Release Year: 2016
Producer: Ask Video
Producer Website: www.askvideo.com/course/dance-music-styles-101-trap
Author: Adam Pollard
Duration: 01:27:58
Type of Material: Video Lesson
Language: English
- 157.4 MB
Description: This first course in our Dance Music Styles series explores the fundamental building blocks of trap music. Join Adam Pollard in this 21-tutorial course and learn the essential ingredients of this complex and exciting dance music genre! What makes Trap, Trap? Well, it’s a bunch of things. You’ve got to have the right tempo and understand this genre’s defining features. Next, are the specific timbres of the kick, bass, snare, and lead sounds. Then there are the production techniques and other more subtle, sonic ingredients that are unique to this particular style of dance music.
Dance music expert, Adam Pollard, reveals everything a Trap track must have. He explains all of the techniques, with detailed examples, as he sculpts a Trap track right before your eyes. If that isn’t enough, Adam proceeds even further into this Trap exposé by showing you all kinds of tips on how to make an authentic sounding 808 track. You also see Adam design some of the “weird” sounds that are essential to Trap. He even goes over some common mistakes and pitfalls that you may encounter during production.
So join Adam Pollard, in this first course in our of Dance Music Styles series and learn everything there is to know about making Trap!
Content :
1 Course Overview (02:42)
2 Defining Features (06:32)
3 Common Themes (04:53)
4 Arrangements (04:57)
5 Kick (03:41)
6 Snare (03:08)
7 Percussion (04:10)
8 Bass (02:13)
9 Lead Synth (01:56)
10 Mastering (04:01)
11 Tuning Sample 808s (05:04)
12 Snare Rolls (04:30)
13 Amplitude (06:33)
14 Pitch Envelopes (04:26)
15 Saturation (04:42)
16 Sampling Real Sounds (03:29)
17 The 808 Boom (05:35)
18 Get Creative with Reverb (04:22)
19 Making it Dancey (03:03)
20 Low End Dynamics (02:27)
21 Managing the 808s (05:25)
Sample files: none
Video format: MP4
Video: AVC, 1280×720 (16:9), 30.000 fps, ~98.2 kbps avg, 0.004 bits/pixel
Audio: AAC, 44.1 kHz, ~96.0 kbps, 2 channels
