help with keeping the same flow throughout a song - Fl studio

[Jhamilton831]

I find myself having a good buildup and a good drop but cant seem to make them fit together without losing the flow of the song. Any suggestions or advice when it comes to this? Help is appreciated.

[botstein]

Try foreshadowing elements of what is heard in the drop. Drops usually have the full baseline and all rhythmic elements, but not all of them need to be a surprise.

[psyEDk]

The trick is to work backwards.
You can't just make a build up to nothing, you really need to write what it's building TO, and then create a new section before that -with elements of the body, building up to it.

[poizone]

The trick is to work backwards.
You can't just make a build up to nothing, you really need to write what it's building TO, and then create a new section before that -with elements of the body, building up to it.

This guy speaks the truth. I just started a remix where the main idea was from the breakdown and build sections, and after putting those in, I had to work pretty hard to get my ideas across after that. I spent an entire day working out the kinks in the body of the music, and the only reason it even flows completely well is because I was able to hold the idea from the build up into the body by reusing the leads as the beginning of each phrase.