Course curriculum
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1
Course Introduction
- Welcome to the Foundation Programme Programme
- A quick tour of your course
- Sample Pack
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2
Lesson 01: Building Drums
- An introduction to designing your Drums
- Lesson 01: Understanding your kick (Shape)
- Lesson 01: Understanding your kick (Tone)
- Lesson 01: Design your kick
- Lesson 001: Synthesize your kick
- Lesson 01: Layering kicks
- Lesson 01: Layering more kicks
- Lesson 01: Understanding your clap
- Lesson 01: Designing your clap (audio)
- Lesson 01: Designing your clap (MIDI)
- Lesson 01: Understanding your hats
- Lesson 01: Designing Hat Groove
- Lesson 01: Groove pool for hats
- Lesson 01: Design Hat Dynamics
- Lesson 01: Adding Top Loops
- Lesson 01: percussion Groove from loops
- Lesson 01: percussion Rhythm from hits
- Lesson 01: Your levels
- Lesson 01: Quiz
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3
Lesson 02: Building Bass
- An introduction to building your own bassline
- Music theory: Synths & Samples
- Music theory: Tones & Notes
- Music theory: Bass rhythm
- Welcome to Operator
- OP Bass: Simple but effective FREE PREVIEW
- OP Bass: Evil and Long
- OP Bass: Current sound
- Making Bass samples unique
- Making Bass loops into bass hits
- Bass from percussion
- Kick VS Bass
- That Reverb Bass
- Adding Sub to samples
- Remove clicks and pops
- Lesson 2: Quiz
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4
Lesson 03: Building Synth hooks
- An introduction to synth hooks
- Music Theory: Major Scales
- Music Theory: Minor Scales
- Music Theory: chords
- Music Theory: Voicing
- Music Theory: Using Ableton's MIDI Scale
- Music Theory: Using Ableton's MIDI Chords
- Samples in key: Part 1
- Samples in key: Part 2
- Synth Samples: Rhythm & Vibe
- Synth Samples: Shaping with Simpler
- Welcome to Analog
- Analog for your synth hooks: Part 1
- Analog for your synth hooks: Part 2
- Arpeggio Lines
- Layering sounds by grouping
- Interesting pads
- Lesson 3: Quiz
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Lesson 04: Building your own EFX
- An introduction to your sound EFX
- Setting up
- Hi-Energy Whooshes - SHORT
- Hi-Energy Whooshes - Medium
- Energy Whooshes - LONG
- Super Wide Splash
- Explosion and hits
- Crash EFXS
- Snare build
- EFX Drum fills
- Tonal Riser & falls
- Lesson 4: Quiz
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Lesson 05: Recording your own world
- An introduction to Recording your own world
- The tools of the trade
- Design unique Rhythmic layers: Kick
- Design unique Rhythmic layers: Clap
- Design unique Rhythmic layers: Hats
- Design unique Rhythmic layers: Percussion Low
- Design unique Rhythmic layers: Percussion High
- Design a unique House Chord
- Design a unique tech house hook
- Recording your own Voice
- Using your own voice
- Rhythmic edits with your own voice
- Lesson 5: Quiz
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Lesson 06: Putting it all together
- An introduction to our final lesson
- Drums Part 1
- Drums Part 2
- Bassline
- Synth Hook
- Vocal Hook
- Deeper sound design
- Develop the idea: Part 1
- Develop the idea: Part 2
- EFX and Energy
- Final work
- Final thoughts and advice
- Lesson 6: Quiz