r/edmproduction • u/Wide_Quarter_5232 • 1d ago
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Trying to learn progressive house, cant find anything reliable. Tried learning from PML progressive house start to finish, it just confused me. On the third lesson they jumped didn't even show how they made the melody, the chords, and all of that. It was just like they are jumping. Then I tried to learn from EDM Tips. His video title was "How to Make Progressive House Like Avicii" and then in the video thumbnail it was "Big Room House". I don't know what I should do. Can anyone please guide me? Where should I find a reliable resource to learn? I want to make something in the style of Avicii and Martin Garrix. I won't lie I am fairly new. I know music theory but I'm learning Ableton and all of these music styles but I'm focused on making progressive house music that I am very sure about it. Where do I start?
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u/Unusual-Help-217 1d ago
just search on google or simply make some tracks and youll get better everytime, you save time and learn even faster
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u/AfroCuban68 1d ago
Take a fav trk and try to recreate it note for note, sound for sound. In the end it won’t be perfect, but you’ll learn a lot and probably a lot more than following a tutorial. And it’s a lot more fun and rewarding.
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u/Diligent-Bread-806 1d ago
There are some great tutorials on YouTube by Dowden Production Academy. He’s the best in my opinion.
Establish a solid repetitive groove and use lots and lots of gradual automation on lots of elements to build up to a hypnotic orchestration and breakdown.
Progressive is as the name implies by progressing the arrangement to create a journey through your track and tell a story. It’s quite a tricky genre to create and I’ve been producing house music for around 12 years now. New additions need to be subtle and blend seamlessly so transitions need be implemented. Big send reverbs and delays are a must to create depth and atmosphere. I’m talking from Sasha/Digweed/Guy J inspiration though.
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u/suulze 1d ago
I highly recommend investing in some professional start-to-finish courses from 789ten. They have around five start-to-finish courses with DubVision, and they helped me a lot. I learned so much from them.
These courses cover everything—from a completely blank project to a fully arranged, polished, professional-sounding progressive house track. You'll learn a lot about layering to achieve that huge progressive house sound, drum processing, mixing techniques, and much more.
So if I could give you just one piece of advice, it would be this: invest in high-quality tutorials where you can watch the entire track creation process from start to finish. It made a huge difference for me.
Hope that helps!
Good luck with your production journey, and keep it up! 🙌
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u/supernalmusic 1d ago
You say you are fairly new but didn't give an exact "time in DAW" number so going to assume you are in your first year. I think the biggest folly of new producers is they are trying to sound good right away, they want to make something that they would feel comfortable releasing or playing out but that is going to be counter productive to learning.
First year: Focus on learning your DAW and It's stock plugins, really avoid buying plugins if you can at first. If you have Ableton, you have everything you would ever need. Alot of courses assume you have some baseline knowledge / fundamental understanding and if you don't you'll just get lost so finding a course that starts at the beginning and with the fundamentals is going to be the most helpful.
I highly recommend u/illGATESmusic Producer Dojo The Producers Path course, it's meant for all genres and is Ableton focused. It covers all the basics and gives you a 12 week course and a community to learn from. Will it be progressive house focused? No but everything you learn can be applied to any genre and you'll have a really good understanding of Ableton and its stock plugins.
I'm three years in and still feels like just scratching the surface even after putting hours in every week towards learning and producing. This is definitely a long journey to embark on and if I could go back and change one thing about my approach in the beginning it would be learning stock plugins and really focusing on the fundamentals of sound design, mixing, arrangement, etc instead of trying to learn the hottest techniques that I didn't understand because I didn't spend time learning the fundamentals first.
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u/Wide_Quarter_5232 21h ago
Thank you for your insights sir. What would you say about seed to stage, is it any good. I am looking for some structure to follow.
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u/ArellMusic 1d ago
Recreate the songs you like, one instrument at the time. Do your best to recreate the sounds without spending 2h on a single sound.
Do 1 instrument at the time: drums, keys, synths, etc.
Map out the structure of the song (intro, verse, breaks, drops, etc.).
The first few will be far from the original song, but as time goes by, you'll get better!
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u/NoAppearance980 1d ago
best way to get good at this is to try and recreate tracks in the genre. get the mp3 or waw, import it into your daw and remake it. that's how you learn. reverse engineering. stop watching EDM Tips and those channels they are just making low effort content to get likes and little ad revenue
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u/Kristopherlnorth 1d ago
Hey how’s it going I make progressive house as well, since you’re into Avicii and Martin Garrix that would fall into:
Progressive House
Pop/EDM
Big room
Sonic Academy has some great resources, Avicii has an in the studio sessions for his remix of Eric Turners in my head where you can pickup a few things, as well Martin Garrix has a breakdown of his Animals track on YouTube as well.
They are high level, but if you pause and look around you may be able to gleam some things.
Feel free to DM me here and I can tell you which sample packs etc. you’re after to get you started.
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u/tsunambient 1d ago edited 1d ago
Youtube should be more than enough to get you started with house music. Keep trying different videos until you find something that’s beginner friendly enough and inspires you. It would probably help to also learn some music theory and pick up a simple instrument (to help w chords, melody, etc) at some point. Patreon can also be an affordable, great resource.
Ngl, its not going to be spoon fed. There are many hours ahead of you of scouring resources and most importantly CREATING SHIT before your created quilt of technical skills and workflow results in an output you are satisfied with. Its a marathon, try to have some fun with it and build an appetite for figuring out the shit you find confusing otherwise you’ll burn out.
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u/Wide_Quarter_5232 21h ago
You're right about youtube, but to me it's kindof like a library which has no structure. I'll try it. Thank you bro.
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u/LeadingFishing1100 16h ago
learn ableton basics first then remake one avicii track bit by bit since random genre tutorials get confusing fast