The fundamental pack is the perfect package for anyone looking for the 'fundamental' professional production techniques and consists of :

Fundamental 1: Drums
Fundamental 2: Bass
Fundamental 3: Harmony

Fundamental is a continuing DVD series that actively discusses both the theory and practice that form an integral part of any professional dance musician’s production skills.

In Fundamental 1, the 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.

Fundamental 2 continues to discuss groove - this time concentrating on bass.

Over 4 hours of video tutorials focus on the theory and practice behind the programming, production and engineering of professional bass lines and rhythms for dance records.

 The DVD begins with an introductory course on some music theory, introducing the viewer to the theory behind scales and modes - a requirement for producing bass lines that work. The sessions then move on to cover the principles behind composition, programming, editing, tuning and processing of bass in order to add the all important groove to dance records.  This includes techniques used such as compression, trip sampling, frequency splitting, side-chaining, modulation, tuning, keying and synthesizing techniques for different bass timbres.

Fundamental 3 continues the series, this time examining harmony.

Over 4 hours of video tutorials focus on the theory and practice behind the composition, programming, production and engineering of harmony and pads/strings for dance records. The DVD begins with an in-depth discussion on the music theory for chords, introducing the viewer to the theory behind how both chords and structures are composed. The sessions then move on to cover the principles behind chord composition, structure, programming, synthesis, editing and processing of pads and strings in order to add harmony to dance records.

Reviews:

"Great information! I know I'll be going over and over these lessons again."

"Many concepts described here cannot be learned from anywhere else, unless you have a friend who is producer. I'm really glad I bought this DVD."

"BTW, I personally have hard time learning anything like this without following along and creating beats described in the tutorials by hand and fortunately everything is described in a way that can be followed in any DAW and similar VSTs (I used Ableton Live 8). Thank you for this!"

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