7 Day Song Tutorials
Here you’ll find links to all the 7 day song tutorials I’ve made!
Featured: Dance Pop 7 Day Song
- Day 1: Making the Beat + Loop Layering
- Day 2: Lady Gaga style Bass Synth
- Day 3: Ke$ha style Electro Lead Synths
- Day 4: Gated Pad, Pitch Bend Synth + Bass Pad / Arps
- Day 5: Processing Pop Vocals + Autotuning
- Day 6: Arrangement, FX & Melodies
- Day 7: Mixing, Mastering & The Final Song
Progressive House 7 Day Song
- Day 1: Making a Driving Beat, Loop Layering & Filtering
- Day 2: Dirty Bass, Lead Synth & Sub Bass
- Day 3: Calvin Harris-y Lead Pad & Square Wave Pad
- Day 4: Arps and Bass Pad
- Day 5: FX and Vocals
- Day 6: Arrangement and Choosing the Notes
- Day 7: Mixing, Mastering & The Final Song
Dirty Dubstep 7 Day Song
- Day 1: Making a Powerful Dubstep Beat
- Day 2: Making a Brostep Bass + Huge Dubstep Bass
- Day 3: Making a Throaty Wobble Bass + Quick Sub Bass
- Day 4: Making a Metallic Arp, Phasey Lead + Painful Siren Synth
- Day 5: Making a Supersaw pad, strings-esque pad + prog housey lead
- Day 6: Adding FX, Song Arrangment + Choosing the notes
- Day 7: Mixing, Mastering + The Final Song!
Psytrance 7 Day Song
- Day 1: Psytrance Beat
- Day 2: Awesome Acid Bass
- Day 3: Acid Lead Synths
- Day 4: Thick Pad, Glassy Pad + Bonus Pad!
- Day 5: FX and Resampling in Reason 5
- Day 6: Arrangement and Structure
- Day 7: Mixing, Mastering & The Final Song
G Funk 7 Day Song
- Day 1: Making a G Funk Beat
- Day 2: Making a Synth Bass
- Day 3: Making a Whirly Lead, Bass Pad and Epic Strings
- Day 4: Blips, Vocoder and FX
- Day 5: Hip Hop String Stabs, Piano and Bell
- Day 6: Arranging the song + Choosing notes
- Day 7: Mixing, Mastering & The Final Song
Liquid Drum and Bass 7 Day Song
- Day 1: Making a Liquid Drum and Bass Beat
- Day 2: Making a Smoooth Bass Synth
- Day 3: Making an Atmospheric Pad and a Glassy Lead Synth
- Day 4: Making a Summery Portamento Synth and Hollow Echo Synth
- Day 5: Making a Spacey Piano and Sampled Strings
- Day 6: Arranging the Liquid DnB song + Adding FX
- Day 7: Mixing and Mastering Liquid DnB + The Final Song
Darkstep Drum and Bass 7 Day Song
- Day 1: Making + Eqing a Darkstep Breakbeat + Adding a Conga Loop
- Day 2: Making a Neurofunk Bass, Resonant Bass, Sub Bass + Sidechaining
- Day 3: Making a Gated Lead + a Swooshy, Ethereal Pad
- Day 4: Making an Atmosphere and some Shhhhhhhhh
- Day 5: Adding FX, a Painful Pitch Bend Synth + a Filtered Loop
- Day 6: Arranging the Darkstep Song, Filtering the Bass + Choosing Notes
- Day 7: Mixing & Mastering + The Final Song
Bassline 7 Day Song
- Day 1: Making + EQing a Bassline Beat
- Day 2: Making a sweet bassline bass synth + sub bass
- Day 3: Making a wobble bass and wow bass synth
- Day 4: Making a Hollow House and Dirty Dubstep Bass Synth
- Day 5: Pizzicato Strings, Delayed Piano and a Sweeping Pad
- Day 6: Arranging the Bassline song, FX and a Pitch Drop Synth
- Day 7: Mixing, Mastering, Vocals + The Finished Song
Hip Hop 7 Day Song
- Day 1: Making + EQing a Hip Hop Beat
- Day 2: Making the Bass, Sub Bass + Hats
- Day 3: Sampling an Orchestra Hit + Adding Scratching
- Day 4: Making 2 Suh-weet Hip Hop Lead Synths
- Day 5: Adding String Stabs + Waa! Synth
- Day 6: Adding vocals, Arranging the song + Adding a Percussive Breakdown
- Day 7: Mixing & Mastering and the Final Song
Seven Day Song Trance Tutorial
- Day 1: Making a Trance Beat + Snare Roll
- Day 2: Making a Trance Bass + Acid Lead
- Day 3: Making a Gated Pad + Bass Pad
- Day 4: Making 3 Epic Trance Lead Synths
- Day 5: Adding Fx, Noise, Choir and Strings!
