Music Production Courses
Hi all,
I have been taking some classes on Coursera,
and found this course quite useful for beginners in music production,
hope this course can help some of you out.
Berklee College of Music - Music Production
https://www.coursera.org/course/musicproduction
Very interesting, thanks for the heads up!
I’ve used Coursera before but for “Introduction to Sound Design” and I didn’t follow too much because it kept touching on things I had zero interest in like anatomy of ears, how they work, analyzer plugins that I would never use, etc.
This I may check out though.
Unfortunately, I am definitely unable to commit that much time right now. Hopefully I can find more time for a future run of the course.
I have to say,
taking this course takes a lot of time per week(for my self around 8-10h/week)
Besides watching the video,
I spent some time reading the manual of my software to actually know what every function does.
Also,
since English isn’t my native language,
some technical words felt quite hard to me,
so I spent some extra time looking the word up.
Overall,
it was a great experience and actually quite interesting.
I am thinking I will try to keep up with the course, hopefully I’ll be able to. It’s too interesting to pass up.
Reading the manual of your DAW/synths/plugins is huge in my experience. I find myself often going back to the manuals to find out a certain aspect of the software/hardware I’m using. As a guy, reading manuals isn’t in my blood, but when it comes to production and truly fine tuning sounds, knowing my DAW, etc. knowing each little knob and how it affects the sound is hugely beneficial. You’ll forget a lot, but if you use it enough…you’ll have the seed planted to know vaguely what something does, then revisit the manual and it clicks once you use that functionality.
I’ve taken several Coursera music related courses. History of Rock, Classical Music appreciation, Digital Music Synthesis, Music Theory, and more. Quality of the courses is VERY good.
I thought I’d take a peek at the Logic X manual after reading this. Shit was 800 pages! Ain’t nobody got time for that!
You don’t have to read the whole thing at once! And you can obviously skip sections that contain info on stuff you already know. But I’m willing to guess Logic does a lot more than you currently know it does and you won’t find that out unless you stumble across it on the net or eventually read the manual.
Honestly, I tried Logic out once and was overwhelmed within 5 minutes. Haven’t touched it since. I enrolled in that Coursera course though. I figure I’ve got nothing to lose. 
every geek worth his salt know the value of RTFM!
… and yet is amongst the worst culprits of not actually doing it.
It’s also in the man pages…
I think in music production and djing,
reading the manual is really important.
What I do is jump in the software and try to use every feature in it,
when something is not clear,
I google it or try to find it in the manual.
Sometimes its really exhausting,
but its totally worth it.
But some manuals really have a lot of pages…
Never read a manual in my life
You’ve earned the right to this, then, here’s your card for your wallet, go ahead and print it out and carry it with pride!
I’d already signed up for this! Should be interesting hopefully.
