Zal Music

Live Egyptian music Composed by me

noreply@blogger.com (zal) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:53:00 +0000

this is an Egyptian music piece composed, arranged and performed by me
the arrangement is simple because that's usually how egyptian music may sound like :)
the guitar & violin are recorded using a cheap computer microphone ,I wish I had a better one but I just can't afford it :S
the other instruments are written and mixed by me in FL Studio 7

I hope you enjoy it
thanks for watching

http://www.facebook.com/zalabany
http://www.youtube.com/zalaband

Sunset - Music By Zalabany

noreply@blogger.com (zal) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:42:00 +0000

Hey everyone!
Here is a new music piece composed and arranged by me..
it's a little sad/romantic ,
all the sounds are played by me ,there is no loops or samples used in the making of this project ..
I really hope you like it ...

feel free to comment and rate
thank you for watching

for more of my works :
http://www.youtube.com/user/Zalaband

Cairo at Night - Egyptian Music

noreply@blogger.com (zal) — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:14:00 +0000

heey ,

This is an egyptian music piece composed and produced by me
no sampled melodies used ,the instruments are played by me ..
Well, I did this cuz some people asked me to compose arabic music ...

feel free to comment
I hope you like it!

My Youtube Channel

Midnight Live Version!

noreply@blogger.com (zal) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:53:00 +0000

helloo everyone!!
This is a video of me playing an old music piece of mine called "midnight"
I composed the first version as electronic latin house or something like that ,now I rearranged it to be played on 3 instruments ...

I'm playing all instruments live and recording ..
the violin style is mainly an Egyptian technique ,it's used to make the violin sound like "crying"
I hope you like it !

Nowhere - Eastern Beat

noreply@blogger.com (zal) — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:46:00 +0000

MP3 DOWNLOAD LINK:
http://www.mediafire.com/?wcmzey1tymn

hey everyone
this is another music piece composed and produced by me ,it's got some eastern melodies and percussion
I didn't use any loops or sampled melodies, everything is composed by me from scratch ..
I really hope you like this one ..
so pls feel free to comment

thank you for watching

Myspace : http://www.myspace.com/zalabany
Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/people/AhmEd-...

Eternity - RnB Song

noreply@blogger.com (zal) — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 04:50:00 +0000

Hey everyone
this is an RnB song composed and produced by me in FL studio 7
the song is supposed to have vocals ,that's why you can notice the beat is not so crowded ,I left some space for the vocals ,maybe lol..

feel free to comment ..
I hope you like it ..
thanks for listening
ah and happy Valentine's day ... :D

Rihanna's Unfaithful - Played By Me On Piano

noreply@blogger.com (zal) — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 04:56:00 +0000

Hey everyone ,
this is a video of me playing Unfaithful on piano ,well I'm not good at Piano I admit it :D
I've Never been taught to play piano ...
But I was having a free time so I said ,hey I am going to record a video of me ...

so feel free to comment and rate

I hope you enjoy my noobish performance
aah ,and don't forget to listen to my own original songs ...

thank you so much for watching

Impulse

noreply@blogger.com (zal) — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

hey everyone ,

another dance track composed and arranged by me in FL studio 7
I hope you like it

Reflections - Electro House

noreply@blogger.com (zal) — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:19:00 +0000

hey everyone ,
here is my newest music piece ,it's an electo house track which is a little melodic hehe
I've used no loops or melody samples everything is composed by me from scratch .
listen and tell me what you think :D

My first album for download

noreply@blogger.com (zal) — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:46:00 +0000

This is my first music album composed and arranged by me using FL Studio 7 .
Download the album here for free:

Download Album

First of all ,I would like to thank everyone listening to my music and supporting me ,your feedback and opinions are so important to me..
I decided to release an album of the tracks I think are quite good .
The album is free for download of course cuz I don't sell my music hehe
it's containing 14 songs ,12 are in this mix which are :

1- One Night
2- Embrace
3- Remember Me
4- House Station
5- Electro Passion
6- Far Away
7- Everlasting
8- Trance Light
9- Lost Love
10-Temptation
11-Dark Psy
12-Gate Keeper

thanks again everyone ,I really hope you like what I'm presenting here and if you do ,pls subscribe to support me
your comments and ratings are very welcome
yes ,that's me in the photo :D

