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Advanced Music Production Immersive [Berlin]
Learn to produce music this summer
Level: Advanced
Location: Köpenicker Str. 6A, 10997 Berlin
Get comfortable with sound design, mixing and mastering, and many of the more advanced music production concepts. You’ll be exploring techniques and workflows which professional producers use daily in their work, guided by some of the city’s most accomplished Ableton-Certified Trainers. Class sizes are small, so you’ll be learning in an intimate in-person setting, set in the heart of Berlin and surrounded by a cohort of like-minded producers. During every class you’ll get feedback on your music, making sure you progress quickly and see real results. We only accept seven students to the program, so sign-up now to get your music sounding like a pro!
Topics covered:
- Synthesis overview
- Designing your own sounds
- Working with audio creatively
- Advanced composition techniques
- Refining arrangements
- Creating energy and release
- Variation, transitions, build-ups
- The science of mixing and audio engineering
- Demo-mastering
Weekly breakdown
Week 1: Synthesis overview
- Sound design overview
- Synthesis types
- Subtractive synthesis
- Wavetable synthesis
- Modulation through LFO and Envelopes
- Creating sounds from scratch
Week 2: Developing your sound
- FM synthesis
- Sampling + sample-based synthesis
- Granular synthesis
- Physical modeling
- Working with Instrument Racks
- Working with Audio Effect Racks
Week 3: Arranging your ideas
- Advanced composition techniques
- Arrangement and song structure
- Subtractive arranging techniques
- Building and releasing energy
- Using automation
- Creating variation
- Transition effects and ear candy
Week 4: Mixing and mastering
- Defining a good mix
- Science of sound
- EQ, compression, saturation
- Reverb & delay
- Stereo imaging
- Parallel processing
- Mastering overview
- Mastering order of operations
- Demo-mastering
- More Ableton Certified Trainers than any school worldwide
- Real-time instruction, student questions, and feedback
- Intimate class sizes (roughly 5 students) ensuring maximum student/instructor interaction
- Motivation and inspiration from experienced instructors with real industry success
- Online community forums to ask questions outside of the classroom and meet peers and collaborate
- Daily free community events
- 40% discount on Ableton Live and 20% discount on Ableton Push
Advanced Electronic Music Composition & Arrangement [Berlin]
Learn advanced techniques for composition, music theory, arrangement, and remixing.
Learn advanced composition techniques and explore high level music concepts that go beyond conventional practices. Explore new creative approaches to music making, composition, and remixing. This class is geared towards producers that are comfortable with basic music theory and want to be exposed to new compositional techniques and approaches.
Requirements: This is an advanced level course. We recommend a strong foundation in music theory and good understanding of music production.
Learn advanced techniques for composition, music theory, arrangement, and remixing.
In this course we will cover:
– Advanced rhythmic concepts
– Modes and advanced scales
– Non-diatonic harmony
– Harmonic modulation
– Chord voicings & voice-leading
– Melodic development
– Harmonizing a melody
– Transcription and track recreation
– Track analysis
– Genre, aesthetics, and style
– Compositional methods
– Instrumentation
– Form and arrangement
– Remixing & reharmonization
– Productivity and workflow
– Collaboration and communication
- More Ableton Certified Trainers than any school worldwide
- Real-time instruction, student questions, and feedback
- Intimate class sizes (roughly 5 students) ensuring maximum student/instructor interaction
- Motivation and inspiration from experienced instructors with real industry success
- Online community forums to ask questions outside of the classroom and meet peers and collaborate
- Daily free community events
- 40% discount on Ableton Live and 20% discount on Ableton Push
Finishing Music Workshop [Berlin]
Learn to finish tracks through constant and professional feedback and develop techniques to consistently finish more music. Understand the various stages of idea development and making creative choices. Learn to identify a strong idea and commit to it early on to speed up your workflow. Discuss techniques to help creative output, idea generation, and execution.
