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Music Production: Learn How to Compose and Record Your First Song!

Have you always dreamt of recording your own song? Do you want to take your musical ideas to the next level?

Regardless if you've never recorded your own music or if you've already experimented with Digital Audio Workstations (DAW), this course will teach you the basics of music composition and production. We will use both basic music theory and music production tricks to come up with and create your first song(s). From brainstorming song ideas on the piano or guitar, recording vocals and percussion or adding drums in the DAW, you will have complete freedom over your creativity.

Main skills taught: basics of DAWs, recording and mixing instruments and vocals, using and manipulating samples, creating drum beats and chord progressions, music theory, expressing and communicating musical ideas, complementary knowledge about music history.

Let's turn your creative ideas into reality!

Extra information

Make sure you have a laptop with a free version of Ableton of FL Studio installed! These can be found here: https://www.image-line.com/fl-studio-download/ (FL Studio) ; https://www.ableton.com/fr/trial/ (Ableton Live). I can provide you with an audio interface, headphones, a microphone, an electric guitar, a midi keyboard and percussion instruments; even better if you have any of these yourself!

Location

At student's location: Around The Hague, Netherlands
Online via webcam
At teacher's location: Thijssestraat, The Hague, Netherlands

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Age:
Children (7-12 years old)
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Student level:
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Duration:
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The class is taught in:English, French, German

About Me

Hi! I'm Lennard, a 20 year old musician from France and live in Den Haag. I have been fascinated with music ever since I've first started learning the guitar at 8 years of age. Since then, I've become obsessed with producing music on my laptop, recording songs and mixing/mastering projects for musicians.

I would love to share my passion and inspire you to translate your creative ideas by teaching the skills I've learned over the past decade, as I believe that every person can and should express themselves creatively!

Being both French and German, I can speak English, French and German fluently. I have experience with working with children and teenagers, as I've done 2 internships at kindergartens and schools.

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