Remember Me

noreply@blogger.com (zal) — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:58:00 +0000

Here is a new song composed and written by me using FL studio
the song is dedicated to someone who doesn't remember me
I hope you like it
and pls feel free to comment if you like
thanx

Electro House Station by me

noreply@blogger.com (zal) — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:25:00 +0000

hey,
this one as an electro house track composed and written by me on fruity loops studio 7
first I was writing the melody to make a trance song ,and I did make a trance version but I didn't like it lol, so I made the house version which is one of my favorites 'till now ...
I hope you like it ,feel free to ask if you have any question

Myspace
My Music on Youtube

Romantic Music By Me

noreply@blogger.com (zal) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:07:00 +0000

This is a romantic classical piece composed and written by me on fruity loops studio 7
I used East West Symphonic orchestra VST ...

I hope you like this one
if you have any question pls feel free to ask

thank you ...

Myspace
My Music on Youtube

Orchestral Battle Scene Music by me

noreply@blogger.com (zal) — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:13:00 +0000

hey ,this one is an orchestral music piece composed by me using fruity loops studio 7
this type of music is like battle music or historic , something like that
vst I used for orchestral instruments is EWQLSO
I really worked hard with this piece

I hope you like it

Myspace
My Music On youtube

Progressive Trance

noreply@blogger.com (zal) — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:57:00 +0000

Hey !
This is a progressive trance track made by me using fruity loops studio 7
Well , vst used in this track is : Nexus
I think nexus is the most external vst that I use in FL studio
it's quite neat , and it has many other good expansions
I really hope you like it
if you have any questions concerning the track or production
pls leave a comment

Far Away Kate Lesing

noreply@blogger.com (zal) — Sun, 04 May 2008 11:29:00 +0000

Well, this one is a vocal trance song I made on fruity loops studio 7
the vocal singing is by "kate lesing"
she's got 2 CD's of her singing with no music that you can get
so I wrote the music in fl studio 7 and mixed it with the acappella ..
The vst I used here is Nexus
I hope you like this one
and if you have any questions about it pls tell me in a comment

Robotic Vocals with Vocoder Tutorial

noreply@blogger.com (zal) — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:09:00 +0000

This tutorial is about how to make the fruity loops "vocoder effect" for vocals
the vocoder is a tool which turns the normal "voice sound" into a "robotic sound"

so in this tutorial we are gonna turn THIS into THIS

ok then , let's start...

first you are gonna need a vocal sample to insert in fruity loops studio
record your voice and save it as .wave or just use a sample you have

and to insert the sample ,
just drag and drop the wave file you have into the fruity loops playlist

and you will see it like that

now you will also need a vst sound to insert into a channel
choose any sound you like from 3X OSC
(I just prefer it cuz it's simple but you can choose what you want)

after you do this
you need to assign the 2 channels (vocal & vst) into 2 different mixer tracks
and to do this , left click the channel (which is the vocal or vst)
and choose the settings ,this will bring you that window

now you assigned the vocal sample to track (2) in mixer
do the same things with the vst channel but instead assign it to
track (3)

now after you've done that let's bring the mixer window and see how it looks like

now insert the vocoder in mixer track (4)

now after we added the vocoder in mixer track (4)
we gotta "route tracks (2) and (3) to track (4)"
and this means we make the vocal and vst channels play through the vocoder track
so that the input is (vst + vocal) and the output is (vocoder)

to start routing track (2)
select track (2) in mixer
then right-click track (4) "the vocoder track" and choose
"route to this track only"

look at this

I'm gonna explain what we've done

okay ,after adding our vocals and vst
we set the panning of vocals to the left and panning of vst to the right
that's because the vocoder is designed to automatically recognize
the left channel as vocal channel called (modulator)
and the right channel as vst channel called (carrier)

and by doing that we make sure that our channels are set correctly
then we routed the vocal and vst channels to the vocoder channel just
to make the sound come out of the vocoder so that the vocoder can process it

see this

okay , when you do all that and press play we won't hear anything :D
that's because the vocals can't play with no carrier (vst)
so we have to write notes for the vst channel
and what this does is :

vst channel tells the vocals to sing notes you specify !!
that means if you have a normal voice speaking, you can make it SING !
just write any notes you want in the piano roll of vst and play .....

