Description
Francois – Progressive House / EDM Track From Start To Finish 2022
Producing A Professional Progressive House Track with Ableton Live 9 Standard + NI MASSIVE (1.3.xx) (Beginner & Intermediate Level)
What you will learn from this course:
Producing a Progressive House / EDM Track
After having taken this class, you’ll have seen a complete production process first hand, ing from nothing and working through all the different important stages of the production process, from to finish. The track is inspired by artists like Alesso, David Guetta, Calvin Harris, Martin Garrix, Jay Hardway and others.
What’s required?
- Basic understanding of using Ableton (like loading files, creating MIDI clips, etc – check our mini Ableton refresher in Part 6 for the basics)
- Ableton Live 9.7 Standard (or higher) – you can also follow along with 9.2 (the only difference is the Simpler, an extra video explains it)
- VST: NI Massive (1.3xx or higher)
- no other 3rd party plugins needed
The course will take you through:
- Idea generation
- Writing powerful chords and MIDI writing techniques
- Writing drum patterns
- Writing melodies
- Sound Design and manipulation
- Creating pitch effects, vocal fx, and noise techniques
- Filtering, EQing, Envelope shaping
- Layering and sound stacking
- Creating melodies
- Creative arrangement (taking your 8 Bar loops and turning them into a full song)
- Mixing: We are completely mixing the track
- Mastering: in the end we are fully mastering the track with a custom Ableton effect rack chain.
What you’re getting:
A complete -to-finish production course
35+ Studio sessions with Francois / Production Music Live
6h+ online video sessions with lifetime-access
Bonus: Ableton Project File created in this course (using Ableton Live 9.7 Standard + NI Massive)
Course Curriculum
- Setup & Downloading The Files (2:37)
- Loading the Ableton Project / Instruments (1:43)
- Basic Workflow We Are Using (Beginner Focussed) (13:16)
- Our Production Process in this Course (1:15)
- Playing the Final Product (2:14)
- Drums: Setting Up the Beat: Kick, Snare, Hats (1) (11:51)
- Drums: Adding More Drum Elements (2) (11:45)
- Drums: Taking A Quick Look Into The Session View (1:23)
- Setting Up The Side-Chain (3) (5:10)
- Instruments: MASSIVE VST Setup + MIDI (4) (4:44)
- Instruments: Writing The Chords – Beginner friendly (5) (12:24)
- Instruments: Editing Midis and Adding First Bass Sound (6) (10:34)
- Instruments: Adding the 2nd Bass Sound (7) (6:38)
- Instruments: Tweaking Chords Layers + FX (8) (17:01)
- Instruments: Adding Piano & Plucks (9) (15:13)
- Instruments: Adding Staccato Strings (10) (9:39)
- Instruments: Adding String A String Support Layer (7:22)
- Instruments: “FM”-type Bass + Pluck Sounds (11) (14:51)
- Instruments: Buildup Pads & High Strings (12) (14:26)
- Instruments: Intro Strings, Piano’s, Clong’s (13) (13:38)
- FX: Adding Sweeps and Audio Effects (14) (13:40)
- FX: Adding Snare Fills and White Noise (15) (16:21)
- FX: Drum Fill (16) (19:52)
- Setting Up a Vocal Instrument Rack (17) (27:14)
- Melody: Writing the Midi (18) (9:37)
- Melody: Adding A Synth Layer (19) (7:20)
- Basics: Arrangement (2:18)
- Arrangement, Song Song Structure and Adding Missing Pieces (20) (27:26)
- Transitions, Tweaks and Grouping (21) (14:03)
- Sound Tweaking and Frequency Cleaning (22) (31:43)
- Tweaking the Lead Sound (23) (11:17)
- Basics: Mixing (4:20)
- Preparing the Mix – Mixing (24) (18:24)
- Basics: Mastering (1:57)
- Mastering (25) (20:12)
- Adjustment Session after 2 Days of not listening to the Track (26) (13:06)
- Writing an Alternative Lead Melody (8:00)
- Building a classic Intro (17:06)
- Sound Design: Super Saw Synth (9:53)
- Tweaking Daft Punk Style (4:11)
- Production Tricks (Resample, Reverse, Etc) (8:24)
- New 04/2017: Writing Another Song Idea in F-Minor (8:23)
- How To Ableton I – Basic Setup (11:07)
- How To Ableton II – Browser, Instruments, Effects, VSTs (14:21)
- How to Ableton III – Interface, Session View, Arrangement View (15:35)
- How To Ableton IV – Producing a simple Deep House Track from Scratch in Ableton (Beginners) (62:14)
- Ableton Live 9 vs. 9.5/6/7: Simpler 9 vs. Simpler 9.5 (7:53)
- How To Compressor (15:35)
- What is Side-Chaining? (10:36)
Your Instructor
I’m Francois, classically trained musician and music producer from Germany with an insatiable passion for great sound design, audio engineering and electronic music production. I’ve released tracks on labels such as Universal Music, Parquet Recordings, Portrait Digital Recordings, Somatic Sense, Jannowitz Records and others. Maybe you’ve seen one of my tutorials on our YouTube channel “Production Music Live”. I also have a personal Youtube Channel called “Francois Beats”. I like exploring new ways of working, acquiring new skills and sharing my knowledge.
Check out some of my electronic music productions on
- Spotify
- Soundcloud
Visit my personal Website.
Visit ProductionMusicLive.com
Proof Content
Sale Page: https://productionmusiclive.teachable.com/p/progressive-house-track-from-scratch
Archive: https://archive.ph/HNkGQ
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