We’re gonna discuss ways to create music that resonates with your audience. It’s the cornerstone of what matters here at EQ Heat.
How To Create Music That Resonates
Focus on a strong, simple core melody, inject human emotion through natural imperfections, and build space using contrast and silence.
Songwriting and Structure
Your songwriting and structure approach is a mixture of 2 things that contributes to the way that you can create music that’ll resonates with your audience.
In order to do that, you’re going to want to start simple.
This is doing something to where it can be as complicated or complex as you’d like it to be.
Simple is relative. So it could be something from creating a title, as we’ve mentioned before.
Just having a theme to what it is that you’re going to be singing or rapping about makes a difference.
If you do that, it’s the start to something, and sometimes that’s all the difference it needs.
Then is to focus on a standout moment. Have something that really drives it home for you personally.
Doing that makes your process even more enjoyable because you’re waiting to build up to a specific moment that you personally can appreciate yourself and you’re going to be sure that people that support you will like it too.
Because there’s a great chance that you enjoy all the same things. At least when it comes to your music.
And with your structure approach is best to use repetition and contrast.
So continue repeating parts that you want to Be known all throughout your song.
For many, this is called the hook And the chorus.
It depends on what it is that you are fine with showing itself back up through the song.
It doesn’t necessarily have to be one of those 2 either.
Repetition can be that theme that we spoke about as well.
So, just having something as simple as that makes everything that you create moving forward, congruent, and aligned with what the theme is.
It’s all going to be appropriate, But that is only possible with repetition As well as contrast.
The contrasting views can be just as important because it puts a representation on the other side as well.
And with that it tends to do better for someone that is in the entertainment industry recording wise.
Having another side represented (to at least) have the fans and the rest of your audience be more objective with what they choose to believe or support.
Production and Feel
Next is the production and feel of the music that you’re looking to have resonate with your audience.
A few things if you’re able to keep in mind, will make the difference in that quality you yourself are going to care about, and the rest of your core fan base will.
First is to keep it human.
That actually might be considered a little controversial of a opinion to make while we’re in this AI generation age where a lot of music is starting to show to be created with robotic assistants.
But if we pay attention, it’s been around since at least The early 2000s, if we’re keeping it just with hip hop alone— something that I’m a little more knowledgeable about.
That human aspect though ends up letting them know that there is a real person behind that speaker or earbuds.
Whatever it is they’re listening with.
And to have that is a comforting feeling. Also is to embrace your dynamics.
These are the different things that make it unique to your sound.
They could change depending on what your recipe is, but, If you have something that you feel is special or something that makes yours different from what most is— being able to really double down on them, and own up to what your portrayed strength is, musically speaking, would be ideal.
Eventually it could turn to where you are being an ambassador for that approach and ultimately the blueprint for it.
Also, another thing with that approach is to be open to adding silence.
It’s something that can add a dramatic effect.
There’s one song specifically that I can even recall that I’ve made where it ended up being one of my better performing ones.
If you check out, make it easy.
You’re gonna find out what I’m talking about that I do midway through.
What it’s meant to do is add tension, and it’s done pretty commonly with other things, like film where you have a dramatic buildup happening through silence.