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This week here at Sonic Academy we have something pretty special for you, as we welcome back sound design guru and Mau5trap artist Dom Kane - and this time he's showing us how to make his latest release 'Structures' from the ground up.

Ableton Live 10 comes with several different compressor plugins that each have different features and capabilities. Understanding the differences and similarities between them will allow to use each much more effectively.

Pretty much every DAW comes with stock Equalizer plugins that you can use straight out of the box – and Ableton Live is no exception. All Ableton users have access to two simplistic, powerful EQ plugins that can be extremely useful if you know how to use them.

Many new producers are often overwhelmed when they first open Ableton Live 10. The plethora of features and tools at their disposal can initially be quite daunting. With this extensive quick start course, we’re going to help new Ableton users gain a better understanding of what this powerful DAW has to offer.

In this tutorial, esteemed producer Nick will walk you through the basic ways you can create drums in Ableton Live. There are many tools in this DAW that make drum creation simple and fun.

When you listen to players like Peter Green, Eric Clapton, Joe Bonamassa, Robben Ford and BB King, there’s a special and very distinctive “sweet” quality to their lines and every note seems to sit just perfectly over the prevailing chord changes. That sweet, bright major sounding quality is created by targeting the right notes - those sweet notes - at just the right time, often combining both major and minor pentatonic scales in the same lick.

Artists guide from being self managed to hiring a manager to help build your music career As the artist Manafest I've sold over 300,000 albums worldwide, over 1,000,000 singles and toured over 19 different countries.

Ableton Live 10 is out now and there are thousands of new producers out there. It can be scary looking at the huge collection of audio effects included. By the end of this 10-part course you’ll be able to understand the production fundamentals by using the audio effects inside Ableton Live 10.

A major feature that tons of Ableton Live producer’s constantly take advantage of is the Groove Pool. This clever tool allows users to instantly apply different levels of swing to their MIDI clips in Ableton, making their tracks more danceable and appealing.

Use the rules of species counterpoint to create contrapuntal music. “Species” counterpoint is the traditional method for learning how to write contrapuntal music.

This course will examine the music industry in the United States, with the unique perspective gained by Vanderbilt University’s location in Nashville, TN. Nashville is a major center of music in the United States, and the music created here has a global reach, particularly in the country, rock, pop, singer-songwriter, and Americana genres. However, students will learn that the basic principles of recording, marketing, copyright, licensing, and live performance are the same, regardless of musical style or genre.

What do children need from education now, and in the future? How is technology best used in teaching and learning? How can innovative approaches to education be reconciled with established, traditional ones? What does student-centred learning really mean?

Licensing your music for use in video games, film, advertisements and other audio-visual contexts is one of the best ways for you to monetize your songwriting efforts. In this course, learn how to license your music. Instructor Jake Versluis helps to acquaint you with the basics of music licensing, explaining what licensing is, exactly, how income is generated in music licensing, and what you own when writing and recording. He also steps through how to strategically prepare and pitch your songs, work with quote requests and master use and sync licenses, broadcast your successes, and more.

Brazilian Girls are a funky and eccentric dance music group from NYC and in this full-length mixing tutorial Grammy winner Carlos “El Loco” Bedoya mixes their single “The Critic” from start to finish.

No one would argue that the best way to learn how to play bebop is to learn how to play songs from the bebop songbook. For guitar players, learning songs always starts with learning the chords, progressions, and accompaniment approaches first. In this rhythm edition of the Bebop Guitar Fake Book from Sheryl Bailey, you’ll learn the chords, rhythm patterns, and comping approaches for bebop chord progressions used in dozens of the most popular bebop standards.