The Music Theory Behind Trance?, anyone know anything about it Options

[slowintrepid]

Ok recently I've been trying to produce my own tracks (mostly trance)
I've been a guitar player since I was 9 years old so I know theory in genral. but the reason I got into trance was because the genre eludes me and seem quite complex (when in reality it's pretty simple I hear??)

anyways can someone gimme some info on what goes into a trance song (theory wise that is)

thanks alot

[alixir]

It's an old trance trick, I'm sure most of the commercial trance producers don't have a musical inkling into what they're doing. I used to know that most went onto the internet, downloaded classical midi files and then re-arranged them to get professional sounding chords.

Secondly you need to go and use loads of presets off of most of the keyboards that are around today. Honestly, isn't it about time that people started making their own lead sounds for a change, it all sounds like the same keyboard to me! Also get yourself some nice 808/909 drum sounds and learn gating for pads to get those bits lead sounds and also an arpeggiator so you don't have to spend more than five minutes on a pattern.

Thirdly, forget trance and go and listen to Infected Mushroom and several other well thought out psytrance acts that actually put more than a days work into their tracks, experimenting with non conformist trance sounds and willie orbit style effects patching whilst still having room and time to add a little atmosphere.

That's the best way my friend! Although, trance used to be good around 93, at least all the tracks didn't sound like an anthem......