Lesson #1

The "Order of Importance" When Making a Piece of Music

🎹 COMPOSITION
Your notes and rhythms. 
This is the song.

🔉 SOUNDS
Your instruments, presets & samples. 
This is who plays the song.

💥 PERFORMANCE
Note length, vibrato, portamento...
This makes it music.

⚙️ MIX
EQ, compression, spacial effects, etc.
This makes it sound better.

They're all important.

But the lower, foundational skills - songwriting, sounds & performance - have much more of an impact.

After all, that's where the song actually is.

So if you get good at those foundational skills, you can craft impressive music using unmixed stock sounds.

Then when you do go to mix it will enhance what you made, instead of trying to fix it.

(No mix engineer can fix a poorly crafted song.)

Consider this course your ultimate reference guide to improving your music crafting skills. 

It’s not about how to finish one song - it’s about learning how to think, so you can finish a lifetime of songs.

Join today and feel the difference in your music-making confidence after a few lessons.

Love it or your money back.

8 Modules - 200+ Lessons

Get Inspired to Create with Each Lesson

MODULE 1:

Song Sketching

Learn how to begin with a basic MIDI sketch and turn it into multiple genres.

If you aren't doing this already, this one lesson can transform the way you see production.

MODULE 2:

Music Theory & Songwriting

Understand scales, chord progressions, voicing, melody writing, writing in modes, writing ostinatos & arpeggios and much more. Immediately copy the formulas.

By the end you will be writing chord progressions and melodies with ease, generating endless ideas from scratch.

This was orignally a full 8+ hour course called "Chord Control" - I promise this module is worth you joining this course by itself.

MODULE 3:

Start-to-Finish Workflow

Watch the full production process as a template for your own, inspired by an "Illenium" song.

Copy this process to finish your songs.

Reference track analysis -> Project Setup ->  Songwriting -> Arranagement -> Automation -> Mixing -> Mastering

MODULE 4:

Sound Design & Synthesis

Understand the buttons in a synth, and how to make commercially-inspired foundational sounds including Basses, Leads, Pads, Chords & FX.

By the end you'll feel more confident opening a synth, making sounds from scratch, and tweaking presets to fit your songs.

This was originally a full 4+ hour course - now included.

MODULE 5:

Electronic Songwriting 

Learn workflows for developing ideas, layering sounds, and arranaging songs.

Go inside track breakdowns inspired by electronic pop & EDM.

Take these fundamentals into any song you create.

MODULE 6:

Orchestral Composition

Understand VSTs, instrument emotions, creating dynamics, composing from scratch, making epic ostinatos, crafting cinematic scenes and more.

By the end you'll be crafting impressive compositions from scratch.

This was orignially a full 5+ hour course - now included.

MODULE 7:

Project Breakdowns

Learn from real-world examples of songwriting, arrangement, layering, ear candy, mixing, mastering and more. 

Get inspiration to finish new tracks.

MODULE 8:

Music Success

I'll talk to you about how I've earned 6 figures from stock music, 4 figures on sync deals, and mindsets I've used to keep going over 15 years of ups and downs in the industry.

This was originally a full 3+ hour course - now included.

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Avery is a composer & producer with credits that include Volkswagen, KSHMR, and Major League Baseball.

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