Bold choices and small arrangement tricks can go a long way. Skip to primary navigation Skip to main content. Trick 1: use a spectrum analyzer People are always saying that you should use your ears, not your eyes. Trick 3: sample the things around you This one is a no brainer. Just collect them, upload them, and process them with effects. The possibilities are endless. Trick 4: use ambience to fill out space Have a sparse arrangement?
Take an element of your track, and duplicate it. Pan one hard left, and one hard right. Keep that in mind when you approach your next arrangement! They can really stick out in an album or EP if you use the same ones over and over again. Some good examples of directions you can give to your vocalist s are:.
Note: three-part harmony can be tricky. The succession of notes is as follows: C major triad root position, D minor triad root position, C major triad 1st inversion, D minor triad 1st inversion, C major triad 2nd inversion, D minor triad 2nd inversion, back to C major root position.
Note the exclusion of the 7th degree leading tone B! More often than not, the arrangement or production may change a little bit. For example, the mix process might indicate that you need to subtract or add certain elements from the arrangement, and this is totally fine and normal. All processes of recording a song bleed into each other to a certain extent. Just keep abreast of how the song is sounding in terms of the big picture. Quality starts from the beginning and is something that must be maintained all the way down to the final master.
So there you have it. Best of luck with your arrangements and remember — practice makes perfect! If you are ambitious about your music and want to produce your songs for successful commercial release, Supreme Tracks and our acclaimed music arrangers are at your service.
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How to Arrange a Song in 10 Easy Steps. So, here we go. Do you have a strong chorus? Is the main melody line in place? Firstly, should the drums be acoustic real or sampled? A good drummer will make those decisions for you.
Step 5a: Programmed Drums If you program the drums yourself, you have to think like a drummer. Step 6: Bass and Bass Elements Once the drums are mapped out in your arrangement, the bass or bass elements —in most cases—comes next. Where does the bass come in on the arrangement? Where does the bass drop out? In what range does the bass play on the verses and on the choruses? Experience will help you make these decisions. Step 7: Main Driving Harmonic Component Harmonic information comes next when learning how to arrange a song: guitars, keyboards, synths, strings, etc.
Jay Althouse is a music educator who served as a rights and licenses administrator for a major educational music publisher, as well as serving a term on the executive board of the Music Publishers Association of America.
He composes choral music and has written several books in addition to his book on copyright. Christopher M. Johnson earned his Ph. Johnson served two terms as the editor of the International Journal of Music Education: Research , the research publication of the International Society for Music Education.
Johnson received a university teaching award — the Ned N.
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