How Industry Producers Make Their Melodies | Fl Studio

is something that every industry producer understands i've watched just about every single melody tutorial and not once have i heard anyone talk about this and just by doing this you're going to make your beat sound ten times better alright what's good youtube so in this tutorial i'm going to be breaking down the melody making process that all industry producers are following from beginning to end basically i'm going to be covering everything you do and do not need to know when it comes to making your melodies specifically i'm going to be covering how to create unique but effective chord progressions note and scale selection tips how to create melodies and counter melodies that complement your progressions common mistakes people make when laying down their melodies how to humanize your melodies along with various tips and tricks along the way let's start with essential practices right off the bat when you're making a melody what a mistake people do is they'll just go in there without any kind of like guide for what they're going for any sort of vibe like have you ever seen an episode of the cave with kenny beats there's a reason why he's always asking the artist at the beginning like what kind of vibe they're going for because that's going to be kind of like the framework for every decision you make whether it's like adding notes uh changing the pitch laying down chords choosing a scale picking presets and etc and as well with something i talk about more than anything on this channel but if you haven't heard already from me one note gaps are used for more dark and evil vibes two note gaps are used for more like emotional stuff and three now or higher gaps tend to be used for the more anthemic stuff so that's just another way that the vibe is significantly going to determine how you go about making your melodies also another big mistake and one of the most common ones you'll see is that people will start making their melodies on bad presets and when you're doing that you're kind of just shooting yourself in the foot i'd say when you want to start you want to start with a piano preset most of the times because it's dry like it's the most common element in music so you're probably going to use it in your beat itself it's easy to hear the mistakes as well in the notes since it sits a lot like the mid frequencies but what's also very important is it's sensitive to note lengths which you'll see is super important when browsing through presets finally the last thing you want to remember before you start laying anything down you just want to come here and turn the volume down originally it'll sit somewhere like right here i usually just bring it up to right here the reason for this is that the drums are going to be even louder than the melody itself so you want to leave like head room to add those elements because not only do we want them to naturally stand out but if we have to turn them up like crazy to do so we're just going to have a lot of clipping in our mix so before anything also you want to have a scale in mind that you want to use the type of scale really isn't too important but here's a little trick that producers like metro boom and murder beats og parker wheezy and many others understand is that they'll tend to use the e flat slash b major scale because coincidentally this scale is the by far the easiest one to remember and it's also in the octaves that like most rappers will rap in you literally just need to use all the black keys and the only thing you need to remember is that you also use the f and b keys and also if you want to go for the more evil stuff it's the exact same thing if you want to use the figurine scale which metro boomin does a lot which is the exact same rule except instead of using the f note you use the e note and you still use all the black keys plus the b key and for the more emotional beats like the type of stuff that you hear have internet money the most common scale you'll see them use is like the c minor scale this one's not as easy to remember but i strongly recommend you remember it because at the end of the day what you can do is just kind of pitch your melody up and down to your liking but if you're a beginner i strongly recommend doing this because it's a good way to learn and for those who are wondering the quickest way you can get a scale range like this is you come up to this draw thing right here you right click it and you come down here and the minor scale that you want to select is this aleolian scale it's really just a minor scale i don't know why they call it that and what you can do is you can kind of just like lay it out here and whatever note you like you know you can shift it around let's say i want to make a scale in the a minor octave you want to put in like a sampler track and you want to mute it and now when you go to make your melody basically you'll just have this framework with all the notes that you want to use and every single note that you lay down in this framework is gonna sound good so if you're a beginner i strongly recommend doing that okay so with that in mind let's talk about chords there are various types of chords like many different notes but what's important is really building like the fundamentals by starting off with basic ones and then just like adding notes later this is another example of like one of the most common mistakes i see a lot of producers doing is they'll start with like a ridiculously complex chord like something like this if i were to play it like this like that doesn't sound good at all and you know when you're making something complex in the beginning you're not really giving yourself like enough space to be creative and like do all these different things but like as you can see here we