
Welcome to the course. Here you will find an introduction session where all of the tools and resources are explained.
Here you begin the beat programming.
Learn to craft a rolling octave funk bass line using Kontakt in your nu disco track, recording across two octaves, quantizing the notes, and building variation into the groove.
Here you will add the chords for the main body of the track.
Develop depth with brass pads and a boogie lead, layering Rhodes and clavinet textures while using cheese machine sounds and delay and reverb.
Tune vocals in Ableton Live with a spectrum analyzer, pitch down semitones to fit the chords, and warp to complex pro for a precise nu disco vocal.
Start the arrangement with a drum intro, percussion loops, crash, kicks, hats, and bass line in A; add Rhodes chords, build to a key change, then collapse across 16 bars.
Duplicate drum loops, reintroduce kicks, add drum rolls and transitions, layer rhodes, clavinet, boogie lead, vocals, and lead synth to progressively build the nu disco arrangement in Ableton Live.
Arrange the chorus and bridge in a funky nu disco track in Ableton Live, layering drums, funk bass, Rhodes, clav, and pads while refining drops, crashes, and vocal tweaks.
This course is ideal for those of you who wish to develop their sound within the Nu Disco Funky House genres. In this course you will find a whole range of skills to learn and take into your own productions once completed. The track you will produce here has a selection of staple sounds that are associated with Disco & Funk music which have been produced using House music techniques. The arrangement sections in this course are a great way to take your composing skills to a new level. In this course you will gain plenty of insight into the fundamentals required for this type of music.
If you think about the producers who are listed below, you will understand the type of Nu Disco sound you will be producing.
Mousse T
Crazy P
Hot Toddy
The key components you will learn are
Installing VST
Playing bass lines
adding chords and a variety of keyboard riffs.
Tuning vocal samples
Adding sound effects for transitional impact
mixing down your drums and instruments.
This course has been designed to make it an easy to follow video tutorial where the instructions are clear and simple which make the course a much more pleasing experience for you.