Screech House - FL Studio Beginners Guide: How to Start Making Music in FL Studio - the Ultimate Shortcut

Are you a beginner in FL Studio and do you want to start making awesome music as quickly as possible? Are you looking to shortcut your learning curve tremendously by not having to focus on unnecessary fluff and overcomplications? Then this is definitely the right guide for you.

In fact, its the ultimate extension of my FL Studio Guide for Beginners lesson on YouTube . Be sure to also watch the video as it will give you a quick visual summary of all the important topics youre about to learn here.

The FL Studio Beginners Guide will solely focus on the essential fundamental basics of FL Studio. Using these essential basics will immediately give you the most important skills to create entire songs very effectively. To achieve this, were only going to explore the main FL Studio functions that require the minimum amount of work but give the most results. This way you can cheat your way through FL Studio. Only learn a little but understand a lot.

This book serves as the smart kick-starter for your FL Studio experience. It thereby looks at the bigger picture of the FL Studio application. So, you wont just be learning what to do or how to do it, you will also be learning what youre doing in the first place and why youre doing it. This way you will get a much better understanding than you would by just following some instructions. You will simply get an organized mental map for the rest of your life.

This brings a huge benefit, because by having this better understanding, you can now anticipate and create your own solutions, instead of endlessly spitting through how to tutorials.

But be aware that certain topics like learning how to make musical arrangements, how music theory works or how to mix, are way beyond the scope of this guide. If you want to learn more about a specific musical topic, I suggest looking into related books, videos or articles.

In fact, when you want to learn more about mixing for example, feel free to check out my EDM Mixing Guide . This is another guide Ive written for everybody who wants to use the powerful strategies I use to get loud and clean mixes. Its another smart shortcut that can save you years of struggling to figure it out on your own.

Please be aware that the FL Studio Beginners Guide contains specific guidelines, tools or images that may be slightly different than your personal FL Studio experience. This can happen when youre using slightly different settings or when you have a different FL Studio version.

However, this is absolutely no problem at all. Although you may have to reinterpret some of these differences a little bit (suiting them to your own needs), theyre pretty much universal in the FL Studio world. Theyre the foundation of basically every FL Studio version. We will simply be looking at the core functions here that will give you the right mind map to always find your way in FL Studio.

You probably want to read this book, because youre just starting out or you want to have a better FL Studio understanding. This is perfect, but I have to make a little assumption before we start.

My assumption is: youre smart. With that I mean you do have some general common (computer) sense. Even as a beginner, I think you know how to open and close a window. Or even as a beginner, things like the Play and Stop knob should seem pretty obvious to you. I have to make this assumption, because else this book would contain at least 1000 pages. And that wouldnt be a quick shortcut at all.

However, if you do have some sticking points with this, I dont suggest reading this book right now. I suggest to work on your basic computer/software skills first. But its also a great idea to play around in the FL Studio program a little bit to see how basic things respond before you continue.

So, please forgive me if not literally every tiny step is mentioned here. Its simply not that important or else Im sure you will figure it out in no time. As long as you get the big ideas and workings of FL Studio, youre going to excel tremendously.

Before you dive in, you have to know something about me. Ive also said it in the EDM Mixing Guide , but Im from the Netherlands. Dutch is my native language, English isnt. Thats why its possible you could find some funny grammatical sentences in here. Hopefully they will make you smile, but I did the best I can to make sure everything is as understandable as possible.

If you want to learn more about me or find out why you should listen to me, feel free to visit my website at https://screechhouse.com or visit my YouTube channel at https://youtube.com/c/screechhouse .

To give you a quick impression: my nickname is Cep and Im the creator and founder of Screech House . Screech House is a platform where I share tips, ideas and tricks to make Electronic Dance Music (EDM) in FL Studio, more specifically the harder EDM styles, like hardstyle or rawstyle, but also some trance or house. Im sure you will find a lot of valuable content there, so just go watch a couple of videos or come say Hello .

So, with that being said, are you ready to start making music in FL Studio? Then lets dive in