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Music Production Bootcamp: Complete guide to Music Production

teacher avatar Skyfolk, FL Studio and Ableton Live Instructor

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      0:36

    • 2.

      DAW

      1:40

    • 3.

      The Best DAW

      3:20

    • 4.

      How long does it take to learn one DAW

      1:46

    • 5.

      Gears & Equipments

      2:29

    • 6.

      Thank you

      0:47

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About This Class

Welcome to Module 1 

This module will cover:

  • What's a DAW(Digital Audio Workstation)
  • What's the best DAW in the market
  • how to pick your DAW & How long does it take to learn
  • Gears & Equipment required to get started
  • The mindset needed to make progress quickly.

Who is this course for?

This class is designed for artists, producers, and engineers who are starting out and want to get professional-sounding records.

Meet Your Teacher

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Skyfolk

FL Studio and Ableton Live Instructor

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Hello, I'm Skyflk.

I have taught over 150 producers and hobbyists around the world in over 10 countries how to:

Get started making beats Produce music in FL Studio & Ableton Live Understand beginner to advanced concepts of Music Production Copyright and license your music And more...

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Level: Beginner

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1. Introduction: Welcome to the Music Production boot camp series. My name is Skyfall, and I've been making and teaching music for modern success. Now, in this series, we'll be talking about things that you need to get started with huge production and get good at it. I'll also be posting some popular myths around music production. And I will also be giving away some free resources for you to get started. So all you gotta do is enroll underscores and get started with it. Keep in mind that they are the more than eight modules in the series. And this is the first one. So without any further delay, that will started. 2. DAW: Sean, I get started with music production and did some research. You might have come across the term dog or DAW, which is short for digital audio workstation. Digital audio workstation, or DAW for short, is an application software used for recording, editing, and producing audio files. So this is the place where we'll be adding or removing midi or audio tracks, et cetera. This is where it'll be dumping all your creative ideas and we will be expressing ourselves. The importance of a dog cannot be understated. It is to a recording musician what it can just be straight visual artist. I think of it as a tool and musician uses to transfer his creative brilliance into music. At the most fundamental level. What a daughters is facilitate music recording from an area of sources like microphone, drums, electronic keyboards, etc. Before allowing the process to be exported into a single audio track, e.g. MP3 WAV format. There are varieties of dollars out there, e.g. Ableton Live, Logic Pro, Studio, Studio one, Cubase reason, Googles, etc. These are all paid soft press, but there are some free options also. But my suggestion to you do choose the paid ones because T that adores that professionals use for their production. And the free ones come with a lot of limitations. And if you want to pursue music professionally or wish to make provisional songs, you should stick with the bad boss. Now, there must be one question in your mind. Which one should I choose? R, which is the best one out there? So we'll be discussing about that in the next video. 3. The Best DAW: Stating which door is the best one is really a subjective matter. We can compare different doors based on their workflow, built-in plug-ins, user interface, etc. Button cannot compare the doors in terms of their audio output, are the capitals, because they were all the same. They all work on the same concepts and algorithms. Um, so sharp this because in the past I have worked with different laws on different projects. And I still do. Even if you compare the workstation based on their workflow, still we cannot give a conclusion because every individual is different and everyone has a different taste. Someone likes, let's say, chocolate flavored ice cream. And the person might not like vanilla flavored ice cream. It's just like that. The product is the same, but the flavor is different. Just support my point. I'll be giving you a demonstration and I'll do that. All the doors, books. So now here I'm inside FL Studio and I have a track loaded up near. What I'll be doing is I will simply rendered object completely dry without any effects and name it as FL Studio sample. Now, I'm in everyday life. Again. I had the same song here and again, repeat the same steps, dry render, and then name it as sample. Now, I'll bring the Ableton NF2 sample inside as the studio. And I will reverse the polarity of the one of the tracks are samples. Now play both the tracks at the same time. And you will see that nothing happened. There'll be no audio or no sound at all. Here we go. You see there's no sound coming out. So why did that happen? Because