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LMMS: A Complete Guide to Dance Music Production

By : David Earl
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LMMS: A Complete Guide to Dance Music Production

By: David Earl

Overview of this book

You've scoured the forums, watched the tutorial videos, and done everything you can to learn the secrets of the art of making dance music. Everyone is saying something different about how to get into producing your own projects. This book will help connect the dots and lay a solid foundation of knowledge so you can get beats banging out of LMMS.This book will show you the ins and outs of making Dance music with LMMS. Do you make house, trance, techno or down-tempo? After this book you'll be able to make a song that stands out from the masses, using time honoured tricks of the trade. From inception to conception, this book will help give you a workflow to channel your muse using LMMS.Readers will be given a brief lesson on the best of dance music history, then learn how to recreate it using the Open Source digital workstation - LMMS. The reader will be guided through creating a project from start to finish. By the end of this book, the reader will know how to create a full dance track in LMMS and make it ready for distribution.Along the way, readers will take short stops into music theory, song arranging, recording, and other related information to give them a good foundation for making dance music with depth as well as power. Reading LMMS: A Complete Guide to Dance Music Production will not just teach the reader how to use LMMS, but also how good dance music is crafted. The reader will not just be taught how to make decisions in LMMS, but when and why. After devouring this book, the reader should be able to focus on his or her creativity, with LMMS as a co-conspirator in the process of making great dance music.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
14
Index

Swedish House Mafia came out with a dance music song called One in 2010. It was a pretty big hit in the dance music scene; let's discover why!

First, go to this link, and listen to the song at the following web page, while reading this section:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg7XO1zgJHA

Here's the breakdown:

  1. Intro 1a: This is 12 bars of claps, with the kick drum slowly fading, and the claps slowly fading into reverb. This area is extremely important. The DJ spinning this song cannot have any pitched instruments in this section of the song, because it may make the previous song sound out of key when he mixes it in.
  2. Intro 1b: This is approximately 12 bars of the kick slowly subdividing into smaller and smaller bits, then some slight modulation is applied, and the kick no longer sounds like a kick, it sounds like a synth!
  3. Section 1a: It is eight bars long. The main melody of the entire song is established using this new synth made from the kick drum...