Author Topic: My first future bass track (Read 4835 times)

jesperbloem · « **on:** February 08, 2017, 02:51:49 pm »

Hello everybody!
I'm new here and I'm a bit new to producing too. I can learn so much and that's why I am here, so if I do anything wrong or dump here on the forum or in a track or in my feedback to others just say it please so I can learn again!

Let's get to the point:
As I already said, I am a bit new to producing. When I was 12 I bought FL Studio and I started just messing around and things like that. Now this year I am trying to become a bit more serious, cuz I think it would be so cool if I could make some real tracks or something. After some more messing around, but just more serious messing than first I found future bass. First I though it would be very hard to create tracks so I just stayed at producing house and listening to like everything you can imagine. But a month or so ago I just tried future bass. Looked around on YouTube and listening to a lot of Future bass. Replayed songs like 'In the name of love', 'Closer', 'Scared to be lonely' and some unknown tracks like 3 billion times to hear how they made their songs and now, today I was messing around with that future bass, but I came further than I first could.

Now I have made this drop and buildup in the last few hours: https://soundcloud.com/fleatbeat/future-bass-wip/s-FXke3

I was wondering:
- Do you guys have some feedback?
- Did I made some mistakes?
- Some really awful sounding things?
- What should I do different?
- How can you make a break and intro? Just like I made the drop?(by listening to a looootttttt of Future bass and figure out how they did it?)
- I think the drop needs some more power, any ideas how to fix that?

And I was thinking about something to not make it instrumental, but someone singing on it, but how do you find someone to sing on a track and how does that work? Do I need to write the text and tell the singer how to sing it?

Big thanks!
-Jesper

NM64 · « **Reply #1 on:** February 12, 2017, 09:23:38 am »

Well considering you're new to this I'd say you're doing a good job. This might sound annoying, but honestly the key here is practice. Keep listening to stuff similar to what you want your music to sound like. Focus in on one or two elements from a track you really like and try to recreate those. Keep producing, whenever you can....that's the only way to improve.

Right now a lot of your sounds are pretty dry, so I'd focus on your abilities in the realm of synthesis. Sometimes it's an easy add distortion and poof it sounds a million times better, but getting to know a couple of synths is never a bad idea.
If you want some general knowledge on that kind of stuff Seamless has a great set of tutorials called "How to Bass"
Here's his youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/SeamlessR

As far as the break and intro, yea honestly listening to the music is a good place to start, but a lot of the time the intro and break are re-instrumented versions of the drop themselves...or at least it can be. I usually start by getting a chord progression on the piano, and bring parts of that to different instruments.

The drop will hit harder if you aren't playing at the same volume the entire time. I know for a fact that a lot of the big house/trance producers will even play most of the track down a dB or two until the drop hits, at which point they bring the volume back up to 100% so it hits even harder. Another way to make it hit harder would be to have a bit of a break before hand. As an extreme example, if you were to go silent for a bar beforehand, and have a drum fill right before the drop hits, I think you'd find it will be that much more impactful....sometimes making things hit "hard" is more about the difference between the quiet and loud parts in the song.

Hope this all made sense, keep at it!

jesperbloem · « **Reply #2 on:** February 19, 2017, 04:10:53 pm »

Thank you for your reply! I've been working on some new idea's, but also a lot more on this one!
https://soundcloud.com/officialbloom/id-1/s-nN0zd
I think it's so much better now if compare it to the old one, but there still needs some progress to be done.

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My first future bass track

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