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A Power User's Guide to FL Studio 21

By : Chris Noxx
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A Power User's Guide to FL Studio 21

By: Chris Noxx

Overview of this book

A digital audio workstation empowering both aspiring and seasoned producers to create original music compositions, FL Studio has not only advanced the culture of collaboration across several genres but has provided a creative outlet for up-and-coming artists worldwide. Achieving professional production prowess takes practice, market insight, and mentorship. This book explains how the author used FL Studio as a creative palette to build a successful career as a record producer, using specific techniques and workflow processes that only FL Studio can accommodate. You’ll develop a Power User's mindset, create signature sounds using stock FL Studio One Shots, create top-level drum loops, learn about FL Studio's VST’s, and approach arrangements from a practical and pop music perspective. This comprehensive guide covers everything from crafting and adding hypnotic melodies and chords, to mixing and mastering productions, and promoting those records to artists and companies, to take your career to the next level. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to create original productions from scratch using FL Studio’s virtual instruments and sound kits, mix and master the finished production, and arrange it using the Billboard-charting formula.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
1
Part 1:Understanding the Basics
3
Part 2:Creating Music with FL Studio
9
Part 3: Best Techniques and How to Appear on the Billboard Charts

Understanding music theory in modern pop music

To start crafting billboard-ready records in FL Studio, I’m going to introduce you to the concept of pop chord progression theory. This hack uses a solid chord progression as a foundation for you to build on as you progress through the production of the track. Creating melodies that work is a framework of modern music theory in current pop music trends, offering a baseline to create sure-fire formulaic productions. In the Creating melodies that work section, I will discuss this in greater detail.

Introducing pop chord regression theory

Throughout history, simple and hypnotizing chord progressions have popular music. The difference between popular music chord progressions and chords you may hear in other genres of music (such as classical or jazz) is that music that makes the Billboard chart follows a simple chord theory rule. Chord progressions should offer simplicity, and make records memorable, catchy, and enjoyable for...