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Created byCostas Christodoulou

Last updated 10/2021

English

What you'll learn

Music technology, improvisation, Cakewalk, orchestration, compose music

Course content

6 sections • 47 lectures • 6h 1m total length

Lecture 1 - Introduction1:58
The reasons I made this course and my motivations.
Lecture 2 - The resources of Magic7:20
Numerous sites that offer free sound libraries.
Lecture 3 -Listen to the sounds - Part 19:18
Listen to the free sounds that I propose you to download.
Listen to the sounds - Part 211:02
Listen to the free sounds that I propose you to download.
Listen to the sounds - Part 38:33
Listen to the free sounds that I propose you to download.

Project No. 1 - Part 1. Recording the strings section.8:48
Our first project with a simple chord progression: C - F - C - G7. Recording the strings section.
Project No. 1 - Part 2. Recording the strings section.7:56
Our first project with a simple chord progression: C - F - C - G7. Recording percussion.
Make melodies for the project we made.
Project No. 1 - Part 3. Recording the strings section.6:51
Our first project with a simple chord progression: C - F - C - G7
Transposing the score to other scales. Make new melodies.

Project No. 2 - Part 1, Recording the strings section.6:28
We'll make an 8 bar chord progression with the basic chords of A minor scale. Record the string section. Orchestral tools string section.
Project No. 2 - Part 2. Percussion recording.9:16
We'll make an 8 bar chord progression with the basic chords of A minor scale.
Project No. 2 - Part 3. Percussion Timpani Horns.8:06
We'll make an 8 bar chord progression with the basic chords of A minor scale.
Project No. 2 - Part 4. Make melodies with the Sine player piano.5:19
We'll make an 8 bar chord progression with the basic chords of A minor scale.
Improvise with playing melodies to the A minor scale.
Project No. 2 - Part 5. Transpose score to B minor scale and improvise melodies.5:12
We'll make an 8 bar chord progression with the basic chords of A minor scale.
Improvise with playing melodies to the B minor and G minor scales.
Project No. 2 - Part 6. Transpose score to B minor scale and improvise melodies.6:05
We'll make an 8 bar chord progression with the basic chords of A minor scale.
Improvise with playing melodies to the B minor and G minor scales.

Project No. 3 - Part 1. Ample guitar Lite.6:06
We will make a 16 bar project in A minor scale,
Project No. 3 - Part 2. Ample Bass Lite.10:44
We will make a 16 bar project in A minor scale,
Project No. 3 - Part 3. Cakewalk drums.8:48
We will make a 16 bar project in A minor scale,
Project No. 3 - Part 4. Sine Player Snaps and Strings ensemble (Helix)6:38
We will make a 16 bar project in A minor scale,
Project No. 3 - Part 5. Embertone Harmonette. Make melody over the project.5:33
We will make a 16 bar project in A minor scale,
Improvise over our project and also transpose it to other scales.
Project No. 3 - Part 6. Transpose the score to D and E minor scales. Improvise.6:51
We will make a 16 bar project in A minor scale,
Improvise over our project and also transpose it to other scales.

Project No. 4 - Part 1. Main theme with the piano Sine player.7:40
Make our first full length project. We'll see all the musical aspects we need to have in mind to arrange a nice musical piece.
Project No. 4 - Part 2. BBC Symphony orchestra discover Harp.6:37
Make our first full length project. We'll see all the musical aspects we need to have in mind to arrange a nice musical piece.
Project No. 4 - Part 3. BBC Symphony orchestra discover Cymbals.7:57
Make our first full length project. We'll see all the musical aspects we need to have in mind to arrange a nice musical piece.
Project No. 4 - Part 47:12
Make our first full length project. We'll see all the musical aspects we need to have in mind to arrange a nice musical piece.
Project No. 4 - Part 5, BBC Symphony orchestra discover String section.7:09
Make our first full length project. We'll see all the musical aspects we need to have in mind to arrange a nice musical piece.
Project No. 4 - Part 6. String section continue. The Stroh Violin7:29
Make our first full length project. We'll see all the musical aspects we need to have in mind to arrange a nice musical piece.
Project No. 4 - Part 7. Spiccato Violins, Timpani.7:12
Make our first full length project. We'll see all the musical aspects we need to have in mind to arrange a nice musical piece.
Project No. 4 - Part 8. Victorian Music Box. Bass-tenor trombones.7:10
Make our first full length project. We'll see all the musical aspects we need to have in mind to arrange a nice musical piece.
Project No. 4 - Part 9. Modern part. Ample Guitar.8:29
Make our first full length project. We'll see all the musical aspects we need to have in mind to arrange a nice musical piece.
Project No. 4 - Part 10. Ample Bass. Cakewalk Drums.8:41
Make our first full length project. We'll see all the musical aspects we need to have in mind to arrange a nice musical piece.
Project No. 4 - Part 11. Copy and transpose a whole part of the project.6:54
Make our first full length project. We'll see all the musical aspects we need to have in mind to arrange a nice musical piece.
Project No. 4 - Part 12. Horns part. Fixing mistakes. Start building the finale.8:21
Make our first full length project. We'll see all the musical aspects we need to have in mind to arrange a nice musical piece.
Project No. 4 - Part 13. Recording sounds that we miss from the score.8:16
Make our first full length project. We'll see all the musical aspects we need to have in mind to arrange a nice musical piece.
Project No. 4 - Part 14. The plugins for our mix. Recording automation.7:51
Make our first full length project. We'll see all the musical aspects we need to have in mind to arrange a nice musical piece.
Project No. 4 - Part 15. The free plugins I use. Exporting our project.8:28
Make our first full length project. We'll see all the musical aspects we need to have in mind to arrange a nice musical piece.

