Platinum Songwriting: From First Note To Production Mastery

Unleashing Your Creative Potential: Crafting Immersive Melodies, Powerful Lyrics and Masterful Production

What you'll learn

Learn from the best!: Multi-genre artists from my favourite label, Cloudkid will make appearances and talk industry, lessons, discussion/advice, lectures.

Complete a song in under 4 hours with NO musical experience!: Take part in the "SONG RUSH" which will prepare and familiarise you with the song-making process.

Chords, Rhythm, Melody, Lyrics!: All sub-topics (e.g sound design, mixing, theory, etc) are taught in support of these. In this new, constantly updating course!

Attitudes and Attributes: Inspiration, artist envy, behaviour, pushing creativity in low-confidence situations.. Art is life condensed, we all need guidance.

Tier Advancement: The course will have up to 7 tiers of lessons over a duration. Each strengthening and gamifying your song making development!!

Arrangement: As spookie as this sounds, it's the small barrier to break the difference between having a fire musical loop, and a complete song!

Setting up your sandbox!: We'll help you prepare your audio workstation and get it ready for making songs.

Analysing genre conventions: What music do I make, rock? Rap? You'll always make more stealing the most valuable items from multiple stores!

Motivation: Lectures that keep you inspired, looking forward to an artist's satisfaction. Ensuring you stick by and see the best of your musical lifestyle!

Purchase routes: To grow further you'll need certain equipment and software! We'll guide you through the optimal gear guide to get the most for your money!

Post-audio: Got your song down? Awesome, let's make it fit flush and sound great! Whether it's mixing vocals, instrumentals or mastering, let's complete a song!

Requirements

No Skill Requirements! All-inclusive course bridges gaps between experienced and beginners

A modern, working PC/MAC

Headphones/Speakers

At least a phone/microphone or an alternative to make digital audio recordings

Enthusiasm will be provided

Description

Don't feel like a student, because you're already an artist! Just let me bring your brushes to you.You already interact with music by listening, bopping your head, tapping your feet or singing. This course is your gateway to reverse engineering your already-found EXPRESSIONS into MUSIC. Regardless of prior experience.We'll be giving you the full music creation experience by creatively using the language of feel, movement, culture and emotional guidance! This course will teach you how to write hit songs in the most instinctive, intuitive and the most human way possible.You will find yourself:Creating a musical environment: CHORDSGuiding your audience on how to move: RHYTHMCrafting the vocal narrative: MELODYEvoking catchy emotions and get 'em singing: LYRICSWe'll get set up as quickly as possible so you can start right away. We'll only involve the absolute essential theory.Of course, you'll also be:Transforming a short loop into a full-blown 2-4 minute song: ArrangementMaking your sound feel flush, polished and professional: MixingLearning the tools you'll need to Sound DesignDEVELOPMENT SKILLSBut making good music isn't everything! Being an artist is to be human and it only makes sense that you're provided with guidance on essential skills:Attitudes and attributes as an artistInspirationHow to communicate with other musiciansMotivationDecision-makingFor which of course, we've prepared raw and powerful lectures.WATCH OUT FOR INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALSOur partnership with The Cloudkid labelgrants us an exclusive cache to some of the best artists in the industry who are eager to share their experience with you.WHY IS THIS COURSE GOOD FOR ALL GENRES?I don't believe a song is exclusively ‘Hip Hop’ or ‘Rock’, etc.To have true creative freedom you must see genres as groups of conventions - When you make music, you don't make an ‘R&B’ song, you participate in conventions of R&B. Thinking of genres like this allows us to be far more creative when borrowing elements from a diverse selection of music. In our course, we take full advantage of this and provide comprehensive explanations! Let's create the opportunity to thrive in your preferred styles.OUR TIER SYSTEMWe draw out a personable narrative which explores both simple and complex techniques at early stages and we're doing this with a.. TIER SYSTEM.Think of it as a one-time fee for hours of content added throughout the year. The course will be adding on more lessons and lectures. Lectures will also be reuploaded with improvements depending on feedback and reviews - So buy-in fast! INTRODUCTION, SONG-RUSH, and TIER 1: These videos will get you writing songs.Future tiers:These videos will keep adding different brands of sauces to your table of musical condiments. Each video from these future tiers will only require the first three sections for context. They're great because they will also work as standalone lessons you can revisit, or even let you skip to ones you just can't wait to watch.Let's avoid the rigid "step-by-step" methods! Again, it's too rigid, calculated and just feels like a process, you know?Learn to START a song with ZERO stress thinking:"what if I started with the lyrics.." "Oohh I got a sick bassline that I came up with in the shower""bumm-cha-bum-badum-bada! Dee-da-da-bow-bum-bada!"Music is your playground when you have complete creative freedom.. even for beginners!What we AVOID the course feeling like:Learning a language - where you learn one word at a time (low interactivity)What it WILL be like:Learning to drive - where you're connecting and using your skills simultaneously, until some things become automated (high interactivity). Each tier goes over the primary key elements being used in harmony with another.The further we can stray away from this "step-by-step" teaching method, the more fun we'll have, and the less 'calculated' music making will feel in your day-to-day lives.And yes, I'm keeping in mind that you'll be wanting time to enjoy and explore making music on your own, for which you’ll have all the space you need. From the start to when you complete the course, you’ll find yourself more than content with your artistic and personal development and be proud of the incredible music you’ll be making.Come grab this course before it goes up! - VMCreditsWith love from MA Crew: Vich Magic -  Director, Writer, Illustrator and ProducerNora Holcomb - Senior Editor, Animator and VFX Artist(and we both did the music)Special thanks to.. AK for investing in our project.

Overview

Section 1: Welcome to MA's Music Making Course!

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Course Outline

Lecture 3 Requirements

Lecture 4 Setting Up

Lecture 5 Get to know your playground!

Section 2: SONG RUSH!!

Lecture 6 Song Rush: Intro

Lecture 7 CHORDS!

Lecture 8 RHYTHM!

Lecture 9 MELODY!

Lecture 10 LYRICS!

Lecture 11 Song Rush: Outro

Newbies who have never participated in a song-making process but have a keen interest in music.,Amateurs to professionals who feel too much of a "formulaic process" when making music,Those with interest in making contemporary/modern songs (Pop, Hip-Hop, R&B, etc)