- Day 6: Arranging a Trance Song
- Day 7: Mixing & Mastering and the Final Song
Seven Day Song Electro House Tutorial
- Day 1: Making an Electro House Beat
- Day 2: Making a Sexy Electro Bass
- Day 3: Adding FX, Samples and a Blippy Synth (+ a bit on the ReGroove Mixer!)
- Day 4: Making a Sexy Electro Lead Synth
- Day 5: Adding the Vocal Hook
- Day 6: Arranging a House song
- Day 7: Mixing & Mastering and the Final Song
Seven Day Song Drum and Bass Tutorial
- Day 1: Making a Drum and Bass Beat
- Day 2: Making a Reese Bass and Sub Bass synth
- Day 3: Making a Drum and Bass Lead Synth
- Day 4: Making some sweeping pads and a chilled beat
- Day 5: Arrangment and making a chilled lead synth
- Day 6: Adding FX and Fills
- Day 7: Mixing & Mastering and the Final Song
Seven Day Song Dubstep Tutorial
- Day 1: Making a Dubstep Beat
- Day 2: Making the Dubstep Beat more interesting
- Day 3: Making the Wobble Bass
- Day 4: Making the Dubstep Lead and Bass note
- Day 5: Arranging a Dubstep song
- Day 6: Bass Drops and Fills
- Day 7: Mixing & Mastering and the Final song
Dave, this stuff is great! Even though I use Sonar 8.5 as my primary and not Reason, I’m gleaning a lot of useful tips.
Just a thought, but have you considered doing a Breakbeat 7-day song? After listening to multiple genres of electronic music, I think my ear naturally trends toward Breakbeat, and I’d love to get some tips on it.
hi, how you make one song for swanky tunes and hard rock cafe?
Hi, I like your seven day tutorials. I do drum n bass too. My questions is, how to do technoid dnb ala Current Value? I’d like to do monstrous growl reese, deep nerve-shaking sub, evil blip bass! Do you have any tips or showing me in a 7 day tutorial? Thanks in advance!
hey dave, thanks… these vids are very helpful… i was wondering if you would be able to make any 7 day vids on making swedish house… something using techniques of swedish house mafia, alesso, avicii, etc…
thanks
Love the wicked vid’s, I started producing d’n'b and these are a great help and have learnt a lot from these… I DJ d’n'b but also mix UK garage and was wondering if you could give some advice on creating either old skool 2step beats or 4×4????
Cheers Dave Keep Up The Good Work
HEY DAVE! I just stumbled across your website on google. Havnt checked out the tutorials yet but just by seeing how much time/effort and details has gone into this project i can tell its going to be some great stuff. Its people like you who keep people with questions coming back and learning and evolving so i just wanted to say well done and great work! Keep it up!
Respect…i have been getting into production for about a year now and although i had the general idea i just couldnt get quite the right sound and i have learned a few useful tips from ya trance, dnb an hardstyle vids.
if ya could do a tutorial on creating a freeform track, as there are a few things i need to tighten up and i would really appreciate your help.
keep up the good work i think this is a good thing for up and coming producers to get pointed in the right direction
nice one
I have been watching most of your video tutorials on how to make several types of music during the past couple of days and I must say you have taught me a lot of new things I didn’t even think were possible. However, if you have the chance to do so, could you possibly make a 7 day song tutorial on how to make Tekno? I can’t seem to find any good tutorials around anywhere on the internet.
Keep it up!
Man Dave your tutorials are sick. Big Up. Would be nice if you could make a 7 day tutorial how to make trash electro like pellussje haezer fool or belzebass. Would be really nice dude. Grtz straight out of the alps
Awesome tutorials. Nice humor too. Can I request one for bear trap by excision? I’m in love with that hard kick/bass hit throughout the song.
Thanks a lot Dave! This is really what I have been looking for!
[...] Boy in a Band 7 Day Tutorials – watched through the electrohouse tutorial, tried to replicate some of it on my own, but he uses Reason and some of his synths/effects didn’t correspond to Ableton. Got kind of lost at that point. [...]
the tutorials are awesome but i would like to know can you please make a fidget tutorial please?