When you hit the clubs at the weekend, there's a high chance you'll be dancing to a genre of house music. Originating from Chicago in the eighties, it has taken over clubland in the last few decades.
House music has numerous subcategories, for example from electro house to drum and base or soulful house, but it is essentially the art of combining beats in to a more up tempo tune that features a base of drum and percussion sounds. House music is frequently known as dance which covers a whole range of styles too diverse to go into here. The bpm rate of house music tend be between 120 to 140. Some other sub genres are faster.
Learning how to produce your very own house music requires an understanding of basic beat structure and a flair for combining electronic tunes as well as having some equipment that will help you translate your ingenuity into a floor-filling track. If you wish to create your own house track, take a look at the tips below:
When it comes to selecting software applications for producing your track, you need to bear in mind the learning curve involved and select something that is easy to grasp. There is the hardware route and the software route. The former is probably out of most people's financial resources as building a studio is not for the faint hearted. However with current technologies available it's now possible to have a near professional quality sequencer and drum machine on your laptop. Numerous beat maker programs are now viable and I suggest this is the best route to take. These programs lets you build tracks visually hence much easier for the novice user. Some come with detailed how to videos so you can build a track right away and experiment with different samples and breaks.
Here are some of the features of a typical house composition. You'll need to have an understanding of the basics before constructing your first track.
Four on the floor, Basic 4/4 beats in barSnaresBass linePercussion?Vocals (depending on style of music)
The baseline is the most important part of the tune as this is where the rest of the elements will hang off. Listen to your favourite tracks and try to pick this out for yourself. Next up is the loops. This need to complement rather than drown out the baseline. House tracks commonly have high hats and snares that follow the 4/4 beat. Your track will be coming together but it may sound monotonous so you need to add some chorus or builds to add some variety and get the crowds going.
Just follow these basic guidelines as a starting point and the next track the DJ puts on can well be yours.
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