1 - Welcome!
2 - Beat Making
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2.1 You Are Now Entering a No Pressure Zone: Songwriting Activities (2:45)
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2.2 Beat Making 101: Ableton Drums (14:27)
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2.3 The Piano Roll for Drums (12:04)
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2.4 Velocity & Recording Midi Drums (19:40)
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2.5 Quantization and Timing (9:13)
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2.6 The Groove Pool (11:38)
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2.7 Audio Drums in Arrangement View (12:02)
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2.8 Pros and Cons to Audio Drum Arrangement (8:21)
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2.9 Drum Loops & Warping Beats (17:49)
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2.10 Beat Making Basics Review (10:49)
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2.11 Clip Gain (8:41)
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2.12 Beatmaking Drum Bus (20:32)
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2.13 Simpler One Shot Mode (17:46)
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2.14 How Drum Rack Works (10:03)
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2.15 Drum Rack Reverb and Routing (11:21)
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2.16 Generate: Rhythm (15:12)
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2.17 Generate: Euclidean (6:22)
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2.18 Randomization 101: Velocity, Chance, & Note Groups (11:25)
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2.19 Infinite Drum Kits: Random Drum Kit Generator (11:41)
3 - Bass Lines and Melodies
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3.1 The Piano Roll for Basslines and Melodies (10:43)
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3.2 Infinite Instruments - Random Preset Generators (6:03)
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3.3 Scale Mode In Clips (12:37)
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3.4 Clips on Clips! (12:54)
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3.5 Tonal Movement: Pitchbend (11:54)
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3.6 Pitchbend Settings & Strategies (12:36)
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3.7 Glide, Legato, and Portamento (13:45)
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3.8 Generate: Seed (12:28)
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3.9 Generate: Shape (6:06)
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3.10 Transform: Connect & Recombine (17:56)
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3.11 Transform: Ornament & Span (12:00)
4 - Chord Progressions
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4.1 The Piano Roll for Chord Progressions (8:31)
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4.2 Making better Chord Progressions: (11:18)
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4.3 Generate Stacks (16:12)
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4.4 Transform: Arpeggiate & Strum (10:16)
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4.5 Midi Effects & Scale Awareness: Pitch (13:13)
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4.6 Midi Effects & Scale Awareness: Scale (14:44)
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4.7 Midi Effects & Scale Awareness: Chord (10:26)
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4.8 Midi Effects & Scale Awareness: Arpeggiator (10:37)
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4.9 Midi Effects & Scale Awareness: Random, Note Delay, Note Length (12:52)
5 - Composition 101
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5.1 Composition Workflows (1:59)
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5.2 Worklow 1: Clips, & Phrases - Templates & Musical Ideation (14:47)
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5.3 Workflow 1: Clips & Phrases - Session to Arrangement View (15:23)
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5.4 Workflow 2: Sound Collage Montage (14:01)
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5.5 Workflow 2: Comping & Take Lanes (15:40)
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5.6 Workflow 3: Imitation Game (20:32)
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5.7 Workflow 4: Chord Progression Generation with Midi Effects (12:54)
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5.8 Workflow 5: Unpacking Chord Progressions into Tracks (8:20)
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5.9 Workflow 6: Anchor Recording (13:23)
6 - The Challenge Begins
7 - Composition Tools
8 - Songcraft & Structure
9 - Community
10 - Inspiration Strikes!
11 - Sampling
12 - Creating Emotional Responses
13 - Space and Time
14: Ableton Sequencers
15 - A Little Music Theory Goes a Long Way
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15.1 Introduction to Theory (1:23)
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15.2 Scales (5:41)
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15.3 Scales in Action (9:27)
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15.4 Chord Formulas: How to Play Any Basic Chord (9:19)
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15.5 Chord Progressions 1: The Diatonic Formula (5:05)
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15.6 The Diatonic Chord Songwriting Chart!
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15.7 Chord Progressions 2: Functional Harmony (6:24)
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15.8 Chord Progressions 3: Secondary Dominants (8:49)
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15.9 Chord Progressions 4: Inversions and Voicings (14:22)
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15.10 Chord Progressions 5: Borrowed Chords (5:50)
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15.11 Borrowed Chords Songwriting Chart!
16 - Melodies and Hooks
17 - Compositional Layering
18 - The Quest for Originality: Tempo and Clock
19 - Writing B, C, and D Parts: Escaping the Loop!
20 - Actually Finishing Songs?
21 - Taking the Ear for a Ride
Awesome. What Now?
