Electronic Music Production

Сurriculum:

Lesson 1

• Software installation, registration.  
• Audio and MIDI setup, preparing workstation
• General theory about sound and music
• Musical and linear time
• Metronome and grid

Lesson 2

• Theory of rhythm
• Rhythmical styles, groove
• Virtual instruments for drums and samples
• Recording drums as audio and MIDI

Lesson 3

• Recording and editing automation
• First steps to controllerism
• MIDI device setup
• Using racks and groups

Lesson 4

• Simpler
• Sampling workflows and tricks
• Warping
• Comping

Lesson 5

• Synthesis and physical modeling
• Types of synthesis: additive, subtractive, wavetables, vector, granular
• Typical virtual synthesisers
• The most popular models of virtual instruments
• Hardware

Lesson 6

• Music theory basics: notes, intervals
• Modes and scales
• Chords and their variation
• Chord relations, progressions

Lesson 7

• Baseline
• Putting drums and baseline "together"
• Tricks with groove
• Morphing

Lesson 8

• Reproducing famous tracks
• Using MIDI effects
• Melody and tricks with scales
• Solo

Lesson 9

• Arrangement and song structure
• Breaks and transitions
• Workflows with loops
• Instrument layering

Lesson 10

• Signal theory basics
• Routing
• Send \ Return tracks
• Acoustic phantoms and illusions
• Monitoring

Lesson 11

• Introduction to dynamic processing
• Compressor
• Expander
• Gate
• Multiband compression

Lesson 12

• Thembral processing: distortion and saturation
• Filters
• Equalizer tips and tricks
• Time-based effects
• Correcting pitch

Lesson 13

• The concepts of remixing
• General view into digital DJing
• Making audio for picture
• DAW as one big sound designing system overview

Lesson 14

• Preparing set for live performance
• Creating unique device pack
• MIDI coding approaches
• Looping on the fly

Lesson 15

• The quality of sound. Criterias
• Publishing and copyright
• Mastering
• Final project presentation 

 

Total duration: 30 hours 

One hour price listed above.