I thought this track was done and dusted.. then I listened to it again! After tons of sleepless nights, and some deep listening to the song outside of my studio space, I realized.. We still have some work to do.. So Today I'm going to go over the notes I made for myself to finish the track,, and I'm sure you’ll be able to find these notes helpful for some music you might be working on! Think of them as Tips and tricks to make house music
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00:00 I thought I was Finished..
00:35 The Notes We Need To Fix
01:04 Fixing Clap Volume, Its Too Loud
03:22 Mixing Percussion and Kicks with Sidechain
06:28 Adding Texture To Chords
07:50 Attempt 2 Adding Texture
08:35 Pro Tip From Landon! A YouTube Member
11:28 Making The Break More Interesting
13:22 Lets Add Some Nord Strings
15:03 Adding Piano Notes
18:20 Doing the Ghost Reverb Effect
19:55 Fixing Some Mixing
21:41 Changing Up The Bass line Arrangement
27:35 Adding Drum Fills aka Drum Trips
28:48 Its The Tiny Things THAT MATTER!!!!
29:46 Consolidate and Create New Patterns then Duplicate Them Out
31:36 Adding Kick Trips
36:59 I Went Too Far
38:24 Tightening Up The Drop
45:08 Some Final Thoughts
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