Dance music build-ups

With so many people all using the same tools to create electronic music, it’s becoming harder and harder to stand out from the crowd, which is why creativity is your greatest weapon. Whether subtle or extreme, most modern club music favours some form of breakdown, build-up and drop, and it’s here you can let your creativity shine. These sections are often freed from having to fill the frequency spectrum, or from needing a solid, heavy groove to keep people dancing, so you can experiment with extreme processing techniques and rhythmic or melodic tricks. In some cases, DJs will even add further washes of delays and other effects to these sections when they play out, to help whip the crowd into more of a frenzy. Luckily, Logic has a wealth of high-quality native plug-ins and processes that can offer up near-limitless possibilities to the creative mind.

BUILD ’EM UP, KNOCK ’EM DOWN

Although not a hard-and-fast rule, you’ll ideally want to have the foundation of your beat, instruments and main hooks in