Intro To Music Production

Audio and MIDI Tracks

Using The Browser

Building Drum Racks

Most Used Shortcuts and Parameters

Proper Session Creation and Saving Habits

How to Properly Share Ableton Sessions

Assignment 1: Submit Three 8-bar Drum Loops Recorded or Programmed From Scratch

Using The Browser To Find Sounds/Instruments

Make The Headphone Icon Active To Preview Notes In The Piano Roll

Locking your MIDI clip to a Scale

Programming & Editing MIDI Notes

Loop Recording

Assignment 2: Choose an 8bar Drum Loop from week one and add an accompanying melody (At least 2 sounds: piano, bass, strings, etc)

Different Methods of Warping

Different Warping Algorithms

BPM and How to Count Bars/Measures

Assignment 3: Warp the 5 audio files included with the week’s material

Connecting your Interface, Microphone and DAW

Microphone Placement

Why Record Vocals in Mono?

Signal Flow/Routing

How to create a Makeshift Patchbay (What the hell is a patchbay?)

Setting Your I/O (Input/Output)

Adjusting Latency (What is Latency?)

Assignment 4: Record yourself or another artist’s vocals over a 2trk beat that you warped in last week’s assignment. 1 Recordings over a warped 2 track beat and 1 recording over a multi-track beat (beats created by student)

Static Mixing

Volume

Panning

Automation

Assignment 5: Create a Static Mix

Download, Listen & Analyze the 5 Songs Included In This Weeks Lesson

Import and Warp The Songs

“Trace and Save” the Arrangements using Empty MIDI Clips

Sampling Yourself

Sampling From Vinyl, Youtube, etc

Creating Combo-Instrument Racks

Adding Fx & Dynamic Processing to Your Instrument Racks

Using Macros

Warping Acapellas

Key Matching

Beat Matching

Use the techniques taught thus far to create your own music

Copyrights

PROs

DSPs

SongTrust

Sound Exchange

Special Guests