Make professional-sounding music from your bedroom using FL Studio, Ableton Live, or GarageBand. This course builds your production skills from the ground up: navigating your DAW, programming drums with real groove, writing original melodies and chords with MIDI instruments, and working with samples responsibly with licensing and clearance awareness. You will finish with mixing fundamentals covering EQ, compression, reverb, and delay, plus a clear workflow for exporting and distributing your tracks online.

Modules

DAW Foundations and Workflow Setup

Lessons

• Touring the Timeline Mixer and Browser Preview
• Configuring Audio Devices Buffer Size and MIDI
• Project Templates Naming and Session Hygiene

Drum Programming and Groove Construction

Lessons

• Programming Boom-Bap and Trap Patterns from Scratch
• Swing Velocity and the Art of Human Feel
• Layering Kicks Snares and Percussion for Impact

Writing Melodies with MIDI Instruments

Lessons

• Keys Scales and the Piano Roll Map
• Building Chord Progressions in the Piano Roll
• Topline Melodies Countermelodies and Motifs

Sampling and Layering with Clearance Awareness

Lessons

• Sample Licensing Clearance and Royalty-Free Sources
• Chopping and Flipping Licensed Loops
• Resampling Foley and Textures You Record Yourself

Mixing with EQ Compression and Space

Lessons

• Gain Staging and Subtractive EQ Decisions
• Compression Settings That Glue Your Beat
• Depth with Reverb Sends and Delay Throws

Exporting and Releasing Your Music

Lessons

• Bounce Settings Loudness and File Formats
• Metadata Distributors and Your First Release
• Collaboration Splits and Protecting Your Catalog