Nora En Pure’s signature style of house music production helped her define an emotive style that continues to thrive. Get inspired and try your hand at this emotive style with the tutorials below.
Writing Pianos Like Nora En Pure
Nora’s music pulls at our heartstrings because its bedrock harmonies have a lot of emotional weight to them and allow the track to take listeners on a journey. The groove, sound design, drum programming, and other productions tricks need to be on point, but your chord progressions are what will be doing most of the heavy lifting.
This means it’s always best for you to start with the chords before moving on to any of the fancy stuff.
Here’s how it’s done…
Programming Drums Like Nora En Pure
Unlike most other genres of dance music, the percussions in the music that Nora makes act more as a delivery system for the melodies and aren’t the primary driving force of the groove overall. This makes them easier to program but harder to get just right.
Because while the rythmns themselves usually are usually just comprised of the hats, claps, and kick (which we’ll cover in it’s own section later on), the texture and selection of those samples is paramount to achieving the softer and more sentimental vibe typically seen in Nora’s music.
Here’s how I get it done…
Choosing Kick Drums Like Nora En Pure
The kick drum is the most important part of the dance music track, even for the softer genres like what Nora is doing (but you know that already didn’t you?).
But all too often, I see producers choosing entirely the wrong samples for their tracks; and in doing so, they make the mix harder, the texture of the drums changes, and the entire vibe of the record is thrown off.
You’re not looking for an EDM-style kick with a heavy and thwacking transient just as much as you don’t want a booming 808 typical in more classic Chicago-house tracks.
So let’s dive into a few ways to choose a kick sample and process it in a way that perfectly fits the vibe of our melodic house track.
Choosing Kick Drums Like Nora En Pure
Processing Drums Like Nora En Pure
Choosing the right samples is paramount to getting a good drum sound, but how you process these samples together through the drum bus is what’s going to give your drums texture, life, and individuality.
Remember that we are shooting for a softer, lush, and textured vibe with our drums here. So let’s see what types of plugins will be most useful to achieve this end.
Creating A Bass Line Like Nora En Pure
This is where the drive and energy of our track really starts to take on a life of its own, but it can also be one of the most difficult parts of the song to nail down correctly.
So let’s look at how it’s done…
Writing A Melody Like Nora En Pure
Nora En Pure’s real emotional pull, and arguably the primary reason why she is so popular, is on her heart-string pulling melodies and arpeggiators. They add texture, euphoria, energy, and movement to Nora’s songs in one fell swoop.
So let’s learn how you can recreate similar melodies using some of the chords we’ve already written as a jumping off point.
Finishing Touches
By now, we have created the backbone of a killer Nora En Pure style track. But this genre of music is so much more than just a cool melody and some textural drums.
To really make a phenomenal record in the style of Nora En Pure, you need to focus on the details and find ways to add layers of ear candy to fill out the frequency spectrum so that the track feels detailed, lush, and full.
So let’s dive into some of my favorite rapid-fire ways to fill out a melodic house track.
Where To Go Next
Nora En Pure’s style of production has been rising n popularity a ton over the past years, and we know of a few great teachers online that offer more killer tutorials on the topic if you are thirsty for more information.
Here is the short list of the best melodic house tutorials we’ve found while writing this article.
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