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How to create a music track for a song

Most of us like to record a cover song. So we sing over karaoke track of original song. While some of you might go further and use software or plugins to remove vocal from original song. But it doesn't always work as you can still hear that vocal in the track. What vocal remover actually does is it cuts-off certain range of frequency from your track leaving behind distorted and degraded track. It is practically impossible to remove vocals without degrading the quality of your track. So now what's the solution then ?

I prefer re-creating the whole music track. Because it will be a clean music without any distorting vocal. Means i try to replicate each piece of music(drums loop, starting melody, strings, pad, etc) in original song as accurately as possible. For this we need DAW(Digital Audio Workstation). In simple terms, DAW is a software used to create music and whole lot of other purposes too. Most of you might be familiar with it and most of you may not. If you aren't then don't worry as when i started i literally knew nothing about it.


Before going further let me tell you that this process will no doubt produce great result but it needs dedication and patience. Now here are some of the DAWs i use:

Ableton Live

Stein-berg Cubase

Image Line- FL Studio

Propellerhead Reason

These are famous Music Production Suites which are widely used in our Music Industry. You can search them in Google and can download their trial version. I generally use Reason to create music track, Adobe Audition to record & process vocals and Cubase for final mixing. But I started with FL Studio as it is really a fun working with it. It is most user friendly in my opinion and one can learn fast with it. 

Now comes the important step. How to operate these software's ?
You can learn by simply using. Believe me because I too learned this way. 

 Below is one of my cover song for which i re-created the track :

But don't worry I am here to guide you all with whole music production phase. I will be posting tutorials about how to operate DAW very soon. So stay tuned.

You can listen my songs here on my YouTube Channel - www.youtube.com/c/SiddharthRajpoot 

Thanks for reading. 
सिद्धार्थ राजपूत 
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