How to: BEDROOM POP
Bedroom pop is a LO-FI music sub-genre that has been thriving fast within the mainstream music industry. Specialize with its distinctive 'low quality' or 'bedroom quality' production style, Bedroom pop gives us the feeling of nostalgia, reminiscent, and missing of 'the good old days'. Because of this 'low quality' production style, it gives us, people who's not professional in producing music a chance to hop in to the wagon. That's why some considered Bedroom pop as a 'DIY music'. You don't need high quality gear and advance musical knowledge to make a good Bedroom pop song. That's why I challenge you to try it out. Some artists that have been known as a bedroom pop artists are Clairo, Cuco, Boy pablo, etc.
Here are some simplified steps and tips to make a Bedroom pop music:
A. Instrumental
- First, Set the BPM/Tempo to the range between 90 to 120
- Second, Create a drumbeat that sounds like it was played from a drum machine
- After that, Make a chords progression out of a 80s organs or e-piano that fits the mood that you're going for
- Then, Duplicate the chords progression, arpeggiate it, and change the sound to a bell-ish sound
- Create a melody from a synth
- Add a funky bassline
- Add Vocal and ad libs
- Arrange all of the above into a structured song
- To finish it of you want to Mix and Master
B. Lyrics
- Define the feeling and the message that you going to write
- Get in the mood
- Write everything out and do a good/eliminate thing
C. Note
You can start from whatever point but to ease things off, I arrange it that way
For more detailed information, you can watch my video here
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