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Stage 2 Counting Music Course 2 of 4

How a Track Is Built

Beginner 9 lessons · 57 min

Dance records are built to a pattern, and once you can hear the pattern you know what is coming before it arrives. The structure of house, garage, hard house and the rest - including the one where he explains it with Lego.

By the end of this course you will be able to

  • Predict where the breakdown and the drop are coming
  • Describe the structure of a house or garage track
  • Use a track's structure to decide where your mix should go
  • Recognise the structural differences between genres

Lessons

  1. How to structure your mix

    6:08

  2. The structure of dance music

    8:11

  3. The structure of house and garage

    7:39

  4. The structure of hard house and electronica

    8:38

  5. Structure, seen rather than heard

    7:13

  6. What garage music is

    3:45

  7. UK speed garage, broken down

    3:56

  8. Old school hardcore, broken down

    5:52

  9. The structure of dance music, in Lego

    Optional 5:21

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Below this line is the back catalogue, newest first. Useful for browsing, but it is not a course - the videos are in the order they were filmed, not the order to learn them in. Work the stages instead: each one assumes the one before it.

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