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Learning

Some good videos on the essentials. Tick them off as you go.

Getting started & DAWs

Set up a home studio, make your room tell you the truth, and find your way around the software you make music in.

Studio basics & room treatment

DAW navigation & template design

Session management in whichever DAW you use.

Recording & capture

Capture the source cleanly at home, then edit, tighten and tune what you recorded.

Home recording & mic techniques

Audio editing, comping & pitch/time correction

Arrangement & theory

The creative core: the theory under the notes, writing the loop, and turning it into a song.

Music theory essentials

Notes, intervals, scales, chords and Roman numeral analysis.

Core loop & songwriting

Writing hooks, melodies and core 4- and 8-bar loops inside your DAW.

Arrangement & structural flow

Timeline architecture, verse and chorus structures, and dynamic flow.

Sound design & production

Your sonic palette: build sounds with synths and samples, then get them out of your DAW and into other people's.

Synthesis & sample manipulation

Stem export & collaboration workflows

Mixing, mastering & delivery

The polish: balance, EQ, compression, space and low end, then mastering and the formats you deliver in.

Mixing fundamentals

Mastering & delivery formats

Releasing & music business

The outer ring: distribution, metadata and royalties, and the copyright law behind songs and samples.

Distribution & metadata

Sample clearance & copyright law

Insiders

Not essential, just useful: the inside story of real records and sessions, from the people who made them.

Inside the records

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