How to Make Your Tracks More Interesting — Audio Plus

Jul 7th in General by Joel Falconer

In this week's Audio Plus content, Ryan Leach teaches you how to create interest and variation in your tracks so that you can grab your listener's attention and keep it.

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Author: Joel Falconer

Joel Falconer is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and frontman. While Joel's first love is writing and performing songs that touch on important and personal issues, programming, engineering and producing music in the studio are also strong passions.

"You're a unique artist with ideas you want to express and music you have to share. So how do you make sure that you're keeping your tracks interesting and fun for your audience to listen to? In this tutorial we'll look at some of the most common things that people neglect to keep interesting, causing their tracks to feel lifeless and dull, and how we can keep things lively and intriguing to hold on to our audience's attention."

Table of Contents

  1. Start Off with a Bang
  2. Avoid Using Loops
  3. If You're Going to Use Loops Anyway
  4. Clean Up Your Mix
  5. Uneven Phrases
  6. Uncommon Time Signatures
  7. The Rule of Three
  8. Imperfection
  9. Be unique, but not too unique

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    R July 24th

    whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

    log in pay money WTF

    I was enjoying this site up till now

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      Joel Falconer July 24th

      There’s still plenty of free content on the site to read; running something like this website costs thousands of dollars a week and we sell a more advanced product to make it possible to provide people with free tutorials of a high-quality and professional nature. Not sure what the problem is.

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        Adrian Vilbel August 6th

        Completely agree

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