/drop 1, break, build, section/drop 2, outro".

So make a "beat" or what ever you're doing, then make another one in the same project (in the same key etc etc basic stuff), there you have your section/drop 1 and 2. Then just tear them apart to build your intros, builds, breaks....

Then make a shitload of songs and suddenly you know how to make a full song.

[Distorted Horizon]

..and suddenly you know how to make a full song.

Maybe.