Hardstyle mixes influences from hard trance, hard house, and hardcore. To ensure that you learn the complex techniques this tutorial runs close to 12 hours of video, that has been divided up for you into three areas.
Runtime:11 Hours 40 Minutes.
25 Videos
You will learn the theory behind the creation of the kick, drum rhythms, basslines, harmonies, melodies and vocals in Hardstyle.
With various practical examples, you’ll be able to create the infamous Hardstyle kicks alongside create and arrange a Hardstyle track.
You do not need any prior experience to participate in this course but we strongly recommend some familiarity with your DAW.
Hardstyle mixes influences from hard trance, hard house, and hardcore. One of the more aggressive forms of dance music often employing a hard, distorted (“barking”) kick drum mixed amongst melodic leads and binary motifs. It is also one of the more complex genres of dance music for artists to produce, requiring knowledge of a number of techniques including unusually excessive EQ, judicious frequency specific distortion, detuning, sound design and synthesis layering. To ensure that you learn the complex techniques this tutorial runs close to 12 hours of video, that has been divided up for you into three areas.
Module 1
Kick – As you know the Hardstyle kick is perhaps the most elusive timbre of the genre and a major sticking point for many producers. For you to learn how to design and produce a Hardstyle kick you will spend close to 4 hours in this section. You begin with learning how to design and modifying a simple 909 kick and then you will follow the initial creative decisions and techniques for the production of a typical Hardstyle “barking” kick. You will see demonstrated various techniques and plug-ins, used by many Hardstyle artists before reviewing the audio editing and various techniques involved to further modify the previously created barking kick.
Module 2
In this second module, you will learn about composition, sound design, and arranging.You will learn about the various techniques in musical composition for developing the lead, the use of counterpoint to create dissonance and the ancillary/binary melodies and motifs. We also discuss into the sound design principles and practices for leads, screeches, reverse bass, sound layering, and EQ to ensure that you have a full understanding of the different techniques required for this gene.
Module 3
Arranging and Further Sound Design – For the final module, we examine further synthesis layering, lead effects busses and chains, a typical processing chain for Hardstyle vocals and then we work towards building a skeleton Hardstyle arrangement examining the build techniques, reverse bass, drop and general arrangement principles before finally returning again to sound design. Here we employ a Virus Ti and show how you can use it to create leads and screeches.
Session 01: 5 Mins.
An Introduction to the tutorials.
Session 02: 20 Mins.
We examine the D16 Drumazon 909.
Session 03: 20 Mins.
It’s not necessary to own or use the D16.
Session 04: 25 Mins.
We start using clip distortion.
Session 05: 20 Mins.
We further harmonic effects.
Session 06: 30 Mins.
We employ EQ’s into the kick chain.
Session 07: 35 Mins.
Building the foundations of a kick.
Session 08: 30 Mins.
The Tok: We explain the processing.
Session 09: 25 Mins.
The Bark: How to edit and process audio.
Session 10: 20 Mins.
How to pitch the kick and experiment.
Session 11: 40 Mins.
How to compose a hardstyle melody.
Session 12: 15 Mins.
We examine and employ triplets.
Session 13: 15 Mins.
Further methods to add rhythm to melodies.
Session 14: 45 Mins.
Lead Synthesis: We investigate lead synthesis.
Session 15: 35 Mins.
The construction & composition of chords.
Session 16: 35 Mins.
The Reverse Bass sound design.
Session 17: 40 Mins.
How to synthesize it and write motifs.
Session 18: 30 Mins.
How to construct effects chains for chords.
Session 19: 30 Mins.
More lead synthesis and layering.
Session 20: 25 Mins.
The typical effects bus that can be employed.
Session 21: 20 Mins.
We examine alternative effects chains.
Session 22: 25 Mins.
We produce a skeleton vocal narration.
Session 23: 50 Mins.
The basic techniques for creating builds.
Session 24: 35 Mins.
We walk through a rough arrangement.
Session 25: 25 Mins.
The Access Virus: How to approach screeches.
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