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Exploring the Essential Features of “Will Darling – Become a Music Making Machine”
Course Contents
- Introduction
- Producer mindsets
- Recommended kit
- How to produce prolifically
- The importance of referencing
- Sound selection over sound design
- Music theory hacks
- Using Splice & Loopcloud
- Arrangement
About This Course
Will Darling provides us with his powerful techniques for writing and finishing music. He is a Grammy shortlisted producer, mixing & mastering engineer, coach, speaker and founder of ‘EDM Tips’. In this course he talks about finishing more music than ever before, improving in the quickest way and developing your own signature sound.
You will learn:
- How to finish more music than ever before
- Improve in the quickest way
- Develop your own signature sound
- Mix quickly and effectively
- Mindset
- Schedule
- Workflow
- Sound selection
- MixingÂ
- MasteringÂ
Lessons:
1. Introduction
Producer, mixing mastering engineer, coach and speaker. Wills goal today is by the end of this session you’re going to know some of the most powerful techniques hes picked up and honed over the years to:
- Finish more music than ever before
- Improve in the quickest way
- Develop your own signature sound
- Mix quickly and effectively
2. Producer Mindsets
- You are a music producer, stop wanting to be it. Internalise it. Be it.Â
- Be a student of music – listen to different types of music, but focus on one.Â
- Always keep learning
- Accept today responsibility – no excuses
- Act.. despite how you feel
- Be a finisher, not a dabbler
- Be persistent and consistent
- Make decisions fastÂ
- Don’t reinvent the wheel
- Use sample banks and presets
- You don’t fail. You learn
- Be bold, be humble, give value
3. Recommended Kit
- Computer – As powerful as you can afford
- DAW – All do the same thing
- Decent paid of headphones and/or monitors
- Optional: Audio Interface
- Plugins
- Decent 3rd party synth – Serum, Spire, Sylenth1
- Decent saturator: Soundtoys Decapitator, Fabfilter Saturn2 , Sonnox Inflator, House of Kush OmegaÂ
- Decent Limiter: Fab Filter Pro L2 or iZotope Ozone
- Optional: Decent Reverb: Valhalla Room
4. How to Produce Prolifically
Split into 3 main stages:
- Music production – creativity, songwriting, sound design, arrangement\
- Mixing – Focus on making the song sound great by balancing the dynamics, frequencies and stereo image of the separate tracksÂ
- Mastering – Focus on polishing an already great track and increasing the loudness
Flow – Is your hallowed state, this is where you want to be.
Create your time blocks for your production time.
Create inspirational playlists:
- They are a perfect inspiration if you get writers blockÂ
- Combining 2 different sounds for originality
5. The importance of referencing
- Referencing is one of the most important skills you can learn in music productionÂ
- Not using a reference track is like trying to navigate with no map.
- Recreate sounds to learn techniques, reverse engineer
- Inspiration – arrangement and sound design
6. Sound Selection over Sound Design
Sound selection is vital to your process, it beats sound design and when you have selected sounds that work well together, your workflow becomes easier.
7. Music Theory Hacks
- Music theory is a force multiplier skill to learn. It’s not rocket science, but a few hours learning it will put you leagues ahead.Â
- You can also hack music theory, using MIDI banks like Unison or Niko’s MIDI packs
- Use Hook Theory
- Google tracks in other genres, use the chords and put them in your own track
Create a favourites folder:
- Favourite tracks
- Favorite samples
- Favourite effect chains
8. Using Splice & LoopCloud
The ultimate home for samples, presets and MIDI files. Splice & Loopcloud are 2 of the biggest sample stores out there.
9. Arrangement
Getting your loop into a full track.
Meet Your Teacher
Will Darling
Will Darling is a music producer, mixing & mastering engineer and the founder of EDM Tips – an online music production school that’s helped thousands of music producers over the past few years.
Before EDM Tips, Will was regularly DJing and producing house music for a number of years under different guises, having had several tracks in prominent dance music buzz charts across the world. His music has had international acclaim from the likes of Chic, The Freemasons and Future Music magazine, and he’s worked with many house music legends such as Joey Negro, Ron Carroll, Lempo, Kris Menace and Katherine Ellis – as well as pop singers such as Australian X-Factor’s Natalie Conway. His DJing has taken him around the world from Australia, Germany and India all the way back to The Ministry of Sound in London, and he’s also worked on Grammy shortlisted dance music.
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