It requires determination and patience to learn music production. The process of learning music production is very time consuming and it’s a very vast and deep ocean and learning is a never ending process in music production. a producer  have to dedicate many hours of his time on experimenting and practice to obtain  some applicable skills  to be able to make riffs for his tracks.

 A simple and cheap way to learn music production is from online courses and you tube videos. There are many tutorial videos available on you tube for free for almost every instrument and software you wish to learn and work on and there are also online courses in cheap prices that will make it easy for you to learn the mysteries of music production from your home.

Step by step production:

1. The first step to produce a song in any software is the sampling and synthesis of a track which means to create the basic chord progression of and instrument. In other words a basic structure of a song on which will be pillar of the whole song till the end. This blog is not about the progression I will talk about it in other blog in detail.
2. After sampling and music synthesis next step of music production is to add the suitable bass line to your track. Bass line is considered as a major element when we are in process of structuring a track because it makes the track sound more cohesive and complete. The bass line is generally shaped according to the core melody of the track. This come to pass so that both the harmonics of the core melody and the melody of the bass line are built so that they sound decent together and they do not get in each others way affecting a disharmony.
3. The next step after adding the bass line is to add a drum loop. In order to generate a drum loop for your beat you need a bundle of one shot drum sounds or a set of drum loops or preferably both. Online you can get many high quality drum sets and use them to make your own drum loops.
4. The next step after adding drum loop in your track is to add some sound effects. Sound effects are likely the slight details that make a huge transformation in any track. Make definite to add sound effects in your sound tracks if you want to make it sound good and more realistic or when you want to fill any breaks that sounds empty.
5. After adding the details of sound effects next step is to structure your track. Because structuring a song is what makes it sound more comprehensive and fascinating. It is significant to add a  catchy and appealing opening to your tracks because it is your best chance to catch  listeners attention and involve them. It should sound unique something they never listened  before.  And middle and closing is also important as the opening.
6. Next step after structuring the track is audio mixing. Mixing will help your track sound clean and crisp and become wider stereo wise.
7. Audio mastering is the last process of a mixed track. After mixing  music producers export the track as a one channel complete track to master it. The purpose of mastering is to correct any flaws of the track like blurred or noisy parts and to make it sound louder, fatter and warmer and to enhance the portions that were panned in the mixing process to get a broader stereo sound.

From many years societies are being reflected by the music styles of the time and have evolved with the changes in the world. Not only with society music changes  but it also changes with technological advancements as well. The advancements in technology also provides new ways for people to listen music with new emerging styles and genres of music. The way we consume music has dramatically changed in past 70 years from radio to television and records to the internet. Even the inventions in the technology used to build recording tools and musical gadgets has caused what styles and songs are made and popular within the music landscape. In this story we will try to concisely cover the styles of music that were popular since the 1920’s until now.

In 1920’s music was dominated by blues, jazz and the dance bands were popular at the time. Due to destruction in the first World War Twenties music was upbeat and enthusiastic as the economy grew and parties boomed even with ban in the US. It was just beginning of new musical revolution and all things appeared possible.

Popular Genres of 1920’s: Standards, Dance, Blues, Broadway, Jazz, Ragtime.

Popular Artists of 1920’s:  Paul Whiteman, Ma Rainey, Duke Ellington, Eddie Cantor

In 1920’s there was depression in very large scale and it also stayed during the 1930s deeply influencing the music of that time. Music like country and blues mirrored the sufferings faced by various while  other popular music like swing and big band  had an optimistic feeling in the air. Popular music helped very much in providing an escape from the severe situations in Thirties.

Music of 1940’s and 50’s reflected the starting of major social changes in the world  .  R&B, and  pop ruled  while  television and radio connected US and revealed the variety of artists and styles. Some of the  major music celebrities arose in these two decades was Elvis Presley ruling the the minds of young girls.

 Disco turn out to be one of the major and most despised styles in music during 1960’s and 70’s. It was so prevalent that many well known artists and bands came  with disco melodies to keep up with the trends including artists like Rod Stewart and Blondie.  punk rock and Havier rock music  also arose during the 1960’s and 70’s.

Popular Genres of 60’s and 70’s: Souther Rock/Country Rock, Country-Pop, Disco/Dance, Punk, Power Pop, Soul etc.

Popular Artists of 60’s and 70’s : The Carpenters, Barry, Diana Ross, Paul Simon, Donna Summer, Rod Stewart, Grand Funk Railroad.

In 1980’s music was radically transformed by  Music Television. This meant that music videos became very necessary in order for artists to achieve popularity and sell records. Michael Jackson was one of the most popular artists of the decade because of his creative music videos and talent he introduced the new music standards. Synth pop and Wave were common genres and their electronic sounds fit flawlessly with the starting of the computer age. Hip Hop was also very popular during 1980’s.

Popular Genres of 80’s: Hardcore Punk, New Wave, Gothic Rock, Heavy Metal, Contemporary R&B.

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