Whether this is your first foray into using technology tools to make music, or you’ve had some experience working inside a Digital Audio Workstation already, the main goal of the course is to put you in the driver’s seat when it comes to your music and your content. You’ll learn more about DAWs, MIDI technology, and all of the modern recording techniques that will help your songs sound the way they’re supposed to sound. You’ll bolster your writing skills with the technical skills to engineer and produce your music. With the skills learned in Music Production Fundamentals for Songwriters, you’ll be able to become more involved in the process when collaborating with engineers, producers, and other collaborators. Note that in this course you will be required to write songs—meaning there needs to a lyric set to a melody, sung by a vocalist or vocalists.

By the end of the course, you’ll be able to:

• Choose the DAW that meets your songwriting needs
• Use a MIDI controller
• Edit your MIDI sequence
• Quantize your sequence
• Create melodic and harmonic MIDI sequences using virtual instruments
• Record audio into your DAW
• Sequence your entire arrangement using MIDI and audio
• Create a compositional relationship with your computer
• Record audio into your sessions via an audio interface and microphone
• Capture the best vocal recording possible
• Open up new pathways to creativity
• Use refinement and editing techniques
• Effectively use file management and troubleshooting techniques
• Produce a song inside a specific genre
• Complete critical preproduction tasks
• Actively turn moments of inspiration into complete songs
• Add audio effects to vocals
• Use dynamic effects such as compression on vocals
• Use time-based processors like reverb and delay
• Add texture and dimension to your mixes
• Compose and produce an entire song in your DAW

Syllabus

Lesson 1 Creating a Percussive Foundation

Lesson 2 Adding Melodies

Lesson 3 Adding Textures

Lesson 4 Reworking, File Management, Home Studio, Troubleshooting

Lesson 5 Critical Listening/Analysis/Preproduction

Lesson 6 Recording Basics, Instrumental Comping

Lesson 7 Lead Vocals, Early Gain Staging

Lesson 8 Effects Processing Week 1: Vocals and Inserts

Lesson 9 Effects Processing Week 2: Time-Based and Parallel

Lesson 10 Effects Processing Week 3: Creative and Automated

Lesson 11 Final Mix

Lesson 12 Technology and Creativity

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