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Complete Electronic Music Production for EDM Music Producers - Learn Music Production for EDM

Offered By: Skillshare

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Music Theory Courses Sound Design Courses Audio Mixing Courses Audio Mastering Courses Music Arrangement Courses

Course Description

Overview

  • THIS CLASS IS ALREADY A BESTSELLER ON UDEMY. DO NOT MISJUDGE THE CHANCE TO TAKE IT HERE! 
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Whether you're a beginner, intermediate, or an expert producer, this course will teach you fresh and new techniques to take your EDM productions to the next level. After all, we're never truly finished learning - there's always something around the corner that we never saw coming!

What will you gain from completing the course

  • Understand how EDM is structured, and the musical principles its based upon (binary phrasing, energy, etc.)

  • Effectively structure and arrange a track for optimal flow

  • Set up your project for good workflow

  • Optimise your DAW's buffer length/size and set the correct sample rate for your project

  • Be aware of swing time and how it can benefit your productions

  • How to properly choose layers and build full and fat drum patterns, chord patterns, Leads, vocals, etc.

  • Be able to use automation and panning to create interest for the listener

  • Tune audio to the correct key of your track

  • Manipulate sounds by means of time stretching, formant shifting, vocoding, etc.

  • Tweak and design your own synthesiser sounds using ADSR, Filters, VCO, LFO, etc.

  • Create full and professional transitions that don't disrupt the flow

  • Be aware of driving elements and intensity line graphs

  • How to prepare your project for a full mixdown

  • Mix an EDM track using EQ, Compression, Saturation, etc.

  • Use plugins to achieve stereo width and depth

  • Sidechain elements to each other, including effects

  • Locate and correct phase issues in your track

  • Access to an exclusive Facebook group of fellow students. Receive feedback, engaging discussions, and more!

  • Master your track to the correct LUFS levels for streaming sites such as Spotify, YouTube, Deezer, etc.

Additional Content:

  • How to correctly hunt for labels and send your demos

  • Various PDFs and links to additional reading/study

  • 3 intensive projects so I can see how well you understand the material, and give you feedback to improve your productions

I share everything I know with you

Everything I teach you in this course has taken me years to learn. You're gaining 10+ years of music production knowledge in one complete course.

The music industry is an extremely closed and competitive one. I don't think that's fair. If more producers were aware of the production secrets behind professional tracks, we'd have a lot more talented musicians in the EDM community!

What's in it for me?

Personally, I dislike the competitive community that music producers find themselves in. I want to share my knowledge with other producers so that they may grow, learn, and teach me new techniques as well. I also have a passion for teaching, and whenever I see a student succeed with something, it gives me a great feeling - like an addiction!

Requirements:

  1. You will need to have a DAW (FL Studio, Ableton, GarageBand) and an ability to use the software to practice the techniques I teach you.

  1. You will also need to have a very basic understanding of music theory. Throughout the course, we are tuning our samples and composing chord patterns, which involves knowing the difference between major and minor, and also how notes relate to each other on the scale. For example, 'G' is the 5th note of the 'C' chord.   

So if you're ready to learn professional electronic music production, theory, composition, mixing, and mastering, take this class and bring your skills to the next level.


Syllabus

  • Course Trailer & Overview
  • Characteristics of EDM
  • Breaking Down EDM Structure (Part 1)
  • Breaking Down EDM Structure (Part 2)
  • Setting Up Your Project
  • Optimising Your DAW
  • Using Swing
  • Main Elements of EDM Drums
  • Finding Sutiable Drum Samples
  • Constructing a Drum Pattern
  • Using Panning
  • Automating Parameters
  • Tuning Your Drum Samples
  • Manipulating Your Drum Samples
  • Constructing Chord Patterns
  • Choosing Instruments for Chords
  • Introduction to Synthesis
  • Synthesiser Components
  • Tweaking Synthesiser Parameters
  • Making Synthesiser Sounds
  • Main Elements of EDM Basslines
  • Constructing Bass Patterns
  • Choosing Bass Instruments
  • Making Bass Sounds
  • Main Elements of EDM Leads
  • Constructing a Lead Pattern
  • Choosing Lead Instruments
  • Making Lead Instruments
  • Pads vs. Strings
  • Choosing Pad Sounds
  • Making Pad Sounds
  • Choosing String Instruments
  • Synthesised Strings
  • Internal vs External Loops
  • Using External Loops
  • Adding Variation to Internal Loops
  • Main Elements of EDM Effects
  • Choosing Effect Samples
  • Making Effect Sounds
  • Introduction to Vocal for EDMs
  • Vocal Phrases
  • Vocal Hooks
  • Vocal Loops
  • Vocal Chops
  • Sampled Vocals
  • Introduction to Manipulating Vocals
  • Formant Shifting
  • Vocoders
  • Vocal Doubling
  • 12.5 Vocal Layers
  • Points of Note
  • Transitions for EDM
  • The Easiest Transition
  • Drum Fills as Transitions
  • Vocal Shouts
  • Instrumental Transitions
  • Silence as a Transition
  • The Big Hit
  • Effects as Transitions
  • The Combination Transition
  • Using Filler & Extra
  • External Loops as Filler & Extra
  • Tone & Drop Blasters
  • Synths as Filler & Extra
  • Effects as Filler & Extra
  • The Reverb Swell
  • Introduction to Arrangement
  • Driving Elements
  • The Intensity Line Graph
  • Forming the Main Idea
  • Where to Start
  • Preparing for Mixdown
  • Introduction to Mixing
  • EQ for Mixing
  • How to Use EQ
  • The Presence Zone
  • EQ for Instruments (PART 1)
  • EQ for Instruments (PART 2)
  • EQ for Bass
  • EQ for Drums
  • EQ for Vocals
  • EQ as an Effect
  • Mid/Side EQ
  • Introduction to Compressors
  • Determining When To Use Compression
  • How To Use Compression
  • Compression for Instruments
  • Compression for Bass
  • Compression for Drums
  • Compression for Vocals
  • Glue Compression
  • Multiband Compression
  • Limiters
  • The Misconstrued Truth with Compression for EDM
  • Saturation for Mixing
  • How to Use Saturation
  • Saturation for Instruments
  • Saturation for Bass
  • Saturation for Drums
  • Saturation for Vocals
  • Reverb for Mixing
  • How to Use Reverb
  • Delay for Mixing
  • How to Use Delay
  • Slapback Delay
  • Adding Effects to Delay
  • Stereo Imaging for Mixing
  • Using Panning for Wider Mixes
  • Using the Haas Effect (Precedence Effect)
  • Microshifting
  • Using Reverb & Delay for Depth
  • Using Stereo Enhancing Plugins
  • Stereo Imaging for Low Frequencies
  • Phase for Mixing
  • Locating & Correcting Phase Issues
  • Phase Issues: Follow Up
  • Sidechain for Mixing
  • Using Sidechain Compression for Volume Control
  • Using Sidechain Compression for Effect Control
  • Using Sidechain Compression for Ducking
  • Peak Controlling
  • Extra Effects for EDM
  • Phasers
  • Flangers
  • Chorus
  • Filters
  • Using the Mixer for Stereo Separation (FL Studio Only)
  • How to Mix a Track Using The Faders
  • Introduction to Essential Mastering
  • EQ for Mastering
  • Compression for Mastering
  • Stereo Enhancers for Mastering
  • Limiters for Mastering
  • Checking The Track's Levels
  • Rendering The Final Track
  • BONUS Sending Your Track to Labels
  • The Valediction

Taught by

Benjamin Lynott

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