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 & more
Lesson 3: Melody and Bass
• Creating your own melody/riff
• Creating 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 & more
• Unique Ableton Live effects: Frequency Shifter, Corpus, Resonators & more
Lesson 6: Automating effects
• Automating 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