#structure
- Arrangement — think in 4s and 8s conceptAlmost all chiptune and EDM breathes in 4- and 8-bar phrases. Introduce or remove one element every 4 or 8 bars: drop the bass out, bring the drums in, transpose the whole thing up, add a counter-melody. Repetition is …
- Orderlist (sequence) conceptThe list that tells a tracker which pattern plays next; in C64 trackers each track has its own orderlist, so tracks can loop patterns of different lengths independently. Besides pattern numbers it can carry song-level …
- TW #15 — Advanced Tracking Tips II (Necros) summarynecros adapts Jim Aikin's "Demo Tape Workshop" (Keyboard, June 1995) to tracked music: six lessons on structure, dynamics, melody, drums, harmony and samples.
- TW #72 — Composing Whole Modules (Sir Nick / Deck Blasters) summaryA tracker of six years (Scream Tracker 2.25, several scream-tracker-3 versions, then impulse-tracker ) argues that editing music "in blocks of only few bars" makes tracked tunes monotonous.