Beats By U!
Unleash Your Inner Music Producer!
Learn to make beats, loops and tracks you’re proud to share.
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Modern electronic music sounds like magic…but it isn’t. It’s the result of a process that you can learn. Our courses teach you to make electronic music with slamming beats, dazzling chord progressions, catchy melodies and drops that will blow your friend’s minds.
The only thing you need is a love for electronic music — no previous training is required for our introductory course.
Inside Soundhaus Studios you’ll use a dedicated Mac workstation equipped with Ableton Live 11, the gold standard in electronic music production, and a MIDI keyboard controller. Then take home a Pocket Operator, a portable synthesizer/drum machine by legendary synth manufacturer Teenage Engineering, so you can keep making beats at home. Our studio is equipped with professional acoustic treatment, a lazer TV for instruction, and a variety of MIDI controllers so you can make music your way.
Open to: Ages 12 – 17 with an interest in electronic music.
Day/Time: Tuesday or Wednesday evenings
Session Dates: October 1 2024 – June 10 2025
Cost: $390 per year (Financial assistance available for families in need).
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Three levels of instruction are provided by our team:
Level 1: Introduction To Electronic Music Production
Learn the basics of making electronic music from scratch in this hands-on course, where you’ll be making your own beats from Day 1.
- Learn the basics of Ableton Live 11.
- Build your own drum kits and start programming beats.
- Create your own tracks using loops and virtual instruments.
Day/Time: Wednesdays 5:30pm – 6:45pm
Level 2: Advanced Beatmaking
Previous experience making electronic music with Ableton Live or other music production software is required. Two classes offered – Grades 5-8 and Grades 9-12.
Day/Time: Tuesdays 5:30pm – 6:45pm (younger) and Wednesdays 7:00 – 8:15pm (older)
Go beyond loop libraries and create original music in this course that focuses on modern styles like dub, hip-hop, trap and future bass.
- Craft breakbeats, rhythms and syncopated grooves.
- Learn to write your own original melodies, harmonies and bass lines.
- Get creative with song structure in Ableton’s Arrangement View.
- Enhance your sounds using effects like reverb, delay, and chorus.
- Replicate some of your favourite beats with tools and advice from our instructors.
Students interested in Level 2 should be able to demonstrate:
- Understanding of music production concepts such as mixing, using EQ’s and filters
- Ability to make beats / program MIDI
- Ability to choose and tweak patches and synthesizers
- Experience creating melodies and bass lines
- Experience combining loops and samples to create songs