Full Producer Program

This extensive program is centered on the entire process of being an artist by discovering your own sound and developing your instincts through a series of sketches and experimentation. You will be exposed to a variety of approaches to arrangement and composition, storytelling techniques, ways of creating tension and release in your music. You will also learn the ins and outs of Ableton, Izotope, and Maschine through a series of challenges designed to help you master the steps involved in making your own music. After a level of getting familiar with the tools that Ableton has to offer, you will then develop your sonic ideas into full length songs. This course will give you the experience of actually completing tracks to add to your portfolio. Your choices as an artist in combination with your technical know how will be paramount in defining your sound and making you stand out from the crowd.

* students are required to bring their own laptop with an installed trial or full version of Ableton live 9

Ableton Live 01: Foundation

Release your studio and performance potential with our Ableton Live Foundation Course. Start making your own tracks by learning the basics of the software that has revolutionized electronic music creation and performance. Get comfortable navigating Live's unique interface, learn to trigger multiple tracks on the fly, and build your own song from scratch. At the end of the 6 week program you'll walk away with your 1st of many production pieces.

Ableton Live 02: Composition & Production Essentials

Polish your beats & instrumentation by narrowing in on two crucial aspects of your sonic identity: Choice of sounds and song structure. With a focus on sampling, midi instruments, effects, and leveling we'll focus on refining your sound to give it clear definition. Through a series of sketches and experimentation we'll hone in on structural aspects of a variety of genres and breakdown the techniques used to seamlessly transition from one section of your song to the next. You'll be exposed to a variety of approaches to arrangement and composition, storytelling techniques, ways of creating tension and drama in your music. Whether hiphop, dubstep, house, ambient or anything in between here you'll expand your sonic ideas into full length songs.

Ableton Live 03: Mixing & Remixing

With our Ableton Remix Workshop we take your foundation & composition knowledge to the next level by specifically focusing the software’s innovative interface towards the intricacies of warping, mixing and details of arrangement within the context of the remix. Here you'll learn to pair your favourite vocal tracks with instrumentals and build your own arrangement from scratch.

Mastering Basics - Izotope Ozone Workshop

Bring the most out of your tracks by adding arguably the most important finishing touch. The artistry in your tracks has been captured, your sounds are nicely mixed, but now you need that extra bump and final polish. In this introductory workshop you'll discover all the essential mastering basics. We'll explore the difference between correcting mixing mistakes and enhancing specific frequencies for target environments. Whether you're prepping for the club, an intimate theatre show, or releasing a mixtape we'll use Ozone's powerful Paragraphic EQ to bring warmth and character to your tracks by intelligently matching your mix to reference tracks. We'll also touch on the ins and outs of other Ozone mastering tools including: Loudness Maximizer, Multiband Dynamics, Multiband Stereo Imaging, Harmonic Exciter, Dithering, and Mastering Reverb.

Native Instruments: Maschine 101

Maschine is known world wide as an incredibly intuitive studio and live performance device that highlights the tactile elements of production and gives us a truly symbiotic relationship between hardware and software. Much like the MPC we can bang out ideas on touch sensitive pads, but the software component far exceeds the display and processing limitations of conventional hardware. Maschine inspires movement and interaction both of which are key components in successful electronic music performance and creation.

This component of the Full Producer Program offers a glance at some of the potential uses of Maschine as a standalone device and more importantly as a powerful controller that can be used to get the most out of Ableton.

Course Dates - [ 36 hours of hands on instruction + lab time @ $1412.50 (payment plans available) ]

Sept 18th - Dec 5th, 2013 // Wed & Thurs 6 - 7:30pm (12 weeks)