Getting schooled

[JamesPB]

Hey guys,

Just saw this post. A lot of very good, well balanced views coming out...it doesn't look like a music forum at all!

Armanip - It sounds like you have thought quite a bit about the best way for you, personally to learn, which is great. Just thought I would come on to see whether you had any specific questions about Point Blank or anything you would like me to ask any of our tutors about the courses.

That goes for anyone else interested in doing a course too.

The best way to find out whether Point Blank is the right college for you though, is to take one of our FREE Sample courses before committing to anything, fully.

www.pointblankonline.net/sample-a-course

Cheers for the feedback,
James - Point Blank

[heaps]

I think: If you're going to pay for instruction, I would make sure it was in person and not online. A lot of similar lessons are probably floating around youtube, you can't beat face to face when it comes to teaching. A personal teacher can assess your problems and take care of them, while an online video will just be like, "Here's some stuff most people will need to know."

[swiftninja]

First up, pick up an instrument. Then start learning music theory, music theory is not very important but it gives you basis of music such as keys, scales and all that stuff.

Start using ableton everyday and make some random stuff and try recreating your favourite producers 'signature' sound.

Use youtube! There are a ton of good producers who will teach you how to use ableton such as tom cosm, he is an ableton certified instructor and his kiwi accent makes it nice to watch his tutorials. Another good producer is nzmusic101, his gaining popularity and porter robinson watches his videos, lazy rich played one of his tunes. Nzmusic101 teaches synth programming and it helped me alot if programming sylenth1 and massive. DjVespers is good aswell as hes ableton certified trainer.

Recommended youtube 'teachers'

-Nzmusic101
-Tom Cosm
-DJVespers
and some random searches like 'how do i make a distorted bass/ justice drums etc.

I would also suggest to listen to all types of EDM music not just dubstep but dnb, tech house, minimal techno and even possibly rock! By listening to alot of genres, your music will be much more creative and seeing that you want to produce dubstep you can incorporate some other elements from other genres making your music 'better' than the rest.

Finally, music productions is not an overnight thing. A ton top producers didn't learn ableton overnight and music theory overnight. My final words is to never give up, look at tiesto, guetta, deadmau5, paul van dyk, fatboy slim. Theyre all 30+ so never give up!