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BandLab (Draft)

This course has everything you need to know to get into music production with BandLab (free online music software), and is suitable for complete beginners.

With almost 6 hours of video lessons, there’s enough material here for a full term of learning as you apply what you’ve learned to your own tunes. You’ll cover all the musical aspects of writing music, such as bass lines, chords and beats. And all the technical details from talking you through how to use BandLab, to mixing your finished track.

About the teacher

Si Gordon is an audio professional and lecturer who teaches in schools, and at FE & HE levels. He has been working in the music industry for over 30 years specialising in music composition, sound recording, sound design, production and engineering for both moving media and the record industry.

His composition and recording work has appeared on  the likes of American Idol, Oprah Winfrey, Sky Sports, Miami Ink, America’s Next Top Model, MTV Europe, Trinny & Susannah Undress, Storm Watches, Horrible Histories and more.

Course Information

Difficulty: Beginner

Categories: Composition and Song Writing, Music Skills, Music Tech

Tags: Composition and Song Writing, Music Skills, Music Tech

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Course Syllabus

  • Getting started on BandLab Education
    • Setting up a BandLab Edu account (5 mins)
  • Getting started on BandLab
    • Creating BandLab account (7 mins)
  • DAW Overview
    • DAW Overview (main) (6 mins)
    • DAW overview (edu) (12 mins)
  • Rhythm
    • BandLab Drum Machine (7 mins)
    • Drum Machine task (5 mins)
  • Introduction to MIDI
    • MIDI Instruments (13 mins)
    • MIDI Instrument Sounds (5 mins)
    • Controller keyboards (4 mins)
    • Recording and Editing MIDI drums (13 mins)
  • Harmony
    • Adding Harmonic Elements (17 mins)
    • Creating Your Own Chords (15 mins)
  • Melody
    • Melody (25 mins)
    • Overdubbing (5 mins)
  • More about MIDI
    • Region Editing and Additional Functions (10 mins)
    • Importing and Exporting MIDI (5 mins)
  • Using Loops
    • BandLab Loops (12 mins)
    • BandLab Assistant (3 mins)
    • Matching Tempo (8 mins)
    • Changing Pitch (8 mins)
    • Create a composition (14 mins)
  • Recording external audio
    • Setting up to record external audio (9 mins)
    • Connecting an audio interface (8 mins)
    • Microphones (7 mins)
  • Recording and editing audio
    • Recording techniques: condenser mics (10 mins)
    • Recording with a dynamic mic (8 mins)
    • Editing audio (13 mins)
  • Effects
    • Effects overview (10 mins)
    • Distortion (11 mins)
    • Reverb and delay (16 mins)
    • Modulation (10 mins)
    • Noise gate and compression (13 mins)
    • Tonal effects (12 mins)
    • Effects task, and freeze function (6 mins)
  • MIDI mapping and Automation
    • MIDI mapping to a controller (10 mins)
    • Automation (19 mins)
  • Structuring, arranging, and mixing
    • Structuring and arranging (15 mins)
    • Mixing (20 mins)
  • Exporting
    • Export your track (8 mins)
    • Exporting regions and stems (6 mins)
  • The finishing line
    • Congratulations! (1 min)
  • Extras
    • Collaboration (6 mins)
    • Publishing and forking (5 mins)
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