First ever beat - constructive criticism please

Started by Fanzik, Apr 25, 2015, in Creative Add to Reading List

  1. Fanzik
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    Apr 25, 2015


    Just started using FL Studio this morning and spent hours figuring it out and created this.
     
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  2. Cyreides
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    Cyreides gfy

    Apr 25, 2015
    Better than my first track, so there's that. Having said that, it needs a lot of work.

    Things need to be EQ'd to cut out the extra frequences and get everything nice and crisp/clear and sounding right, your snare/clap/whatever that is needs some reverb or something and it all needs a lot of mixing/mastering work. It could use a lot more variation as well, and the entire outro is just bare bones and overlong. I'd recommend looking at a lot of different tutorials for FL Studios on youtube. You can find pretty much anything you'd need to know about on there. Look for the genres you like and are interested in producing, and then spread out from there and learn bits and pieces from other ones too. It'll help. I'd also say when you listen to music you normally listen to and like a lot, pay very close attention to the structures of the songs and how everything sounds together and individually and it'll give you some direction with how to do things.

    I know I'm not the best producer myself, but it's how I've learned mostly everything that I know how to do with my own music in FL, and I started out with this only a year ago

    :ray:
    And now I'm doing this s---

    So anything's possible, just keep at it.

    I'd also say check out getting a keyboard or mess around with a piano, even if you don't plan to compose that way and even if you have no idea how to play one, just to give you another way to familiarize yourself with the music process in another way and give you some more options.
     
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  3. Ordinary Joel
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    Ordinary Joel Happiness begins when selfishness ends

    Apr 25, 2015
    Reminds me of Lion King for some reason...

    But keep at it man!
     
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