have three notes right here that work and if i were to play this like there's so many more things i can go off of from that than the more complex chord so don't be like laying down ridiculous things really just stick to the simple three note chords and then add like all your other variations in like melody later like see for example if i want to go evil i could do something like this like you did this down something like this or i could just like clone it like that and do something like this on some like sad vibes and as you can see it just becomes so much easier when you do it like that to like add notes and add changes to it it's just easier to hear like what to do and what not to do but moral of the story just don't start complex keep it simple and just stick to three note chords so basically now we're actually going with like variation and making different progressions with chords this general layout is something that you need to like remember so once you have like the chord that you like what you want to do is you just want to start with like singular notes you don't just want like blindly layout chords you kind of just want to play along with it like this like like i like that note i'm really just looking at the root notes here so then you want after you select note then you want to build your chord progression around it so it would be something like this like that sounds good seeing right there i have a very simple framework of a progression that i can add so many different things to to make it sound so much better but it just serves as like a guide for where i'm trying to go with this whole melody you know what i mean and also before i move on here's just one more producer mistake that i see a lot is a lot of times people may be making their chord progressions like this and then they'll be like laying out some sort of like counter melody while they haven't even finished the progression and that's gonna be really difficult to do so i'd strongly recommend don't start like thinking of counter melodies and melodies and trying to like recreate whatever you have in your head like before you even have like the basic framework laid down do the chords first then think of like counter melodies and melodies later now you may be looking this progression some people may think it's like good the way it is that's another common mistake that producers will make is that they'll like leave their progressions to be way too generic and they don't really know waste you can spice them up so here are three ways industry producers will make their progressions more interesting one they'll move the chords around also while using the slice tool to create kind of like a rhythm you need to understand that chords are also a framework for the bouncier melody and because i feel like not enough people consider this when making their melodies they really just go for sound two by adding more voices by adding notes to the progression this is usually done by adding a baseline know that you don't need to make your progressions be only three notes you can still maintain the progression but you want make sure that you add more voices also similar to the previous tip you'll also see notes be added right before the chords change to give the melody more character and rhythm three by shifting the notes around to new octaves this one is also very important just because you're using the same notes doesn't mean it'll have the same feel when you place it in different octaves usually the first and third notes are the ones that really drive the progression so what you'll see a lot of producers do is they'll either delete or they'll change the pitch of the second note up an octave so with these three things at the end of the day it comes down to personal preference but just do what sounds good to you and make sure to try these things out before just calling in the day with your melody and this next thing is probably the best tip i think i've ever heard especially because i don't really see anyone talking about it is that you gotta make sure the notes are used at the end of your melody whether it's like a lead or a counter melody or a chord progression makes sense with the first ones that you're playing in the very beginning because what i used to do is i would just listen to the second last chord or note that i'd be playing because this also applies to leads and counter melodies by the way but i would just listen to the second last notes and just make sure they made sense at the last and i would just call that day you need to understand that like it's not like you're just playing the melody and it's stopping there it's definitely playing on loop so it's really looking more something like this where like the progression is constantly going and if you know if you want to make if you want to constantly be playing on loop which it will be with the beat the ending needs to make sense at the beginning or else like that clear disconnect will stand out and it'll just ruin the beat so like for example that's why you'll see so many of like the same progressions being used in the beginning when producers are making their melodies and like a lot of times when i heard people's beats when i'm doing the beat reviews during live streams is that like they'll have this issue so just make sure that these notes make sense with these last ones and skipping a little forward likewise with another melody that i made here there's like a lead it also applies to this where like the first note that's playing the beginning sounds like this and the very end it sounds something like this see how those two notes at the very end makes sense that this would be the next note that plays so it goes like this but like i could leave it like this and this note could have been like this note for example and now