Pathway planner

Pick where you want to get to. See the order.

Tell us the goal and the hours you can spare each week. You get an ordered run of courses, a week-by-week bar and what it adds up to. Nothing here is a bundle: the total is the listed prices, added together.

1 · What is the goal?
2 · Hours a week you can give it

A starting point, for finish a first track at 4 hours a week

4 steps, 55 h 10 min of video, about 14 weeks at 4 hours a week

The weeks count video time only. Allow extra for trying things out in your own software or equipment.

Step 1Ten Beats: Your First Month in a DAWWeeks 1–3

Step 2Synth Voices: Sound Design from an Init PatchWeeks 3–6

Step 3Songs That Finish: Writing and ArrangingWeeks 6–10

Step 4 · thenMixing at Home: From Muddy to BalancedWeeks 10–14

  1. 01 A silhouetted producer typing on a laptop beside a MIDI keyboard in a dark room

    First, on this shelf

    Ten Beats: Your First Month in a DAW

    “I opened the software three times and closed it three times.”

    41 lessons · 8 h 53 min · 3 weeks at this pace

    262145513
  2. 02 A MIDI keyboard glowing electric blue with lit pads and knobs

    First, on this shelf

    Synth Voices: Sound Design from an Init Patch

    “I only ever scroll presets, and I cannot make the sound in my head.”

    52 lessons · 13 h · 4 weeks at this pace

    262145651
  3. 03 A man in a plaid shirt writing a song on an acoustic guitar in warm light

    First, on this shelf

    Songs That Finish: Writing and Arranging

    “I have forty good eight-bar ideas and no finished songs.”

    60 lessons · 16 h · 4 weeks at this pace

    262145774
  4. 04 Two stacked monitors showing a mixing timeline in a blue-lit control room

    Then, on the next shelf: Making it sound right

    Mixing at Home: From Muddy to Balanced

    “It sounds fine on my headphones and awful everywhere else.”

    61 lessons · 17 h 17 min · 5 weeks at this pace

    262145947

Prefer one continuous route?

The Producer Programme: Idea to Release

Nine modules that follow a track from first idea to a released master: writing, sound design, arranging, mixing, mastering and releasing.

111 lessons · 35 h 9 min · 9 weeks at 4 hours a week

2621453,189

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Making the first sounds
Making it sound right
Playing it for a room
Getting it heard

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