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Songwriting & Composition in Ableton Live

In this exciting course, I teach you the unique workflows I've developed with Ableton Live to create incredible and engaging music. I show how to get the musical ideas out of your head and into Ableton Live accurately, quickly, and with style. We go over a multitude of tactics, including: pulling emotional responses from listeners, deep diving into beatmaking, leveraging MIDI tools and scale awareness features, utilizing music theory, music career guidance, and so much more!
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You Will Learn...

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Composition workflows that move ideas out of your head and yield amazing music
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Tactics that pull emotional responses out of your listeners
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Song Structuring techniques for compelling results
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Practical applications for Music Theory
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Modern Beatmaking and Sampling
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How to Master the Piano Roll
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How to create Transitions and Fills to move energy
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Finalization workflows for productivity

You Will Get...

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Video lessons with 20+ hours of content
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An organized and optimized curriculum
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Mentorship via the Seed to Stage private Discord Server
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Feedback on your compositions through the community
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Loads of resources such as Samples and Ableton Templates
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Educational discounts from Ableton & more
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Lifetime access to continuous new content updated monthly
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Lasting skills that will ignite and elevate your career!

WHAT OUR MEMbERS ARE SAYING

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Incertezza
Die Kursinhalte sind alle sehr gut aufgebaut werden in einem sinnvollen Lerntempo vermittelt und es kommen nahezu alle Fragen in den Lektionen vor, die sich mir beim Lernen der Inhalte gestellt haben.
July, 2023
Ambique
These courses are truly amazing. They have helped me bring my compositions to a level I never thought I would be capable of. Highly recommend for anyone looking to step their game up!
August, 2023
Simon Wu
This course has been one of the best investments I’ve made in recent years. Incredibly comprehensive and delivered with a lot of charm, Anthony teaches everything you need to understand Ableton!
Kevo
..buckle in, buy the Mixing and Mastering course, watch a video every couple days, try to implement what you’ve learned, and you will be astonished at how much better your mixes will be sounding.
August, 2023
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Winter
..the amount of progress I've made since has been amazing looking back. Anthony is an incredible teacher and I always feel great about what I learned at the end of each lesson.
July, 2023
Corey
I am super happy with the courses I purchased and they're really helpful and fun. Also Anthony is simply a really great, friendly teacher. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Seed to Stage to anyone!
Bas Postulart
As an already certified mixing-, and pro- audio engineer I bought these courses and I got to know so much more and it definitely improved my mixes big time.. well done course with regular updates!
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Fab y Luz
His friendly teaching style and passion for Ableton’s abilities sure is contagious! You can rewatch them at your own pace and get inspired to make your musical expressions come to life.
Rise Bailey Rise
I love the Seed to Stage courses. So much good quality information, presented in a clear understandable way with great real world examples.
July, 2023
thomk
I would recommend the Seed To Stage courses to anyone who desires to get a handle on and up their game with Live.
August, 2023
Patrick Eaton
Super thorough and informative courses presented in a well paced and interesting style. Very satisfied with the content, I've learnt so much from Anthony's courses already!
Angus Prime
Joining Seed to Stage has genuinely changed my (musical) life. I say joining because it not just about the incredibly in depth, easy to follow, well balanced courses, but the also the community.
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Course Curriculum

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2.6 The Groove Pool
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18.1 Borrowing Elements
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19.3 Rinse Repeat - Finalizing Arrangement Workflow
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2 - Beat Making

2.1 You Are Now Entering a No Pressure Zone: Songwriting Activities (2:45)
2.2 Beat Making 101: Ableton Drums (14:27)
2.3 The Piano Roll for Drums (12:07)
2.4 Velocity & Recording Midi Drums (19:40)
2.5 Quantization and Timing (9:13)
2.6 The Groove Pool (11:38)
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2.7 Audio Drums in Arrangement View (12:02)
2.8 Pros and Cons to Audio Drum Arrangement (8:21)
2.9 Drum Loops & Warping Beats (17:49)
2.10 Beat Making Basics Review (10:49)
2.11 Clip Gain (8:41)
2.12 Beatmaking Drum Bus (20:32)
2.13 Simpler One Shot Mode (17:46)
2.14 How Drum Rack Works (10:03)
2.15 Drum Rack Reverb and Routing (11:21)
2.16 Generate: Rhythm (15:12)
2.17 Generate: Euclidean (6:22)
2.18 Randomization 101: Velocity, Chance, & Note Groups (11:25)
2.19 Infinite Drum Kits: Random Drum Kit Generator (11:41)

3 - Bass Lines and Melodies

3.1 The Piano Roll for Basslines and Melodies (10:43)
3.2 Infinite Instruments - Random Preset Generators (6:03)
3.3 Scale Mode In Clips (12:37)
3.4 Clips on Clips! (12:54)
3.5 Tonal Movement: Pitchbend (11:54)
3.6 Pitchbend Settings & Strategies (12:36)
3.7 Glide, Legato, and Portamento (13:45)
3.8 Generate: Seed (12:28)
3.9 Generate: Shape (6:06)
3.10 Transform: Connect & Recombine (17:56)
3.11 Transform: Ornament & Span (12:00)

4 - Chord Progressions

4.1 The Piano Roll for Chord Progressions (8:31)
4.2 Making better Chord Progressions (11:18)
4.3 Generate Stacks (16:12)
4.4 Transform: Arpeggiate & Strum (10:16)
4.5 Midi Effects & Scale Awareness: Pitch (13:13)
4.6 Midi Effects & Scale Awareness: Scale (14:44)
4.7 Midi Effects & Scale Awareness: Chord (10:26)
4.8 Midi Effects & Scale Awareness: Arpeggiator (10:37)
4.9 Midi Effects & Scale Awareness: Random, Note Delay, Note Length (12:52)

