Electronic Music Performance Techniques

Electronic Music Performance Techniques

This course is part of Electronic Music Production Specialization

Instructor: Rishabh Rajan

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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6 hours to complete

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

31 reviews

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6 hours to complete

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From the Moog analog synthesizers in the 1960s to the contemporary usage of computers, performance controllers, and mobile devices, Electronic Digital Instruments (EDIs) have long been capable of offering artists a new range of musical expression. In this one-of-a-kind course, you’ll learn the essential skills you need to perform on an EDI.

Your instructor is EDI musician and Berklee College of Music associate professor Rishabh Rajan. He will take you through the basics of EDI performance and give you pointers on how to build an arrangement on your EDI. Whether you have just ordered your first pad-controller or have already been experimenting with electronic music, you’ll learn the basics of performing and arranging on the EDI. You will start by building drum beats and reading drum notation. Then you will create bass lines and harmonic accompaniment. Finally, you will learn how to live loop all of these elements and perform an arrangement for a live audience. This course utilizes Ableton push for its demonstrations but can be completed with other DAWs and EDIs.

Welcome to the course! Here we will cover all the details about the course and what you'll need to know to get the most out of your experience. Then, we will practice several basic drum patterns as well as look at how to create more complex drum tracks for your original songs. We will also discuss how you can program a song into your EDI to discover new ideas. Finally, we will learn how to live loop drum patterns using Ableton Live.

What's included

9 videos6 readings2 assignments2 discussion prompts

9 videos Total 22 minutes

Course Overview 1 minute
Setting Up Your EDI 1 minute
Launch Quantization and Session View 3 minutes
What You'll Learn in Lesson 1 0 minutes
Set-Up in Ableton Live 3 minutes
Basic Drum Patterns 5 minutes
Complex Drum Patterns 2 minutes
Sampling and Slicing Sounds 2 minutes
Performing and Looping Drum Patterns 4 minutes

6 readings Total 55 minutes

Welcome! 10 minutes
Earn A Course Certificate 10 minutes
Submitting Your Projects 10 minutes
Connect with Your Classmates 5 minutes
Course Resources 10 minutes
Latency 10 minutes

2 assignments Total 30 minutes

Drum Patterns 15 minutes
SELF-ASSESSMENT: Create Your Own Drum Pattern 15 minutes

2 discussion prompts Total 15 minutes

Meet and Greet 5 minutes
Create Your Own Drum Pattern 10 minutes

In this second lesson, we will look at how to play harmonic accompaniment on the EDI. We will play through several basic chord progressions and learn to play extended chords such as 7th's and 9th's. Finally, we will practice recording and looping harmonic parts.

What's included

6 videos1 reading2 assignments1 discussion prompt

6 videos Total 20 minutes

What You'll Learn in Lesson 2 0 minutes
Set-Up 4 minutes
Playing Chords with the Ableton Push 6 minutes
Performing 7th Chords 3 minutes
Performing 9th Chords 4 minutes
Live Looping on the Ableton Push 2 minutes

1 reading Total 5 minutes

2 assignments Total 45 minutes

Harmonic Accompaniment 15 minutes
SELF-ASSESSMENT: Create Your Own Harmonic Accompaniment 30 minutes

1 discussion prompt Total 10 minutes

Create Your Own Harmonic Accompaniment 10 minutes

Now that we have learned some basics on the EDI, it is time to start building a composition. In this lesson we will discuss how to develop an interesting bass line as well as how to improvise melodies using the Minor Blues Scale. By the end of the lesson, you will be able to create your own bass line for your original composition and practice improvising melodies on top of it.

What's included

4 videos2 assignments1 discussion prompt

4 videos Total 12 minutes

What You'll Learn in Lesson 3 0 minutes
Developing Bass Parts 5 minutes
Developing Melodies with an EDI 3 minutes
Improvising Using the Minor Blues Scale 3 minutes

2 assignments Total 25 minutes

Melody and Bass Line 15 minutes
SELF-ASSESSMENT: Create Your Own Melody and Bass Lines 10 minutes

1 discussion prompt Total 10 minutes

Create Your Own Melody and Bass Line 10 minutes

In this lesson we will put together everything we have learned so far to create an arrangement to perform in front of an audience. We will discuss how to create our own sounds on Ableton and we will practice creating arrangements that build and entertain our audience. By the end of this lesson, you will be able to perform your own arrangement.

What's included

6 videos1 reading1 assignment1 peer review

6 videos Total 20 minutes

What You'll Learn in Lesson 4 1 minute
Developing Sounds 6 minutes
Real Time Performing 6 minutes
Arrangement for Performance 4 minutes
Example Performance 3 minutes
Course Wrap-Up 0 minutes

1 reading Total 7 minutes

Are you looking for more? 7 minutes

1 assignment Total 15 minutes

Performing an Arrangement 15 minutes

1 peer review Total 60 minutes

Perform an Original Arrangement 60 minutes

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Reviewed on May 5, 2023

grate and clearly explain your skill gonna be developd.

Reviewed on Sep 2, 2020

Great course to move onto once Ableton Live fundamentals are known

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