The Music Theory Behind Trance?, anyone know anything about it Options

[slowintrepid]

Ok recently I've been trying to produce my own tracks (mostly trance)
I've been a guitar player since I was 9 years old so I know theory in genral. but the reason I got into trance was because the genre eludes me and seem quite complex (when in reality it's pretty simple I hear??)

anyways can someone gimme some info on what goes into a trance song (theory wise that is)

thanks alot

[boze]

no i think it's me that's the ass in this thread.

as i recall trance relies pretty heavily on arpeggiators. do you know what that is? if you hold down just one note you get a repeating series of notes that steps up and/or down through the notes of a chord or just jumps octaves every note. it sounds fancy when you hear it but then when you realize you just do it buy using one note and an arp it sorta takes the magic out.

anyway, that's just another thing to fiddle with if you didn't already know about it. kinda old school though and played out imo. but then that's how i feel about trance as well