Hardcore structure template
There is many ways to achieve the sound you have always wanted, with production templates you can get your inspiration out must faster, without fighting with drop and break timings for example. One of my awesome YouTube viewers asked about production templates regarding song structure, with this post i am going to explain some important things about this topic.
Here is a song structure template for hardcore, i used my track as an example on here.
The problem with these kind of templates
I said earlier that these sort of templates can make you work faster and get things done! What is the problem?
The biggest problem here is that this template limits you to just this structure and this can feel kind of claustrofobic in a way. Of course you can edit this template to your liking but then you lose the immediate feel of “fast working”. So my suggestion is that you edit this to your liking outside of production time, if you feel that this does not suite your style of production and go from there.
Benefits of structure templates
When you get your own template just how you like it, only then it makes production faster. You need to understand your template and WHY everything is placed in certain way. This helps the production process itself because in FL Studio it is a pain in the bottom area to move things around when you already have everything “in place” including automation, patterns, audio…
So when you have this base, everything kind of goes together with ease.
Drop pt.1, Droppt.2 ????????????
In order to understand this we need to talk about YOU the listener. Why do you like certain tracks? Do you have an expectation of the track or genre you are listening to? You probably do, if you don’t even consciously think about it. With more oldschool Hardcore you wont probably expect the track to sound like Hardcore Kick Sample Pack Promo Video. And with modern music you might. And this is important when it comes to track structures, make the template fit the genre and style you are producing! Don’t use modern tracks as an reference if you are more into oldschool stuff for example.
But what about this pt.1 and pt2 thing??
This just basically means that this drop has 2 different main parts, so the listener doesn’t get bored of the same sound all over again. In this case the tempo being 200bpm you will probably get away with adding something new every 8bar (Oldschool Style). Although i think you need to play around with kick patterns and cymbals between adding something new, to get the listener interested. This can be such a subtle thing (panning, velocity, effects, rhythm..) Listen to your favorite tracks, the rhythmic design might be more complicated when you start actually thinking about it.
I think this is the core of this kind template, and these are the things you really should think about. You can find this template from my Store for FREE!
This also includes the delay and reverb sends that i use in every track of mine, this template includes 3rd party plugins like The Duck and Pro-Q 3 if you don’t have those, you can replace them how ever you like.