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.
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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 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.
What People Are Saying
George
Loving this course ! Well structured into clearly signposted units, with very helpful material and advice presented in a way that is easy and interesting to follow. Would definitely recommend to anyone wanting to get started with Ableton, or brush up on their existing skills :0)
SOL7
It helped me tremendously in every way. In terms of the arrangement, that was my biggest concern and also in terms of the work process. Very, very thank you!
Syafiq Halid
Just wanted to shout out how awesome your YouTube vids are! Seriously, your honesty and advice hit home every time. You can feel the hard work and real struggles behind it all and that’s what makes it so damn good and authentic. Your tutorials, especially on Live Performance and Push 2, are solid! Super inspiring stuff. And gotta give props for the crisp HD quality and clear voice, makes learning from you a breeze. I’d tell anyone looking for solid tips to hit up your channel! 🙂
Miles Kvndra
I known Ed for quite a while now and have learned to really value him as a fellow creator, who has a great perspective on the whole music and content creation game as a whole. Not only is he a fantastic musician that totally knows his craft, he also is a great teacher and creative soul that has an inspiring view on the life as a creator in general. And most importantly: he is a super fun dude with lots of positive energy!
Sam J
Amazing resource! Thank you Mr. Ed! This course was super easy to follow and covers basically everything you could ever want to know about getting started with Ableton Live.
Mustafa Sarbak
Most of the tutorials online are basically “how to” videos and they don’t help in an artistic way of creating. I felt like I didn’t get the most of my new hardware and it was annoying. Then I bumped into mredrollo. The way he communicates and the fact that you follow along while he is teaching felt unique to me. I have finished this course a few times and I still come back to take a look at the certain points. I can definitely say that after watching, Ableton Push has become an instrument rather than just hardware to me. I don’t struggle anymore and really enjoy my sessions, but it also helps me to have a broader perspective while I’m making music.
Adam K
Since completing this course with mredrollo I’ve become much more confident using Ableton Live. I’d always come up with ideas for songs but get frustrated with arranging and move on to the next idea. But following mredrollo though his workflow as he walks you through the process of completing a track from start to finish I was able to put some of those ideas together and actually finish something… and it feels great!
Reece Bryan
My main difficulties with music production were: not knowing all the element of a complete track, struggling with arranging elements into a song and mixing elements together to sound good. After doing my fair share of YouTube searching, I was lucky to stumble across a tutorial from mredrollo. I found his way of teaching concise and professional. From there I felt confident that my money would not go to waste and signed up for his course. Ed is straight forward, and every minute is filled with useful information, no fluff. Ed covered everything needed to complete a track from start to finish. This is just what I needed to start making music that sounds full and finished. Since taking two of Ed’s courses, I’ve been able to bring my creative ideas together in a much more satisfying way. I am loving my music production journey and am grateful for Ed’s contribution to it.
Alan Dale
I tried various creators on YouTube for tutorials or inspiration but always got bored either with the techniques, teaching or just the creator themselves. When I first watched a video of mredrollo I instantly connected and wanted to know more. What really sold me was his journey and what he’d been through which was such an inspiration. I really liked his approach, it’s kinda like a no BS approach, clear instructions and explaining the full process of making music.
David
This is what I’ve really enjoyed about Ed’s courses – they’ve allowed me the freedom to develop my own voice.
Rob D
When I enrolled for Ed’s courses I was looking to make better use of my Push. I was attracted to Ed’s course because it seemed like it was showing you the Push while in the process of actually making a track. I wasn’t interested in a video manual going over the functions. And while I did learn more about the Push something unexpected also happened. I actually ended up getting more from the course on workflow and just general approaches to working through a track to completion. As it turns out the Push stuff was just a bonus. Ed’s workflow was quick and simple. I liked how he didn’t spend time mired in details and got on with his track. I now use the same approach in my tracks. Instead of obsessing over minor details during the creative process I now feel I am better able to flow and worry about the details later on in the process. Because of this, making music is simply more fun for me now.
Haraold Hemmink
At first I didn’t know where to start and I really got lost in all the YouTube producers’ tutorials. It was an overdose of information and went wayyy too fast to follow for a beginner. mredrollo’s voice is very clear and the way he explains things has helped me understand. It’s never dull, unclear or too fast. Implementing what I had learned got me to a point where I was able to put a nice simple song together, and I thought WOW!! Now I’m getting somewhere, after almost 2 years! I now have plenty more fun when I start up my machine and know that I might get somewhere.
STEFAN SUPERTI
Thank you so much for this massive insight in making a tack from start to finish!!