those are the notes I wrote for my vst

that's how the project looks

just the pattern of vst notes and the vocal sample !
I uploaded the project for you to
DOWNLOAD HERE

still I want to say something
that the robotic sound depends on the vst you use
for example , if you used a pad to be your carrier, the voice will sound warm
but if you use a distorted sound, the voice will sound distorted too
ok LISTEN TO THIS and compare it to the robot sound we started with
in this sample I used "another" vst than the one you listened to at the beginning
of tutorial

ok this is the end of tutorial
I hope it was helpful
pls support , and if you want to ask about anything
leave a comment with your question, I would be happy to answer it !

Trance Production Tutorial

noreply@blogger.com (zal) — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:12:00 +0000

This is a trance production tutorial I made
actually it's somekinda for beginners who want to start making trance
well I'm going to speak about the construction of trance music
cuz you know, every instrument can be used in many ways in Music, so piano
in waltz is different from trance piano so you need to know how to use
your vst's in every genre you intend to make..

to start,trance is produced in a tempo between 130 - 160 and a 4/4 beat
now I'd like to think of trance as 5 sections which are:-

1- Drums
2- Bass
3- Melody
4- FX and special sounds
5- Build-up & filling

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1- Drums

the most simple drum elements are
(kick - snare & claps - closed hats - open hats)
i'm not gonna talk too much about making the drums
here is an image for a drum pattern in fl studio

you don't really need to stick to this pattern
cuz you have to add your touches too !
sometimes I alternate between 2 patterns of kicks like this

you can give your drums a nice sound by messing with the hihats for example;
fill all the steps of the closed hats
but make sure to adjust the velocity of the hat notes to sound a little humanized
here is how it looks

adjust the levels in the way you want but make sure to give the
down beat the highest level
you can do this manually or choose between some presets in fl
and to get preset levels
you will find "humanizing presets" on the left ,choose between many styles there ..

well , you can add some other drum kits like cowbells , percs and so on
just mess with the these kits and you will get something cool !

I will explain how to use the drums in the "Build-up" section
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2- Bass

bass is a very effective sound in trance
if you are gonna continue your music with only drums and melodies etc...
it will never sound clubby or powerful ..

ok in trance music the bass is somekinda different
it's a little uniform and continuous
the bass line is written in such a "rolling" way
let me show you

now that's called a rolling bass line
and the bass notes "do not" meet the kick notes, they are shifted an 8th note
to the right

when you write the bass line "it has" to be in the scale or chord progression of the melody (I will get to that in the melodies section)

for example if your melody plays like this (A -> C -> E -> C -> A)
the bass line should be playing something like that (A - A - A - A - C - etc.)
so you don't put a note like (B) cuz it will be out of tune and sound so wrong !!

of course some variations will be good
here you can find an example of bass variations in my track "Everlasting"

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3- Melody

I don't think that there is a "formula" for melody so that you can apply it
but there are some rules I like to follow when writing the melody

a- choose your scale
b- make a chord progression
c- start writing

a- scales
okay ,if you don't know what scales are, here is a short explaination
think of scales as the letters that make your alphabet
if you have the english letters you can write english but you can't write russian
the same, if you have certain 8 notes you can write sad music
and if you have other 8 notes you can write happy music

the main scales are "Minor & Major" scales

Major ==> gives you "happy" feeling"
Minor ==> give you "sad" feeling

here is a picture to understand the difference between the 2 scales

okay , this picture shows C-major and C-minor scale
and it's named after the first note you start with (which is a "C" here)
this note is called the "root"

you will notice that the minor & major are different in only (3 notes)
the (3rd - 6th -7th)

so if you want to make a minor scale out of a major
just lower those 3 notes (a half step down)
and you will get a sad feeling ( see the picture ) :D

