To Start Making Electronic Dance Music...

Making electronic dance music is not hard to make. Heck, you can do it in a few steps. Check these different music making ways out:

1- First step. Get an iPhone, load up Garageband. Use the in app sounds. Done

2- Buy a synth or synth app. Use its internal sequencer and off you go

3- Go on Amazon or a synth manufacturer or a controller synth (doesn't have sounds but you can use it to mess around with software synths) manufacturer. They sell bundles that can manipulate the sounds and sequence them for you. Cheap in the long run

4- Download free apps. These are software sequencers and you can load in free synths and sounds. One of the most simplest, powerful and effective ways to start making electronic dance music. Check out here for a review of what can be done.

But...what was the tip or trick that people shouldn't avoid with making electronic dance music?

Oh yeah the title of this article. :)

Well...you can see how easy it is to make dance music. Or at least start on your music making journey. But what you will find is that once you begin the journey it can get very hard, very quickly.

The problem is not making dance music, it is consistently making dance music.

That is where people fail, that is where you get the one hit wonders.

What you will find is this:

people will like your tunes
they want more of your tunes
they get slightly bored over time with your tunes
you need to invent a little more
people dont like what you have done, or it becomes too radical
you go back to what you know and people come back, but the process repeats

You need to find your thing.

Every musician has a "thing". It is what defines them from someone else. So someone might say their music sounds like NIN mixed with Guns and Roses. Both are vool, both give us an image but you are not NIN or GnR.

That is the mistake that musicians do at the start. You will see many websites on "how to sound like...". Or these are the tools that XY and Z use.

Sure know about them, but dont copy the sound. Know how they create awesome bases, drum loops or structures to their sound- but not the actual sound. Why sound exactly like XY and Z when I can just go out and listen to XY and Z?

Check out this tip then

This is a tip that most pro producers state you should do. You should"

listen to the classics and best artists in your genre and find out what they did. Break them down, find out their structure and use them as a template to create your own tracks.

Classics are so because they have been worked on with pro producers, had commercial and critical success. They are your goal to achieve.

Check out the below video from Jordan Rudess. Jordan is classed as one of the best keyboardists and works with many music companies and within the band Dream Theatre. In the video he explains about some of his mentors/ people that he admired and followed. When you hear them you can also hear Jordans music. He based his music on the best and then put his own spin on it.

Time and time again people who are at the top of their game always reflect on the artists that came before them, learned from their art and then went forward with their style.

They don't copy however. But they use what made the artists great.

Check out the Forbes interview with Marshmello. Love him or hate him, he has succeeded. By?

"Growing up, I listened to... All the genres that I make I've listened to intently, I've listened to obsessively. Each has their own phase in my life, but I pretty much go through all the genre phases every year. And they're pretty obsessive. So when it comes to making hip-hop, or pop, or country, I know the elements because I listen to the music and I understand what I want to do."

Chain Smokers? Their influence is from Daft Punk and David Guetta.

David Guetta? "I'm inspired by music past and present. But my influences come from growing up surrounded by the music of some of the greatest artists, in my opinion, who ever created. Prince, Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Stevie Wonder..."

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