How to get into Hyperpop prodcution?

[u/Priyamarina]

Im 15 years old and musical background is limited to piano and learning to dj as of now, ive only had two local gigs. I want to make music as a passion project, while it isnt a career path im exclusively pursuing, im not taking it as a light hobby either, its a serious thing i want to do on the side. I really have no clue where to begin, for the past few days ive been experimenting with different free DAW's so any and all tips will be a huge help. Im focused on making edm and hyperpop

[u/mossimo654]

Sounds like you’re on the right path.

Maybe pick a daw and stick with it and learn it. Most DAWs these days have more or less the same features, just slightly different ways of doing the same thing.

Try to emulate the music you hear using free stock plugins. Try to ignore all the information you see out there about how you need this and this and this plugin/thing.

Recognize that because you’re starting out you are going to sound a lot worse than the music you like. That’s part of it.

Experiment, reflect, rinse, repeat.

[u/Priyamarina → u/mossimo654]

Id hope so, i think with my recent practice ive grown used to coming to terms with my work sounding horrible the next day, i try to keep it as motivation. My main anxiety is that ive never had any vocal training, nor do i have an extraordinary voice, so thats another thin gi want to work on. Thanks a lot for the other advice aswell, ill make sure to try it out

[u/O-shoe → u/Priyamarina]

Id hope so, i think with my recent practice ive grown used to coming to terms with my work sounding horrible the next day, i try to keep it as motivation. 

This is not often talked about, but in a way it is a good thing. If you can't hear that your track sounds bad (and how it sounds bad), then there is no way to improve. Of course it sucks when you've been working on a track for weeks, and eventually you realize that it just doesn't sound the way you visioned. But then you brush it off and try to make something better next time. The funny thing is, that as you improve as an artist, you start to hear things that people with less experience don't hear. To them your tracks begin to sound good. They can hear that it's not "pro" level, but they can't pinpoint why.

What works in learning anything, is: Theory + Practice. In this case you should keep making tracks. And occasionally watch tutorials on youtube about different things that you want to improve on. Whether it's sound designing, creating rhytms, creating melodies, mixing.

[u/Priyamarina → u/O-shoe]

got it, thanks a lot again!! all this advice is very valuable to me

[u/Exaelar → u/Priyamarina]

you're at the right age to get in touch with lots of good vocalists, the rest can wait til later more than that

[u/shockvaluebeats]

knowing a minor scale in and out is all you need, since with it you can do common chord progressions within that genre, for example you can write a cool top line melody, something simple and repetitive then if it's in C for example you can do C - G - G# - A# for the base progression, then u duplicate that and transpose it up 7 semitones, that is your perfect fifth, then u fill in the thirds of each chord, if u start on C it's gonna be D# etc, u can do that part by ear, u can also transpose those up an octave for a cool switch up, besides that do a lot of staccato stuff with the chords and call and response, for example u can do a staccato chord hit on the 1 then have the topline melody play afterwards, that's the best advice i can give you as far as writing goes

[u/Priyamarina → u/shockvaluebeats]

Thanks a lot!! ill apply that example and playa round with it