Cinematic Break Intro, Part 2

First I take the bass line, copy paste it into the break and open another Serum for the bass. I do an up down bass.

Then I accentuate these notes and follow the bass line, because this will be the chords. This one is G because the bass is G, and then it goes to A. The second time it goes to F, and instead of G it goes to A sharp, and then A again. Then make sure you have the right chords. The first one is minor, the second one major.

I want these chords to be a little bit more full, so I take the middle notes and put them one octave up. Then I add an OTT. It almost always works. Remove some high end, it's a little bit too much, and add some bass.

What I feel is missing is a small pluck in the background, like the euphoric kind of hardstyle thingy. Then I take the chords for it.

The really important part in these kinds of things is that you work in sections. The intro, the cinematic one, then the break, then the build up and the drop. You can see these sections in the playlist, and in the pattern because I made filter groups. In the mixer there's the cinematic part, the break part, and some space between it. That's really important, because then you can really control what you're doing and it makes it easier to mix.

You really need to think in sections, like what you want in the low part, the mid part, the chords and the high leads, stereo wise, and whether you need to add reverb or not. If I just put random reverb on everything it would have been a mess. Because I work organized, I can create this really quickly. It took me 20 minutes to make this.