All you need to know about tension and energy in electronic music

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  1. xbitz

    xbitz Audiosexual

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    Hey there,

    I hope you're well.

    For the past few weeks, I've been writing an article about tension and energy. It doesn't normally take weeks to write a blog post, but this one is... well it's big.

    It's called The Advanced Guide to Tension and Energy in Electronic Music and it covers the following:

    • A high-level and low-level explanation of tension
    • Viewing tension as pull/push
    • What causes tension
    • How to add tension to your track during composition and arrangement
    • An explanation of energy
    • Types of energy
    • The value of an energy map
    • Energy dynamics: how to create an engaging arrangement
    http://edmprod.com/tension

    As always, let me know what you think, and have fun producing!

    Cheers,
    Sam

    P.S: I had planned to create an additional PDF version of this article, but given the amount of audio examples and embedded content, it makes it a bit difficult. If there's enough demand I'll try to pull something together
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    very nice article so share it
     
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  3. Herr Durr

    Herr Durr Guest

    very extensive breakdown on this genre... first time to see the site, looks like a lot
    of material to explore there.. thanks
     
  4. Kwissbeats

    Kwissbeats Audiosexual

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    this is great! not much new information for me but I 'm 100% sure I can not express it in such words.

    You sir have a great perspective on this. bookmarked!:thanks:
     
  5. jhagen

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    good :)
     
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  6. SK77

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    Great article
     
  7. Vince Bramich

    Vince Bramich Ultrasonic

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    Just bookmarked you site dude. Really good stuff
    Only skimmed through the article but looks to be a really good summation of all the info on the net regarding tension and release.
    Prob worth a sticky in audiosex acadamy???
    maybe submit the article to saint for the sister site as well
     
  8. Thankful

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    Actually Sam, it's quite easy to embed audio, video and Flash into PDFs. You have to keep your files-sizes down as your PDF will bloat. Short snippets of a few secs in your document should work nicely.
     
  9. Rolma

    Rolma Guest

    Yeah embedding media into a pdf is pretty straightforward and user friendly ....You also can get all type of interactivity through js scripts...I use it a lot to create multimedia teaching content.


    Gonna dive into the article : ) it looks pretty well documented and developed.
     
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  10. javiawake

    javiawake Noisemaker

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    good article thanks to share it
     
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