Course Information
Course Overview
Electronic music theory, digital music theory, and dance music theory. Learn music theory with ableton live and more!
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100% Answer Rate! Every single question posted to this class is answered within 24 hours by the instructor.
Welcome to the MUSIC THEORY FOR ELECTRONIC MUSIC COMPLETE Guide!
This course is a combination of all three of my Music Theory for Electronic Musicians classes: Music Theory for Electronic Musicians, and Music Theory for Electronic Musicians 2, and Music Theory for Electronic Musicians 3.
In this class, we learn how to work with the piano roll editor in a DAW to make harmonies, melodies, and whole tracks, and then we expand on those ideas and work with harmonic patterns (harmony) that is richer than just major and minor.
Production Techniques Through Theory The most important part of this class is an extensive foray into using these techniques in actual tracks. I'll be creating 9 tracks through this class, right along with you, each using a different technique so you can see exactly how I incorporate it right into my music.
Full Sessions After each production project, I'll give you the whole session of what I made using the techniques for you to play with. You can download it, expand on it, re-work it, and even release it as your work.
If Your Music is Missing Something, This is Probably It. If you are finding that you are writing track after track, and while they sound good, there is something they are missing - then this it. You are missing the sense of harmony that professional producers have. In this class, I'll arm you with all the tools you need to produce those tracks just like you imagine them.
Who should take this course?
Anyone interested in producing their own music. This will get you up and running and give your tracks a unique sound in no time.
Structure
This course consists of video lectures, which all contain a session in Ableton Live 9. If you are using a different program (or none at all), no worries! This isn't a class on how to use Ableton Live, and the concepts can be applied to any DAW.
Some of the step-by-step guides in this course will be:
Finding notes, chords, and keys in your audio program
The 7 intervals and how to put them together
The steps to finding the key of your track (or any track!)
The most common chord progressions
The steps to using inversions to take your track from good to amazing.
The 4 types of 7th chords
The top techniques for writing a melody to fit a chord progression (and vice-versa!)
The 7 modes and their uses
19 Exotic scales and how to use them (include MIDI files!)
The course is a roadmap to finding the missing piece in your tracks, or just getting started making great tracks.
All the tools you need to make, produce, and start your music career are included in this course, and the entire course is based on real-life experiences - not just academic theory.
Please click the "Take This Course" button so you can start making great tracks today.
** I guarantee that this course is the most thorough music theory course available ANYWHERE on the market - or your money back (30-day money-back guarantee) **
Closed captions have been added to all lessons in this course.
Praise for Courses by Jason Allen:
⇢ "It seems like every little detail is being covered in an extremely simple fashion. The learning process becomes relaxed and allows complex concepts to get absorbed easily. My only regret is not taking this course earlier." - M. Shah
⇢ "Great for everyone without any knowledge so far. I bought all three parts... It's the best investment in leveling up my skills so far.." - Z. Palce
⇢ "Excellent explanations! No more or less than what is needed." - A. Tóth
⇢ "VERY COOL. I've waited for years to see a good video course, now I don't have to wait anymore. Thank You!" - Jeffrey Koury
⇢ "I am learning LOTS! And I really like having the worksheets!" - A. Deichsel
⇢ "The basics explained very clearly - loads of really useful tips!" - J. Pook
⇢ "Jason is really quick and great with questions, always a great resource for an online class!" M. Smith
Students who register for this course will receive ongoing exclusive content and discounts to all future classes in the series.
Course Content
- 32 section(s)
- 126 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Welcome & Overview
- Section 2 Understanding Music Theory from an Electronic Music perspective
- Section 3 The Perfect 5th, and Being "In Key"
- Section 4 More With Keys, The Third, and The Basic Triad
- Section 5 Diatonic Chord Progressions
- Section 6 7th Chords
- Section 7 The Other Intervals
- Section 8 Part 1 Wrap Up
- Section 9 Part 2: Welcome & Overview
- Section 10 Minor Scales & Keys
- Section 11 Analysis: Ghosts N Stuff (Deadmau5)
- Section 12 The Circle of Fifths
- Section 13 Analysis: Get Lucky (Daft Punk)
- Section 14 A Few More Chord Extensions
- Section 15 Analysis: Everything You Do is a Balloon (Boards of Canada)
- Section 16 Melody Writing
- Section 17 Analysis: Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites (Skrillex)
- Section 18 Bass Lines
- Section 19 Analysis: Windowlicker (Aphex Twin)
- Section 20 Chromaticism
- Section 21 Part 2 Wrap Up
- Section 22 Part 3: Welcome and Overview
- Section 23 Modes! New Harmonic Territories
- Section 24 Using Modes
- Section 25 Pentatonic Scales
- Section 26 Using Pentatonic Scales
- Section 27 Chromatic Mediants
- Section 28 Creating with Advanced Harmonies
- Section 29 Exotic Scales
- Section 30 Free Stuff!
- Section 31 Wrap Up
- Section 32 Updates! Some answers to popular questions.
What You’ll Learn
- By the end of this course, you will have improved your tracks by understanding how to build chords and melodies that work together., Understand and apply minor chords, Use the circle of fifths to generate new ideas for your own tracks, Work within minor keys to write compelling melodies and basslines, The Piano Roll editor, Octaves, Using Octaves in Bass Lines, The Black Keys (not the band!), Finding C and Middle C, The Perfect 5th, Finding Fifths, Being "in key", The pattern of a key, Moveable Patterns, The major and minor third, Building triads, Chord progressions, What is diatonic?, Finding all the chords in a key, Using roman numerals, Inversions, 7th chords, Maj7 and minor 7th chords, Dominant 7th chords, Blues and the 7th chord, Analysis: Shame On Me (Avicii), Minor scales, Relative keys, Minor diatonic chord progressions, Analysis: Ghosts N Stuff (Deadmau5), Changing keys in your track, Analysis: Get Luck (Daft Punk), 9th and 13th chords, Suspended Chords, Writing melodies for chord progressions, Writing chord progressions for melodies, Bass lines, Analysis: Windowlicker (Aphex Twin), Modes, How modes work, Producing with Modes, Pentatonic Scales, Chromatic Mediants, Creating music with music theory, Exotic scales
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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MMike W
I really enjoyed Dr. Allen's course. He explains the concepts clearly, and I appreciated his questions section at the end, where he directly addressed some student questions very thoroughly. Excellent course, and I've picked up a few more of his courses because of the quality of this one!
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JJessica Martinez
I enjoyed both this and Michael Hewitt courses, they truly go to the point so if you are into electronic music or even if you are into music theory and need a refresher, it goes step by step and you can go back and forth with the classes. I've found some lessons had minor mistakes or the explanation was a bit clumsy, some of those were addressed in the forum but I'd say, do not take this course theory as final word, just a good starting point or refresher.
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CCarlos Lara
I am very impressed. I didn’t know anything about music, and now I can make some melodies. Thank you for all the hard work and the information. This will change my life forever!!
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DDeepak Sati
great guy! passionate and made me too