course outline
2 classes > one weekend > 12 hours per day
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1. Setting your BPM
2. Manually loading samples and creating arrangements
3. Using simpler to create loops (ex. Drum loops)
4. Creating chord progressions
5. Filling up the song (percussive and drum elements)
6. Understanding levels
7. Understanding panning
8. Setting up reverb and delay
9. Creating chord progressions (drawing in or using MIDI controllers)
10. Gain staging your plugins
11. Sidechain compression
12. Drum mixing / parallel compression / drum buss
13. Making space for the vocal
14. Using reverb and delay
15. Adding swing/groove to loops/simpler
16. Using triplets
17. Understanding the important of basslines
18. Different types of basslines (acoustic basses, VST basses and 808s)
19. Pitching your 808
20. How to turn your 808s into bassline melodies
21. Gliding your 808s
22. Using a mixing of bassline sounds
23. Arranging your song
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1. What is mixing?
2. What is mastering?
3. Why are they important?
4. Using a reference song for mixing or mastering
5. How to achieve a good mix and master
6. Exporting stems
7. Monitoring/room acoustics
8. EQ’ing (eliminating harsh frequencies, adding bottom end, and top end etc.)
9. Compressors vs limiters (when to use which)
10. Automation
11. How to use automation with EQ’ing and compression
12. How to use compression
13. Sidechain compression deep dive
14. What is mastering?
15. What can you achieve through mastering
16. How to master and different ways to master
17. Using a reference song for mixing or mastering
18. My basic mastering chain
19. When you need to go back to the mix
20. Ai mastering (good or bad and how to use ai mastering tools)