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Electronic Music Production

Electronic Music Production

A 6-month part-time evening course developing signature sound capabilities using Ableton Live, covering MIDI, synthesis, sampling, arrangement, and mixing/mastering.

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Course Overview

Creative, technical and musical, this course is a great option for beginners, as well as anyone looking to expand their existing skillset and deepen their electronic music production knowledge.

This course will cover everything you need to know in one concise six-month period. You’ll learn to expressively manipulate rhythm, melody and sound, and texture elements predominantly utilising Ableton Live and Push, although the skills gained can be applied to any platform.

Whether you’re looking to write and arrange your own music tracks or score film soundtracks and TV episodes, you’ll get a thorough overview of the theory, practical skills and creative approaches of electronic music production. Covering everything from arrangements, synthesis and sound design, to sampling, audio effects processing and remixing, you’ll acquire your own personal signature sound in the process, exploring hands-on production and performance techniques to shape your style. DJs can also sharpen their production game and start crafting original tracks, with expert guidance from producer and educator Anna throughout.

You’ll also learn to mix and master ‘in-the-box’ to give your productions and compositions a professional, release-ready finish, whatever the genre. Your tutors will offer insight into their own personal workflows, allowing you to draw on their experiences to improve your productions.

Key Facts

  • Courses take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7pm - 10pm
  • 6-month part-time evening course
  • Fosters the development of high-level production skills in a short space of time
  • Designed to inspire creativity, promoting the development of your signature sound
  • Use the latest electronic music production software and hardware including; Ableton Live and Push and Native Instruments Maschine
  • High-quality teaching by music industry practitioners
  • Builds music industry network connections

Course Progression

This course is designed to complement our Music Production and Sound Engineering course. You can also extend your production skills by taking our Post-Production Sound for Film, Game and TV.

Entry Requirements

You should have a basic working knowledge of Ableton Live to take this course. If you’d like to build your skills before the course starts, preliminary training is available by taking our Introduction to Ableton Live course.

Course Details

Whether you’re looking to write and arrange your own music tracks, score film soundtracks and TV episodes, or make banging club music, you’ll get a thorough overview of the theory, practical skills and creative approaches of electronic music production.

Get hands-on and explore tools for creating complex rhythms developing melodic elements in a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW). This practical module focuses on musicality and you will learn from programming beats to complicated polyrhythms, while having fun with technology like step sequencers and arpeggiators.

Discover multiple types of sound synthesis, timbral elements, modulation and modular synthesis, all within the context of a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW). This in-depth module will help you explore your creativity to get the most out of your favourite VST plugins.

This module will help you build musical arrangements and orchestrations from scratch, giving tips on their construction from beginning to end. Analyse techniques for arranging music across various contexts and explore how different elements and patterns work together tonally and musically.

Learn about samples, audio-based sound design and layering, while exploring the wider world of soundscape composition. Get to grips with a range of post-production skills, learn how to use a sampler, play around with audio editing and work with sound on a grid without MIDI.

Build up your knowledge of creative audio signal processing by discovering different types of core audio effects linked to time, space, reverb, panning, equalization, filters, delay, echo, frequency, dynamics and distortion. Across this hands-on module, you’ll have fun learning how to make a variety of different sounds and audio effects.

Learn how to finish and deliver your music by exploring professional Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) sound mixing techniques. Develop basic mastering skills and understand how this part of the process differs from mixing.

Upcoming Dates

London

Starts Tuesday 6th October
£2,250.00
10 spaces available