I'm one year into learning how to produce. I know that's super beginner stage, what I'm capable of producing reflects that LOL but I kinda got stuck on overall arrangement and sound design. Does anyone have experience with getting lessons or mentorships and how that helped them?

I downloaded one sample pack and figured out pretty quickly that I want to do my own sound design. I'm using Vital and Ableton, and don't want any more plugins until I learn everything I can about the basics and how to best use the tools I already have. I've gotten pretty comfortable with Vital and have way too much fun making stupid shit.

But I got into this for a specific reason, not just to make cool shit. There's album plans, song titles, lyrics, I know what I want each one to sound like. I've got a message and a mission, character design, visuals planned out (I've been a video editor for 10 years). It's just this one skill issue holding me back! I do get frustrated with how long it's taking vs the plans I have + why I started, so maybe looking at lessons is my way of trying to speed it up. I don't know if that's the right way to go.

So I already bought lessons from a producer and he stood me up twice. I ended up having to ask for a refund, and he was kind of a snake about it but PayPal came through eventually. There's another producer I really like, he's well established, and he's offering lessons in August. That first experience has me hesitating, though.

I am total beginner of music production. Recently, I got a little better at making drop sections, but have no idea how I can make the other parts. Could someone can give me an advice or give me a good youtube video to watch?

So im lost when trying to produce music, I go in most of the time just messing around , i get some good sounding stuff together, i suck at drums but my sound design isnt to bad, I end up just scrapping what i make and just go to the next beat. its been like this for 200 beats/songs lol, any tips to help me get out of this habit?

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i wanna learn how to produce dubstep/brostep/riddim, i have one track produce but it sucks lol, I REALLY SUCK AT MAKING DRUMS, i make make a melody on beats, but i always suck at drums,

after doing too much of serum2 resampling and post processing i've made this wip what do guys think ? 🫠🥲

This is my 4th attempt at making a dubstep drop. Is there anything I can improve?

The only presets I used are the screechy lead thing and the yois, I made the other ones myself.

I usually just dm people on insta n stuff. so far i have two people who hopped on and a few people who might. but i want to see if i can get more incase anyone cancels out

Hi there, I’m looking for a dubstep mentor. I want to make heavy dubstep music but have no idea where to start, and get overwhelmed thinking about the idea of learning. However, this has been a lifelong dream of mine, and I am ready to commit. Looking for someone who can be a teacher and mentor.

The build needs work I focused on intro and drop just want to hear feedback so far

Hey guys,

I make music for fun and I was theory crafting a dubstep/riddim song in my head. My idea was to use a sample of someone saying water, then chopping the sample to make it go 'wa wa wa' on the beat, and then mixing in a bass/synth which also make a 'wa' or 'wack' sound. Its also pretty high frequency, not a sub wobble or anything.

I'm looking for a general name for the sound I have in mind, like 'Reese' or 'wobble' or other terms I can research myself. Does anyone have any idea what I could be looking for?

Edit: I don't know any songs with the exact sound, but imagine the dubstep sound of being slapped in the face.

I was thinking of releasing this Dubstep and Jersey mixture, but I really need feedback on it since i'm more of a house producer and never really did a full Dubstep track before. You guys can be as honest and harsh as you want. I'm really trying to make the track the best it can possibly be.

What are yalls opinions?

(note: please forgive me if my english sounds broken)

Hi guys my name is Ares, I have been listening to bass/electronic music from over a decade and from the last 4+ years I learning music production despite putting a decent amount of time into it and watching almost all the popular tutorials multiple times and I cant even make a simple drop that sounds okay, every single track of mine sounded trash, no amount of taking inspirations form popular bass songs was helping me. Some of the people who started at the same time as me are now making bangers. After a lot of frustration and reviewing my own stuff I came to a conclusion that there must be something fundamental that's going wrong with my process. The other day I got my self this book called Ultralearning by Scott Young the author who claims that this book teaches people the right way of learning and mastering any skill. He states that every skill is a subset of smaller skills and you that one must know before they start their learning process.

So what am I aiming for?

I want to make good sounding dubstep songs (brostep, riddim, tearout anything non melodic) by the next 12 months. Also to mention that one thing that held me back so much is trying to be creative even though having no proper skill to put down ideas. It is like coming up with an insane picture in your mind but you dont even know how to paint. So I wanna learn how to paint before I want to get creative with the strokes.

So what do I want from you cuties?

I prepared a few questions to ask y'all

1. If you were forget everything you know about dubstep and start over from today what are the top 5 things you will start with?
2. What skill/mindset shift has drastically accelerated your skill?
3. What is the most effective way of learning you are using to master the craft?
4. I want a full breakdown of the subskills especially for heavy dubstep that you have learnt to become what you are today.
5. what are some less to none creative skills but are really important, so that I will learn them first.
6. Next time I watch a tutorial how do I do that properly to actually learn the skill inside the video?
7. Any other suggestions that you wanna give me based on my story and my approach.

Thankyou soo much for spending minutes of your valuable time looking into my post. Every response means a lot to me more than you can ever think of. I hope yall have a wonderful day.

<3

edit: mistakes

For those here that make their own music, I'm getting into producing in the riddim, tearout, and dubstep scene. I'm actually not new to producing as I've done other genres for about 6 years now but this was my original genre i wanted to make when i first started producing. I was scared away the first time because of how complicated it seemed because Serum still looks like alien technology to this day. I've been listening to edm and dubstep for almost 20 years now and making it is a whole different monster. Getting to the point though, I've been trying to get familiar with the layering of the sounds to make the drops hit way harder. Sound design is literally like a foreign language to me and i am having a hard time understand how to convert what i want to make to the synthesizer. Does anyone have good exercises or practices that will help me build up my sound design or structuring?

Been making music forever but this is my first attempt at a 150 BPM bass tune. Any feedback appreciated.

Loend - User Playground (Tearout bass edit)

https://soundcloud.com/loend/user-playground

I know this is a 2015 track that almost nobody knows, and the people who do barely remember it, but I've been racking my brain trying to figure out what sample xKore used in this part of the song (1:30:88).

It's a half-second riser/siren FX. Just to be clear, I'm not interested in the kick right before it or the rumble that plays alongside it at the end — only the FX itself. Based on the sound character and the era the track came out, I suspect it's a Vengeance sample — maybe an FX one-shot or part of a drum fill — but I've gone through several packs and haven't found it.

I've tried recreating it and I can match the main characteristics (starts on F#, rises 6 semitones from start to end, detune, etc.), but it doesn't sound exactly right the way I want it to.

it’s this synth played on the first 7 notes of Excision’s ID10 from his 2 hour LL set.

(sorry if this is too much of a long shot)

Whenever i wanna make dubstep tracks, i always get to where i make the drums and the call chord, but can never find a good lead response sound and im always terrible at balancing it with the song, the only songs i have made are only electronic, i wanna make drops and stuff sorta like virtual riot but i never find good videos to learn.