Hi,
Whether you are a musician or interested in making music, this course will teach you how to use Ableton Live to make music at home, perform live or start producing and publishing songs online.
I handcrafted this course based on my own path learning Ableton, creating and producing my tracks and publishing them online. My experience with Ableton started in 2015 when I was looking for a type of DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) that won’t be too hard to learn and is useful for any type of musician. I found Ableton the most intuitive, productive and beautifully designed software ever created. There are thousands of tools in Live that will take you years to explore. My goal in this course is to create your own path where you will be comfortable using those tools effectively and creatively. I will give you assignments and reading materials on the things we learned, so you can have hands-on experience and learn by doing (or playing!).
Once you finish this course, you will be able to record voice/guitars at home, make drum beats, create bass lines and last but not least, make sexy tracks.
Course price per lesson: 20 EUR
If you’re ready to start or have any questions, just email me at: hello[at]eltajmurad.com
The course will be online and the weekly schedule will be organized according to your preference. I recommend dedicating at least 2 classes per week to stay on track and not forget what you learned previously. You will also have assignments, so 2-3 days break in a week will be enough to deliver the assignments on time.
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Course Syllabus
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- Introduction
- What you’ll learn
- Building expectations and setting up your music deck
Chapter 1 – Ableton Live Fundamentals
- Intro. Overview of Ableton and a little bit of history
- Why Ableton rocks and why it’s different from other DAWs
- Setting up your hardware and workspace
- Session view and arrangement view
- Exploring Live’s Browser and organizing your collections
- Getting deeper into session view
- MIDI & Audio Clip Properties
- Playing clips and scenes
- Recording session view to Arrangement view
- Grouping and tips for better organization
Chapter 2 – Audio Recording and Sampling
- Recording from Session to Arrangement View
- Quantization
- Warping audio + creative uses
- Sampling
- Audio effects
- Midi effects
- Midi mapping
Chapter 3 – Working with MIDI
- Making drum beats
- Creating bass line and chords
- Quantization re-explored
- Using delays and randomizers for unique drum patterns
Chapter 4 – Audio Mixing Devices
- Understanding silence, amplitude, tones, pitches, timbre and noise
- What is a frequency
- Working with EQ
- Reverbs
- Delays
- Chorus, flanger, phaser
- Compression
- Dynamic compression
- Gate
- Limiter
- Delays re explored
- Short delay
- Long delay
- LFO
- Using bus for submix
- Using Ableton Audio Effects for guitars, vocals, synths and drums
Chapter 5 – Advanced Audio Mixing
- Using saturators
- Dynamic EQ
- Mixing vocals
- Drum and bass
- Synths
- Cut, copy, duplicate, reverse
Chapter 6 – Mastering
- Using limiter pt.2
- Dynamic Compression types and uses
- Adding tape noise or vintage sound plugins
- Exporting audio:
- File formats
- Bitrates, sample rate
- Dithering
Chapter 7 – Ultra Experience – God mode
- Create finalized track (assignment)
- Share on soundcloud
- Misc:
- Choosing the right online music distributor
- Uploading on YouTube
- Listening mindfully
- Exploring musicianship