MELODIC ELECTRONIC:
Practical Sound Design & Songwriting
Feel Better In Your Synths & More In-Control Of Your Writing - Or Your Money Back
- 76 structured lessons
- 100+ Serum presets
- Message support
What You Get
Fundamentals + Music-Making Workflows
Learn to recognize & make common sounds. Then make music with them.
100+ Serum Presets Pack
Get all the sounds from the course - plus extras.
Compatible with both Serum 1 and Serum 2.
Answers To Your Questions
Have a question? Send me a message - happy to help if I can.
Note:
This course is not for complete beginners. It is best for producers who can get around their DAW and know at least the basics of music theory.
You will make essential synth sounds from scratch (Serum used) and improve your ability to compose melodic electronic styles of music.
If you are not confident in your chord & melody writing, I recommend you enroll in Chord Control before or alongside this course.
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I made this course because I love making electronic music.
But for years, I wasnât that great at it.
Iâd watch tutorials and try to emulate the sounds (poorly).
Iâd browse presets looking for the one sound that would fix it all.
This almost never worked.
Then I realized why: I wasnât thinking like an electronic producer.
So I started studying songs and practicing a lot... and I began to see patterns.
Reese basses that were warm and supportive...
Supersaws that filled in the frequency spectrum perfectly....
Arpeggio plucks that created addictive bounce...
Once I started recognizing and categorizing them, I began to hear them everywhere.
It was like learning the color palette behind popular electronic music.
I stopped hunting for âthe perfect presetâ and started designing sounds that actually fit my ideas.
I began to feel more free in my synth design, confident in my automations, and more creative overall.
So I recorded tutorials on what I'd learned - partly to organize my thoughts, partly to share with students.
Now theyâre all here, in this course.
It's not about chasing the latest bass design trend.
It's about the foundational ideas that keep showing up across genres.
They've helped me write EDM, pop, future bass, house, Jpop, even video game tracks.
Follow along and you'll finish this course with:
- A library of go-to sound design recipes you'll start hearing everywhere
- The confidence to open Serum (or other similar synths) and build simple, beautiful sounds that work
- Songwriting formulas to turn these sounds into ideas that feel alive and colorful
- A more consistent, intentional workflow - from sketch to finished song
I donât promise this course will make you the next superstar electronic producer.
(but if it does, please DM me đ
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What I can promise is if youâve felt stuck, uninspired, or overwhelmed trying to make any kind of melodic electronic music - this course will help you get moving forward again.
Go inside these projects
Here's some of the projects I'll walk you through in the "Project Breakdowns" section of the course.
Start a lesson
From "Chord Wobbler" lesson in Module 2.
Note: I use Serum for sound design, but the concepts apply to Serum 2 and other synths.
Full course outline
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Start to Finish Production Workflow
26 lessons- Introduction to "Start to Finish" Song
- 1. How to Analyze a Reference Track
- 2. Song Recomposition
- 3. Preparing Your Project
- 4. Writing Our Verse
- 5. Writing our Prechorus Buildup
- 6. Writing the Drop Chords
- 7. Writing our Drop Melody
- 8. Refining the Drop Melody
- 9. Adding Sidechain Compression to Drop
- 10. Writing our 2nd Verse
- 11. Writing the 2nd Prechorus Buildup Drop
- 13. Full Sketch Listen Through Small Adjustment
- 14. The 6 Mixing Tools
- 15. Mixing the Arpeggios
- 16. Mixing the Verse Chords
- 17. Mixing the Verse Bass Adjusting Everything Together
- 18. Mixing the Verse Drums FX
- 19. Checking the Output Level before Mixing Farther
- 20. Mixing the Drop Part 1
- 21. Mixing the Drop Melody
- 22. Mixing the 2nd Verse
- 23. Prechorus Build Drop Mix Check
- 24. Checking the Final Mix
- 25. Mastering Part 1
- 26. Mastering Part 2
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Intro to Sound Design & Serum
11 lessons- Download the Serum Pack
- Big Picture Overview of Sound Design & Serum
- The Oscillators & Wavetables
- The Filter
- Envelopes, LFOs & Modulation Basics
- The Macros
- The Velocity & Note Modulators
- The Voicing Parameters
- Pitch Bend
- The "Mod" Modulator
- Overview of of the FX
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Essential Chord Sound Design
8 lessons- Supersaw
- Chord Wobblers
- Chord Pluckers
- Supersaw Stabs
- Slow Closer
- Pads
- 3 Steps to Big EDM Chord Melodies
- EDM Sketch to Polished Idea Step by Step
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Essential Bass Sound Design
9 lessons- Sub Bass
- Reese Bass
- 808 Bass
- House Bass [Deep House, Tech House, Tropical House, Pop House, etc]
- Electro House / Slap House Bass
- Organ / "+7" House Bass [Iconic House Sounds]
- Plucker Bass
- Midtempo / Cyberpunk Bass
- Aggressive Sound Design Bass
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Essential Lead Sound Design
7 lessons- Pluck Lead
- Supersaw Lead
- Arp Plucks
- Reso Lead
- Sync Lead
- Sandstorm Lead
- Pitch Cycler Lead
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Essential FX Sound Design
2 lessons- Tonal Riser
- Noise Riser
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Study Techniques from These Projects
13 lessons- Songwriting Practice Technique - Sketch Freestyling
- Electro Pop Arranagement
- Sketch to Production Sound Design Workflow
- Epic Melodic EDM Drops Tutorial PLUS MIDI & SAMPLE pack
- Take It Breakdown [Electro Pop]
- All Around Us Breakdown [Future Bass / Electro Pop]
- Dreaming Breakdown [Electro Pop]
- Universe Breakdown [Electro Pop]
- Tornado Breakdown [EDM]
- Electro Rock
- Dreaming Breakdown [Vocal Electro Pop]
- Nudisco
- Sketch to Production Melodic EDM Drop
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MELODIC ELECTRONIC:
Practical Sound Design & Songwriting
Feel Better In Your Synths & More Consistent In Your Workflow - Or Your Money Back
- 76 structured lessons
- 100+ Serum presets
- Email, comment or DM support
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