How to Make Great Music Mashups

CHAPTER 2 The Components of a Mashup

 

 

 

 

 

The next few chapters will be all about the theory behind what goes into mashups. Many new mashup artists are intimidated by the vast world of musical theory and decide to stay away. That’s fair enough, because there’s a lot of information out there that won’t be relevant for them. Rather than go into complex musical theory, I’ll be simply showing you the basics of what you need to know to keep the illusion of the music alive and to get your mashups sounding good.

In later chapters, we’ll be opening up Ableton Live and actually going through techniques, but for now let’s talk about the ingredients we need for our mashups.

These are the components you will be using in your mashups:

■ main track ...