Best Technique for Chiptune Tracker Beginners

In this tutorial, I share my ideas on how to plan music within a tracker program. Tracker programs are notoriously complex and confusing to beginners. I attempt to solve this problem by streamlining the composition process while providing some insight as to why composing music within trackers seems so daunting.

The techniques discussed in this video may apply to any type of tracker software; however, the examples used within this video are from FamiTracker.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:31 Plan Ahead
02:07 What Is Planning?
02:28 Planning Benefits
03:39 How to Plan
04:21 A Trick for Planning

Example Tracks
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Johann Sebastian Bach
WTC Book II
E Major Fugue
02:28 -03:39