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A Power User's Guide to FL Studio 21

By : Chris Noxx
Book Image

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

Introduction to arrangement

For the sake of understanding what arranging is, let’s talk about music arrangements from a historical standpoint so we understand it in detail, following the principle that perfect practice makes perfect!

History of arrangement

The history of music arrangement or arranging spans many centuries and involves a range of genres and styles. From a basic view, arranging is the science of putting your music pieces together to create a full song or instrumental piece. As a meta point, arranging can also be described as how you arrange your individual sounds into cohesive loops or progressions. This includes everything from your drum arrangements and your chord arrangements to the entire song in the end. By examining the arrangements of influential artists and composers from various eras, we can learn more about the methods and approaches used to compose memorable and powerful musical compositions. This historical analysis can also reveal the cultural...