Song components

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I am working with song mode right now
mainly use it for variation over longer patterns by combining them

actually I just use chain mode…

So in Song mode, I want to create more structured rows of blocks
different rows, with different purposes

when I play guitar, I make riffs, and stuff, intro’s, couplet,
Don’t know exact theory about this and I fail to find good information
seen many boring guitar players about how to make a song

with my analog four,
I mainly create variation by making mutes, build ups…
mostly based on tention
not so much on rytm, chord progression, etc…

Where to start finding information about interesting song components in dance music…

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On tention ?
Can you expain more :slight_smile: ?

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tension…

the thing is…
my loops get longer now
I use macro knobs and mutes to create these tension

but I am still stuck in the loop.

song mode might help, song components, different rows with their own thing to do in the song…

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Are you slidinga lot ?

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Sliding?

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I understand it as you’re using timbral, and density variations to create tension and progression - but that you’d like to use harmonic progression, to a larger extent. Yeah?

I like this channel, Holistic Songwriting, and especially this playlist:

(Swift shows up first, the focus is pop, but do click in an watch an episode or two)

Also, the person behind the channel: Friedmann Findeisen, has written a book that I enjoyed. About building (hit) songs without talking in traditional music theory terms.

On the surface not about electronic music in particular. But useful, I think.

Also this one from Dennis DeSantis from Ableton:

https://makingmusic.ableton.com/

His angle is the DAW (Ableton), but just about everything he writes about has relevance also from a hardware sequencing point of view.

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My advice would be to study why you like what you like and go from there.

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thanks for posting that video, interesting perspective.

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Hi this works for me. not just song structure here… its an informal guide to music but really helpful… the author are more into ambient music so he cover interesting territories, Eno, Richard D. James, etc

the blog where the last version - updates are located

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this was enjoyable, and it made sense of some fleeting impressions i had, had not bothered to delve deeper but now am glad got sorted out. :slight_smile:

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