MUSIC PRODUCTION:
XL
Who is this for?
This course is aimed at those who want to achieve maximum results in the least amount of time possible. You will learn to:
- wrap your head around current music genres, trends and helpful internet resources
- use music production software, plugins and gear
- work fast and efficient in one of the DAWs: Ableton, Logic Pro, FL Studio,
Studio One, Cubase or Bitwig - generate musical ideas and develop them into full tracks
- record, mix and master music on a professional level
- translate the sounds in your head into a sequencer or synthesizer
- apply music theory in practice and broaden your creative horizons
- gain confidence from your work and increase your track output
Pricing
20 individual video sessions with screen capture and homework, 60 minutes each.
Full price - 500$
You can also pay in 2 tranches - 250$ on your 1st session, 250$ on your 10th session
Individual sessions apart from the course - 40$
Full price - 500$
You can also pay in 2 tranches - 250$ on your 1st session, 250$ on your 10th session
Individual sessions apart from the course - 40$
How it works
Music Production: XL takes about 5 to 6 months to complete, depending on the timetable established with a student. It includes 20 individual online video sessions (60 minutes each), as well as practical assignments which usually take up 2-5 hours to complete. All of our sessions are recorded with screen capture software and provided for student's private use, in order to further establish the concepts and practical technics reviewed in the course.
Curriculum
All of the sessions will be held in the DAW of your choice: Ableton, Logic, FL Studio, Cubase, Bitwig, Studio One. If you are just starting out we will help you choose your first DAW on our free 30 minutes interview call.
1 hour
1 hour
Internet of things for musicians
Prepping your toolbox
Choosing software and hardware for your needs, setting up the gear, preparing your workspace and home studio. An overview of your DAW and methods of creating music. Where and what sounds, instruments and plugins to get.
1 hour
1 hour
Rhythm
Tick-tack
Musical meter, rhythmic grid, bars & beats. Working with tempo and BPM. Sequencing your own drums, working with beat-slicers and grooves.
1 hour
1 hour
MIDI & piano roll
Quantization is your friend
Getting along with your MIDI editor. Batch processing, automation, input methods.
3 hours
3 hours
Music theory basics
Not as hard as it looks
Notes, intervals, melodies and chords. Understanding basic principles of harmony, key structure, consonance and dissonance. Tools and automations inside your DAW.
1 hour
1 hour
Recording
Mic check 1, 2
Prepping for a session: choosing mic setup, gain-staging, recording to click or full track. Compiling takes, cleaning up your audio and fixing common issues.
2 hours
2 hours
VST plugins and effects
You can't have too many reverbs
Types of audio processing and its' application scenarios. Utility and creative workflows.
1 hour
1 hour
Samples and samplers
Make a track out of a teapot
Audio formats, sampler instruments, curating your own sounds. ADSR, LFO, Pitch, Pan, Volume & Timbre.Питч, панорамирование, громкости и частоты.
2 hours
2 hours
Arrangement
To loop or not to loop?
Learning to arrange instruments: bass, melody, harmony, rhythm & texture. Generating and developing ideas. Structure and form.
3 hours
3 hours
Mixing & mastering
I am the engineer now
In-depth aspects of sound processing: frequency, amplitude and timbre. Simple and effective technics for cleaning up your mix. Making loud and pucnhy masters.
3 hours
3 hours
Synthesis
Beep-boop
Everything you need to know about the alchemy of sound: frequencies, waveforms, oscillators, modulators; a complete overview of all types of synthesis and popular patches.
2 hours
2 hours
Practical lessons
Teach a man how to fish
Working on your projects, providing direct feedback and analysis on current progress. Learning to finish tracks and 'escaping the loop'. Preparing demoes for labels and self-releases.
*flexible curriculum
Since all of our courses are 1-on-1 meetings, we always try to tailor these lessons to your experience and needs. If some part of the course is already familiar to you— we are willling to substitute them with more advanced concepts from another course.
