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Learn how to hand off the audio—including dialog, music, and effects—from Final Cut Pro to Logic Pro for editing, mixing, and mastering.
Many filmmakers and editors who are comfortable with lighting, casting, and shot selection will cringe when it's time to work with sound. But if you're a filmmaker and can't afford a specialist, you should add audio to your skillset. Award-winning sound designer Joe Godfrey has developed a system for handing...
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Find out how to notate pitch duration, time signature, scale, rhythm, and chord progressions and produce easy-to-read sheet music that clearly expresses your musical ideas.
Want to communicate your musical ideas in the most clear and compelling way? You need to learn music notation. Notation is the written language of music: the letters and words of sound. In this course, author Rick Schmunk explains the most fundamental topics in music notation,...
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Larry Crane provides recording tips for tailoring effects, gaining sonic control, and opening new creative doors.
Music Production Secrets is a series with Tape Op magazine founder and Jackpot! Recording Studio owner Larry Crane. Larry provides a new technique for tailoring your effects, gaining sonic control, and opening new creative doors during mixing and tracking. These tutorials work with any DAW, in almost every recording scenario, and are...
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Learn how to monetize songwriting by licensing your music. Learn what writing and recording you own, how income is generated, and how to strategically pitch your compositions.
Licensing your music for use in video games, film, advertisements and other audio-visual contexts is one of the best ways for you to monetize your songwriting efforts. In this course, learn how to license your music. Instructor Jake Versluis helps to acquaint you with the basics...
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Get started in music publishing. Learn how to sell your music and turn your songs into money.
One of the most important aspects of the music biz is music publishing. It can also be one of the most complicated parts of the business to understand, even for the most seasoned veteran. In this Insider's Guide to Today's Music Biz, Steve Rennie explains what you'll need to know about music publishing to turn your songs into money. He'll talk about copyrights...
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Learn the secrets of making great music that makes its way into the hands of music biz movers and shakers.
The music business is built around great songs by great artists. The music business exists to bring those songs to life. Managers, producers, engineers, record labels, promoters, publishers, and concert venues: They're all there to help connect music with audiences. But the songs don't write themselves. This installment of An Insider's Guide...
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Learn principles of room acoustics and hands-on techniques for getting the best sound from your music studio for the least cost and effort.
Learn how to set up and tweak the sound of your music studio. From basements and garages to standalone buildings, all music studios can benefit from the techniques shown in this course. Music engineer and industry insider Bobby Owsinski strips away the mystery behind a great-sounding space and introduces some...
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Improve your songwriting process by factoring for rhythm and building rhythm. Explore note values, time signatures, feel, timing, dynamics, syncopation, and more.
Music theory is fundamental to making and playing music. This course is designed to teach the fundamentals of rhythm in both a user-friendly and songwriting-focused way, demonstrating rhythm on drums, guitar, bass, keyboards, and vocals, allowing songwriters to learn music theory while...
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Learn how to get and protect copyrights for your songs, and understand the critical language, concepts, and business aspects of music copyright.
Registering a copyright to a song is not the easiest process, but it's helpful for songwriters. It preserves your legal claims to songs and your ability to monetize them. In this course, Rich Stim provides essential guidance to navigate the process and understand the main language, concepts, and business...
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Learn professional techniques for producing and mixing electronic music with Ableton Live and Ableton Push 2.
Learn professional techniques for producing and mixing electronic music in Ableton Live. Producer Nate Mars starts with the basics of the Ableton interface and different approaches to making electronic music—some of which incorporate Ableton Push 2, the exciting new pad-based MIDI controller. He explains the important Ableton fundamentals...
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Find out how to promote your own digital music using best practices for self-releasing and marketing content.
One of the biggest issues faced by musical artists is how to get people to hear and purchase their music. Luckily, today’s digital platforms offer a variety of ways to engage with new and longtime fans alike. In this course, music industry stalwart Evan Sutton explains the best practices for self-releasing and promoting your own digital...
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Learn how to play guitar at your own pace. These easy-to-follow videos feature examples in TAB and standard music notation, and hands-on instruction by guitar virtuoso Jared Meeker.
Learn how to play guitar at your own pace. These easy-to-follow videos features examples in TAB and standard music notation, and hands-on instruction by guitar virtuoso Jared Meeker. You'll learn how to hold the instrument, play with a pick, count time, read music, and...
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Making money in the music business? Find out how to claim income from gigs, maximize your deductions, and file the right tax forms with the IRS.
Most musicians count themselves lucky to make money at a career they love. But income means taxes, and taxes can lead to many questions. What exactly counts as income? What can you write off? What happens if you get audited? In this music business course, author Rich Stim covers the most important tax issues...
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Learn professional techniques for producing electronic music in Logic Pro.
Electronic music is an umbrella term for a wide variety of genres and sounds, from ambient, dub, acid house, trap, drum and bass, dubstep, and more. But whatever style you produce, Logic Pro can handle it. This powerful DAW is uniquely suited to capturing your creativity and expressing your sonic ideas. In this course, instructor Nate Mars shows you the core techniques professionals...
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Learn music theory through the lens of songwriting. These tutorials cover the basics of harmony: minor scales, modes, 7th chords, modulations, and more.
Music theory is fundamental to making and playing music—but it can be kind of dry. Music Theory for Songwriters is taught in a user-friendly and songwriting-focused way, demonstrating techniques on both keyboard and guitar, allowing songwriters to learn music theory while they learn song craft....
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Learn how to turn a demo recording into a fully mastered song with Grammy-winning writer/producer/mixer Scott Jacoby.
Learn how to turn a demo recording to a fully mastered song with Grammy-winning writer/producer/mixer Scott Jacoby. These simple, memorable, and practical techniques cover the production process from beginning to end, introducing not just the how, but the why—the philosophies and concepts—behind great audio engineering. You'll...
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Learn professional techniques for producing electronic music in Logic Pro X.
Electronic music is an umbrella term for a wide variety of genres and sounds, from ambient, dub, acid house, trap, drum and bass, dubstep, and more. But whatever style you produce, Logic Pro can handle it. This powerful DAW is uniquely suited to capturing your creativity and expressing your sonic ideas. In this course, instructor Nate Mars shows you the core techniques professionals...
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Create a music and dialog mix that sounds clear and professional. Learn how to fix audio issues such as noise, enhance dialog, automate levels, and more.
Do you find mixing music and dialog a frustrating process? Have you ever found yourself constantly turning up your dialog to compete with an overpowering music track? Have you ever struggled to find a music track that perfectly matches the duration of your edit? Adobe Audition: Mixing Music and...
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Learn to avoid the major music business and legal pitfalls that can break bands apart, such as financial mismanagement and contract disputes.
Any band can encounter problems such as financial mismanagement and contract disputes. Learn to avoid the major music business pitfalls that can break bands apart in this course with Richard Stim, attorney and music law specialist. It starts with what it means to be the manager of a band, and what types of...
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Learn how to plan, execute, and promote a digital music release on the major digital streaming platforms (DSPs) with industry expert Mike Warner.
Have you just completed writing and recording a song, or maybe an entire album? Congrats! So… Now what? How do you get your music out to the masses to hear the melodic fruits of your labor? You could stand outside your local music club with homemade cassettes, or you could check out this course from music...
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