Basic Course

Basic Music Production


This course is 12 hours, divided into 4 lessons of 3 hours each

Lesson 1: Introduction 

  • Digital Audio Workstations
  • Navigating Ableton Live 10
  • Electronic Music genres and jargon

Lesson 2: Making Beats

  • How beats work - house, trap, hip hop, EDM and more
  • Make your own beat

Lesson 3: Melody and Bass

  • Create your own melody / riff 
  • Create your own bass line to drive your song
  • Add instrument layers 

Lesson 4: Chord Progressions 

  • Tips and tricks for using chord progressions in electronic music

Lesson 5: Audio effects

  • Classic effects: Filter, Overdrive, Delay, Reverb, Phaser, Flanger, Chorus, Distortion, EQ
  • Unique Ableton Live effects: Frequency Shifter, Corpus, Resonators, Amp, Erosion, Redux, Beat repeat, Grain delay

Lesson 6: Automating effects

  • Automate effects to sculpt the sound of your song

Lesson 7: Arrangement

  • Structures for arranging common electronic music genres
  • Creating transitions and contrast

Lesson 8: Creating your unique sound

  • Introduction to synthesizers 
  • Sourcing for additional instruments

Lesson 9: Basic Sampling

  • Chopping and playing samples in your song
  • Turning samples into beats

Lesson 10: Playing Live 

  • Connecting pads and controllers
  • Jamming as a way of producing music

Lesson 11: Mixing and EQ

  • Mixing with pan, levels
  • Basic EQ: shelving, adding air

Lesson 12: Finale

  • Final review of your track
  • Preparation for presentation
  • Presentation of final track

Course fees

  • Individual lesson $1020
  • Group lesson - contact us at popstudiodj@gmail.com or fill in the form below to find out more

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