I think that trance melodies are often written in Minor scales

b- chord progression

it's a sequence of some chords that repeat themselves during the entire song
try to have not less than 16 bars of repeating chords so that your song doesn't
sound boring, see this

here I used C-minor scale in my chord progression
i wrote 3 notes for every chord
you can write more , as you like

but try to do some variations with it
like introducing the chord before it begins by adding a note at the end of each chord
see this

notice the red notes I added...

well, you can use the chord progression in an Arpeggiate sound, you can use it in
a synth string or a pad , whatever you like.. I used here a pad to sound dreamy a little

the chord progression is part of what is called "the harmony"

c- writing the melody

you gotta be creative in this part :D
but make sure to follow the chord progression you made
cuz this makes it easy for you to write the melody
and what i mean by following the chord progression is that you don't write notes
that do not belong to the chord

for example the first chord is (C - D# - G)
you shouldn't write a melody that all it's notes are (B - D - G#)
cuz this makes your melody out of tune
of course you can add some notes like (D-F-G#) but make it quick
so that the listener doesn't catch it saying "I AM A WRONG NOTE!"
and that's what i discussed in the "BASS section"

in your melodies you can use pluck sounds , arp, piano, etc...
here i used a pluck

see the piano roll of melody

ok I will let you listen to what we did 'till now

(Chord progression Pad + Melody) CLICK HERE

also we can add later very simple notes of melody
but make sure to start playing it after a while
so you don't burn all the melodies you have !

I made something like this

and the bass that i think would fit here would be like

I think this is just basic info for writing melodies and you need to be creative !
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4- FX and special sounds

FX and special effects are the sounds that make your track exciting
and they are used to introduce some sounds and do the breaks & drops
there are many forms of FX like

"sweeps - FX kicks - reverse crash - Crowd sounds"

if you listen to my track see me now you will find some nice sweeps and
fx kicks i used in the build-up of the song

I also like to use kicks like that, i don't know what it's called but let's say rolling kicks

just put the notes this way
and adjust the velocity level to be
ascending in such a way

you may also want to use reverse crashes
just add a crash cymbal in a channel
left click it
and check the "reverse" box

see this

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5- Build-up & filling

you can get this section by just listening to many tracks
and study how trance is building up

sometimes I start with drums and bass or with FX like in my track "Trance Light"
sometimes I start with melody

but if you start with any of that
just don't put everything you have
start with something simple then build up
for example
when I start with drums and bass i only put (kick + Bass) then with some
sweeps and reverse crash I bring the snare into action then the cymbals and so on

make sure that when you build up you don't repeat your track more than 16 bars without variation
introduce your new sounds after 2 - 4 or 8 bars and not 3 - 5 - 7 bars
this will not sound good for every instrument

ok , I used all of what I wrote above in the tutorial and made this

let's take a listen to the final project
CLICK HERE

well , I hope that this tutorial was helpful enough
and I really appreciate it if you could post your comments and thoughts

I would also be happy to answer your questions
so feel free to ask !

Dominate by Vonboff

noreply@blogger.com (zal) — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 11:59:00 +0000

This is a DnB track made by Vonboff on fruity loops studio 7
I think it's really awesome !
one of his sweetest works..

Enjoy !

Orchestral on fruity loops studio

noreply@blogger.com (zal) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:11:00 +0000

This one is an orchestral short overture I made on fruity loops studio 7
most of fl studio users I know don't care about classic production
maybe it's because classical instruments in fl7 aren't actually "the best"..
when I uploaded this music I had many messages asking about the plugins I used
actually I got "Edirol Orchestral VST" and this plugin really kicks ass ,it
has almost every single sound in the orchestra ,ensemble sections are really
loaded and there is tons of kits too...

well enjoy this piece

See Me Now

noreply@blogger.com (zal) — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:31:00 +0000

hey !

to start, I just wanted to post a link to one of my music pieces
this one is a vocal trance I made on fruity loops studio 7
(which I make most of my tracks on)
The Acapella is from "kate lesing vocals" CD
Pls feel free to post your music links
or questions
here is my video ,