Ever thought of creating music? I guess many of you have must thought about it.

For the past 5 years a genre called Electronic Dance Music emerged as a trend, earlier making music was a very complicated task, a single error would lead to lot of problems. Use of computer Technology reduced the complications and confusion involved in the process of music making. An evolution happened leading to the emergence of EDM(Electronic Dance music).

In the beginning people from the music music industry had no clue what was going to happen , within a year EDM became massive and lots of festivals like Tommorowland and Ultra Music Festival begun. It went global hit .....Famous artists like Hardwell,Afrojack etc. emerged to stardom..... Billboard charts started featuring EDM....Many labels were opened just for Edm....The year 2013 assured music industry that this genre is gonna stay forever.

In this we will be learning 9 basic tools for getting started with EDM.

So lets begin...

Step 1: Using a Daw

Every music producer needs an interface to produce music

we will be using fl studio 12 for producing our EDM.

here's the link for downloading fl studio12

http://getintopc.com/softwares/music/fl-studio-12-...

Step 2: Master Volume Bar

Using this we can set the volume of the music by simply sliding the knob up or down.

Step 3: Master Pitch

Adjacent to the master volume bar we have the Master pitch .

Using this we can manage pitch and create slowdown effect.

Step 4: Metronome

It serves the purpose of a tempo taper that is to check whether a following element being used in a track matches the BPM (Beat Per Minute) of a song.