Music Production for Beginners: The Complete Ableton Course (Udemy.com)
Produce three songs using Ableton Live 11. Learn how to write, record, mix, and master radio-quality songs at home.
Created by: Charles Hoffman
Last updated May 2024
What you will learn
- Create a Full Hip-Hop Beat Using Audio Loops In Under 1 Hour
- Write an Original Composition Using MIDI Notes and Virtual Instruments
- Produce a Full Pop Song Containing Vocals (Stems Provided)
- Write Chord Progressions, Rhythms, Melodies, and Basslines
- Set Up a Home Recording Studio
- Build a DIY Recording Booth
- Record Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, and Electric Guitar/Bass
- Mix and Master Your Songs
- Upload Your Music to Streaming Services
- Start Collecting Streaming Royalties
How it compares
Against the other 241 rated Udemy courses in Music Production on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.7 out of 5higher than 81% of them
- Reviews101#180 of 242 by number of reviews
- Length9.5 hourslonger than 86% of them
- Last updatedMay 2024more recently than 53% of them
Course Description
Music Production for Beginners is the fastest and most streamlined way to learn music production online. No experience required.
1. Produce Your First Song In Under 1 Hour
Within the first hour of this course, you’ll use a step-by-step approach to produce a hip-hop beat using audio loops. Throughout the rest of the course, you'll learn the skills required to take your music to a more advanced level.
2. Write Chord Progressions, Rhythms, Melodies, and Basslines
It doesn’t matter if you’ve never played an instrument in your life. In fact, you don’t even need to know what a musical note is because this course starts at square one. You'll learn how to write a full song from scratch using MIDI notes that contains your completely original musical ideas.
3. Set Up a Home Recording Studio
Assemble a highly-effective budget-friendly home recording studio with specific gear recommendations. Learn how to connect all your music production equipment together properly so that you can record, mix, and master music at home.
4. Build a DIY Recording Booth
To capture pristine recordings, you need to record in a sound-treated space. When you enroll in this course, you're provided with the material checklist for a cheap DIY recording booth that you can use to record audio, and you're shown step-by-step how to put the recording booth together.
5. Record Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, and Electric Guitar/Bass
Learn how to record audio onto your computer and set proper input levels. Discover reliable recording techniques that yield professional-quality vocal and acoustic guitar recordings, in addition to electric guitar and bass recordings.
6. Mix and Master Your Songs
Effectively blend sounds together to create balanced, rich, and full songs. Gain an in-depth understanding of 5 essential mixing tools that you can combine with a proven mixing workflow to produce crystal-clear audio mixes.
Maximize the loudness of your songs so that they stack up against other commercially released tracks, and format your music for streaming services using a step-by-step mastering formula.
7. Upload Your Music to Streaming Services
Export your music and upload it to streaming services and online music stores like Spotify, iTunes, Amazon, Tidal, TikTok, and YouTube. Start generating income with the songs that you produce.
The Shortcut to Producing Professional-Quality Songs
This video course provides you with a well-rounded understanding of the music production concepts, skills, and techniques taught at industry-leading music production schools but at a fraction of the cost.
Don't waste your time with endless Google searches, trying to find the information you need in blog posts and YouTube videos. Music Production for Beginners hands you everything you need to know to produce professional-quality songs on a silver platter.
Instructor Details
- 4.7 Rating
101 Reviews
Charles Hoffman
Hey, my name’s Charles!
I’ve been producing music since 2012 and I'm the founder of Black Ghost Audio. I know how difficult it is to start producing music. A lot of the information you find online is either too advanced, or it just isn’t the right information.
I spent years in a music production rut because I had hit a plateau and the quality of my songs wasn't improving. Finally, I decided to bite the bullet and go to one of the best music production schools in Los Angeles.
After graduating, my music sounded like the music you hear on the radio but it required me to make huge sacrifices and spend over $20,000 on tuition.
Learning how to produce music shouldn't be this difficult or expensive. That's why I've neatly wrapped up all the essential lessons I've learned over the years and packaged them into a structured video course for you.
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Reviews
By Sebastián Tarazona on 10/18/2024
im learning alot havent finiched when i finish ill prolly give a 5
By Yawyee on 6/12/2024
I had just finished Section 2 Video 4, the instructor is awesome in arranging the course content and it makes it very easy to follow and explains concepts really well, I can't wait to finish it and start producing my own music, and looking towards for the next course that Charles is going to offer.
By Luca W on 5/16/2024
Smart and good natured teacher with an easy to understand style. Has a charming, voice, good looking face and great legs!
By Sb on 5/10/2024
Great introductory course and everything is hands on. I have a lot more confidence to start producing music after starting this course
By Ronald Shipp on 5/4/2024
Great beginner course. Explanations were clear and easy to understand. I’m using a different DAW but the information applies to all DAWs so it was easy to implement. Pacing was good as was video and audio quality.
By Westin C on 4/27/2024
This course is good and I got what I expected from it. There are a few links missing in sections that could be uploaded. I also found it near impossible to hear the difference when using plugins on the videos. This may be a sound quality issue more than my ears not being able to pick up on the subtleties. This is foundational for music production and what you actually do with this information after you complete the course is what will matter. Practice, practice, practice. I am looking forward to taking what I learned and putting it into practice and will likely return to the course as a manual of sorts to remind me of foundational techniques as I work on songs.
By J Laker on 4/23/2024
Thank you mr Charles Hofmann for the very informative course. the instructor touched all basic subjects to get you started in creating & distributing music. The instructor is well informed on the subject of music production.
By Valeriya Paine on 3/23/2024
Best Udemy course I have purchased. Simply perfect! Was just what I needed to wrap my head around music producing
By Nathan benshimon on 9/20/2023
This course is well written , well produced and well explained. Good job for the guy who did it cause it’s really really helpful
By Katharina Schwarze on 8/3/2023
Great course for beginners. Everything is explained clearly and in detail. And I love that it's very practical. You learn things as you need them which makes things easy to remember.
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Overall Score : 94 / 100






