Electronic Music Production with John Tejada

In this project-driven course, you will go behind the scenes with John Tejada, learning everything you need to know to complete a song from start to finish. Covering sound design, arranging, mixing, and mastering, Tejada builds on his 25+ years of experience releasing records on renowned electronic music labels such as Kompakt, Pokerflat, Cocoon, Plug Research, Seventh City, Brainfeeder, Defected, and his own Palette Recordings, to help you create the same kind of punchy, expertly-produced mixes he is known for.

With seemingly unlimited options in our modern Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs), the possibilities, while intended to lead to creativity, can often have the opposite effect, making us doubt which path to take when beginning work on and finish a new song.

In this course Tejada simplifies the creative process for you, helping you create an inspiring set of sounds, focusing on what’s important, making your mix translate to different speakers and environments, creating an arrangement, and putting the final polish on your mix.

These are practices and techniques Tejada has been using in his productions for years and now he would like to share them with you.

• Introduction: Listening and Creating Your Own Sounds
• The importance of training our ears and creating original sounds
• Mixing in 5 Parts
• Mixing with VU meters, learning to balance and pan creatively, and adding effects.
• Arranging and Multiple Tracks
• Expanding our idea into a multiple track arrangement.
• Introduction to Mastering
• An intro to mastering concepts and creating a play copy
• Writing a Track 101: Less is More
• Create an idea for a song using only 1 monophonic track with multiple sounds.