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ABOUT THIS COURSE
Beyond the Loop: Turning Inspiration Into Finished Tracks is an immersive month-long course designed to help you finally turn your unfinished projects into completed songs. This online course consists of four live Zoom sessions with real-time instruction and includes supplemental “on-demand” materials such as downloadable PDF notes, step-by-step “how-to” videos, and guided assignments to support your progress between sessions.
Learn how to break out of the loop stage and turn 8-bar ideas into full arrangements. Explore creative workflows, sound selection techniques, and arrangement strategies that will keep your tracks moving forward. You’ll also learn how to add automation, transitions, and ear candy to bring your songs to life, as well as essential mixing concepts to make them sound release-ready.
By the end of the course, you’ll not only have a finished track but a repeatable process and the confidence to keep completing your future projects.
COURSE OUTLINE
WEEK I: GETTING OUT OF THE LOOP
- Generating ideas
- Workflow
- Techniques to create inspiration
- Writing and Production prompts
- Sound selection
- Expanding loops into sections
- Creating variation
- Using reference tracks to map out structure
WEEK II: BUILDING THE ARRANGEMENT
- Locators and arrangement view in Ableton Live
- Common arrangement structures across genres
- Reference track deconstruction
- Creating a “skeleton” arrangement for your track
- Arrangement workflows and productivity hacks
- Creative approaches to arrangement
WEEK III: ADDING MOVEMENT AND TRANSITIONS
- Adding automation (filters, reverbs, delays)
- Adding FX and transitions: risers, sweeps, fills, etc
- Adding ear candy and detail to connect sections and make things more interesting
- Layering for depth
- Workflow tips
WEEK IV: FINISHING TOUCHES
- Editing, decluttering, polishing
- Mixing concepts (EQ, balance, clarity)
- Basic mastering chains
- Exporting
- Final checklist: How to know when a track is done
Courses are supplemented with downloadable notes, quizzes, video content, and more. This course's material opens on a limited basis September 29, with all materials available November 3.
There will be four live sessions for this course:
November 7, 2025 | November 14, 2025 | November 21, 2025 | November 28, 2025
All live sessions are recorded, and once they've passed, they will be saved in the course materials for you to view at any time.
Example Curriculum
