Groove3 Downtempo for Beginners

Production guru Josh Bess delivers an in-depth Downtempo production video tutorial series! See how to make your first beat in this popular genre, including sound design, editing, mixing and mastering for a polished, professional sounding track. These videos are designed for beginner producers looking to make their first Downtempo beat.

A basic understanding of music production in the Live 10 Arrangement View is recommended to get the most out of this course, but you can also apply this info to any DAW, so everyone can learn and benefit from the instruction. To begin, Josh welcomes you and shows you how to get set up with Ableton Live, and then starts with a vibey guitar part, and explains why it's perfect for the foundation of this Downtempo song.

Next, Josh goes over how to choose a great drum loop, humanize the percussion and bass parts for a better feel, creative sound design ideas such as turning a clock tick sound into a cool percussion part, enhance the groove further with claps, make atmospheric background effects, and much more.

Moving on Josh goes into the ways to mix and master downtempo, keeping to the genre's true sound by utilizing proper volume balancing and metering, using the right amount of EQ, stereo width and panning, getting creative with Auto-Pan, Sidechain Compression, and Multi-Band Compression and other tools, and finally, how to export your song with a slow fade out.

To see what these comprehensive Downtempo production tutorials show you, and how you'll make your first Downtempo beat fast and easy, see the individual Downtempo video tutorial descriptions on this page. Get down with the Downtempo genre today... Watch "Downtempo for Beginners" now!