Write edm music with your emotion

Always write how you feel.

A lot of beginners I notice they don’t really write with feeling. When writing music no matter what kind edm,classical,pop or dance,or techno you should always write with feeling.

 

Somber

Yes write with feeling with emotion. If you are writing a sad somber trance track.Then write the track in F-minor. If you need to brush up on your music theory take a look about f-minor here.

Happy vibe

Lets say you want to  make a happy uplifting emotional trance track youd then mix that f-minor with some major chords and do your own thing and come up with a chord progression that sounds good. Theres no right or wrong way of  doing it just make sure your using the right scale to get the right emotion your after.

Lets say you were making a deep house track then youd want a mixture of some dominant sevenths chords and some minor sevenths in your chord sequence.

So it does not matter what music your making just always remember to always write the way you are feeling and you will be able to express yourself in your music so much better.

Use your emotion

When your happy write happy music. When your sad write sad music.When your feeling in between write something thats in between you get the picture.

You can do this with music  theory. As music theory will always work for you if you follow its rules.So pay attention to music theory and it will take your music to the next level.

The Melody

So back to my first example ,if your writing a dark somber trance song and you have come up with your chord progression . Now its time to write your melody.

What you want to do is keep your pattern on a downward motion throughout the song,pretty much every 8 bars. Basically go down for four or 8 bars then come up slightly.

If you were doing uplifting trance youd start with a straight line then gradually at the end of each bar it would gradually rise,until you got to the main chorus.

Or you could go up and down slightly to create tension  for the first 16 bars then at bar 17 you would start to make the pattern go up higher in motion and sounding more uplifting.

The more you practice at writing with feeling the more easier it is to do.

 

Watch my Video tutorial

I have a few examples of what I talking about on my youtube channel you can watch below .

These are older videos I shot like  7 years ago (keep in mind now my videos have gotten a lot better since then) ,they may have different title than my blog but,are still effective today on writing with feeling and emotion. So have a look and comment with your video,and post a reply to my video here or on youtube to show me you learned something.

When you first start producing I understand it can be daunting at first but,when you utilize music theory its not as hard as it was without you using theory. I cant stress enough the importance it is for you to always use music theory in your music youll be glad you did.