Tutorial: Arrangement & Idea Development
For this video we wanted to break down our process and philosophy behind creative decision-making, and try to analyze WHY we choose certain decisions over others when we're writing a track.
00:00 - Starting the track + initial focus and ideas
05:17 - Adding rhythmic elements
11:17 - Developing the focus of the track
20:09 - Arrangement attempt #1
23:01 - Adding more elements/variation
27:23 - Arrangement attempt #2
29:11 - Handing over the project to Will
30:15 - Further experimentation/development
35:55 - Writing the B section progression
38:34 - Arrangement attempt #3
40:11 - Energy and movement
41:16 - Final arrangement
54:36 - Call and response
56:11 - Structure variation
Comments (22)
thank you, this is extremely helpful guys, love you!
Awesome! Thanks. :) <3
Keep coming back to this occasionally just for a bit of inspiration.
Thanks for this, Jim.
Absolutely incredible video guys, thank you so much <3
I'm ultra noob, but do you put the sames delays on every track that need it, and why dont you use delay tracks to do this ?
Just.. ridiculously incredible. Amazing display of knowledge and technical aptitude while pulling back the curtain on your creativity. I will worship this video forever
That was really good. I was thinking in the middle of it how amazing it was that you could remember how you'd come up with the ideas and how they had developed in the first place.
This was great I learned alot about compositions in this tutorial. I wonder if you guys actually recorded these samples yourselves (in the first section) and if you did what are some of the best DIY objects to record. Rice? Sand? Water? And also what equipment do you guys use to record those sounds? Thank you Koan Sound for your time :3
this is one of my favorite videos yall have done. Such great perspective, thank you!
Thank you!
This was really intuitive. Thank you for sharing this!
Such an amazing insight into your workflow, thank you for making this.
these sort of ideas are what i need more of in my life, super great stuff thanks again!
I love this approach. Interesting to see the project file at 50 mins.
My first watch joining you guys here! Already got a new fire lit in my ass ! 🙏🏻👊🏻
This tutorial was so insightful, thank you so much!
I think this is one of the most useful music production course I ever seen. Thanks much guys!
finally back after some time and im flabbergasted to see the content you guys created over the last year and the amount of detail and love you put in to it.. then again its koan sound what else did i expect? its like a dream come true that you're sharing this knowledge with us. thanks you so much! will enjoy those vids and suck them in like the noodles at chilli daddy’s =)
Love every video, and I really get a lot from them! Thanks for sharing your incites!
Thank you Will and Jim for sharing your wisdom and knowledge for the electronic music community to grow and pay homage to you guys 💚
You guys are too good... Thank you!!!