Tips and Tricks for Creating Tension in Electronic Music

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As if there wasn't enough tension in the world right now! Today we're looking at some simple techniques for adding tension into your electronic music tracks!
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Tips and Tricks for Creating Tension in Electronic Music

[@dizbeliefdanbackhouse5807]

Love that weird glitchy synth leading the beats.

[@paulsalonen152]

Dude every time I google a topic for psy, this time "psytrance tension and release structure", somewhere along the line a video of yours comes up. Nice one

[@sirprongalot8406]

More Arrangement Tricks pls :)

[@aspekt7631]

Lol, if you're good enough... this tutorial is an arrangement tutorial as well. Creating rizers and the use of dissonance in this way will kinda tell you what the track needs or the track will tell you what it wants. Ultimately helping your arrangement.

[@flashdancer42]

Heheh, I have absolutely 0 idea of music theory, but this is something I do in almost every project I do, no matter the genre.

[@wizardvega724]

I came for the Vital tutorials, but have found a treasure trove in your channel, thanks for getting me to subscribe not by asking for it but by creating phenomenal content. I'm not even that big a fan of psytrance...

[@shurryk]

Hey dash, thanks once again for your wonderful videos. It is very rare to have such insights of theoretical arrangementtricks and concepts! Those very useful and immediatly applicable methods are priceless! please make more of those man! :)

[@Sharon-music]

Very very happy KZbin suggested your channel to me 😁

[@ac12484]

Valuable content! I kind of figured that out about scary movies by noticing that if you close your *ears* they are not that scary! Your channel is awesome.

[@AlequeVision]

Thanks for this

[@wizardvega724]

fucking mindblowing to see the spectrogram of intervals. So appreciate you man! you're great all around!

currently reading the chords and harmony of dance music manual book this video is right in time, thanks

[@A432universe]

Crazy technics. Thanks Dash

[@larsomat2]

Great tutorial. Thanks!

[@rmolag]

excellent episode

[@wubsonofficial]

Tremendously helpful!

[@kickpedal100]

This was really well explained, and has some great examples. Thank you for this!

[@psycox8758]

Great tut ! You're actually using what is technically referred to as a "minor plagal cadence" here. In the key of C minor that would be the chord of F minor resolving to C minor. There are 4 basic types of cadence... Perfect, Imperfect, Plagal and Interrupted. ..handy stuff to know about ;)

[@agustinjacaslopez8329]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge, so useful !

[@sergenity]

Thanks Dash

[@LostInPresets]

Nice work!

[@synchronizia6140]

very nice man! More videos like this one please :) Thank you very much!

[@simplejournal9613]

Thanks for your helpful videos, really inspiring and teaching me alot

[@7177YT]

brilliant thank you! really stands out among other production videos. stay safe! cheers!

[@thetruth00]

hey man just want to say i'm really loving your tutorials. and not just for your technical knowledge but the way you explain things in a broad sense and make it relatable. thank you for making these and keep up the great work!

[@BorisBarroso]

Wow that was great! I knew many of the concepts you presented but seeing examples in a very well explained way will help a lot. Thanks

[@20710348]

Nice. Very much focused on the musicality! Really tying in the theory with practical examples and translating the concepts into sound and music. The world needs more of this.

[@EloquenteMente]

so awesome

[@Sharon-music]

Amazing bro. Started adopting the freeze Rev automation!!!! Amazing tip there man. Thank you 😍

[@triemond9961]

Very cool!

[@emrazum]

Tense! I love the sound of detune sliding, very THX type noise

[@shadowshamanpsy346]

Thank you!

[@MrZasori]

So interesting 👍

[@AndreGMendes]

Great info my friend thanks for sharing! :) It would be also very good to watch builiding those same techniques but from a live performance perspective. I think every performer kind of tries to replicate some of these ideas but they tend to fall more on "how we all think it's done" rather than what actually are the best ways of achieving it. Noise build ups for example have always amazed because they can be done in so many ways and from so many sources. After playing with it for so many years I recently changed the way I do it, rather it's in it's live or studio production. Controlling noise while filtering it and playing with the rate of an lfo while quickly and in little burst sending it t a long verb, can create a lot of space and tension too and from there you co go where your imagination takes you. Anyway great review, subscribed!

[@Falkon303]

Really cool tips. There's a newer VST called "Fluid Chords" that can pitch bend from one chord to another, I think it might prove for some interesting results in this area.

[@Felixneobrrr]

you can do this with mpe without a vst, you just have to find a synth that supports it. all ableton native instruments do

[@psytoolpsytrance-tooltime8212]

Hello Glitsh, your videos are very inspiring, now a question, where can I find your HIVE preset from this tutorial in your Patreon user list? I am looking for this successful HIVE pre-set.

[@ronduremusic5972]

Hey, love your videos. Are you available for hire for mixing?

[@DashGlitch]

unf not, i'm spending most of my time creating and editing videos - so I just focus on my own mixing these days, but check out Stooodio mastering/mixing services - one of the best in the game and offering great prices at the moment oood.net/mastering.html

[@aaronfabian8231]

how do i creat this awesome pad? and big thanks for your tuts

[@DashGlitch]

This is just a preset I used from Hive2

[@astalavista8717]

Hello , can I use 'serum' plugin that you use in my abletron live 10 ,plese help