Genre Workshop

The conventions that define a style, and how to use them.

Six genres taken apart: instrumentation, tempo, structure, sound and production conventions. Then you build one of each.

Electronic

Four-to-the-floor and its relatives.

1. House: tempo, groove and arrangement
2. Techno: repetition and texture
3. Drum and bass: breaks and sub
4. Build an electronic sketch

Hip-hop and R&B

Groove, space and vocal focus.

1. Boom bap and sample-based production
2. Trap: 808s, hats and space
3. R&B: chords, stacks and restraint
4. Build a hip-hop or R&B sketch

Band-based

Real instruments, real arrangement.

1. Rock and indie: arranging guitars
2. Pop: the modern production template
3. Acoustic and folk: space and honesty
4. Build a band-based sketch
5. Genre final