MELODIC ELECTRONIC:
Practical Synth Design & Songwriting
Make Sounds That Work Across Styles - Learn Formulas To Write With Them
- 76 structured lessons
- 100+ Serum presets
- Direct message for questions
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 best for producers who can get around their DAW and know at least the basics of music theory. Not confident in your chord & melody writing? Start with Chord Control - it will provide foundations to write music from scratch.
I made this course because I love making electronic music. But for years, I had no idea what I was doing.
I’d watch tutorials and try to emulate the sounds (poorly).
I’d browse presets looking for the one sound that would fix it all.
It almost never worked.
Then I realized why: I didn't understand the basic "core sounds" that were being used constantly, just in slightly different ways.
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 chord & melody driven electronic music.
I stopped hunting for “the perfect preset” and started designing sounds that fit what I was writing.
They were almost always very simple - which also made me realize that part of why I kept struggling with presets was that they were very often doing too much.
I began to feel more free and creative overall, because I could actually get my ideas out much easier and faster.
So I recorded tutorials on the sounds, how to make them, and examples of them being used.
And that's this course.
It's not about chasing the latest bass design trend.
It's about the foundational sounds that keep showing up anywhere there's chords & melody - EDM, electro pop, future bass, house, video game soundtracks...
I don’t promise this course will make you the next superstar electronic producer.
(but if it does, please DM me 😅)
What I can promise is if you’ve ever wanted to just open your synth and start making clear sounds that just make sense - this course will get you there.
Go inside these projects
Here's some of the projects I'll walk you through in the "Project Breakdowns" section of the course.
Includes 100+ Serum presets
This pack of 100+ presets contain all the sounds from the course - and more from my personal collection. I've had fun with these!
Compatible with Serum 1 and Serum 2.
Bonus: MIDI & Sample pack
Included is a MIDI & Sample pack with melodic EDM drop concepts. Use them to kickstart new tracks, study the songwriting firsthand, and get inspired to finish new music.
Full course outline
-
Synth Sketching Quick Start
2 lessons- Quick Start Guide: Sketching with Synths
- Supersaw (The Mother Sound)
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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
6 lessons- Chord Wobblers
- Chord Pluckers
- Supersaw Stabs
- Slow Closer
- Pads
- 3 Steps to Big EDM Chord Melodies
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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
12 lessons- 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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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
MELODIC ELECTRONIC:
Practical Synth Design & Songwriting
Feel More Confident In Your Synths & Electronic Songwriting - Or Your Money Back
- 76 structured lessons
- 100+ Serum presets
- Direct message for questions
Consider my course bundle to get all courses for a discount.
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