HOW TO EASILY Make Modern Techno MELODIES – Transcript

00:00pick what is up ninjas in today's video I'm going to show you guys something so simple that you're gonna be like wow if this can do it so can I here I have this Loop created with Paradox walling for a techno pack coming out at the end of this month now processing very simple but sounds good right support your boy we're going to use this lead called Atlantis inspired by Dana Avila to keep things simple we're going to be in the a minor

00:23scale which is going to contain the notes a b c d e f g and back to a some white privilege there for you when it comes to making techno Melodies what I recommend my students to do is to focus in on the two and the six you can call these degrees or you can call them notes one two one two three four five six now the two and the six is the only place where you're gonna see the notes bunched up whenever you play the second note in any minor scale

00:50there's gonna be tension a feeling of something's not right these are the notes that you want to utilize heavily when making techno Melody for example let's say I play this little sequence it doesn't sound techno at all but if I switch the notes instead of playing I can play my second and third and then when you go up to the six

01:18now the reason for this is that the two and six will always resolve to the nearest node that's a half step away that's literally all you need to know because once you know that you can start making very epic Melodies From there all that's going to matter is the Rhythm and I open up a 16 graph to note the melody that I want that I was playing earlier there we go that sounds sexy dude notice that it's very simple and and I get it this is where we over complicate

01:45stuff and you might not want to use this now from here we can utilize trans scallops to make the sound more complex example here we could do this now of course it sounds good because we're using evil sounds utilize the right tools to make the right music again this is just using the first three notes but the reason that this works again just in review is because we have the two going to the three so the two creates a lot of tension this little b and then it resolves to C it's an easy

02:13formula to do now the melody looks complex but that's just because we did trans gallops octave jumps and again you can do different combinations of this if you want where like even like so now rhythm is very important because if you have bad rhythms of course this isn't going to sound good so get your rhythms on point as well foreign rather lonely so with these kind of

02:41Melodies you don't need to start on the roof there are three places you can start that I always recommend my students the a the C the e the B and also the F now and then so from here we're going to do the formula we know we're gonna hit the five then go to the six to create a bit of tension come down to the four now this is a very popular thing to do and then go back to that beautiful beautiful five and there we go we had like that Melody

03:08and then let's add a little bit of stutters here now again the way you make this interesting is utilizing these techniques I teach you now in the future I'm gonna make one on songwriting so one of the things we have is column responses so again you can utilize coin responses to make it interesting all you have to do is duplicate the sound if you know what you want towards the end and you can set it up it's just going to go with the root note that's one of the easiest things to do maybe something good will happen so again we're just

03:35going to open up the preset bro that's gnarly dog bro I ain't even trying homie I ain't even trying for the people that think they're better than the rest of us because their Melodies look like a damn DMB office hacked to the Grim with all kinds of notes this also works for you guys too for example if you want to create somewhat of an arc we can have

04:01the a to the B to the C then go back down to the B and again this is this is the formula that I'm executing here bro let's bring everything back I think we made a banger here

04:35I need an EQ use evolution of sound the only reason I sound good is because I'm using the

05:02presets I am not processing nothing in this don't play yourself so put your boy foreign .com it's that easy guys there's nothing complicated about it you just have to have the right ideas to write sounds and

05:28obviously arrange it which is another beast but there's ways to also arrange it out and have something that sounds good so in review use the two and the six as the notes are a little bit more bunched up together the two and the six have some of the highest tension in minor scales and you always want to resolve them to the note that's a half step away for the two in any minor scale that would be the B to the C in a G minor scale that would be from the a to the a sharp you can also go from the six to the five with that being said you are ready to tackle on some hardcore melodic uplifting Melody if you want to continue to up your knowledge and you like the

05:57way I teach consider checking out this video where I remake one of my favorite space 92 tracks sounds 95 there I go over the sound design of that track and what makes it work as well as how to make the Sounds in serum yourself as always guys Paradox volume 4 will be coming out at the end of this month on March 30th you guys want to check that out and as always happy producing