All of our online lessons are held through a free conference app, which reliably meets our requirements for the superior audio quality and stable connection.
30 minutes, free of charge
Let's schedule a test call?
Meet your instructors
Founder of the Personal Sensei project and the Engineer electronic music label. Credits include hundreds of vinyl and digital releases, performances in more than 100 cities around the globe, as well as production and promo work for the Kazantip and the Epizode music festivals. Likes his modular synthesizer and daylight parties with Romanian djs.
House music, Minimal (Ableton Live)
Resident of the well-known electronic music labels: Armadа, Anjunadeep, Vandit, Monstercat. His tracks often get featured around the world by the biggest names in the industry (Above&Beyond, Armin van Buuren, Paul van Dyke). Likes the heavy London fog and Moog synthesizers.
Progressive House, EDM (Studio One)
Professional sound engineer, co-founder of the boutique sound design studio Binary Sound. Produces trailers and cinematic music for the leading Hollywood music labels: Really Slow Motion and BMG. Likes everything «Star Wars» and working on the SSL mixing desks.
Cinematic, Pop (Ableton Live, Cubase, Reaper, Logic Pro X, Bitwig)
Author of the neurofunk monster hit "Bass Symptom" and remixes on Dom & Roland - Get Up, Guru Groove Foundation - Golden Love. His music garnered support from Noisia, Afrojack, Hybrid Theory, Nest HQ. Resident of the Night Bass (US) label (as a part of the Phlegmatic Dogs duo), frequently touring around the world. Certified trainer and one of the beta-testers for the Bitwig Studio software.
Bass House, Techno, EDM (Bitwig Studio, Ableton Live)
Owner of the vinyl-only label 10010 Records, author of the Deep Connection podcast on radio Monte Carlo and Megapolis FM. His tracks can be heard in the mixes of Maya Jane Coles, Audiojack, Baltra, Identified Patient and Dj Boring. Likes Ableton Live (passionately) and long evening walks along the promenade (à la romantique).
House music (Ableton Live)
Electronic music producer, sound designer and engineer with many years of experience. His music can be heard on Noisia Radio, Neuropunk, DNB Dojo Podcast, Samurai Music Podcast, Abstruse. Released on Onset Audio, Lost Recordings, Parallel Depth. Likes diving and when the bass goes "grrrr".
Drum&Bass, Dubstep (FL Studio, Ableton Live, Cubase)
Multi-genre producer and DJ with 11 years of experience. Released music on Clutch Records (UK), Believe Music (FR) and many other smaller labels. Alias include Lisenko, Zommer. Likes snowboarding and sampling the unexpected.
Bass House, EDM, Hip-Hop (FL Studio)
What are the benefits?
You will have a strong foundation and skills required to succeed in the following roles:
Musical artists and DJs are popular around the world and able to generate good passive income. Especially those who treat their craft seriously.
Video games, advertising, motion pictures and mobile apps are immensely big markets, which are always on the lookout for new and original content.
Sound design for film, apps and video games
Your very own musical project
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Absolute majority of musicians do not have the time or skill to properly mix and master their music, so that is where you come in.
Sound engineering, recording, mixing and mastering
On our individual courses you can get valuable first-hand information on how to open your own music label, booking-agency or a production business.
If organising parties, concerts and festivals to rival the likes of Burning Man is your true calling — we will be happy to guide you on this lucrative and exciting career path.
Event management
Music business & management
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FAQ: Production XL
All you need for making music is a laptop (the more powerful - the better) and a pair of studio monitors or/and headphones. If you are only just starting out there is really no need for purchasing professional-grade hardware as you probably won't even know what to do with it yet. Best to start small and slowly build your workspace, looking for specific things that can help facilitate your music making process in the future.
In any case, we will help you choose your setup and DAW during our free 30 minutes interview.
In any case, we will help you choose your setup and DAW during our free 30 minutes interview.
