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How to make melodic trance riff melody

Hey people do check the blog more often for some free edm music tips and lessons and tutorials for newbies.



Yes newbies while my tutorials are for newbies you may find something helpful for yourself even if you been producing for a while. So let me tell you about the video.



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In the meantime this video is a short video where i show you how easy it is to make melodic trance. Melodic trance is one of my favorites by the way to produce. So if you have any questions about melodic trance or making chord progressions or stacking your elements. leave your comments in the comment section below. In the video i keep it simple. I show you what newbies do as a mistake. Most newbies will just loop a 2 bar melody to the  point of boredom and you just want to kill yourself. But when you been practicing and producing for a while you will understand that when you do not play the same arp over and over and call it a song. Well thats the gist of it in the video i show you first what not to do. Then i show you how to layer it to get the sound you are after then i leave you with some inspiration to inspire yourself!







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