Creative Ableton: Complete Course
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Course features
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Author: Elliot Cole
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Level: Beginner / Int.
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Study time: 35 hours?
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Video time: 10.5 hours
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Videos: 142
Course overview
Learn Ableton Live by making music. I'll guide you through 8 creative projects that introduce you to every aspect of the program. You'll learn technical skills including sampling, looping, editing, MIDI, mixing, and sound and instrument design, but also musical skills - how to write beats, melodies and harmonies, arranging, pacing, development and form.
This course is great for absolute beginners, but also for people with some experience who want to get a better foundation, or who have struggled expressing and completing musical ideas.
Elliot is available to answer questions and review your work as you go.
Full list of topics covered
This course is great for absolute beginners, but also for people with some experience who want to get a better foundation, or who have struggled expressing and completing musical ideas.
Elliot is available to answer questions and review your work as you go.
Full list of topics covered
What's included?
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8 Projects
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142 Videos
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Zoom Help Sessions
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All areas of Ableton covered
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Private lesson with Elliot upon completion
Get Skills
You'll get clear explanations and lots of hands-on practice using all the tools available in Ableton Live. You'll learn how to play it like an instrument, how to improvise, record, arrange and mix songs, and how to design your own sounds, instruments, and effects.
Deepen your musicality
This is a music course disguised as a software course. While you're learning how to use the program, you'll also learn how to generate and develop musical ideas, shape lines, harmonies and rhythms, and learn how to develop your own sound.
Classroom Tested
I've been developing and refining this course in the classroom, teaching it at Juilliard and The New School over 40 times. All of that experimentation and experience has gone into this.
Students say
Elliot’s Ableton class was an essential milestone in understanding my vision for myself as a musician. He opened the door to a new language of possibilities in a way that few artists can do. If you’re ready to see some new musical light, talk to Elliot.
Every once in a while a breakthrough happens in one's creative practice and when you look back at it you always see it as a moment of deep and important change - Elliot's Ableton course is one of these moments for me... I would recommend this course to anyone interested in music technology, recording or composing.
Jan Esbra
Elliot’s classes took me from having NO idea what I was doing with music production to now having the flow I pictured other producers having. I feel competent, creative, and able to finish my ideas. Elliot simplifies and translates complicated concepts of music production—something I’ve found other instructors unable to do well—and because of his experience as a composer, he really understands the creative process and gives wise advice on how to make your own process more playful and rewarding.
Will this course work for Live 12?
YES. Although the course was recorded in Live 11, everything you learn will be easily transferrable to the new version, which has some new features but is not fundamentally different. I am also working on a supplementary module to introduce new features of Live 12, which all students will have free access to when I'm done.
YES. Although the course was recorded in Live 11, everything you learn will be easily transferrable to the new version, which has some new features but is not fundamentally different. I am also working on a supplementary module to introduce new features of Live 12, which all students will have free access to when I'm done.
Course Lessons
Meet the instructor
Elliot Cole
Elliot Cole is a composer, producer and "charismatic contemporary bard" (NY Times). He teaches Music Production and Composition at Juilliard and The New School. He has written for and performed with Grammy winners Roomful of Teeth, Grammy nominees A Far Cry and Metropolis Ensemble, and many other ensembles. His music evokes "sparkling icicles of sound" (Rolling Stone) and is performed frequently around the world. He has a PhD in Music Composition from Princeton University, and lives in New York.
Learn more at elliotcolemusic.com
Learn more at elliotcolemusic.com
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