Top 5 Tips For Remixing a Song
Remixing a song can be a fun, challenging and creative way to express yourself. Check out these top tips to help yours stand out from the original as it’s own work of art!
Pick a song that inspires you
Unless it’s for a specific reason like a remix contest, pick a song that you love and are inspired by, as this will allow you to really reimagine the song with your own style and add something new to it.
Isolate the vocals
Services like Audacity & splitter.ai will allow you to split the vocals and instrumental from a track. Having isolated vocals makes it easier for you to work with, as there is less going on for you to work around.
Make sure you have the right BPM
If you’re unable to find out the BPM of your song, a BPM-detector app will allow you to tap along to your chosen song, and the app will work out the BPM for you.
Change genres if possible
Know a folk song with a fire chord progression or really good lyrics? Why not take that and add some hard hitting drums to turn it into a hip hop track? Or try turning an RnB song into an electronic future bass song by speeding it up or adding new instrumentation. And if you don’t want to change genres, trying playing with the tempo to give it a new feel.
Grab the listener’s attention quickly
As the listener will already know the original song, they’ll be comparing it to yours from the start, so make sure yours gets interesting right away. Music taste is subjective, so at the very least, make sure it sounds good to you and don’t put out anything you think is sub par.
