The BEAT eBooks - Skills for Creators The BEAT eBooks are all about making: Designing sounds, producing hits, setting up studios, selling and streaming music and much more. Each eBook offers its own individual focus, from synthesizers to recording to performance and sound design, with both technical and creative depth. Also included are solutions for mixing and mastering, enriched with market overviews and interviews for valuable experiences from everyday studio life. With the optional software downloads, you get everything you need to create
KILLER HOOKS GUETTA, VIZE & RAF CAMORA HOW TO MAKE A HIT SONG! • Sure, the mix has to sound excellent and the arrangement has to create tension, but vocals and melodies are and remain the most important elements that stick with the listener and encourage him to hum along. But how do you create such ear-catchers and how do you successfully create them? In our big special, we show you the tricks of various chart producers and give you techniques to make your own hit a breeze.
Pure Romance • The French DJ and producer David Guetta and the Australian singer and songwriter Sia Furler fit together like keyboards and synths. Together they created the world-wide hit „Titanium“. The song „Flames“ also became a great success. We show you why it‘s almost impossible to get this hook out of your head.
Fattest Bass! • With their current songs and tracks, VIZE mix up both underground and overground. Who can claim to have worked together with greats like Dieter Bohlen and Clueso on the one hand, and to have made a name for themselves with a dirty clubby signature sound on the other? No question that we want to know more about their secrets…
Simple Power Hook • The latest work by Lost Frequencies & Co. apparently contains everything that makes a successful song so special: a positive basic mood, shallow guitar licks and the ever-popular theme of love; however, there is one significant element that resists the usual formula, because instead of a sung chorus, a distinctive synth hook rules in its place. We will show you how this is done…
Ingenious Chords • Singer and actress Lady Gaga has been awarded countless prizes. In 2019, she even received an Oscar for the best film song (Shallow). In February 2020, the single „Stupid Love“ was released and became a world-wide success - once again. Afterwards, we took a look at the song and analyzed why it is so hard to get it out of our heads.
German Rap 2020 • The Austrian Dancehall- and Hip-Hop musician RAF Camora released the number one album „Palmen aus Plastik“ in 2016 with Bonez MC. The song that gave the album its name is now double platinum. We take a closer look at the track and show you what makes it so special.
How Songs Became Hits Through Remixes • Imagine you write a song that nobody is interested in. Suddenly someone comes around the corner, does a remix of your song and the whole world dances to it. Or you record a song in the studio and, through the influences of various people present, something unique emerges. In the following paragraphs, we‘d like to present you two interesting success stories.
Perfect Synth Hook Tools • Inventing catchy melodies, the right sound to go with them and everything handcrafted; that‘s a great thing. Everyone who has a talent for it is envied. But even for „normal mortals“ there are tools and aids that can save a lot of time in finding hooks and making life and learning easier. We have selected seven of them here for you…
Song Structure on the Fly • Finishing a song is not easy because you not only need a thrilling main part, but you also need a captivating intro, a memorable chorus, a relaxed outro and so on. It‘s easy to lose track here, but the Arranger tool in Studio One is all the better, because it can actively support the producer. Let‘s get started!
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