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Produce a Retro Disco Boogie Record using Ableton Live Music
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Produce a Retro Disco Boogie Record using Ableton Live Music

This course is designed to give Ableton beginners and upwards the skills and knowledge on how to create Disco Music
Created byRob Webster
Last updated 1/2014
English

What you'll learn

  • Produce authentic sounding Disco Boogie Music
  • Learn about Chord progressions
  • Key points about mixing down music
  • How to select the appropriate sounds for this specific genre
  • Programme beats
  • Arrangement skills

Course content

1 section • 9 lectures • 2h 16m total length

  • Drum programming and importing sounds12:26

    In this first part of the course, we import individual drum samples into Ableton and begin to create a drum pattern. Make sure that you have downloaded the zip file containing the samples within the resource folder in this lecture.

  • Installing vst plug ins and adding chords & bass lines and synths19:12

    Download these vst synths for the sounds

  • Beginning the arrangement19:15

    This lecture is where we begin to lay out the beats and the recorded music from the previous lessons into a song form.

  • The arrangement second phase13:20

    Continuing the arrangement from lesson 3.

  • Adding drum solo breakdowns and finalising the arrangement18:10
  • Bussing the reverb and delay effects units8:29

    This lesson adds the reverb and delay bus sends to each individual track that requires effects.

  • The mix down process session25:10

    This lesson is a basic mix down session, designed to give you some building blocks in mixing skills.

  • Mastering the track11:19
  • Free full track of what we will be producing.8:41

Requirements

  • Ableton Live 8 or 9 software
  • Music midi keyboard
  • Speakers or Headphones

Description

This course gives you the insight and knowledge on how to produce a retro sounding Disco Boogie record inspired by the early 1980's producers such as D-Train, Shep Pettibone and record labels such as Sam Records and Prelude Records. The course is designed for Ableton Live users and should take around 3 hours to create. The course is set out into different sections starting with beat programming right on through to mastering the track. It is structured in a simple and easy to follow manner. You should take this course if you want to extend your genre styles within music production and to gain useful tips on how to create classic Disco music with modern technology.

Who this course is for:

  • Beginners and Advanced
  • Music students
  • DJs and Producers
  • Music Producers

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