Reply To: Beatmaking Genres

Well, from what I have read it seems it genres have certain drum kits and rhythms, leads, pads, sound FX and song arrangement approaches. I think GratuiTous covers this well enough to get you steered in the right direction. I learned that they call all of these “elements” in your song (e.g. an element could be a guitar, fx, synth or all of the above. Last, each genres have their own sound and lyric hooks. And I read something about “energy charts” in song arrangement. He has a song arrangement course. I play guitar and a lot of guitar “songwriting books” cover song structures and their formats.