Two types of break for electronic music 

While this is a great little video to give people the basics of the formula for a break it’s important they understand it’s just that - a formula. Part of the problem with so much mainstream dance music is it’s cheesy predictability right now. Many of us that came into the scene in the 90s and 00s came to it because of the ability of dance music to be adventurous, and there’s nothing less adventurous than giving up any idea of surprising your audience in favor of some of what is outlined here.

@@Noodles1771 z 👍

Thx!

Aha! Thanks for this 😁😁😁

Sounds like a new track title is born.

...and deeper... deeper... deeper

The term is "trance", hypnosis is the way to get trance, but the fundamental is simple: your atention is engaged with a repetitive (hypnotic) cognitive element (it could be external like a music beat, melody, or the feedback beetwen you atention and the images produced by a tv screen or could be totally internal like meditation beetwen your atention and your breath, chanting a mantra, etc). Its not only the atention engaged, you are in trance when you dont mind about your body or anything else, disconecting some parts of the brain to focus in something. A mild way of trance could be go to the cinema: when the movie starts you notice the people talking and checking the phone, but when your atention is captive by the story you could forgot for example some body pain you have for a time or be hungry. But your point is absolutely correct: like the good storytelling music has to build tensión and release to engage the listerner atention, but is the repetitive element of the music what creates the trance. A boring song like a boring story is linear and dull, without atention it couldn´t be any trance This increasing efect someone explained to you is the result of the expectation: the hypnotised subject is expecting the new batch of intensity in the "release" moment, it could seem like the repetition is over, but its just the intro of a new tensión, the process wasnt over, but again you are right, with some time of tension and release the trance goes deeper and deeper

@@MarcVFons Or news media that do brain washing.

My music school makes us think about better ways to visualize these energy curves. They also make us do it with all kinds of music.

@@WouterStudioHD your music school sounds like it sucks

Yeah nice shirt! I also keep up with his vids. I also just came across Master Margherita the other day. So cool!

It's also the RU-vid channel about this name ;)

@@i.syntaxerror :D call him an artist not a youtube channel :D

@@msz4598 apologies. An Artist. Forgive me this, please. Honesty, talented an Artist.

@@msz4598 He has two channels on youtube in fact.

Ahhhh great to hear!

Cheers Rob, thanks for the support!

@@OscarUnderdog -- You've got some great teaching skills. You're really good at breaking this down without any filler. These short pieces are right to the point but cover really important parts of production. I'm not in the market for classes at the moment, but if I was, I'd definitely buy it from you.

Glad to have you on board 😁

I know right???

Good question! Made me just write out some ideas, hope to use them in a future video! Thanks!

Thanks for that!

Agreed :D in fact the drop is inevitably a bit disappointing, nothing could possibly deliver on that ultimate promise 😁

@@OscarUnderdog I'm guessing that on a proper dance floor, the drop works well, but I don't like it (too harsh and void of melody). The ending of the song though - pure magic! It's like a teaser of something completely new that you want more of. I can't even count the times I've listened to the last 30 seconds of it. 😂

2005 Brixton Academy. Chemical Brother's live...each song outdid the previous in break fall/rise...unbelievable how they did that. Still blows my mind. They were able to remix album tracks to new heights. Unfortunately, their subsequent DVD's didn't capture it as well.

Try a nice big balloon during that build up ;)

Thanks! 😁 it's not really called that officially, I just made it up as a learning tool 🤭

@@OscarUnderdog Well that's how all names we have for things come from until eventually they spread to everyone :p

😄 yeah I struggled to figure out how to make it clear I wasn't talking about breakbeats. Inevitably I was going to confuse a few people 😂💙

me too

Thats interesting indeed!

Ahhh, love the feedback, thanks!