3 tips to help arrange your track · Audio Artist Academy

3 tips to help arrange your track

👩‍💻 Most of us are on a quest to be our own Hans Zimmer with arrangement, but how exactly do we approach it when it can seem like such an elusive and non - tangible concept?

📖 With the emotion / message/ aim of your section and track being the main focus of your decisions, (just my suggestion) here are 3 great ways to improve your skillset, save time and get more impact, interest and variety into the song's you are writing

1️⃣ At first there was the word.

A vocal drop out can be so powerful. Solo, accompanied by claps or bass and drums is a classic for a reason.

What twist can you add?

2️⃣ Layer the cake baby!

This is a biggie! While layering is usually approached to beef up your sections, using it more to mould textures is very effective.

Say you have aight bell sound in chorus and then the break kicks off, try adding a full sounding guitar with a more sustained envelope playing the same pattern. Compressing them together for extra boost too.

3️⃣ Listen, love, learn.

No, don't buy one of those wall hangings from the home shop but listening to tracks you love the arrangement for and learning what is going on, why it works and how to create your own version of this maybe the most powerful top of the lot

✅️Comment with any approaches you love and any mixes/ demos you have that you're digging or need help with. Let's inspire each other and help where we can 👊💯

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