Fundamental - the fifth DVD from Dance Music Production - is a tutorial dedicated to the ‘fundamental’ production techniques that all producers should be fully versed in.

In this first edition of the fundamental series, and due to popular request, this DVD discusses the most vital element behind all types of dance music: groove.

Over 3 hours of video tutorials focus on the crucial aspects behind the production, programming, building and engineering professional sounding drum rhythms. The DVD begins with step-by-step tutorials on synthesizing a number of different drums timbres, alongside editing, tuning and layering to produce the perfect timbres. If you thought it was as simple as choosing a few samples…think again.

The tutorials then move onto the different techniques involved in programming professional dance rhythms using a number of genres (House and Trance, Chill Out, Progressive House, Tech House and Techno) as examples, revealing the various techniques involved in keeping them sounding fresh, how and where to use dissonance and projection, alongside the use of effects and processors to create that professional sound that your entire track depends upon. And all in the same, complete, in-depth style you’ve come to expect from the Dance Music Productions DVD series.

If you struggle programming drum timbres and rhythms that groove, Fundamental 1 will unlock your potential.

NOTE:

This DVD contains MIDI files used for the project and is a DVD-ROM. Therefore is designed to be played on a computer. It will not play in a standard DVD player.

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The third DVD on writing and producing dance music.

This course focuses on mixing and mastering dance music.

 

Following on from the DVD Production Series Volume 2: Trance, comes the long awaited tutorial on mixing and mastering the trance track Sunset. This 3 hour video course is designed to be used in conjunction with the Dance Music Manual (first or second edition) and follows Phiadra as they continue to mix and master the track they produced throughout Volume 2.

The screen recording software was left running throughout the entire mixing and mastering process, so nothing is missed out and the DVD also contains all the audio channels from the original track allowing you to follow and develop upon the techniques used and discussed throughout.

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