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Learn how to play the 5 most important strumming patterns used in real songs for acoustic and electric guitar.

With a basic understanding of the piano playing fundamentals, you can unlock hours of enjoyment for yourself and your listeners—and it's never too late to get started. In this beginner's course, discover how to confidently approach those 88 keys so you can start playing your favorite songs. Learn proper techniques for sitting at the piano, hand position, reading notes and rhythms, and playing chords. Learn about melodic and harmonic intervals, syncopated notes, triads, progressions, triplets, and more.

Graham Cochrane, Florida-based audio engineer and founder of TheRecordingRevolution.com, is coming to Pro Studio Live to share some of his most critical mixing tips with us and talk about how he found a way to “revolutionize” the audio engineering field! Having had a start in the industry similar to a lot of us, Graham has found a way to take what he loves to do as a musician and create an incredibly successful business out of it, strengthening his skills and building his clientele along the way.

iZotope Neutron is a powerful mixing plugin that combines top-notch audio processing with the latest innovations in metering and analysis. In this course, discover how to incorporate this mixing and mastering tool in your digital audio workstation (DAW) workflow. Follow Nate Mars as he walks through how to use the modules available in Neutron—including EQ, Exciter, and Transient Shaper—and shows how to identify and fix masking issues with the Masking Meter. Nate also explains how to use the Learn function to pinpoint areas where you should apply processing. Plus, he dives into one of most exciting features offered in Neutron, Track Assistant, which listens to your audio and suggests preset settings tailored to your track.

Learn the nuts and bolts of mixing in Logic Pro X! Eli Krantzberg takes you on a mixing journey using nothing but LPX, showing you all the features and functions, steps, techniques and theories to use to create a professional sounding product. You also get the full Logic Project and audio files so you can mix or remix along in real-time!

In this Drumstroke™ video tutorial series, drum guru Luke Oswald lays down the groove and shows you awesome drumming combinations and patterns that you can use to spice up your drumming or drum programming!

Music theory is fundamental to making and playing music. This course is designed to teach the fundamentals of rhythm in both a user-friendly and songwriting-focused way, demonstrating rhythm on drums, guitar, bass, keyboards, and vocals, allowing songwriters to learn music theory while they learn song craft on their instruments. Music producer and record label owner David Franz starts the course with the building blocks of rhythm: counting, notes, measures, rests, rhythm notation, subdivisions, and tempo. He then explains time signatures, discussing common, compound, and asymmetrical time signatures, as well as double time and half time, and how to choose the time signature for a song. Next, he discusses the concepts of feel and timing, including dynamics, accents, articulations, tempo changes, swing, syncopation, polyrhythms, and playing ahead of, on, and behind the beat. Along the way, David demonstrates all of these concepts by playing musical examples on drums, guitar, bass, keyboard, and vocals.

In this Drumstroke™ video tutorial series, drum master Luke Oswald reveals how to create both basic and advanced drum fills and patterns, that you can apply to both real drums and programmed drums in your DAW!

Shown on a drum kit, Luke breaks down the art of creating and playing various drum fills and patterns, including ways to phrase them so they flow just right and impress the listener.

Want to get going with Cubase 9? Join Cubase master Dave Askew and learn what you need to get up and running fast, all the way to exporting your first song, with these in-depth Cubase 9 video tutorials.

Dave begins with installation & authorization, how to prepare before starting a recording project, setting up and routing your hardware and making your first project.

In this video tutorial series, Toontrack expert Luke Oswald walks you through the process of creating a funky fusion track from scratch using only Toontrack EZdrummer 2, EZKeys, Superior Drummer 2 and EZmix 2. Get your groove on!

Luke also shows you how to use the new Fusion MIDI packs for EZkeys and the Fusion Grooves drum MIDI pack (which he created) as the foundation for your creativity. These MIDI packs were designed to be used together and ensure that your drum and keyboard tracks will always sound great.

The virtual instruments inside Logic Pro X are some of the main tools used for creating the music we know and hear everywhere. In this course, author Evan Sutton explores ways you can use the virtual instruments found in this industry-leading, professional audio product from Apple. Evan shares a comprehensive examination of the vintage instruments in Logic, including the B3 and Clav, basic synthesizers like the ES 1 Subtractive Synth and ES P Polyphonic Synth, advanced synthesizers including the ES 2 Hybrid Synth and Retro Synth, the EXS24 sampler, and other major instruments including Alchemy, Sculpture, Drum Kit Designer, and Ultrabeat. He covers working with oscillators and filters, understanding modulation, designing sounds, routing, mapping, slicing, and much more.

In this course, Dave Bode will take you on a music production journey and teach you how to use a Percussion Sample Library - the professional way. You'll learn about mixing, compression, mastering effects and how to use the Kontakt library to process drums.

If you’re a producer or composer that has experience using MIDI keyboards and software, and you want to create a pool of string samples to use in a piece of music, this is the course for you.

In these simplified video tutorials, piano master Tom Regis lays out the basics of the blues structure, simple left hand comping, and scales and blues expressions for the right hand so you can start playing authentic Blues right away!

Studio wiz Paul Ortiz delivers a crash course on programming virtual acoustic drums in Cubase 9, utilizing Cubase's built-in features and functions to craft the perfect drum performance for your song.