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EDM (Trance & Progressive) Course - Ableton Live

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Overview

This course is suitable for Mac or PC users with eclectic music tastes and covers electronic dance music styles Trance, Tech and Progressive. The course features tracks by 3 well-established international producer/DJs: Mike Koglin, Martin Roth and Tempo Giusto supported by Point Blank's own well-respected producer Danny J Lewis. For four weeks, this selection of producers will be sharing with you their unique production methods and equipping you with the skills to get the very best from Ableton. Starting with various ways of creating killer beats in Week 1 to writing bass lines and riffs in Week 2 to a complete track by the end of Week 4, you will learn directly from active pro's how to create modern, successful dance music. You'll learn essential tips and tricks about using EQ and FX, grouping, sidechain compression, applying automation, mixdown techniques and much more. There are a number of reasons why Point Blank won 'Best Music Production and DJ School' 6 times as voted by the readers of DJ Magazine. You can add this course to the list!

Includes a minimum of 240 mins video / 4 x DVR™ (1-2-1 video feedback)/ 4 hours live masterclasses /1 year access / over 80 pages of course notes / 24/7 access to forum / exclusive audio resources to download. Optional: sign your track to Point Blank Music distributed by iTunes, beatport, Juno Download and Amazon.

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Course Contents

Week 1: Origins, Legends & Making Beats

Overview: The key elements in an EDM tune
Sample editing and building kits
Electronic drum sounds
Programming beats & quantizing techniques

Week 2: The Musical Elements

Creating Basslines
Creating Stabs
Lead sounds and riffs
Pads and string sounds

Week 3: Basic Structure, FX and Automation

Creative use of FX
Sidechaining
Creating downfillers/uprisers
Noise and synth oscillators and automation

Week 4: Arrangement and Mixdown

Working with Vocals
Finalising the Arrangement
Breakdown and buildup examples
Compression, EQ, Mixdown and Bounce

Course Reviews

Tony Taylor

Course rating: 9/10

You can read books and watch videos and learn what you need to learn, but the little gems of advice in the feedback DVR's are priceless.

Aji Mon Nair

Course rating: 10/10

Tempo is really a good tutuor and a producer, he is got good patience and good sense of humor too, im glad i learned a few tricks from all the 3 super producers!! Aji

Adey Said

Course rating: 9/10

Was a good course. Im not done yet still have to complete my final assignment. the videos were good especially because there were 3 different people working towards completing a track. Pretty talented producers!

nobuko wani

Course rating: 10/10

I really enjoyed this EDM couse.My tutor Tempo Giusto is great. I learned a lot of things,and it was so fun!!

Brendan O' Brien

Course rating: 8/10

Am... good course, learnt some useful stuff on music chords that I didn't have a clue about and although I didn't stick directly to the trance song layout format since I listen to techno I will go back and make a track using their type of structure cause the tutors sets had a a great flow and energy to them

In Chung

Course rating: 10/10

I loved this course! I only wish I took it earlier. All I can say is that, this one course expanded my knowledge so much more than the other online classes I took on other sites. Tempo Giusto was an awesome tutor with really insightful tips and suggestions in the music production process! Hands down, this class was awesome!

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