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Song Structure and Arrangement Music Course [FL Studio 20]

Name: Song Structure and Arrangement Music Course [FL Studio 20]
Rating: 4.2 (63 reviews)

Learn how to arrange beats and build your song structure for the most energy and actually FINISH YOUR BEATS!

Created byRiley Weller

Last updated 6/2019

English

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What you'll learn

How to build a song's structure to constantly engage with your listener.
How to arrange a beat and play with your listener's emotions.
How to Build a Song's Intro, Verse, Chorus, Bridge, Pre-Chorus, and Outro.
How to Effectively Communicate With Your Listener Through Audio Painting ©

Course content

5 sections • 17 lectures • 2h 33m total length

Song Structure and Arrangement [INTRO]2:59
Structure your song and arrange beats with audio painting, transitions, and sections like intro, verse, chorus, and bridge. Use step-by-step guidance and tools to elevate emotion.
How to Ask Questions + Leave Review1:44
Discover how to ask questions using the questions and answers tab and how to leave a review on Udemy to engage the instructor.
Arrangement is Emotion5:47
Arrange with emotion by guiding the listener through audio painting and deliberate transitions. Build the beat and bones of the song, then craft intro, verse, and chorus to heighten mood.

Different Sections to Build Emotion [OVERVIEW]8:20
Explore song structure basics, from intro, verse, chorus, bridge, to pre-chorus, and learn two arrangement approaches—adding instruments or changing chord progressions—to build emotion with bars, transitions, and build-ups.
Different Approaches to Intros3:51
Explore how to craft intros with varied lengths and melodies or interludes, and sample your own music to avoid copyright while building tension with automation.
Keeping the Verse Interesting6:26
Learn how to keep the verse engaging in song structure by layering instruments, varying the drum loop, and using transitions and automation to build energy before the chorus.
Communicating with the Pre-Chorus9:38
Learn how the pre chorus after a verse signals the chorus with build ups, selective instrumentation, and intentional silence, illustrated through FL Studio 20 techniques.
Change it Up with the Bridge7:34
Explains how to use a bridge to break up a track, introducing new instruments, short four-to-eight bar sections, transitions, and a shift toward a pre-chorus and chorus.
Hit Them Hard with the Chorus8:42
Learn how to build a chorus with peak energy, either full instrumentation or a chord change. Apply parallel processing with reverb and distortion, and automate chorus-specific effects on lead taps.
Making Your Outro Count6:09
Craft an emotional outro by blending the chorus with varied elements, removing drums for space, and using automation, reverse cymbals, filters, and reverb tails to finish.

Arrangement Bones Section Breakdown [OVERVIEW]5:05
Learn to build song bones in FL Studio: lay out intro, verse, chorus, pre-chorus, bridge, and arrange with quick shortcuts, color coding, and precise quantization to speed up the mix.
Building Our Arrangement Bones19:32
Build the arrangement bones of a track in FL Studio, shaping intro, verse, chorus, and transitions while balancing drums, bass, plucks, and cymbals with compression and reverb.

Revealing Audio Painting [OVERVIEW]2:42
Explore audio painting techniques like reverse and forward symbols, risers, snare rolls, and other transitions to guide listener emotion and prepare what's next in your track.
Audio Painting Example #1 - Desires of My Heart22:22
Learn to craft audio painting that communicates emotion through transitions, reverse cymbals, snare rolls, toms, filters, risers, and side-chain dynamics, guiding listeners from intro to chorus.
Audio Painting Example #2 - Ambition16:44
Explore audio painting techniques in FL Studio 20, applying reverse cymbals, white noise, and claps with Gross Beat automation to craft dynamic intros, choruses, and outros.
In-Depth Audio Painting Transitions23:37
Discover how to craft impactful transitions and buildups through audio painting in FL Studio 20, using clap variants, reverse cymbals, risers, and automation to energize verses and choruses.

Requirements

Have a music program (DAW ) - I've used FL Studio to teach this course, but any DAW will work!

Description

Can I tell you a secret about producing beats?

The difference between an amateur to a professional producer is the patience they put into their arrangement.

You see, when you rush your beat's song structure, you're literally CHEATING YOUR SONG's EMOTION!

It's important you take the time to continually engage your listener into your song's arrangement; otherwise, they'll get bored of your music!

The key is all about communicating with our listener. And the way how we do this is with the various tools I share with you in this course.

In this course you will not only learn song structure and arrangement, but how to push your song's emotion to that next level and compete with your favorite music.

Being a music producer is actually a really special skill; once your listener puts on their headphones, you're literally in control of their emotions.

Now, you may be able to create a great beat. But, can you keep a song exciting, play with your listener's emotions, and understand the tools we producers have to achieve this?

Let me introduce you to a term I've coined.

Over my 10 years of producing music, and working with a GRAMMY-Nominated artist (also releasing over 150+ music production tutorials on FL Studio), I've described this process of engaging with our listener and playing with their emotions as Audio Painting ©.

(I've also written a book on Audio Painting © which is on Amazon if you'd like more info - we cover audio painting in the course, too!)

Audio Painting © is what I use to describe communicating with our listener, and preparing them for what's next in our song.

This course will teach you how to build a song's:

Intro
Chorus
Verse
Bride
Pre-Chorus
Outro

After learning about basic song structure, we then learn how to communicate with our listener and prepare them for what's next in our song.

Again, the key to an awesome arrangement is all about communicating with your listener.

Enroll into the course and join me as I walk you through real-world examples of my own commercially released music that is on Spotify.

You will learn how to build an intro that gives your listener goosebumps, a chorus that your audience can't wait for during your song's build-up, and adding excitement in your song's verse to keep your listener engaged.

Ready to get started?

Enroll, and I'll see you inside the course!

# GratuiTous

Who this course is for:

Beatmakers learning how to arrange beats with FL Studio or any music production program.
Producers wanting to make engaging song structures for their listeners and fans.
Song writers who want their music to have impact, energy, and tons of emotion.

Song Structure and Arrangement Music Course [FL Studio 20]

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Course content

Arrangement is Emotion [Mindset of Arranging a Song]3 lectures • 11min

Different Parts of a Song's Arrangement [Sections to Build Emotion]7 lectures • 51min

Building the Song's Arrangement Bones2 lectures • 25min

Revealing Audio Painting [Effecting Our Listener's Emotions]4 lectures • 1hr 5min

Song Structure and Beat Arrangement - OUTRO1 lecture • 3min

Requirements

Description

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