Thunderclouds spent the afternoon searching for information about the genre and style of electronic music.

There are many types of electronic music, and the characteristics and differences between different styles are also relatively obvious, and the degree of popularity varies in different eras.

Techno (high-tech dance music) was the first to become popular, and then Trance (psychedelic dance music) began to rise and gradually became mainstream, so much so that most of the world's top 100 DJs are now Trance music DJs and producers.

However, it cannot be ignored that in the past two years, with the sudden rise of house music, many DJs, including MagicM Demon King, have begun to gradually incorporate many elements of house music into their works.

Of course, there are other styles of electronic music such as Dubstep, UK Garage, etc., but these are relatively unpopular niche genres with fixed and limited audiences.

So for Lei Yun at this time, whether it is from personal preferences or from the market audience, it is naturally the wisest choice to choose the more mainstream Trance or the latest House music.

"Style. . . Let's look at it according to the actual situation. ”

Lei Yun tilted his head and thought for a while, and suddenly realized that he was not yet at the point of picking, of course, he would create any type of dance music if he had any inspiration.

Shrugging helplessly, Thundercloud continued to watch the video tutorial.

"When the style is decided, the first thing to determine is the rhythm of the song, which is BPM, and generally starts with the drum beat. ”

Decisively press pause, and whenever he encounters an unintelligible word, Thundercloud turns to the almighty search engine.

BPM is a unit of beats per minute, which is the tempo mark of the whole song, and the level of BPM directly determines the tempo of a song.

Continue to open the tutorial, only to see that the video is written from the drum beat first, and the rhythm of the drum beat has an important impact on the rhythm of the whole song.

"Knock, click, knock, click..."

It looks very simple, just a few dozen notes form a complete drum beat.

"After deciding on the rhythm of the piece, the next step is to write the melody. ”

Of course, the tutorial also shows that there is no absolute set program for creating electronic music, generally speaking, the style is determined first, then the rhythm, and then the melody, chords, and so on.

But sometimes inspiration strikes to improvise a melody, and it is also possible to write the melody first and then determine the rhythm, there is no immutable creative process, and even each producer will have their own set of creative ideas.

There is no fixed program for artistic creation, only what suits you is the best.

"After writing the melody, there is another very important part of modulating the tone. ”

Speaking of this, Lei Yun realized that the various timbres in the original electronic music were modulated by the producer through oscillators and filters.

Including drum sounds, melodic sounds, bass sounds, etc., almost everything you can hear is carefully modulated by the producers through synthesizers.

This made Thundercloud obviously a little excited, and he felt as if he was getting closer and closer to making his own music, writing melodies, modulating timbres, bar, blah, blah, bla

"This... ”

But when he studied it very seriously, his eyes gradually fell into dullness, and his face became darker and darker.

A lot of professional terms that I had never heard of at all completely drowned the thunderclouds.

What sine waves, triangle waves, sawtooth waves, pulse waves, and what amplitudes, attenuations, layering, doubling, oscillator splitting...

All kinds of professional terms, densely packed with various tuning buttons, made Lei Yun completely dumbfounded.

He never imagined that a small modulation tone would involve so many complex processes and parameters, and even every subtle parameter change would make a difference in the final timbre.

This is almost completely unbearable for the thunderclouds who are still in the Xiaobai stage.

"Why don't you start by writing a melody? ”

Thundercloud held back and thought for a while, he was not defeated by this difficulty, he thought about it step by step, and simply started by writing the melody.

"Hmm..."

Looking at the blank piano curtain in front of him, Lei Yun tentatively clicked a few times casually, and made a few irregular sounds.

"Wow, wow, wow..."

After a few attempts and found that he had no clue at all, Thundercloud tried to sing the melody with his mouth first, and then write the melody he wanted with his feelings.

But just a few minutes later, Lei Yun almost desperately found that he, who didn't understand music theory at all, wanted to forcibly write the melody in his mind just by feeling this mysterious thing, which was impossible to achieve!

Although he has a melody in his head and can sing it in his mouth, he wants to write it out of thin air without understanding any music theory, which can only be said that he does not have the incomparably anti-heaven talent.

Michael Jackson may not understand staves, but that's because he was exposed to music since he was a child, and because of his terrifying talent, people can say things like, 'I don't think staves are useful'.

Thundercloud is not Michael Jackson, he is just an ordinary ordinary person, and even before that, he even returned the little music theory knowledge he learned in elementary school music class to the teacher.

So after a brief attempt, Thundercloud finally had to reluctantly accept a reality.

First, I am not a so-called genius.

Second, if you want to arrange music, you must first understand music theory.

"Then let's learn. ”

With a heavy sigh of relief, Lei Yun forcibly suppressed the impatience and frustration in his heart, opened the search engine again, and typed 'music theory'.

"Uh..."

After a moment's hesitation, and with a quick deletion of his subordinates, Thundercloud typed 'Basic Music Theory' again.

The next moment, the full screen of information swiped again.

Timbre, resonance, pitch, name, range, scale, interval, tone...

Fundamentals, overtones, semitones, whole tones, syncopations, triplets...

Whole notes, half notes, quarter notes, eighth notes...

Chords, triads, sevens, inversion chords...

Rhythms, beats, bars...

'Boom', Lei Yun only felt that his whole brain exploded instantly!

'Smack!'

He slammed his notebook shut with a 'snap', shook his head a few times, and rubbed his head helplessly.

For a time, all kinds of flavors were mixed, and all kinds of flavors came to my heart.

He was mentally prepared for a difficult one.

But when he did take this step, he found that the difficulties were still far beyond his imagination...

That moment.

Giving up is like a curse, tightly wrapped.