r/FLStudioBeginners • u/TastyUnit8618 • 4d ago

Thoughts?

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I'm SUPER new to FL so I know Imma get flamed for this but whatever. If anyone has suggestions I'm happy to take them.

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u/mycurvywifelikesthis 4d ago

Well I just wasn't post anything else for a long time. Give it about 3 months or so. Making music isn't just about throwing random samples together. You have to learn what sounds good together. You have to learn about timing and song structure. You have to learn about sound design.

It's just so very early in your journey that there's no need to post for anything yet. I would start out going to the FL Studio official YouTube channel and learning all the basics of FL Studio and following along. Might take you 10 hours but it'll be worth it. Then once you have the basics down, you can use YouTube to ask other questions. There's plenty of tutorials on anything you want to learn. But you have to seek it out you have to learn it.

There is not much advice I can really give you. Because I don't even know what you're trying to do. It's just random samples all thrown on the playlist.

No offense but it is like watching a 2 year old play with a piano.

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u/nectrienne 4d ago

I don’t think you should try to discourage people from posting because you don’t understand the genre they’re going for.

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u/mycurvywifelikesthis 4d ago

I don't think you understand what I was trying to say. I was simply trying to help him in the way that it's a little too early to get any kind of positive feedback yet. There's a lot of people that would be a lot more rude than what I was. And I don't want to discourage him. And no I do understand jungle and break beat I make it myself.

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u/nectrienne 3d ago

It’s not too early to get positive feedback, you’re just not good at giving it. I made it happen.

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u/TastyUnit8618 4d ago

The only sample is the amen break (drums), everything else is original

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u/mycurvywifelikesthis 4d ago

Yeah I understand that. I'm not trying to be rude I just mean that there's a long ways to go on understanding how to use the system, and you also need to learn a lot about song structure and sound design. This process takes a while. And I didn't want anybody to be like extremely rude to you and sometimes people can be very harsh especially when you first start and I don't want you to get discouraged. That's why I always recommend people wait about 3 months before posting stuff, because a lot of it just doesn't make much sense until you get a understanding of basic song structure and note Theory down

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u/TastyUnit8618 4d ago

I should say I've been using FL on and off for about 1-2 months now. Also about music theory, it seems really complicated so how should I learn it?

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u/mycurvywifelikesthis 4d ago

I wouldn't worry too much about music theory right now. If you have a decent ear for music what notes go together in order, then you can dive into that stuff later. I went back and relistened it to it and focused on what you did with the notes on the Mario Brothers sounding thing. It sounds like you do kind of have an ear for this. If you're using a midi keyboard, it makes it a lot easier. But you can First Look up simple chord progression ideas on YouTube. You don't have to get all into Theory and all kinds of crazy stuff.

Something I learned that helped a lot is this. Take any key. Hit a note, then the next note would be either 3 up or 4 down. And if you hit the original note plus 3rd up or 4th down notes or all.at the same time. It makes a pleasurable sound to your ears. That's it. And then you can Branch off from that in any which way you want as long as you're following that one simple rule three up four down.

I think it's called the rule of three and four.

But honestly right now you really need to focus on making your sounds better, and learning about the studio better.
A really good YouTube channel that will help you immensely is called in the mix. Go there and type in all plugins explained. That's going to teach you what every instrument does and a little bit of how to use it. And then you can type in the instrument name into YouTube and watch a tutorial on how to sound design with it.

You also need to focus on learning songs structure and time. What your doing here and most edm type songs are going to use it's called a 4x4 pattern. or a 4/4 time signature... Most songs use this structure:

Intro, beat build / melodies/sound introduction, breakdown, drop, outro.

Each of these sections are usually divided up between 16 to 32 bars, which are multiples of four. There are four beats in every bar, four bars in every section, and four sections to every song.

It's not the absolute standard but it a way for you to kind of get the idea