Music Production, with Ableton Live.
This course has been refined from more than 10 years of training students in class and online. It’s a complete guide that doesn’t require any prior musical knowledge.
$99.00
75 In-depth Lessons
A multi-angled video series to help keep you engaged.
Downloadable Projects
Multiple project files for critical stages of your learning progress.
Your Complete Guide
From installation to exporting your music. All the sounds and samples you’ll need.
Start at the Start
Assuming this is your first experience with Ableton Live, we’ll get you up and running from first downloading and installing.
Learn the Interface
Accessing what you need when you need it is one of the best ways to stay in the flow of making music.
Clear Explanation of Concepts
There’s no point in explaining if you don’t understand. Every step of the way clearly explained and demonstrated.
Set-up and Configuration
From a simple laptop and headphones set up right through to the ideal set up. Know what to buy and why.
Create the Right Environment
Environment often gets overlooked in music making which could be the one thing that holds you back.
Understand How Music Works
Understand what makes it music and every step of the music making process as a whole.
Build Basic Ideas
Get started generating your own ideas and getting comfortable working in Ableton Live.
Learn Music Theory
A little theory can go a long way to help you on your journey. Understand melody, harmony and how they all work together.
Write Engaging Progressions
Once we learn a little theory we’ll want to put it to good use. What makes a good progression? How do we keep the listener engaged?
It all starts with a Rock solid foundation 🪨
It’s so tempting to skip over the essentials and go straight to the “tips & tricks”, but honestly this path will leave you more frustrated than ever. Have trust in the process of developing a rock solid foundation and I guarantee your journey forward will be so much easier.
Sequence Drums + Percussion
Percussion plays a huge role in our music. But how do we make a track groove? How do we impact the listener?
Build on Your Basic Ideas
Take your ideas and start turning them into full loops. Learn about orchestration and layering multiple instruments together.
Synthesise Your Own Sounds
Synthesis + sound design is an invaluable skill to learn when it comes to making music. Make your own sounds or shape existing ones.
Integrate MIDI Controllers
Adding a MIDI controller to your set up can really help you to express yourself. Take your instruments and map them to a controller of your choice.
The Power of Ableton Live
Ableton Live has some incredibly powerful tools to help you create. Explore some creative compositional techniques to stretch your creativity.
Record Your Instruments
Take your instruments and record them into Live. A sure-fire way to give your music that edge. This is one of the most fun ways to make music.
Enhance Your Sounds
Explore some of the most essential audio effects to bring your music to life. Add space, warmth, girt, colour and grunt!
Arrange Your Music
Once we’ve built on our ideas we’ll want to flesh them out into an arrangement. Learn the workflows + shortcuts for arranging your music.
Export Your Demo
The most satisfying step in making music is sharing it with the world.
Meet Your Instructor
mredrollo is an established music producer and DJ whose music continues to garner wide support from industry legends, including Lee Burridge, Sébastien Léger and Tim Green. When mredrollo is not hard at writing in the studio, he coaches artists online and creates YouTube content helping up and coming music makers overcome the daily struggles they will inevitably face. Once taking YouTube a little more seriously his channel quickly grew to well over 1 million views and nearly 20K Subscribers from creating no BS ‘talking head’ content that has resonated with people all over the world. Unlike many mentors out there, mredrollo’s guidance offers a unique perspective from his own personal experiences, not just cookie cutter ideas that sound good in theory.
After over a decade of being in the education space, mredrollo has positioned himself as one of the few people who continues to develop as an artist, while helping others do the same.
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