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Introduction to Ableton Live - Electronic Music Production
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Discover the basics of electronic music production in a user-friendly environment! This introductory course will guide you step by step through the essential tools and techniques of Ableton Live. You'll learn to create your own rhythms, melodies, and arrangements, use synthesizers and effects, and structure a complete track.

No prior experience is required — just your curiosity and desire to create music. Lessons take place in my home studio, with a hands-on and personalized approach.

You will learn to:
Navigating the Ableton Live interface
Create beats, bass lines, and melodies
Use the built-in instruments and effects
Recording and manipulating sounds
Structuring and mixing a track
Extra information
No equipment needed. You can plug in a bass guitar or electric guitar if you wish to record.
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  • 7895 Niagara, Avenue Niagara, Brossard, QC, Canada
About Me
I started composing electronic music about 15 years ago as a hobby. I decided to offer this course to allow more people to learn how to create this kind of music and to share my passion. The tools available today allow anyone to produce music, practically anywhere!
Education
Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering
College diploma in natural sciences
Dozens of online courses
Hundreds of hours of tutorials on YouTube.
Experience / Qualifications
15+ years of amateur music production
A fully equipped studio
Several years of teaching as a laboratory instructor
Age
Teenagers (13-17 years old)
Adults (18-64 years old)
Seniors (65+ years old)
Student level
Beginner
Intermediate
Duration
60 minutes
90 minutes
The class is taught in
French
English
Availability of a typical week
(GMT -05:00)
New York
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Who is this workshop for?
For anyone curious about sound, all music, music in general,
who wants to manufacture, build, examine ... (from 12 or 13 years old).

Do you need to know music theory?
No. But familiarity with music of various styles can be of great help.

DJ? "Electro" music?
No ! We will not learn here to be a DJ or to compose “dance-music”,
“electro” music in the commonly understood sense, not even songs.

Do you need to know the computer?
It is better if it is, but learning can be done at the same time as musical research.

Is this course a software learning course?
No. I give the basics (only on Logic Pro X or Garageband) to be able to compose but I do not teach the deep use of software.

Is it necessary to have a computer?
Yes !

A "workshop" rather than a class?
The course takes the form of a practical workshop, listening sessions, criticism of works.

By computer?
Everything happens on a computer once sound elements of all kinds have been recorded. Editing, transformation, mixing on software designed for this.
No software required. The proposed route can be adapted to any multitrack sequencing software. The computer is only a tool, it is the composer who makes the music.

Practically what do we do?
The composer works “from the sounds” that he has most often recorded himself.
He chooses them, assembles them, deforms them, mixes them according to his project, at will.
of his intuition, his ideas and desires, gradually builds a music.
For those who wish and need it, exercises are offered which allow to approach at the same time techniques of realization
and precise musical proposals.

Composition / Invention
It is not a question of declaring themselves all composers, but of affirming that we can all ask ourselves composers' questions, with both seriousness and imagination.
To confront the game of a free invention.

What musical orientation? What style ?
This is a “musical research” process:
seek to invent a music beyond traditional values - note pitches, regular pulsations, instrumental timbres - without forbidding all that.
A “music of sounds”, in the broadest possible sense, a “music of
all sounds “as opposed to what one could obviously call too simplified“ a music of notes ”.
This choice, which apparently seems to shake up musical uses, is nevertheless part of a tradition of more than a century and rich in a repertoire that is too little known and which has had various names:

- Electroacoustic music
- Concrete music
- Acousmatic music
- Contemporary music

Finally, we each have a precious tool to never forget: our ear, and a fascinating and rewarding job to lead, questioning about oneself.
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Barbara
Who is this workshop for?
For anyone curious about sound, all music, music in general,
who wants to manufacture, build, examine ... (from 12 or 13 years old).

Do you need to know music theory?
No. But familiarity with music of various styles can be of great help.

DJ? "Electro" music?
No ! We will not learn here to be a DJ or to compose “dance-music”,
“electro” music in the commonly understood sense, not even songs.

Do you need to know the computer?
It is better if it is, but learning can be done at the same time as musical research.

Is this course a software learning course?
No. I give the basics (only on Logic Pro X or Garageband) to be able to compose but I do not teach the deep use of software.

Is it necessary to have a computer?
Yes !

A "workshop" rather than a class?
The course takes the form of a practical workshop, listening sessions, criticism of works.

By computer?
Everything happens on a computer once sound elements of all kinds have been recorded. Editing, transformation, mixing on software designed for this.
No software required. The proposed route can be adapted to any multitrack sequencing software. The computer is only a tool, it is the composer who makes the music.

Practically what do we do?
The composer works “from the sounds” that he has most often recorded himself.
He chooses them, assembles them, deforms them, mixes them according to his project, at will.
of his intuition, his ideas and desires, gradually builds a music.
For those who wish and need it, exercises are offered which allow to approach at the same time techniques of realization
and precise musical proposals.

Composition / Invention
It is not a question of declaring themselves all composers, but of affirming that we can all ask ourselves composers' questions, with both seriousness and imagination.
To confront the game of a free invention.

What musical orientation? What style ?
This is a “musical research” process:
seek to invent a music beyond traditional values - note pitches, regular pulsations, instrumental timbres - without forbidding all that.
A “music of sounds”, in the broadest possible sense, a “music of
all sounds “as opposed to what one could obviously call too simplified“ a music of notes ”.
This choice, which apparently seems to shake up musical uses, is nevertheless part of a tradition of more than a century and rich in a repertoire that is too little known and which has had various names:

- Electroacoustic music
- Concrete music
- Acousmatic music
- Contemporary music

Finally, we each have a precious tool to never forget: our ear, and a fascinating and rewarding job to lead, questioning about oneself.
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