
Course
Ten Beats: Your First Month in a DAW
“I opened the software three times and closed it three times.”
The catalogue
Every one of the 13 courses and programmes is recorded, streamed and watched at your own pace. They sit on four shelves, by the problem each one answers.
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CH 01
You have a laptop and ideas but nothing finished. You want a track that starts, develops and ends.

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

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

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

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“I find a loop I love and then have no idea what to do to it.”
CH 02
The ideas are there, the recording is not. It sounds smaller and muddier in your headphones than on the radio.

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

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“My voice sounds good in the room and thin on the recording.”

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“I want it to be loud enough without being crushed, and I do not know where that line is.”
CH 03
You will be on a stage or behind the decks soon, and the room will tell you straight away if it works.

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“I can mix two tracks in my bedroom. A real room with a real crowd is another matter.”

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“The band asked me to do the sound, and the PA has a hundred knobs.”
CH 04
The music is finished. Now it needs a release, a rights set-up, or a place on a screen.

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“The track is finished. Everyone tells me something different about what happens next.”

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“I make music, but a director needs footsteps, rooms and a whole world of sound.”
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