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« Last post by LPChip on Yesterday at 11:57:12 »When I make demostyle music, I just set one simple goal to myself: Create something that sound as awesome as it can be. Be a demo of what is possible. This mindset alone helps a great deal in starting, because you ask yourself: what is awesome?
And by answering this question, one would say suspense creates awesomeness. So what I tend to do is combine sounds together to create suspense. This can be an ambient feel, or a drone or even a great acid bass loop. But it must be something simple in the background that carries that moment in the tune.
When it comes to the lead, the first question is: is one really needed at that moment? If you have a great slow drum with an ambient feel, that alone can be good enough on its own. If you still want to add melody to that, ask yourself: how can I write a solo that goes with this? Like how a lead guitarist can play a solo.
Next thing I often try to do is keep my sections short and use transitions to go to something completely new.
Also, as we're creating a song to showcase what is possible, use effects to spice things up. This can be an arpeggio, but also delay, chorus, distortion, etc.. As long as it fits with your song and taht moment in time.
That said, keep in mind that demostyle is a very broad range because it has different interpretations to everyone. For example, some people think with demostyle: music used in demos, but more modern demos typically use pop/dance/electronic music mixed with demostyle elements which evolved into just pop/dance/electronic music being used in demos. Technically speaking they are not demostyle tracks.
And by answering this question, one would say suspense creates awesomeness. So what I tend to do is combine sounds together to create suspense. This can be an ambient feel, or a drone or even a great acid bass loop. But it must be something simple in the background that carries that moment in the tune.
When it comes to the lead, the first question is: is one really needed at that moment? If you have a great slow drum with an ambient feel, that alone can be good enough on its own. If you still want to add melody to that, ask yourself: how can I write a solo that goes with this? Like how a lead guitarist can play a solo.
Next thing I often try to do is keep my sections short and use transitions to go to something completely new.
Also, as we're creating a song to showcase what is possible, use effects to spice things up. This can be an arpeggio, but also delay, chorus, distortion, etc.. As long as it fits with your song and taht moment in time.
That said, keep in mind that demostyle is a very broad range because it has different interpretations to everyone. For example, some people think with demostyle: music used in demos, but more modern demos typically use pop/dance/electronic music mixed with demostyle elements which evolved into just pop/dance/electronic music being used in demos. Technically speaking they are not demostyle tracks.
I'll finetune it a bit more soon.