5 - Composition 101

5.1 Composition Workflows (1:59)
5.2 Worklow 1: Clips, & Phrases - Templates & Musical Ideation (14:47)
5.3 Workflow 1: Clips & Phrases - Session to Arrangement View (15:23)
5.4 Workflow 2: Sound Collage Montage (14:01)
5.5 Workflow 2: Comping & Take Lanes (15:40)
5.6 Workflow 3: Imitation Game (20:32)
5.7 Workflow 4: Chord Progression Generation with Midi Effects (12:54)
5.8 Workflow 5: Unpacking Chord Progressions into Tracks (8:20)
5.9 Workflow 5: Anchor Recording (13:23)

6 - The Challenge Begins

6.1 The 2 Week+ Songwriting Challenge (4:39)
6.2 Ableton File Organization! (DO THIS) (9:24)
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7 - Composition Tools

7.1 How to use Ableton Simpler (10:05)
7.2 How to use Ableton Drum Rack (12:15)
7.3 Quantization! (12:16)
7.4 Fixing Audio Timing: Elastic Audio Warping (8:54)
7.5 Punch in and Punch Out (3:53)
7.6 Comping & Takes (11:10)

8 - Songcraft & Structure

8.1 Parts and Patterns (8:32)
8.2 Session to Arrangement: How to Structure Your Song (9:10)
8.3 Recording and Editing Audio Clips in Arrangement View (8:51)
8.4 Automation in Arrangement View (11:20)
8.5 Recording Automation with MIDI (7:52)
8.6 Exporting! (11:54)

9 - Community

9.1 Community Intro (2:27)
9.2 Getting and Giving Feedback (3:41)
9.3 Soundcloud Private Links (4:09)

10 - Inspiration Strikes!

10.1 Feed the Music: Inspiration and Lifestyle (2:59)
10.2 Inspiration Strikes! Always Record! (2:34)
10.3 Convert Captured Rhythms to Midi! (10:04)
10.4 Convert Captured Melodies to Midi! (9:45)
10.5 Convert Captured Chords to Midi! (4:51)

11 - Sampling

11.1 Intro to Sampling (1:23)
11.2 Workflow 1: Manual Sampling (12:33)
11.3 Workflow 2: Simpler Sample Slicing (11:59)
11.4 Workflow 3: Sample Auto Slicing (9:32)

12 - Creating Emotional Responses

12.1 What is Common Among All Great Music? (2:43)
12.2 Examining Emotional Responses in Music (10:23)

13 - Space and Time

13.1 The Business 1: Note Ranges (14:13)
13.2 The Business 2: The Piano Roll (8:07)
13.3 The Business 3: Rhythm and Syncopation (9:59)
13.4 The Business 4: Busy isn't bad, its a tool! (12:15)
13.5 Compositional Dynamics (17:58)
13.6 Transitions: Fills (22:09)
13.7 Transition Effects (14:39)

14 - A Little Music Theory Goes a Long Way

14.1 Introduction to Theory (1:23)
14.2 Scales (5:41)
14.3 Scales in Action (9:27)
14.4 Chord Formulas: How to Play Any Basic Chord (9:19)
14.5 Chord Progressions 1: The Diatonic Formula (5:05)
14.6 The Diatonic Chord Songwriting Chart!
14.7 Chord Progressions 2: Functional Harmony (6:24)
14.8 Chord Progressions 3: Secondary Dominants (8:49)
14.9 Chord Progressions 4: Inversions and Voicings (14:22)
14.10 Chord Progressions 5: Borrowed Chords (5:50)
14.11 Borrowed Chords Songwriting Chart!

15 - Melodies and Hooks

15.1 Writing Melodies 1: Chord Tones (11:15)
15.2 Writing Melodies 2: The Hook (9:43)
15.3 Writing Melodies 3: Ableton Hook Workflow (8:43)
15.4 Writing Melodies 4: Reharmonization Workflow (14:48)

16 - Compositional Layering

16.1 Intro into Layering (1:20)
16.2 Basic Layering Techniques (10:11)
16.3 More Layering Techniques - Racks and Freeze (11:41)
16.4 Drum Layering Techniques (9:44)
16.5 Creating Harmonies with Midi Effects (7:44)

17 - The Quest for Originality: Tempo and Clock

17.1 Odd Timing Signatures 1: Intro (2:35)
17.2 Odd Timing Sigs 2: Ableton Integration (9:30)
17.3 Odd Timing Sigs 3: Writing Odd Timing Riffs (14:39)
17.4 The Triplet Grid! (6:52)
17.5 Polymeters (4:00)
17.6 Poly Rhythms (6:54)

18 - Writing B, C, and D Parts: Escaping the Loop!

18.1 Borrowing Elements (8:13)
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18.2 Doubling Down in Unison (4:25)
18.3 Easy Key Changes (7:43)
18.4 Sub Part Variations (8:05)

19 - Actually Finishing Songs?

19.1 The Composition / Songwriting Roadmap (2:12)
19.2 Objectivity (3:59)
19.3 Rinse Repeat - Finalizing Arrangement Workflow (5:33)
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20 - Taking the Ear for a Ride

20.1 Arrangement Layout and Organization (8:39)
20.2 Less is More (16:58)
20.3 Adding Variations: Fills and Voicings (29:46)
20.4 Adding Variations: New Chords and Leads (8:11)
20.5 Using Session View within an Arrangement (11:16)
20.6 Compositional Automation (18:41)
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30% off Ableton Live new and upgrade licenses with Student Discount
Exclusive Entry to the Private Discord Community (Main Course Students)
Lifetime Access to the ever expanding Video Lesson Content
Downloads including Samples, Instruments and Devices
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