Hardstyle / Nu-style Melody Tutorial + Theory In Fruity Loops

The popular way to make a hardstyle/nu style melody these days. Excuse the use of Nexus at the end, I work in Cubase now but made it in FL so it's easier for people to follow, and all my leads are in Cubase.

THINGS TO NOTE AS YOU WATCH:
1. Use a keyboard or piano to compose your melody if possible. This is the best way as it is more fluid and you are more productive.

2. LEARN A SCALE! It takes 5 minutes to go to wikipedia and learn a scale and it's respective chords, so please don't just place random notes because it wont work.

3. Set your grid snap options to "1/3 step" (this can vary, but keep your bass notes in the same general area)

4. Half/whole steps up/down. Notice that the first 2 notes are D, then when the bassline changes to Bflat the high notes start on E? This is done to create that harmonic kind of sound hardstyle melodies have. Same with the 3rd bar bassline going down just one from Bflat to A. Get some midis from people like Headhunterz/Noisecontrollers/Toneshifterz and analyse where they make use of this.

5. Play around till something seems right. It might take a while, but you'll be more pleased with the results than if you simply slapped something together.

Category:

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• nu
• style
• nustyle
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• melody
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• fruity
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• flstudio
• fl
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• noisecontrollers
• showtek
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• headhunters
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• basics

[Dwarreg0071]

do you have a hole song with this melody? i can't get it out of my head^^

[PrizmMusic]

@Dwarreg0071

nope sorry i only mess around in FL occasionally these days, got no time ):

[Aequitaslol1]

Is this a Copy? Song name?

[PrizmMusic]

@Aequitaslol1

Not a copy, my own melody (:

[MrScarfaceification]

what scale is this mate?

[PrizmMusic]

@MrScarfaceification

D Minor (:

[Alienpelvis86]

@PrizmMusic 0:49-0:52 sounds a lot like Headhunterz's- Power of the Mind...

[iSpeak13]

Your theory in the description has helped me tons...Thank you very much.

[XyrusOne]

"LEARN A SCALE! It takes 5 minutes to go to wikipedia and learn a scale and it's respective chords, so please don't just place random notes because it wont work. " -- Bad advice. This is not correct whatsoever unless you're working with traditionally forced western art music (such as classical), hardstyle is dance music and may incorporate avante-garde. It doesn't even need to suit normal hardstyle stylisation if you don't want it to.

[Beast119944]

Great

[neyxuss13]

Nice I want to have this in my ipod but the sound is so weak :/

Can you improve it to make a good piece and add bass? :O

[Technobanana]

You are a boss : D

[adamekk666]

kozackie ;]

[84941gilde]

what's thename of the program?

[MvdHmusicgroup]

It sounds like Power of teh mind because they use almost the same baseline, The main melody is just different

[MvdHmusicgroup]

How do you call this song and where do i download it?!

[PreMedVirus]

I have a question, when i have sampeled my kick it won´t pitch... what am i doing wrong ?? ty for help :D