Course:
Recording Connection for
The Creator Pro

First things first: we'll need to make sure you have the DAW (Ableton Live or Pro Tools) loaded up on your computer. Working with an Academic Facilitator, we'll make sure the software is loaded properly. These are the tools you'll need to begin making music like the pros. From there, we'll hit the Listening Library, discuss the song or melody in your head, and how to “log off” for important meditation tactics.

Once we're in the right frame of mind, we'll begin the recording work, discuss plug-ins, tap-tempo, scratch melodies, and finally how to save your work. Congratulations - you've just started the process of making music!

During week two, we'll break down what you recorded during the first week. You'll learn about the parts of the song, how to find the “root” note, and how to build drums around your scratch melodies. It's a lot to learn, but you'll get the direction you need to work on it during the rest of the week.

You'll learn to break down the root note, incorporate the bass into your song, and add instrumentation from the instrument library of your DAW. We get into breaking down the melody of your song, mixing in pads and arrangements, and adding accompaniments to give your song some depth of sound.

Now is the time your song begins to find a genre. This could be electronic dance music, a bouncy pop song, or soulful indie rock. The listening library will consist of Daft Punk and Ray Lynch. You'll begin to see how all music begins with the same basic fundamentals.

Snares, crashes, toms, and kicks. At this point, you'll know the differences of the different parts of the drum kit and how they can lead the listener through the song via fills. Bridges will connect the different parts of your song together and you'll begin to build seamless intros and outros to your creation.

You'll listen to music from multiple-Grammy award winner Billie Eilish and see how her music utilizes fills and bridges to keep the listener interested. As always, you'll learn about more cool plug-ins that will give your music some flair. You'll also aid your retention and deepen your creative practice with meditations and blog entries. Your self-made resource guide should be pretty full by now.

At this point, you've been creating different tracks for each session, including vocals. Now's the time to bring it all together. Doing that requires so much more than just dumping all of the tracks onto one stage. You'll learn how to get it ready for the producer, go through pitch correction, establish markers, and label the tracks for easier implementation.

All of the above is building your song and your sound. Now's the time to delve into preparing to record those vocals (or lead instrument) like a pro. That's the Recording Connection difference: Other programs don't take the time to show you how to prepare for a performance, how to practice the sounds, and make that performance ready for recording. We do. Once you know how to do it right, you can do it over and over again.

Seeing a musician performing a song they feel deeply is nothing short of captivating. This is the week you go into the studio and record your song, performed by you or your artist. In this chapter, we'll go through getting you both technically and emotionally prepared so that you can give your best performance and get all the great vocal (or instrumental) takes you need to build your song in a professional manner.

The time has arrived. We're jettisoning that scratch audio and integrating our nice phat vocals and instrumentation the right way, then getting into the mix with effects and dynamics. With your mentor's expert guidance, you'll start to get a feel for how to make your vocals or star instrument “stand up” in the mix and apply reverb, delay, and echo in a way that works with your surrounding instrumentation.

Adding EQ, compression, and effects has left us with a raging beast that's got to be tamed! Tame it we will, with a little leveling and panning to get all of your instruments sitting right, enabling those sonics to really shine.

Next, you're learning a technique with nearly endless applications—sidechaining. Master it and you'll almost never have to worry about mud in that mix.

With one fully fleshed out, well-produced song under our belt, we're moving on to remixing. Never considered remixing? Think again! Whether you're remixing your own music, or others, this multifaceted art form that has huge name-building and promotional benefits and helps keep you sharp, innovative, and tapped into various sounds, genres, and communities. Check into the amazing artform that is remixing.

Jazz for producers and DJs alike, remixing lets you delve deep into FX, loops, swoops and slides and cracking open the magic of a song's composition with infectious grooves and inspiring buildups. Fooling around and trying new things is what it's all about! We'll get into various popular remix arrangements like the extended remix, radio edit, dub mix, trance mix, house mix, and more! What are you waiting for?