Music Production Tutorial: 3 Ways to build energy in your dance tracks

In the digital age that we live in, information is readily accessible to all of us. Anything we need can be found on the Google Machine, and searched for from the palm of our hands. When it comes to music, the right information coupled with great talent can yield incredible results. Recently, the blog Lost In Muzik posted an in-depth article that teaches people how to add energy to dance tracks. This is something that all producers and DJs want to achieve. For without energy, there would be no party.

The Riser:

"This is probably most obvious in current commercial progressive house music but is used throughout the electronic dance music styles. Typically it involves a synth increasing in pitch rising up to the root note. The sound used can range from melodic to noise (the latter being more characteristic of more minimal and techno styles."

The Delay:

"Essentially, a delay just repeats what passes through it at a specified interval with a specified amount of feedback (how much of the delayed signal gets fed back into the input). There are stereo delays, filter delays, distortion delays, you name it."

The Release:

"Increasing the length of a sound can also create anticipation that something is about to happen. With a synthesizer this is usually controlled by the Release part of the ADSR envelope (but can also be done going from a short to long Decay). The build effect often works well as part of an arpeggio seen as arpeggiated notes are often short and build part of a chord sequence. Going from short, separate notes to long, overlapping notes increases the general volume as well as combining the tones together to build a sustained chord. Reverb can also be used to create a longer tail to the sounds."

Check out the full article at Lost In Muzik.