Beats Production Techniques 2

HiDERA | 4 February 2022 | 3.28 GB

Drums lay at the core of every good track, providing the rhythmic energy and beating heart of the music. Making sure that those drums are solid and satisfying is therefore an essential part of producing high quality tracks. On this in-depth course, experienced producer Simon Shackleton will take you on a journey as he builds up a number of complete grooves from the ground up, explaining every decision meticulously along the way. This second part of the course moves onto 2 new genres, looking this time at Nu Disco and Electronica or Breakbeat. Like the first part, the lessons go in detail through each process of constructing the beat with a large palette of samples, beginning with a core loop or main drums like kick and snare. Individual drums are designed by layering of numerous oneshots, carefully selected and then blended, using different processing to ensure each part fits together seamlessly and adds its own unique elements into the mix.

Keyboard Advanced Techniques

FANTASTiC | 11 November 2021 | 1.1 GB

If you’re a music producer looking to sharpen your keyboard skills, this course is made for you! Dive into some advanced keyboard techniques with experienced piano teacher, and get ready to unlock new ideas for your music productions. This course is specifically designed for producers who already have some playing experience and are looking to expand their keyboard skills and knowledge of music theory. By watching just a couple of videos a week, and by practicing the techniques and concepts shown, you will greatly enhance your playing, improvising and music writing skills. The course begins with a quick pre-test to make sure you have enough experience to tackle the course (if you’re not ready yet, no worries… just start with our first Keyboard Techniques for Producers course instead).

Alt Pop Production Techniques

HiDERA | 26 June 2021 | 2.1 GB

2-time winner of the NMG Best Female Solo Award Ellie Dixon has been featured on BBC 6 Music, ITV News and Glamour Magazine YouTube Channel. With recent singles garnering hundreds of thousands of plays on Spotify and social media channels blowing up, her ability to make Alternative Pop that captures the minds and hearts of the masses is undeniable! On this course, Ellie takes you through the main steps to producing a magical Indie Pop chorus from scratch. The course starts by putting together the main hook and beats, to establish the foundations of the track, before a bassline is created by combining guitar with a synthesized layer from Logic’s Sculpture. The beats are then bolstered and processed with various effects to fatten up the groove. Following this, Ellie incorporates percussion sounds from multiple objects in her immediate environment, to add quirky rhythms and identifiable textures into the track.

Dorico Basics TUTORiAL

FANTASTiC | July 11 2021 | 499 MB

..:: Notation Tools & Techniques ::..

Dorico is Steinberg’s flagship music notation software. Learn all you need to know to get started with Dorico, in this course by pianist, arranger and Steinberg Certified Trainer. With an extremely active and ever-growing online community, Dorico has become a very popular music scoring software amongst musicians, educators, students and composers. It’s fast, flexible and offers tons of innovative features to cover your music notation needs. Whatever version you’re using (SE, Elements, or Pro), this 101 course is designed to guide you through all the fundamentals, and more.

Advanced Bass Music Production Techniques 2

HiDERA | 29 June 2020 | 3.37 GB

With its gigantic basslines and seriously heavy beats, Bass Music is regarded as amongst the most challenging genres to produce, requiring a substantial amount of knowledge and technical precision. The course begins with a series of sound design tutorials, showing how creates his varied palette of melodic and textured sounds from which the bulk of his tracks are constructed. These include 2 serious bass patches, both built from scratch and then processed with a wide range of 3rd-party and factory DAW plugins, as well as a custom delayed and pitched FX composition, which uses a default synth patch used as the basis. The final sound design session then shows how to transform an old vinyl sample into digital gold!

EQ Techniques & Tips

P2P | 02 July 2020 | 489 MB

Audio Equalization

Learn how to use an EQ properly! The equalizer is a very powerful tool when mixing audio, but if misused, it can make everything sound worse! With this course, you can learn how to use equalizers in the right way and improve the quality of your production. This course was created to start from scratch in the world of equalization. From the basics of sound and frequency to the types of EQ’s and common applications.

Techniques For The Modern Composer TUTORiAL

P2P | March 15 2017 | 1.76 GB

Master the Art of Composing For Film and Learn To Find Gigs Doing It In this course, we will learn the essential techniques used in writing music for film. Through a series of analysis’ of well-known film scenes from your favorite movies we will learn what makes a great cue, and then apply those techniques by writing our own. I’ll be showing you some of my own projects for film and television throughout the class, and walk you through my process when composing music for a film project. By the end of this course, students will understand the tools, lingo, and techniques used in the film composing world and will be ready to dive in to their own projects. I’ll walk you through how to get started on your first project by using freely available movies that need a score.