Hi,
I have just subscribed and am a total newbie to all of this. I have just done the How to Ableton intro course and and now going to look at the make music in Live 6 course. I am wondering what order you would suggest doing the courses in as it’s hard to know where to go from here. I had a quick look at the how to Nu disco course and it was so far ahead of where I am it was scary and I couldn’t possibly follow it.
Is there any guide to a good sequence in which to do the course to get a good overall understanding of Ableton as at the minute the jump from the first course to the others I have looked at is huge, which order would you suggest I do the courses.
Thanks for your help.
Alan
Hey Alan
I found the most useful for me was to pick one of the “How To Make” type of courses in a genre I was interested in and then make a track in ableton following along with what the SA guys did. Not making the same track as then but following the same paths, thoughts and processes as them.
In doing that, I was able to learn most of what I needed to learn about Ableton (from being a noob) and then also making tracks at the same time so it teaches you things such as sound design and arrangement.
You can then fill in the gaps with some of the more specific courses on compressors, reverb and midi, chords, scales or advanced techniques but i would say, rather get experience though making actual tracks
The newer “How to make” tracks are far more complete than the older ones but they are also maybe a bit too complex for someone new to ableton and production so rather start with the how to make electro session perhaps and learn from there.
hope it helps mate!
We also have a new Ableton intermediate course which would follow on from the intro course with feature specific stuff.
How to make progressive is a really nice one in that it starts of slow and gets more complex as things go on.
I think the Swedish house mafia one is also quite easy to follow.
That’s great, thanks your help.
I might take a look at the progressive one next.