The first lesson in the series: How to make electronic music for beginners. In this lesson we will talk about the basics and help you understand how electronic music is made.

2. OVERVIEW
Intro
Software
Why people like the music they do
Theory(covered over the series)

3. INTRODUCTION
About me: I produce Dubstep, Drum and Bass, Trap, and
Chillstep. I have been producing for about two and a half
years and have been Djing for three years.
I am assuming you have had no prior training into how
electronic music is produced.
Electronic music is produced in a Digital-Audio
Workstation(DAW). All of your drums, virtual synthesizers,
and MIDI(Musical Instrument Digital Interface) files will be in
the DAW.
Where can I get a DAW? Some of the most popular DAW’s are
FL Studio, Ableton Live, and Cubase. If you google any of
these, they will come up.
What is the cost of a DAW? Depending on the DAW you want,
$100-$800.

4. DAW’S
What will a DAW look like when you open it?
This is FL Studio. Pretty clean, easy, and effective. Not used
by a lot of popular producers though. If you look at the
right side of the picture, you notice all of the squares and
rectangles, that is called a “sequencer”, but we will talk
about that more later.

5. DAW’S
This is Ableton Live.
A bit more complex but widely used by many popular
producers.

6. DAW’S
This is Cubase
Nicely made, widely used. I see it as a combination of both
FL Studio and Ableton Live.

7. WHAT MAKES PEOPLE LIKE ELECTRONIC MUSIC?
From my personal opinion, people like electronic music
because of the movement of the genre. There are certain
chords and articulations(style) of music that people tend
to like compared to others.
People like the bass. However, when producing electronic
music you need to remember the mid’s and high’s!
Tone Quality. Like playing and instrument, you need to have
good tone quality to make it sound good. If it sounds bad,
nobody wants to listen to it.

8. THEORY
Surprisingly, producing electronic music does require music theory.
However, you do not need to take theory classes.
You at least need to know what tempo is. In music, tempo is
represented in BPM(beats per minute). An example of a tempo in
electronic music is 150 bpm, 180 bpm.
It would be VERY helpful to learn the piano or know they which keys
are which on the piano. Almost all DAW’s use a virtual keyboard to
tell the synthesizer what to play. If you don’t know what they keys
are on the keyboard, you will have a very hard time making things
in key.
Staying in key. When you listen to dubstep, you probably hear just a
bunch of random sounds. However, these are not random notes. If
every synthesizer played a different note at one time, it would just
sound like a bunch of random notes being played. Think about
playing every singe note on the piano at once, it wouldn’t sound
very pretty.

9. REVIEW
DAW = Digital-Audio Workstation
MIDI = Musical Instrument Digital Interface
People like certain chords and articulations.
Make it sound pretty.

10. NEXT LESSON
Synthesizers
EQ
Starting production in FL Studio
More theory

11. WHERE TO FIND MY MUSIC?
SoundCloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/Excentricity
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/EpicenterDubstepHD
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Excentricity