Hybrid Music Production [Berlin]
Learn about studio recording, best practices for running a session, and how to integrate the recordings with your electronic productions.
This course teaches the fundamentals of working in a recording studio and running a recording session with studio musicians. Learn to record acoustic instruments and incorporate the recordings with your productions to create hybrid textures consisting of acoustic and electronic sounds. Explore creating field recordings to make your productions richer. Learn about microphone types and placement, preamps, signal flow, gain staging and how to achieve a high quality recording and use the material inside the DAW to create a well-rounded production.
Requirements: This is an intermediate to advanced level course. We recommend good proficiency with music production and having produced at least one track of your own.
- More Ableton Certified Trainers than any school worldwide
- Real-time instruction, student questions, and feedback
- Intimate class sizes (roughly 5 students) ensuring maximum student/instructor interaction
- Motivation and inspiration from experienced instructors with real industry success
- Online community forums to ask questions outside of the classroom and meet peers and collaborate
- Daily free community events
- 40% discount on Ableton Live and 20% discount on Ableton Push
Beginner Music Production Immersive [Berlin]
Learn to produce your own music
Level: Beginner
Location: Köpenicker Str. 6A, 10997 Berlin
A fully immersive 4-week program teaching you how to produce your own music with Ableton Live. This course teaches you the framework for music production and is perfect for students with little or no prior music production experience. You’ll be learning in an intimate in-person classroom setting in the heart of Berlin, guided by some of the city’s most accomplished Ableton-Certified Trainers, and surrounded by a cohort of like-minded peers. All our courses are hands-on and practical, so you’ll be making music and getting feedback on your music from the first day. We only accept seven students to the program, so sign-up now to start your journey of becoming a music producer!
Topics covered:
- Overview and understanding the interface
- Drum programming
- Note and Clip editing
- Finding sounds and instruments
- Creating melodies, chords, and basslines
- Using MIDI effects
- Recording, sampling, Warping
- Audio processing
- Automation
- Song Arrangement
- Basic mixing & mastering
Weekly Breakdown
Week 1: Learning the interface, music theory, drum programming
- Navigating the interface
- Programming drums in Drum Rack
- Music theory fundamentals
- Recording MIDI
- Editing MIDI and audio
- Quantizing
- Changing velocity to add groove
- Moving from Session View to Arrangement View
Week 2: Music composition, and working with audio
- Composing a strong melody
- Chord progressions & basslines
- Introduction to MIDI effects
- Recording audio
- Introduction to sampling
- Warping
- Introduction to audio processing
- Sends & Returns
Week 3: Arranging your ideas
- Song structure
- Subtractive arranging techniques
- How to build and release energy through song arrangement
- Working with reference tracks to analyze arrangement
- Using automation
- Creating variation
- Using breaks and fills to create excitement
- Transition effects and ear candy
Week 4: Basic mixing and exporting your tracks
- Mixing overview
- Gain staging (anchoring to the kick)
- EQ
- Reverb & delay
- Saturation
- Compression
- Basic master
- Exporting your tracks
- More Ableton Certified Trainers than any school worldwide
- Real-time instruction, student questions, and feedback
- Intimate class sizes (roughly 5 students) ensuring maximum student/instructor interaction
- Motivation and inspiration from experienced instructors with real industry success
- Online community forums to ask questions outside of the classroom and meet peers and collaborate
- Daily free community events
- 40% discount on Ableton Live and 20% discount on Ableton Push
2-Day Music Production Workshop [Berlin]
A two-day crash course teaching you the fundamentals of producing music with Ableton Live.
Level: Beginner
Sessions: 2
Ever wondered how a track you like is made? Chances are it’s been made on a laptop and uses a vocal and a couple of instruments. In this workshop, we will uncover the behind-the-scenes process of music production, and show you some of the essential tools a music producer uses in everyday music creation. During the workshop, we will be learning the fundamentals of working with Ableton Live, one of the world’s leading music production software*. By the end of the workshop, you will leave with an original beat, as well as a basic understanding of the essential music production concepts needed to make a track.
