
Accelerate your songwriting in Ableton Live by streamlining your workflow, choosing sounds early, and using simple frameworks to produce a beat and rap quickly.
Equip Ableton Live (preferably Live 10 with Live Suite for Max for Live) and the J74 Progressive plugin, plus the Ableton beat tools pack and free sample packs.
Create a default Ableton Live template with bass, drums, piano, and synth tracks preloaded with presets, grouped and color coded, then save it as the default set.
Apply default audio effects to instrument tracks to speed up mixing, using bass and drum presets, EQ8 high-pass filters, and bell cuts to keep vocals clear.
Learn to build a mastering chain in Ableton Live with a high-pass EQ at 30 Hz, soft compression, saturation, and Ozone 8 Elements presets for a bright, loud track.
Use four to eight-bar loops as backbone blocks to start and shape a track, drag drum and bass loops from Ableton packs, audition clips, and warp to tempo.
Discover Looperman and its free, user-submitted loops for Ableton Live, searchable by key, tempo, and genre; explore varied sounds on the front page and remix loops with your own twists.
Explore how to add variation to loops in Ableton Live by using delay, beat repeat, echo, and auto pan to create groove, polyrhythms, and dynamic drum and vocal textures.
Learn to generate chords quickly in Ableton Live with the Jay 74 Progressive Max for Live device, choosing key and scale, and applying seventh voicings, arpeggios, and groove enhancements.
Discover how to generate a funky bassline with the J74 bassline plugin by selecting chord roots, scale presets, tweaking velocities, and using the I'm lucky option, then create a clip.
Apply a 30 Hz high-pass on non-bass/drums, mono the bass, pan some tracks quickly to the sides for vocal space, and finish with a mastering chain for punch.
Apply quick song and melody creation to form a track basis in Ableton Live by using default template sets, loops, and MIDI generators, reducing intimidation.
Do you feel like you find yourself struggling to jump into the music production process because there are so many things that you feel that you need to do for a track first? Do you feel unable to fit music production into an increasingly busy schedule? Are you a music producer who feels that they are not working as efficiently as they could be? Then this course is for you!
This course is for anyone who wants to increase their creative output, as well as anyone who wants to get over the anxiety of music production and composition. This is also for anyone who works a full-time job and feels that they can’t fit music production into their daily lives (spoiler alert: you can!). As a music producer and rapper, I pride myself on using daily practice to improve my skillset. I produce a new beat and a new rap every single day for Instagram, and over time I’ve had to develop shortcuts for streamlining my workflow in order to sustain my rigorous release schedule. In this course, I share some helpful techniques to get over these speed bumps with all of you. These tips and tricks will allow you to remove the mental blocks that have kept you from producing music and allow you to jump right into the creative process and start to enjoy music making again!