- Music is 80 percent listening and 20 percent playing:
When you are in your studio, try to listen to a couple of pieces of music before you even open LMMS. Try hard to pick out all of the elements you hear, and get into the emotional landscapes of the different pieces of music. Get outside of your comfort zone and listen to jazz, classical, pop, country, hip-hop, or any other style that you don't usually listen to. Every kind of music you take in will provide a rich soil to plant your creativity.
- Learning music theory will not affect your music in a negative way:
This may sound silly, but I have known fairly accomplished music makers, who refuse to learn music theory because they believe it may hinder their creative development. There is a reason they call it music theory and not music law. Music theory can be absolutely beautiful when you study it. The...
LMMS: A Complete Guide to Dance Music Production
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LMMS: A Complete Guide to Dance Music Production
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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)
Preface
Free Chapter
1. Gearing Up: A Preflight Checklist
2. Getting Our Feet Wet: Exploring LMMS
3. Getting Our Hands Dirty: Creating in LMMS
4. Expanding the Beat: Digging Deeper into the Art of Beatmaking
5. Making Spaces: Creating the Emotional Landscape
6. Finding and Creating New Noises
7. Getting It All Stacked Up
8. Spreading Out the Arrangement
9. Gluing the Arrangement Together
10. Getting the Mix Together
11. Getting into Instruments
12. Where to Go from Here
A. Pop quiz—Answers
Index
Customer Reviews