HI guys i'm a bit new in EDM

I know these

Intro
Buildup
Drop (a Chorus basically in my vocabulary)

but there's a thing also i read thats called a break...
can you tell me where it is for example in this song to understand what it is

or in this song...where is the break again?

also...apart from the outro...is there any other section that often appears? i think thats all as far i learnt....thank you

 

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EDM = Intro, Riser, Riser, Riser, Riser, Drop, Riser, Drop, Riser, Riser Riser Riser Drop, Riser Riser Drop Drop Riser Riser, Fart

 

the breaks are mostly somewhere in the middle right after the 1st drop


not every edm song is the same in structure but very common is: a intro followed by a riser/build up, the drop( chorus ), a breakdown/break, 2nd riser/build up, 2nd drop and some sort of outro.

 

Break:
Darude 1:28 - 1:55
Calvin 0:12 - 0:46, 2:46 - 3:01

 

EDM structure : loop - loop+hh - drop(white noise sweep) - full on loops with bd - drop(cheesy synth+white noise) - synth dropped+looped autotuned vocal - chorus(full on loops+cheesy autuned shite) - (gimme a)break - verse2 (with orgasmic vocals) - more white noise sweeps-end

i hope this helps

 

Also:
Intro
First break/verse
Buildup
Drop
Second break/Verse
Buildup
Drop
Third break
Outro

Grammy.

 

Here’s a cheat sheet with all the song part measure numbers.

Intro – Measure 1
Intro 2 – Measure 9
Verse – Measure 17
Break – Measure 33
Hook/Chorus – Measure 41
Verse 2 – Measure 57
Break 2 – Measure 73
Hook/Chorus 2 – Measure 81
Outro – Measure 105

Well, this is just a skeleton/dummy structure which you can adapt and change acc. to your production style....
Hope this helps...

Happy Music Making
Sam (#BASSiX) ;)

 

Looks like Sam is a novice too... he thinks breaks are "drops". Two different things my friend. Even "songs" in EDM have drops...
A lot of times, the breaks lead into drops... other times they follow drops for dramatic effect. When they follow a drop, it's usually because it precedes an even bigger drop... like toward the end (before the outro). Structure is a total crapshoot and can be whatever you want or need it to be. You just have to know the components, which are: Intro, Build (which is a chorus without vocals), Rise (equivalent to a verse), Drop... then repeat with any of the aforementioned components and you can add the break and think of it as a "bridge" of sorts... then figure out how to end your song by doing a series of builds/risers that increasingly emphasize momentum and tension until you ejaculate EDM sauce all over everything!

 

@LuckySevens actually you are right....
I'm actually not producing EDM a lot these days..... i'm into "Contemporary-ish" stuff more so yeah thought of sharing...
But i think you overlooked one thing and that is that i mentioned the HOOK/CHORUS section.... and by that my friend, i'm referring to the DROP....


anyways thanks for the info....
and sorry my bad for not being descriptive enough...

 

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hey Daniel,

On Darude, the part you said (1:28-1:55) its the intro again playing over...would this be considered a break?

 

i would prefer if i could hear a song following this exact structure (or another one thats analysed in such sections)

 

Lemme help you again, I see you much has to learn

 

also for which song is this? and Is the break what a verse is? break = verse?

 

Break the rules. Come with something new.

 

ok i just realised what i knew as break is actually called breakdown in EDM and its whats called a middle 8 in other music.

nevermind its ok

 

I'm not gonna try to rain on your parade BUT bro, with all the resources available out there, you choose to get a straight shoot answer here as a beginner? Man, YouTube is your best friend if you know WHAT to type in its search bar. As a matter of fact, you can learn 90% of all things EDM from YT; From doing it from scratch to its structures, Chord progression, etc... Apart from this, you have tons of tutorials from Groove3, MacPro, AskVideo, Sonic Acadeny, ADSR, Future Music, Lynda, Udemy, and a lot more! (All these mentioned sources are available at the sister site. If you don't know what it is then shoot me a DM and I'll guide you even further on which titles to grab)
My point is if you take just a bit of your time to make refine searches, you'd not have to go through an unbalanced thread of replies with a few trolls writing garbage and irrelevant answers in between as if it makes them feel better. You need a few trusted sources to guide your beginning stage, man. In the course of the last 5 years, I went from the stage of sort of knowing a little bit to knowing A LOT and being able to make tracks with my eyes close. I sift through the B.S and went through the very direct sources!

 

I'm not sure if you meant to explain something different but ended expressing it how you did in the quote, but that's inaccurate, bro.

[Equivalent] according to dictionary means a thing that is equal to or corresponds with another in value, amount, function, meaning, etc. So in that instance Rise and Verse are NOT equivalent because a RISE can be as short as 1 bar and it is totally OK if that length is properly use but a verse can NEVER be 1 bar!

In Dance Music land, where we are talking about Electro, Progressive House, Swedish, Deep, Future House and whatever other sub House genre you want to include, a RISE is nothing more and nothing less than a reference to an FX type. It is NOT a component/Part/Section at all. A rise is mostly part of the BUILD itself which may have or may not have vocals. A Rise can also be use to signal changes in a song; Before a verse, before a break, a drop or outro and in some instance even to close out an outro.

This is not to disrespect you or anything like that but it is more to clear out the difference in case the O.P. or someone else use your answer as reference.
Again, you may have meant to explain it differently but the word "equivalent" throw the meaning of your words off.

 

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You have drums and bass guitar. Drums are heart and bass is spine of music (for all styles of music).
But yeah, be creative and creating something new is more important.

 

Foster911?

 

Foster the People?

No, Bob Marley documentary from 2014. It is good, I recommend it.