
Introduce the beginner-friendly approach to music production in FL Studio, covering mindset, music theory, piano roll, chords, scales, step sequencer, drum loops, signal flow, mixing, mastering, and digital audio concepts.
Cultivate a professional producer mindset and brand, building a logo, website, and newsletter, before releasing music; compare your mixes to favorite artists, and study mastering, eq, and compression to improve.
Learn how music production flows: create patterns with the step sequencer, arrange them in the playlist, and route through the mixer to the two-bus master with dry/wet effects.
Master the FL Studio workflow by creating patterns, arranging songs in the playlist, mixing with the mixer, and exporting to wav or mp3.
Explore the best performance settings for a full FL Studio studio, including template selection, MIDI keyboard enablement, selecting a reliable audio interface driver, and managing buffer size and sample rate.
Count beats in four-four time, learn time signatures and quarter notes, and place notes in a drum loop with on beat, off beat, and swing for groove.
Discover how to count beats in four-four time with kick, snare, and hi-hat in FL Studio, mastering quarter and sixteenth notes, on-beat offbeat patterns, and swing for fuller drum loops.
Discover safe spots in the step sequencer to craft fuller drum loops using on-beat, off-beat, and in-between placements, plus free organic tools like velocity, panning, layering, and note nudging.
Learn to program a drum loop using the step sequencer, piano roll, and safe spots while mastering velocity, panning, swing, and layering for fuller, tighter mixes.
Explore how the piano roll works and how to use key and scale to build major and minor chords with white notes in C major for beat makers.
Learn to use the piano roll in FL Studio by recording, editing, and quantizing notes, arranging patterns, and routing through the mixer to craft melodies and beats.
Color code and label your FL Studio playlist to organize patterns, streamline arrangement, and quickly transfer cues to the mixer using workflow shortcuts.
Provide a light overview of arrangement, focusing on building emotion from intro to chorus via transitions and audio painting. Learn reverse and forward symbols, kick builds, and mixer routing.
Explore analog versus digital mixers, how audio latency and buffer size affect performance, and how channel controls, stereo versus mono, and project recall work in a digital audio workstation.
Master signal flow by using series and parallel processing, subgroups and sends with inserts, routing to the master, while balancing dry and wet signals with eq, compression, and reverb.
Learn FL Studio signal flow and mixer techniques by building templates, routing inserts and sends, and applying series and parallel processing with reverb, delay, EQ, and compression.
Set up the FL Studio mixer for efficiency and latency compensation, then learn the goal of mixing through volume matching and a/b comparisons using EQ and compression.
Discover what mastering is, its goals, and tools like compressors, limiters, and meters. Understand loudness normalization, dynamics, transients, and how to craft a balanced, loud but musical track.
Master the FL Studio mastering chain by layering a master bus, EQ, multi-band compression, clipper, and limiter, and compare to reference tracks using loudness metrics.
Walk through a beat's mastering chain using a loudness meter to balance integrated loudness around minus 14, with short-term references and consistent song-to-song levels.
Set headroom and keep peaks at minus six to avoid clipping, and export both with and without effects for the mastering engineer; discuss mastering loudness and format choices.
Choose high‑quality one-shot sounds and avoid construction kits, noting 16-bit 44.1 kHz and 24-bit options. Organize drum kits by vendor to build varied, efficient FL Studio productions.
Are you tired of searching for videos that try to teach you how to learn FL Studio, but always fall short, or are missing something critical to help you grow as a producer?
Welcome to 10 Steps to Become an FL Studio Pro, where I share with you the ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE required to excel as a music producer using FL Studio.
I'm Riley Weller (my producer name is GratuiTous), and I've been producing music on FL Studio for over 10 years.
I've worked with a GRAMMY-Nominated recording artist, have created over 19 FL Studio courses, 150+ YouTube tutorials, have written books on Music Production, and even host a podcast called 'Music Production Made Simple', too!
Students absolutely love my teaching approach. They say things like, "Very easy to understand", or.. "Exactly what I have been looking for!"
Here's a few of my favorite reviews I've received over the years:
Daniel Gaglio (5/5 Stars)
I've been using fl studio for 5 years now and I'm finally taking a solid course especially for mixing. Mixing is something I'm really just now getting the hang of. Organizing and color coding is something I needed to learn better. I like where the course is going so far. I have high expectations for what this will teach me.
Tim Mann (5/5 Stars)
Definitely one of the best tools to pick up, and this course does an excellent job of delivering the information. The difference in clarity and ease of workflow that sends/subgroups give, and the way it's presented here, are absolutely worth every penny.
Glenn Blackley (4.5/5 Stars)
I do these courses to learn new things and this course delivered that. There were some complex concepts that were covered and Riley explanations were much more helpful than others I have seen. He was well organised with what was covered and I didn't feel my time was wasted. Great course for FL Studio uses - but a shame that Third Party plugins were mainly used.
So what do we cover in this course?
The mindset of a producer, and reflecting on your goals and motives behind creating music. (Is this a hobby, or are you wanting to make money from the industry?)
Preparing your producer name/brand before launching to the public.
How to use FL Studio like a pro. We cover all the details that are necessary to excel, as well as tons of keyboard shortcuts to speed you up!
Music Theory and Piano from a BEATMAKER's perspective. Learn what is necessary to keep your music in time, what notes you're allowed to play, and how to be creative behind your melody creation.
Creating amazing drum loops with Safe Spots™ - Safe Spots is a term I've coined over the years to describe where we can place sounds within our drum loop for them to sound good and in time. In addition, various organic tools inside your DAW to fine-tune a drum loop to your exact desire.
Arrangement and thinking in terms of emotion with Audio Painting™ - Audio Painting is another term I've coined over the years which teaches the student how to think in terms of the listener's perspective. We need to always communicate with our listener, and prepare them for what's next in our song.
Understanding the mixer, routing audio around with subgroups and sends, and being organized through color-coding/labeling.
Mastering your music to compete with others in the industry. We cover a mastering chain, loudness normalization (LUFS), and the mastering process.
Where to buy high-quality sounds and structure yourself.
How digital audio works.
We cover the fundamentals which are absolutely necessary to take this craft of Music Production seriously.
There's a 30-Day money back guarantee, so you have nothing to lose.
This course will teach you TONS and get you up-and-running with best practices about music production and FL Studio.
Hopefully see you in the course,
# GratuiTous