listen to it how that doesn't sound right like even though it's still in scale and still aligned with the actual chord itself so just make sure to consider that because it's super important okay so now let's talk about the lead or the counter melody or the melody usually just the part that sticks into the ear of your listener first off a big mistake that a lot of producers will do is they'll try and force themselves to create a lead when in reality they just might not need one for their melody specifically like when your chords aren't really looking like a progression anymore you know there's a lot of slices and a lot of different notes being added a lot of variation but by far when it comes to making leads the biggest mistake that i see people make is that they'll use like way too many note lengths and rhythms in their melody it's kind of like the same rule with high hats in the sense that like too many types of hi-hat roles is just going to throw the listener off and be too hard to follow along with the same thing goes for melodies see what people don't understand is that a lot of melodies do have some sort of groove to them and industry producers understand this so that's why you'll see them do stuff like not necessarily draw each note individually but they'll just go like the cloning options so they'll do stuff like this where this is quite literally what i did to make this counter melody they'll just like drag something over or clone it over like this and then they'll just kind of like move certain notes like as you can see that's just what i did right here to make this like this and you know it's still it kind of forces you like so you still are gonna fall like the exact same groove that you set down in the very beginning but it's also just gonna force you to like keep things simple and just not overdo it it's just also gonna be in general like easier to do but likewise generally is a good idea to keep things simple but you know find a balance between the two where it's not like super boring like this but it also doesn't look something like this and last but certainly not least the final mistake that i see a lot of producers doing is not understanding how to properly pitch shift their melodies producers do this all the time but don't seem to understand why because it's not necessarily a matter of preference but it's a matter of having like the root notes to your melody or in other words the lowest notes in your melody sitting above the c5 octave because for producers who don't know like 99 of the time you want to make sure your 808 follows the root note and the 808 start to like not sound good below like the a4 octave so you just want to make sure and like consider that like for example here like if i were to have the 808 b like in these notes specifically it's either gonna be really high pitch or super low pitch and i kind of want to sit like somewhere above the seas but like i don't want to be super muddy so so you want to look at the lowest note of your melody and just shift it accordingly until the lowest note sits in this range you know i would just pitch it up ideally up somewhere up here so now like the lowest note is playing this b which is generally acceptable and the final thing you do need to know how to do is how to humanize your melodies what you want to do is when your melody is finished highlight everything by hitting ctrl a and then go to your keyboard and hit alt r and that'll open this randomizer right here what you want to do is come down this levels knob and just kind of like mess with this velocity knob and as you can see what it's going to do is it's going to give random velocities to all the notes in your melody and what that's going to do is kind of make it sound more like it's being actually played by a person because when you're playing something by hand you know you're always going to have like random velocities it's not going to be consistent with every note you play and that's something you want because it generally sounds better especially when you're using stuff like pianos or instruments that a person would normally play and i guess one final mistake to mention is that what a lot of producers will do more experienced ones in particular is they'll just like come in here and they'll just highlight and they'll go to randomize they'll just go like this and then they just move on from there but like a lot of the times when you randomize it like certain notes like for example i can guarantee these ones down here are just going to be like hit a little too hard or be a little too quiet so just make sure that before you move on just play through the melody one more time and just kind of like correct the velocities of each note so like for example right off the bat there this root note right here this c4 note is hitting way too hard so i'm gonna do and this is what you should do is you should hold it with left click and then use your mouse wheel and then you can just pull down the velocity like that or what you can do is just highlight and go like this that's honestly probably the better way to be doing it and yeah that's basically it don't overdo it by having like crazy velocities but just make sure there is slight variation to them when you do feel necessary alright but that's gonna be it for this tutorial i've done sound selection mixing and now melodies so let me know if like drum patterns and effects is something you might want to see me do next make sure to follow my instagram and twitter at finn of the god go cop my personal stash drum kit most one volume one there's a link to that in the description and yeah make sure to like subscribe and peace [Music] foreign

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Published: Tue Mar 02 2021

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