Music Production arrangement and mixing
A Tutorial to help you understand what is needed for a professional sounding track. Using arrangement and mixing to achieve loudness.
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Tutorials
This section contains the best hand picked tutorials demonstrating the most useful music production tricks, tips and theories to educate any producer. We cover the basic understanding of music production, engineering, sound design and music theory, to more advance concepts such as functional harmony and Polyrhythms.
The tutorial's cover sound design in software synthesizers such as Massive and serum, using Ableton for FX and sequencing.
It's not all computer music, If you're struggling to understand music theory, chord progressions or rhythm patterns, a mixture of YouTube videos, music charts and written tutorials will help.
Whatever your standard, you will find something interesting here.
Music Theory for Producers
Understand Chord Progressions, Inversions and voicing. Work out Keys and scales which is essential to improve your music production
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Vocoder Tutorial
A great demonstration on using a vocoder in Music Production, not just vocals!
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10 of the best free VST's
The best free VST and production production tools to download today
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Turnarounds and Cadences
An understanding and ideas for Turnarounds and Cadences to use in your music production
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Functional harmony and logical chords progressions
Chord Progression with Functional harmony, Chord Substitutions and negative harmony.
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Are Sample Packs Royalty Free?
Royalty Free Sample packs, Construction Kits, Beats, background music and MIDI Compositions vs Shared Royalties
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Shepard Tone in Music Production
Learn how Shepard Tone is used by Hans Zimmer and electronic dance music
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Reese Bass Sound Design
How to Design the Reese Bass using multiple techniques and different synthesizer types.
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Polyrhythms - What? Why? When? How?
Describes the difference between polyrhythms and polymeters and how use Euclidean patterns in your music productions
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Fundamental Drum patterns in Drum and Bass
To guide you through basic changes to fundamental kick and snare positions in in drum and bass
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Jungle Drums Series - Part 1
Part 1 in our series in producing jungle beats. Stranjah shows off his drum sequencing skills using the amen break and expands on processing individual sounds and loops as a whole.
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Jungle Drums Series - Part 2
Part 2 in our series in producing jungle beats. Stranjah shows off his drum sequencing skills using the amen break and expands on processing individual sounds and loops as a whole.
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Jungle Drums Series - Part 3
The last of the 3 part video tutorial with 6 extremely useful and interesting tip and tricks to really nail that jungle drum sound. This includes Midi drum patterns, layering and processing.
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Detuned Bass Serum, Massive, Massive X, Operator
This tutorial demonstrates 2 different ways to achieve the detuned sub bass wobble made famous by the likes of Shy FX, Break and Serum. A popular bass used in jump-up and roller drum and bass.
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Hack music theory with Abelton
Hack music theory with Abelton. It's an amazingly useful tool, to cheat, experiment or advance you knowledge of music theory. focusing on selecting and playing even the most advance scales without error.
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Master your own music
10 step mastering covering multiple levels of compression, EQ and gain staging
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