these two tracks are copies of the same track. And when I reversed the polarity of one audio signal, it cancel out the other audio signal. In contrast, if I had glazed Andrew random audio below one of these tracks, there will be sound coming out. But not when I have the same audio file playing at the same time. Reversed polarity it up, do DAW or any different than the outputs could not have canceled each other when the polarity is reversed. Try it out yourselves, you know, the doors like Google's logic gets trapped. The conclusion is that all work the same. It's not about the dog, it's about the person sitting behind a computer. So how should you choose adult? Honestly, no one can give an answer to this question. The only way to get an answer is that if download the demos for the demo version of each of these soft gels and try each of them for few days and get to know which door fits you the best. 4. How long does it take to learn one DAW: How long does it take to learn on dark? Honestly, it varies person to person. But generally speaking, you can learn the basic concepts within one month and some of the intermediate and advanced concepts in about seven to eight months. But I'm pretty sure that if you give the appropriate amount of time to practice, you'll be able to create a simple and distance song. We didn't do the four ones off learning abruption. Here, I'm not saying that you'll be able to create something like tiny restaurants collects into four months. It would take years of practice, but you'd be able to make a decent demo to show to your friends and family. It felt vision is to make tracks to get placed with regards to automate hit song, you will need to test a new ofs two to three years of practice. It sounds a lot, but I promised you lose track of days when you start enjoying the process. I'm in my seventh year producing music. And honestly, I just feel like I just started making music a month ago. And I still have a long way to go. And I do that two to three years of period can be minimized with the help of a mentor who can die during each step of your journey. And you could find mentors on platforms like Instagram and YouTube to get the best results out of your learning process. To set aside anywhere between half an hour to 2 h daily. You need to practice every day. And if not every day, then a minimum of five days a week. 5. Gears & Equipments: If you have been watching quite a few videos on YouTube, you must have seen a lot of producers telling you to get a bunch of gears like a midi controller, the body VST plugin, microphones, headphones, monitoring speakers. And let's try to get started with music production. But the question is, do we really need this? No, we don't need any of these items. I have seen a lot of new producers make this mistake. And even a lot of my students have made this mistake in the past. What they do is they just go and buy all these things from the market. In the first lecture starts. And after four or six months later, they realize that they're not using half of these equipments that they bought. This piece of a tremendous sit there and collect us. I'm not saying that these YouTubers are wrong. I'm saying is that the list they share is not specific to you. You might just want to be a bit maker and make beats and sell them. And there isn't really a need for a microphone at the beginning stage of the journey. Or you might just want to recall your focus. There isn't really a need of an expensive VST like cmon axis. So what do you really need at the beginning stage of the journey? All you really need to learn this production is a computer or a laptop, a good pair of headphones and add DAW. This is all you really need to learn its production. All the doors that are available in the market. So capital, they have so many good samples of sounds. There are so many good VS is that there's a real need of a third party plugin for you to learn which production line you can buy additional years and pieces of Acumen. Many feel that there is really a neat, but most likely they will be more need for additional gears anytime before your second or third your production. This is just an estimate, by the way. Anyway, the gears and commence will not add anything to production until you don't practice enough. So be smart and don't just waste your hard-earned money. Instead of thinking about years, it should be channeling your mind towards learning and mastering the fundamental soft music production first. So all you really need is a laptop, a good pair of headphones, and DAW. That's all. 6. Thank you: This is the end of the first module of music production wood can Series. Thank you for enrolling in this course. I really appreciate your time. So what did he learn in this module? We learned about what's adult, how all does work the same. The gear that we need to get started with the means of production. And how long fixed women's production. I hope that I've helped you guys to get a clear vision of the learning process. If there are any doubt in your mind regarding a clean modules or music production in general, we can write to me at this email. I would love to help you out. And I'm also giving away a free sample bag that you can download from them. I'll see you in the next module. Until then, take care.