A NOTE ABOUT THIS COURSE
This course has been available for longer than one month, and is no longer "live." All recordings from the "live" labs that previously took place have been uploaded to the course materials.
BUILDING YOUR BEATS
In this month-long course, learn how to make your drums bangin’ while exploring various approaches to building your beats. From start to finish, you will go through the process of creating your drum ideas from scratch, editing them to work within the context of the music, and finessing them by adding effects. Topics covered will include: drum programming with Ableton Live’s drum racks, laying down ideas with both MIDI and audio clips, drums workflow, effects processing, the relationship between drums and the other musical elements, music theory, and more.
A NOTE ABOUT OUR PRICING
- Our courses are offered on a "pay what you can" sliding scale basis. All pricing tiers offer the exact same product, but, in the spirit of community, we ask that if you can pay more, you do. It helps us support our BIPOC community members, and creates an equitable model in which everyone has what they need.
- Our courses are FREE for BIPOC creators. Use discount code: FREE4BIPOC when you checkout.
Curriculum
- Week 1 Zoom Link
- Week 1 Notes - Rhythm Nation
- Week 1 Class Recording (136:25)
- Let's Learn Some Theory (17:16)
- MIDI instruments - How to Sequence and Edit MIDI (10:16)
- Ways to Program Drums - Using Drum Racks and How to Customize Them (15:58)
- Ways to Program Drums - Playing It in (5:14)
- Ways to Program Drums - Programming Drums with Audio Clips (6:54)
- Workflow for Creating Drum Clips in Session View (15:24)
- Ableton Live Vocab
- Week 1 Assignment
- Lesson 1 Quiz