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• Steps
• Tips
• Warnings
• What do you need

Get out your best pair of dance floor shoes because new electronic music is coming soon! This article will teach you how to write and release dance music.

Steps

1. 1 Decide for yourself what kind of music you would listen to yourself. Hear and listen to different music until you find the sound and style that you really like - this is the only way to find your style. The main directions are Trance, House, Drum'n'Bass, Garage, Hip Hop, UK / Happy Hardcore, etc. Of course, there are many other varieties and directions. Do not limit yourself to narrow genres and, especially, charts - look; look for new names and experiments in music.
2. 2 Start with size. The size determines the song as a whole and how good it turns out to be. To get a good rhythm, you first need to listen to a lot of dance music and learn to isolate only the drum part. Dance music is almost always written in a 4/4 size; for example, The Chemical Brothers in the song "Go For It" they throw a beat of 2/4 every few bars. Hi-hat (otherwise this type of cymbal is called "Charleston") sounds good in a number of eighths or sixteenths. The snare drum serves to accentuate and syncopate the rhythm. Play more snare, but try to avoid rattles and resonators as they are very common in hip-hop.
3. 3 Develop a bass line. Dance music is based on repetition and usually starts with a catchy bass line. The bass part can also be your chord progression.
4. 4 Start overlaying. As the song develops, dynamics should be added to it. Some layers may be rhythm on a chord progression, others will be multiple repetitions of the same note, or phrase, or rhythmic figure that runs counter to the chord movement.
5. 5 Hear how the overdubbed music sounds. If something sounds bad, find out why it sounds bad. All music is based on a theory that was created more than 400 years ago and has not undergone significant changes since then. People study music theory in order to comprehend what the musicians of the past reached on their own.
6. 6 When you feel that the song sounds "right", work on improving the "filling." You can remove the drums and leave the strings to set the rhythm, or just let the drummer work somewhere. Or you can change the style altogether. As stated, this is your song. Your creative freedom.
7. 7 Now you can add words. Listen to your favorite songs again.Maybe you want to insert a rap or a couple of repeating rhyming lines at specific points in the song. You can go the way of classic rock with its verse and chorus. After all, you can use your 40-year-old children's poems or insert a favorite poem by Robert Frost! This is also your creative freedom.
8. 8 It's time to release the song. If you can't do it yourself, find someone who will record music for you or mix it on a computer. Then make the final corrections to remove even the slightest roughness. To get the record companies interested, send out demos of your songs. To promote successfully, you need to learn the business side of making music by referring to external links.

Tips

• Believe in yourself and your creativity! Anyone can write a song, just like in any business it takes practice and time to write a good song!
• Be patient. You can't get a quality end product overnight, it's a gradual process. Doing something else besides songwriting will help you avoid the notorious "creative crisis".
• Let other people listen to your music and provide opinions and criticism. Of course, advice from people who are musically educated will be most valuable.
• Criticism is just as important as praise: it allows you to assess the strengths and weaknesses of your music.
• When recording tracks, regular computer speakers are not enough. Even a pair of ordinary vacuum headphones will expand the sound range so much that you can adequately appreciate the ratio of bass and treble.

Warnings

• Do not give up. Whatever you do, never give up. Music requires perfection, every mistake will have to be corrected, so it may take days or even weeks before a song is ready for recording.

What do you need

• Keys (or standard PC or MIDI)
• Recorder or flute (optional)
• Computer
• Software (samples / VST, music composing apps)
• Mixer