
This is the full track that you will produce in this tutorial. Please listen through and watch the video to see the techniques you will learn.
This is the opening lecture where you will begin installing the beats and programming your first bars of a beat loop.
Adding Percussive sounds like Electronic Toms was a vital part of the early 80's sound, Here you will insert those sounds and program them in with an Electric Keyboard pre set.
Adding more beats and playing in the chords from the electric Rhodes keyboard.
Here you will play the bass line into the arrangement.
Here you will record in the muted strat guitar riff and add some amp processing effects.
Here we add more synth pre set plug ins and the distorted guitar.
Here you will add the digital vocoder and you will be warping the vocals and making them fit in key with the music.
Here you will begin the arrangement process and start to put down some bars.
Continuing with the intro arrangement.
In this course you will learn how to produce a track that is in the style of artists from the early 1980's Electronic Funk genres such as Roger Troutman and his band Zapp to name but one. This type of music was the blue print for producers like Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg in the early to mid 90's where they took inspiration from this kind of music and turned it into G-Funk for the West Cost Rap scene.
You will learn all of the skills and techniques that were applied to this sound back in the early 1980's by replicating the sounds, the melodies and the rhythms in a contemporary fashion using Ableton live.
All of the VST 3rd party plug in synths are free and do not cost any extra for you. The entire course is arranged in easy to follow videos and you can find all of the course materials in the folder provided, which also includes the original Ableton template which I created so you can compare at the end of the course once you complete it.