We are up and running 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The class schedule is compiled individually for each student, which lets you plan your studies at a convenient time. We recommend taking classes at least once, maybe twice a week, focusing more instead on doing lots of practice in your spare time.
The class schedule is compiled individually for each student, which lets you plan your studies at a convenient time. We recommend taking classes at least once, maybe twice a week, focusing more instead on doing lots of practice in your spare time.
If you have never studied music, played any instrument or even taken dance classes - no worries. You will get all the basics you need in the course and we will even adapt it to your preferences and music genres.
Besides, we also have a specialised course on music theory, harmony, rhythm and all things in between, which might be what you are looking for. It's called "Music Theory for Electronic Producers" and can be found here.
Besides, we also have a specialised course on music theory, harmony, rhythm and all things in between, which might be what you are looking for. It's called "Music Theory for Electronic Producers" and can be found here.
If you already have some experience but you feel like you got some blind spots here and there, and you would like them to get cleared up, then you are right - our standard courses aren't for you. What is the point of learning that, what you already know? So here is what we suggest instead.
Plan of action:
*everything described in the plan above is on us, so there are no hidden fees or charges
Plan of action:
- We arrange a free 1-on-1 video call
- You describe us in meticulous detail all of your struggles and doubts, showing us some of your work so we could analyze it all
- As a result we offer you a tailor-made course, which addresses all of your personal concerns
- If you decide that it works for you — you can freely edit the curriculum to your liking and move on to out first lesson together
*everything described in the plan above is on us, so there are no hidden fees or charges
1) You will learn not only your DAW and all of its' many possibilities, but also effective ways to turn your sketches and ideas into fully fledged tracks.
2) You will upgrade your music production skills: learn about vst instruments, plugins, editors, rhythm and notes.
3) You will grasp the governing concepts of music harmony and be able to build and develop memorable melodies and chord progressions from scratch.
4) In-depth study of sound processing technics will also help you record, mix and master your music consciously and decisively, instead of relying on unstructured bits of internet wisdom.
5) You will arrange your first track from start to finish (maybe even a couple of tracks - it is all up to you) and get a detailed overview of possible future audio career paths.
6) You will become adept at sound-designing your own patches in your synthesizer of choice.
7) You will get access to a number of music resources, tutorials and software to help you on your journey. Besides we will be happy to invite you into our ever evolving community in Telegram.
Music Production: XL is our most comprehensive course to date. There are more than enough lessons to convey our full experience, write your first tracks (in your preferred genre), properly prepare them for release and avoid many of the rookie mistakes.
2) You will upgrade your music production skills: learn about vst instruments, plugins, editors, rhythm and notes.
3) You will grasp the governing concepts of music harmony and be able to build and develop memorable melodies and chord progressions from scratch.
4) In-depth study of sound processing technics will also help you record, mix and master your music consciously and decisively, instead of relying on unstructured bits of internet wisdom.
5) You will arrange your first track from start to finish (maybe even a couple of tracks - it is all up to you) and get a detailed overview of possible future audio career paths.
6) You will become adept at sound-designing your own patches in your synthesizer of choice.
7) You will get access to a number of music resources, tutorials and software to help you on your journey. Besides we will be happy to invite you into our ever evolving community in Telegram.
Music Production: XL is our most comprehensive course to date. There are more than enough lessons to convey our full experience, write your first tracks (in your preferred genre), properly prepare them for release and avoid many of the rookie mistakes.
PIMP YOUR TRACK
We can do it and record the process on video.
Learn more and leave us a request here:
We accept projects made in one of these DAWs:
Ableton, FL Studio, Bitwig, Logic Pro, Studio One, Cubase.
Ableton, FL Studio, Bitwig, Logic Pro, Studio One, Cubase.
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Contacts
Peer-2-peer online music school.
E-mail: personalsensei.school@gmail.com
E-mail: personalsensei.school@gmail.com
