Getting further than the intro

[nomadicbeats]

After I started using Logic I worked on getting beats and stuff like that, now I am trying to figure out how I can get a good melody going after the beginning of the track. Probably sounds like a weird question, but so far I get stuck and can't really go further... any tips/hints or tricks???

[Rev. Juda Sleaze]

Start with a good melody then write an intro for it.

[tristancalvaire]

Cheap commercial dancepop method: make your first 8/16 measures the same exact thing as your awesome melody and simply sweep a low-passfilter up over all of it.

[nomadicbeats]

Cool, I'll give it a shot! Thanks a lot guys!

[Rev. Juda Sleaze]

You're welcome.

[CarlosUnderground]

I find I get whole songs done is when I work on it with one or two instruments only, develop

The form, then arrange. Often I do the opposite and, I don't get past the intro, or the whatever.

But, at least I get some sound desighn done

[rhys]

I find I get whole songs done is when I work on it with one or two instruments only, develop

The form, then arrange. Often I do the opposite and, I don't get past the intro, or the whatever.

But, at least I get some sound desighn done

 

 

I get that too, I decide to make a big huge intro and that intro has a tendency to influence the rest of my track, the only way around this that I have found is to start in the middle, at least start with the main hook and if you think about it this is pretty obvious really. I don't think many songs have the intro written first and then the hook. I think its always the hook.

[CarlosUnderground]

Yeah, all the "good" songs I've done have that in common. It all started with

The corus. For me it's a vocal line usually, but it can be a instrument melody.

I'm actualy working on a batch right now of "instrument hook" type songs. For me

It's mostly a 1/15 ratio. 1 magic tune out of every 15 I write. Sigh!

[rhys]

I think thats part of the process sometimes tho, I mean, I write a lot and only finish a few too but the stuff I learn from the tracks that never were is invaluable and not to mention the patches you design that are still sitting there in your synths to use in other projects. Unfinished tracks are never a waste of time in my book, I always salvage at least a bit of knowledge from them if not a few patches. What I've also started doing is saving any sampler instruments I make in a folder so I can access them in other projects. Great for days of poor creativity.

 

That being said it is pointless if you never actually finish a track, I know a few peeps who just write intros to tracks and never ever finish any. Once you get that "feeling" you know when the track starts writing itself so to speak, I think you gotta ride that wave and get to the end.

[m.bot]

Usually I do tabs of acid and little bit of the ganja...