No requirements: No prior music knowledge is required to take this class.
*This workshop will be taught using Ableton Live, one of the leading music production software. We also offer courses in Logic Pro, and if you want to know about the differences between Ableton and Logic you can read this article here.
- Music Production Overview
- Key Elements Of A Song
- Drum Programming
- Making a Melody
- Leads, Chords, and Basslines
- Audio and MIDI Effects
- Song Arrangement
- Basic Mixing
- Exporting Your Track
Vocal Production [Berlin]
Learn the essential tools to record and produce a commercial-sounding vocal track from an industry pro
Level: Intermediate
Location Köpenicker Str. 6A, 10997 Berlin
Vocal production is one of the most intricate art forms to master in music production, with many undocumented practices that vocal producers have acquired over years of honing their craft. In this comprehensive 12-session course you will learn the essential tools to creating a successful vocal production, as well as many of the hidden tips and tricks only experienced vocal producers have learnt over their years of experience in the industry. If you are looking to get your vocals to stand out and be commercially competitive, then this course is for you. In this course we will cover:
- Vocal recording equipment: mics + pre-amps
- Acoustics and room treatment
- Levels and gain-staging
- Coaching a vocalist
- Pre-mixng: pitch correction, time adjustment, de-essing, and plosives
- Effects processing and coloration: EQ, compression, reverb, delay, saturation
- Doubling and stacking the lead
- Harmonies and backing vocals
- Mixing, sends + returns
- Producing in different genres: pop, rap, club
- More Ableton Certified Trainers than any school worldwide
- Real-time instruction, student questions, and feedback
- Intimate class sizes (roughly 5 students) ensuring maximum student/instructor interaction
- Motivation and inspiration from experienced instructors with real industry success
- Online community forums to ask questions outside of the classroom and meet peers and collaborate
- Daily free community events
- 40% discount on Ableton Live and 20% discount on Ableton Push
Live Performance: From the Studio to the Stage [Berlin]
Learn to build a unique live set from your productions, and learn to perform them live on stage for an audience.
This course will teach you to build a live performance set to perform your music live on stage, integrating the instruments, analog gear, and MIDI controllers that you already play and own. You will discover Ableton Live’s powerful performance functionality, and learn how this software can be customized to fit your musical needs, exploring advanced features such as live looping, tempo changes and syncing tempo with live musicians, custom effect racks, MPE, Max for Live, and much more.
Requirements: This is an intermediate to advanced level course. We recommend good proficiency with music production and having produced at least one track of your own.
Logic Pro: Produce Your First Track [Berlin]
Learn the fundamentals of producing with Logic Pro and produce an original track by the end of the course.
Level: Beginner/Intermediate
Location Köpenicker Str. 6A, 10997 Berlin
In this class, we will learn how to use Logic to take a song from a basic idea to a completed, professional track. Established and aspiring producers and artists from any genre are welcome, from electronic music to pop, rock, jazz, and beyond. In this course we will cover:
- Overview of Logic and understanding the interface
- Drum programming
- Recording and editing MIDI
- Working with Apple Loops and the loop library
- Creating melodies, chords, and basslines
- Song arrangement, structure, and analysis
- Recording and editing audio
- Basic synthesis and customizing synth presets
- Virtual instruments and how to get the most out of them
- Sampling
- Automation and mapping
- Flex Time and Flex Pitch
- Audio effects with an emphasis on EQ, Compression, and Reverb
- The basics of mixing and mastering your song
- More Ableton Certified Trainers than any school worldwide
- Real-time instruction, student questions, and feedback
- Intimate class sizes (roughly 5 students) ensuring maximum student/instructor interaction
- Motivation and inspiration from experienced instructors with real industry success
- Online community forums to ask questions outside of the classroom and meet peers and collaborate
- Daily free community events
- 40% discount on Ableton Live and 20% discount on Ableton Push