Review on online production course

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Review on online production course

Hi,

I wanna go for a online course as I can’t afford to got for a personal class in Point Blank Music Production School, London.

Can anyone let me how well can u understand the content in online course?

Would u suggest taking personal classes over online?

Thanks

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I’d suggest not taking any of those classes at all. Unless you got too much money anyways and it’s all only about time in your life than it’s just not worth it. What is your current state (musically)? What course are you looking at? Why do you think this will improve your music production?

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Im a DJ. I’m learning to play a piano(not a real piano, digital one).

I play at private parties. Still struggling to find a residency.

I wanna do this course pointblank music school | Music Production, Sound Engineering & DJ School - London, Los Angeles & Online

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Alright! Have you chosen a DAW yet? Have you had your first steps with it? I use Ableton Live, which is quite popular among electronical music producers, but pretty much any full-featured (Reaper, Logic, FL, Reason, ProTools, Sonar and many more) will offer what you need. Many of those have a free demo. Use that! Now search on YouTube for some (often very, very well made!) FREE videos on how to get started. For Ableton (for example) there is a full course by Sadowick with 50 videos and about 7h of content. Ok that’s one hour less than that Point Black Course offers, but I’m sure you can find another great tutorial video on Sadowick’s Channel that lasts one hour to make up for that.

Ok there is no fancy Live-Tutorial and the feedback on your tracks is missing as well, but that’s pretty much it. I doubt that those 8h of content and one hour of feedback is worth 800€ - at least for me.

Try to just get your feet wet. Start making some music, look for similar content in the free section of the internet and than you will be able to decide much easier if those online-courses are worth it or not.

Be aware that home music production is about one (or sometimes two guys) sitting in front of an computer for hours, weeks, month and years! It comes with time, not money. If you want to start with a good book check out the Dance Muisc Manual or similar books. Those will give you some insight on what topics you will want to learn about when starting with music production.

If you have any questions concerning getting started feel free to ask! :slight_smile:

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Really appreciate your reply

I would want to start with Ableton. I will definitely start with Sadowick’s Channel and will not rest until I have finished that 7h course :slight_smile:

I would also love to read the manual.

Thank you for the suggestions :slight_smile::smiley:

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You are welcome: Concerning the manual: Welcome to Live — Ableton Reference Manual Version 12 | Ableton This is the Live manual, which is VERY good as well! Obviously it’s not the most exiting and I have never read it from beginning to end, but I bet I have read everything in there.

Also the tutorials that are built into Live are great as well! You should definitly check those out to get a basic understanding of the program.

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Agree that the Live manual is very useful when you’re starting out.

If you have a basic idea of what you need to do when producing then you don’t really need to pay for a course. There are free tutorials on YT for lots of things.

The time a course might be useful is if you have zero background knowledge and want to get an idea of what a DAW can actually do.

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+1

This manual is notably better than most. Putting in an hour a few days a week with the manual and Ableton pulled up goes a LONG way toward building that muscle memory.

There are MANY good and “free as in beer” courses on music through coursera.org. The quality is VERY high, not even counting that the content is free. There are two music classes that are scheduled at this time:

https://www.coursera.org/course/musicproduction

Erin Barra taught an “Intro to Ableton” class that was VERY GOOD. It is not currently scheduled to be taught…but may be in the future. If this comes up again, it is more than worth your while to take it. She focuses on the minimum needed to actually start making music. It is a really fun class.

In addition to those, there are a ton of classes on music in general…because the more you know, the more you know, you know…!

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Since you’re using Live, check out Warpacademy.com too. It’s something like $20 a month for unlimited access to all their online video classes, all by certified Live trainers.

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Coursera looks great. :slight_smile: Thanks

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Are there any tutorials specifically for EDM and Trance?

I wanna start producing sounds like Dubstep, Trap, EDM, trance and progressive house.

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Sadowick has a lot of good content that is EDM specific (for some value of the term). He covers Ableton basics, the setup and use of some synths. His “let’s remix” videos are PURE GOLD for looking at workflow.

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Sadowick looks like a bible for me then. Thanks for the reply all :slight_smile:

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Check out Looptv.net and I believe Airbasemusic.com still has tutorials up, try the gearslutz forums as well. youtube :slight_smile: there are loads of free online alternatives.

when and if you can, hire a local artist to teach you :slight_smile: lol, we need to eat too…

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Problems I find with Sadowick are:

  1. He uses lots of plugins etc that don’t come with Ableton, so you can’t follow what he does as he goes along
  2. He uses lots of loops to make the tracks he exhibits, which is not useful if you want to create your own stuff.

That all being said, they are still worth watching. I just don’t think you should watch them first.

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Both are fair critiques.