The Best Way to Work out the Genre of a Track

0:00 Or let's imagine we have

All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the room. Yes, it is messy. Yes, it is exceedingly busy. But you know what? It's my mess. It's my busyness. And I can do what I want. Do you like music? Of course you do. That's why you're here in a way. Now, in this video, we're going to finally work out what genre is what genre. Before I begin, let's have a look at or let's imagine we have a book of rules. We open that rulebook and we learn from those rules. But who made those rules? And who gave them the right to make those rules? So really, this video you do you do have to have an open mind. But once you understand where I'm coming from, it makes perfect sense. I hope so anyway. So again, let's go back to this rulebook. So all of a sudden, someone decided to make a whole bunch of rules and made them law. Well, they made rules, their law, but then who said that they are law? And who made the rules and so on? And where did they come from? So where's this going with music? Now, it's about genres and working out what a genre is, and pitching

Hole it, pitching holing or pigeon hole thing, pitching, putting that track into that pigeonhole into that genre. So in this video, hopefully I'm going to enlighten you and make you realize that it's your choice how you want to pigeonhole a certain track and put it into a certain genre. There's no defined like it's got to be this or it's got to be that because if you do say it has to be this or has to be that, then you've actually got to study the rulebook completely before you start deciding yourself. But then do you want to really study the rulebook? I hope you understand where I'm coming from. So what I'm going to do in this video is enlighten you and hopefully help you to work out your tracks so you can put your tracks into folders based on your interpretation of the style of music that those tracks are now that is really big.

2:15 Track number one from disc number

So without further ado, let's go to track number one from disc number two from CD pool. Now these are from the underground series. So straight away what we're looking at here with the underground series, it's more techie, a bit of drum and bass on their twisty bendy kind of sound. So let's press play, turn it up. Right. So this one here is from disc number two, and it is a track entitled get high. So what is this track? What genre should be in this track? Let's have a skip it through a bit. Now, some people would say it's techie. Some people would say it's deep. But really, it's up to you. A bit of vocals in there. I class this as deep house. So if I was going to put this in a folder, I would have deep house and chuck it in there. Some of you may beg to differ. But if you do, that's fine. Because if you put all of your tracks in folders based on your interpretation of the style of music that those tracks are now that is really big.

If you put all of your tracks in folders based on your interpretation of those tracks, then you know what? You're going to do a wicked set. But if you rely on other people, then you may not be able to get a great set because you're going to have tracks all over the place. Track one from disc number two. Now I'm going to choose a random track here. Number seven. And this is from disc number one. Okay, so this track here is feel my body. Now it's still sort of deep house, but it's not soulful. It's almost techie.

I personally would class this as tech house. And I would put this into my tech house folder. Okay, so I'm going to go on another tune here. That's going to track number four from disc number two. And what I'm about to play you now is UCH, a track entitled 234. Okay, fair enough. Now again, techie. But a lifting sort of tech house. I wouldn't class this as deep house because to me, deep house is more soulful orientated. It's more sort of soulful feel. Whereas this doesn't really have a soulful feel to it. Now, if you are interested as well in subscribing to CDPool, don't hesitate. Check out in the description. There is a link. And if you're a first time user, terms and conditions do apply. You get 50% off your first two months downloads. It's not on everything, but please contact CDPool to see what you can get. 50% is pretty good.

All right, so let's find something else. Track number 10. Okay, so this is track number 10 from disc number one. By the way, at the moment I'm using the discs, but again, you can download as well. So track 10 is Music for Free by Daniel Bovee. Here we go. Okay, so we're looking at a deep house sort of feel. Then again, it's quite progressive. So it's got a progressive sort of feel to it, vibe and energy. And now we've got quite a bit of uplift to it. This is a tough one really.

6:15 Another tune

It's definitely not deep house. All right, so this one here I would like you to comment and let me know what genre you think this track should be in. Again, it's taken from disc number one and it is track number 10, which is Music for Free. Okay, so let's go to another tune here. I'm going to try track number nine. And this one here is Soul Sunset. Okay. Okay, very tense. Okay, so let's go to another tune here. I'm going to try track number nine. And this one here is Soul Sunset. Okay. Okay, very tense.

Soul Sunset, you'd think it's very soulful. You know, you look at the wording and you go, yeah, it's going to have a soulful vibe.

Basically, actually, this is a really good cut. I like it.

It has got, yeah, it's got that soulful vibe with the vocals, definitely.

You see, this is like deep house, but it's slightly techy. This is where the confusion is, guys. Quite often, it's very difficult to get a tune and go, it is soulful house or it is tech house. It could be tech house with a bit of soul in it, or it could be minimal house with a tiny bit of African sort of vibe with maybe, you know, a nice sort of drum pattern there and loads of congas and bongos and bongy congas.

Okay. Oh, you got a lap. All right, track number nine. Again, track number nine is Soul Sunset. Okay, we're going to go to CD number one and I'm going to get a track number 12, which is Something's Talking Over. Straight away in the background, that melody, I can hear it's very soulful.

8:26 A simple move and we've almost changed the style

But again, it's got that progressive feel to it. It's quite chuggy.

Then deep house. See, if I slow this down a bit. Listen. See, by slowing it down very slightly, to me now, it's more like a deep house tune. There. That is so much more like a deep house tune. But then if I speed it up, now it's almost gone techy. A simple move and we've almost changed the style. Okay, number 12 once again, Something's Talking Over. Okay, so I'm going to choose one more tune. Let's go right to the end here. Track number 13, which is a track entitled Vedad by Yonatan Rukhan. Okay.

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Okay. Maybe this is progressive. It's very uplifting.

It's almost got that future house sort of feel to it.

All right. So what do you think? Maybe choose a track and in a comment, let me know the style you think it is. Maybe you agree with my thoughts on styles. Maybe you disagree. Let me know. All right. Don't forget thumbs up, like and share. Thank you very much for watching. And don't forget to check out the information in the description, practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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