Project No. 5 - Part 1. Starting the new project. U-he Tyrell7:47
The last project has a contemporary sound. We will arrange all the tracks we'll use vertically and then we will spread them to the horizontal space.
Project No. 5 - Part 2. Recording a rhythmical bass.7:16
The last project has a contemporary sound. We will arrange all the tracks we'll use vertically and then we will spread them to the horizontal space.
Project No. 5 - Part 38:23
The last project has a contemporary sound. We will arrange all the tracks we'll use vertically and then we will spread them to the horizontal space.
Project No. 5 - Part 4. Cakewalk electric piano, Ample guitar mutes.8:23
The last project has a contemporary sound. We will arrange all the tracks we'll use vertically and then we will spread them to the horizontal space.
Project No. 5 - Part 5. Spitfire labs libraries.8:12
The last project has a contemporary sound. We will arrange all the tracks we'll use vertically and then we will spread them to the horizontal space.
Project No. 5 - Part 6. Finish track recordings. Making an orchestration plan.9:02
The last project has a contemporary sound. We will arrange all the tracks we'll use vertically and then we will spread them to the horizontal space.
Project No. 5 - Part 7. Start spreading our tracks.8:27
The last project has a contemporary sound. We will arrange all the tracks we'll use vertically and then we will spread them to the horizontal space.
Project No. 5 - Part 8. Orchestration. Recording instruments that we miss.8:33
The last project has a contemporary sound. We will arrange all the tracks we'll use vertically and then we will spread them to the horizontal space.
Project No. 5 - Part 9. Ample guitar solo. Record instruments that are missing.8:35
The last project has a contemporary sound. We will arrange all the tracks we'll use vertically and then we will spread them to the horizontal space.
Project No. 5 - Part 10. Hearing the project fixing mistakes.9:28
The last project has a contemporary sound. We will arrange all the tracks we'll use vertically and then we will spread them to the horizontal space.
Project No. 5 - Part 11. Some more mixing.6:34
The last project has a contemporary sound. We will arrange all the tracks we'll use vertically and then we will spread them to the horizontal space.
Project No. 5 - Part 12. Exporting our mix. Master the project with Bandlab.8:55
The last project has a contemporary sound. We will arrange all the tracks we'll use vertically and then we will spread them to the horizontal space.

Requirements

Read music, play keyboards

Description

The main target for this course is to make music using free resources for software and sound libraries.

This is not a programming course. We will look everything with the eye of a musician, so the important thing is to make music, to see how we can use all these free resources, and enjoy the creativity of making music, orchestrating and improvising.

Our basic tool is Cakewalk by Bandlab that is a free DAW that is truly good and tested with many capabilities for making music.

We'll begin by going to the Bandlab site to download Cakewalk, and then we'll see many resources for free sound libraries.

We will hear the sounds, and then we'll go to Cakewalk and start making music.

We will make 5 different projects, we'll see how we can use our libraries in order to make a nice and musical sound, we'll have many tips for improvisation (because the important thing of making music is playing music), we'll see how we can make drum patterns, bass patterns, guitar accompaniment etc.

The first three projects are basically an introduction to Cakewalk. We will make some music pieces with a few tracks, and see all the basic functions of the DAW. As I told you this is not a pure programming course because everything is made with the aspect of a musician. So, at these 3 projects we will have to make melodies and improvise over our project. We will also make some transpositions to the project to see the different melodies we can make to different scales.

The last two projects are complete songs with more tracks of music but also here we'll see the musicians' point of view. We'll see how we can make a musical bridge to go to another musical scale, how to make a change to the orchestration and what musical transitions we can make in order to have a nice result to our project.

We'll have an enjoyable and creative 6 hour course and I hope you'll have a great time with it!

Who this course is for:

Musicians that want to make music, orchestrate, compose, improvise

What you'll learn

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Course content

Introduction - The resources of magic - Listen to the sounds5 lectures • 38min

Lecture 4 - Project No. 1. Classical orchestration. 4 bars chord sequence.3 lectures • 24min

Lecture 5 - Project No.2 . Classical orchestration. 8 bars chord sequence.6 lectures • 40min

Lecture 6 - Project No. 3. Modern orchestration. 16 bars chord sequence6 lectures • 45min

Lecture 7 - Project No. 4. Making a full project.15 lectures • 1hr 55min

Lecture 8 - Project No. 5 . A different way to make one full project.12 lectures • 1hr 40min

Requirements

Description

Who this course is for: