📘 Toward Music Production: Harmonies Unveiled

A Complete Beginner-Friendly Guide to Electronic Music Production

Unlock the world of music production with this clear, practical, and beginner-focused e-book written by producer Wajih Ben Romdhane, founder of the electronic music label ORNA. Whether you’re starting from zero or improving your foundation, this guide gives you everything you need to understand how music is built, shaped, and finished.

This is not just theory — it’s the essential knowledge every producer must master to create powerful melodies, clean mixes, and professional-sounding tracks.

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🎧 What You Will Learn

Inside this, you’ll discover:

🎼 Music Theory Made Simple

• Notes, scales, intervals, and keys explained clearly

• Major, minor & pentatonic scales

• Modes, circle of fifths, modulation & harmonic movement

• How to choose the right key for your track’s emotion

🎹 Chords & Harmony

• Triads, 7th chords, 9th, 11th, 13th (all simplified for producers)

• Suspended chords, slash chords, modal borrowing

• How to build chord progressions that sound emotional & modern

🥁 Drum Programming

• Essential groove concepts

• Patterns for house, hip-hop, boom bap, pop, R&B

• Swing, syncopation, polyrhythm & humanizing techniques

🎵 Melody Creation

• Motif-based, chord-based & arpeggio-based melodies

• Melody structure, contour, rhythm & expression

• Step-by-step melody–writing method

🔊 Sound Design

• Oscillators, filters, envelopes & LFOs

• Subtractive, wavetable, additive & FM synthesis

• Harmonics, timbre, waveforms & shaping techniques

🎚️ DAW & MIDI Basics

• Piano roll workflow explained

• MIDI controllers & virtual instruments

• How DAWs organize sound and help you create professional music