In this tutorial, you will focus on the theory and practice behind the programming, production, and engineering of professional bass lines and rhythms for electronic dance music.
Runtime: 3 Hours.
9 Videos
You will learn the basic principles and theory behind musical scales, modes, and how to use this to create basslines for dance music.
With various practical examples, you’ll learn techniques employed with composing, programming, and processing basslines.
This course is aimed towards beginners and introduces the basics of scales and chords so no prior experience is required.
In this tutorial, you will spend over 3 hours focusing on the theory and practice behind the programming, production, and engineering of professional bass lines and rhythms for electronic dance music.
You will start with an introductory course on some basic music theory. Then you are introduced to the principles and theories behind the creation of musical scales and working in different keys, including examination of the major and minor scales alongside the more esoteric modal forms such as Dorian, Lydian, and Mixolydian.
Moving beyond the musical theory, further sessions then discuss the techniques that are often employed when composing, programming, editing, tuning and processing of bass in order to add that all important groove to dance records. This includes detailed techniques such as compression, trip-sampling, frequency-splitting, side-chaining, modulation, tuning, keying and an introduction to synthesis techniques for different styles of bass timbres.
Session 01: 10 Mins.
Introduction to Musical Scales: an essential resource.
Session 02: 20 Mins.
The Different Musical Modes: Major, Minor, Dorian, etc.
Session 03: 17 Mins.
Groove Part 1: Timing and Values.
Session 04: 20 Mins.
Groove Part 2 Pitch Development.
Session 05: 20 Mins.
Modes and Accidents: How the use of different modes
Session 06: 15 Mins.
Extraction: How a bass groove can be extracted.
Session 07: 30 Mins.
Programming and Processing: Some synthesis techniques.
Session 08: 50 Mins.
Bass Timbre Tips and Tricks: For producing bass timbres.
Session 09: 20 Mins.
Further Processing: More tips, tricks and advice.
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