In this article, we will look into FL Studio beat music theory. I will go over the nuts and bolts of music theory which I think apply to music creation in FL Studio. I’m skipping a portion that I don’t think applys to making music in a DAW. In particular, I’m skipping figuring out how to read and write music.
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FL Studio Beat Music Theory: What is half-step & whole-step
Halfstep is when u do an insertion right after the root note in your piano roll. As shown in the image below. Pretty simple!
And just like that Whole step is when you skip one note and do an insertion right after the skipped note. Simple as well!
FL Studio Beat Music Theory: Minor & Major Chord
The whole point in me telling you about the whole & half step was so u can create chords! creating chords on a wooden piano is a lot tougher as compared to creating it in a DAW.
Look at the picture below to understand the note combinations of major & minor chords
The above screenshots are for u to understand where you can insert what in order for it to sound good. All you are gonna have to do is to create patterns in your piano roll within these same notes and it will sound good depending on what scale you pick (major or minor).
FL Studio Beat Music Theory: Root note
As you can see above both my chords are starting with the root note C5. But it does not have to! you can start from any note for instance A4 or D4 and create your major or minor chord using the formula above in Picture3.
FL Studio Beat Music Theory: Octave
The piano starts with the key of C and goes for 11 keys after that (total of 12) including the white and black keys. Once you go over these 12 keys and another C comes up, for example after C5 you went to C6 which means you are jumping an octave.
You can use the octaves to add different elements to the same melody. Most melodies using just one octave will sound boring as people are used to listening to diverse sounds. You can see an example below to see 4 different octaves being used in the same melody in the same scale.
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