Theory That Makes Your Arrangements Work

After I completed my latest track I realised how important it is to get the initial core of the sounds perfectly work together before focusing on the full arrangement. The theory of making the arrangement work is focusing on motif, hook, rhythm and harmony. After they work perfectly it is time to take on other techniques like subtractive arrangement. #abletontutorial #arrangement #musictheoryforprducers
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00:42 Motif
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06:31 Harmony
08:39 A arrangement technique using this theory
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[@CinoPORakaDjCino]

Hi LNA, nice to get you back. Like the first harmony 8:19, I don't know the full music, but that 1st section applied to the rest could improve your music! its just an idea, but its your music of course not mine!

[@garaughty]

Awesome breakdown/insights on this track LNA !

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Glad you liked it!

[@Sa11eT4mp3r3]

Kiitos! Thanks for explaining the steps and arrangements for your great track "Every Time You Want Me"! This video was perfectly timed for me, as I am struggling a bit with arranging a new track. 🙂

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Ole hyvä! Kiva kun tykkäsit!

[@MattAiByDesign]

Found recent and think your amazing really helped me a lot in my music journey

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Happy to hear that!

[@louqmusic]

Beautiful process! So clear, well thought out and creative. Brilliant x

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Thank love, glad you enjoyed it 😊

[@jacopnegar6234]

You are amazing 👏 I learned a lot from you 🤗 I trust your mentality And your experience 😍✌ .

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Happy to hear that!

[@yoyoma4424]

I MUST SAY- This is by far the best and most simplest steps to follow to get the best result for me-- I am very unorganized and while i am talented my thoughts get in the way of finishing- by having steps this really helps as these very things are what i find lacking in good ideas - TY I COULD CRY

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Glad it helped!🔥😊

[@Skiamakhos]

This is exactly the video I needed - thanks LNA!

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Glad it helped 😊

[@alexbrightlight]

Love that this was the video you made. 😊 So helpful seeing the process. Keep doing the good work.

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

So glad you liked the vid and thanks for the Q!

[@photoshopguy44]

I just started getting into Ableton Live and your videos are very helpful. Where I am struggling is when I find a great chorus in splice and want to create music around that chorus/vocals I can't find a beat. I can hear it in my head, but I struggle to bring it to life. I feel I am doing this process backward.

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

That’s super common thing to feel! Just keep at it and you’ll figure it out! I have a MIDI drum series on my channel that might help :)

[@photoshopguy44]

@@LNADoesAudioStuff Ill check it out thanks so much!

[@ActivateLA]

🙌🏼

[@saren6538]

You have a wonderful singing voice

[@santoshgujar5237]

✨nice sister🙏🏼✨

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[@fritsvanzanten3573]

Question, not directly related to this video, although maybe still. When it comes to creativity, as a guitar player (but other instrument will do as well) it often get an interesting idea playing guitar, DAWless. so I want and do record my riif, motif whatever as an audio track in Ableton. I'm pretty stable (but not flawless). Now the problems start. Of course I'd like to extend my idea with extra tracks, some chords, some string, and drums. I could do this all audio and by that ignore the measures/beats in Ableton But it would be nice when the BPM would match my original tempo. Determining the bpm before recording my inspiration often kills the moment. But now I get lost in the warping process. I'm still in 10, and I understood 11 has more options to facilitate this, but still the general thought is you adapt your tune to the (holy? )project bpm. Over the years i learned to warp pre-clicktrack/vinyl tracks, but in a way, requiring to change you setting in the preferences and warp options for other goals, this skill wears off quickly without writing down your process meticulously. I discussed this with a friend an we came to the conclusion working with DAWs (also) stressed/stimulates working on the beat, it easily all is about the 1, which does not exactly makes things swing. I'd like to see a workflow that starts with an audio track, apply a bpm so you stay with in the lines and can count beats. Working with audio clips of 1-4 beats is well provide in tutorials, but this weekend I jammed with myself, but when you have a minute of two audiotracks it's an Herculean task to get that in a matching bpm (in the end I exported the audio and played it in foobar, found the tempo by tapping (it was 91). When you tap tempo in Ableton the original audio slows down and the clip length changes. It drive me crazy. Could you noodle on your guitar, add some accompaniment (chords), and then fit an acceptable bpm to add, say strings and drums? I think noodling DAWless frees one from imprisonment bij beat (IBB), you can play notes that ignore beat borders, use syncopated lines more freely etc.

[@fritsvanzanten3573]

As an example (not so steady), 4-bar midnight noodling riff starting on beat 2, how to get this in the grid? drive.google.com/file/d/1ZKzo-x7B_qDHCq1fRjbFWgdhpujn6E9g/view?usp=drive_link

[@fritsvanzanten3573]

I added a link to my 'motif', but apparently google deleted it 😪

[@Blueblackngold]

Hi, hi hi hi-hi

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Hi hi hi hi hiii

[@PanopticMotion]

/məʊˈtiːf/ 😁

[@Puppetsinmyhead]

I love the background but It’s so distracting😂

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Hah you mean the violins? 😅

[@Puppetsinmyhead]

@@LNADoesAudioStuff oh no I love that. I mean the light portal you’re falling in too.😄

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

@@Puppetsinmyhead aaahha 😂 oh that’s just my personal portal I like having around 💁

[@Puppetsinmyhead]

@@LNADoesAudioStuff love the color 💕

[@abbasahmedlp]

Growing your hair out?

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Just lil bit