Instrumental Songwriting & Production Masterclass

Transform how you approach your production process.

Song sketching is an essential concept that changed the way I thought about producing music forever. You'll see how to start your song with a basic piano sketch and turn it into multiple different genres.

This helps you see the bigger picture of music production and sets the stage for producing with full control.

✅ Sketching examples

✅ Thinking about how to sketch

✅ Taking a sketch into multiple genres demonstration with all layers and instruments

✅ Taking one sketch into a full song

By the end of this section you will be writing chord progressions & melodies with more control than ever before.

Nothing will make a bigger impact on your music than getting better at using theory with intention. So we go deep here! You will feel inspired and excited when you open a new piano roll, knowing how to go from nothing to something that sounds great with predictability.

✅ Scales and how to build every chord for life

✅ How to feel the emotions of your individual notes and chords to make better choices for your song

✅ The basics of writing great chord progressions that connect with people emotionally across genres

✅ How to use extensions to give your progressions more color and new emotions

✅ How to write advanced chord progressions with secondary dominants, tritone substitution and passing diminished chords

✅ How "Modes" work and how to use them like a pro to get unique, exotic sounds that are still commercial and approachable

✅ Melody composition formulas and breakdowns of popular melodies to show how they are using the formula

✅ How to write "melodic support" including ostinatos and arpeggios

✅ Live songwriting examples of going from basic chords to full ideas

Finish tracks consistently by following a clear workflow from blank project to master.

By the end of this section you will have a complete song-finishing workflow you can use no matter what you want to make. And if you're following along, you'll even have a finished song yourself! 

This isn't the only workflow you can use, but it's one I know works for me, and it's a great place to start and refine with your own preferences to give you a clear process to stuffing your folders with finished music.

✅ Preparing your project like a pro using a reference track - and how to properly analyze any song to give yourself a template to your songwriting

✅ Writing the different song sections including verse, build / prechorus and drop

✅ Adding automations to make the song come alive

✅ Using mix tools like EQ, Compression, Saturation, Reverb and Delay to make the song sound full and polished

✅ My mastering process to make the song commercially loud and ready to share

Feel inspired & in-control when you open a synth.

You'll learn the basics of how to use a synth, then formulas to create commercial inspired sounds. 

By the end of this section you'll be crafting expressive sounds easier than ever before. 

 ✅ Every button and knob in a synth (We use Serum as the example for this section)

✅ Commercial Bass Design including Reese, Pluck, Cyberpunk and Sub

✅ Commercial Chord Design including Pad, Wobbler, Pluck and Stab

✅ Commercial Lead Design including Supersaw, Pluck, Pitch Cycler and Sync

✅ Basic FX design including Noise and Tonal risers

Finish professional sounding electronic tracks ready for the world.

Electronic music is one of my favorite styles because it always has new things to explore. But behind these trends are the fundamentals that never go out of style. I'll focus on these and give you formulas to take simple ideas and make them come to life.

I'll also take you inside multiple professional projects and show you exactly how they were created.

From the songwriting, to the automations, to the sounds, just copy the techniques and make them your own.

✅ In-depth breakdowns of electronic pop and EDM tracks from songwriting to automations to plugins and more - walk away with formulas you can use on your own music

✅ See how techniques you've learned previous come to life in real examples

Learn how to compose impressive compositions from scratch in your DAW.

Who doesn't want to learn how to craft awe-inspiring orchestrations? The orchestra is the ultimate teacher, because it forces you to understand music on a level more intimate than many other styles.

That's why we will focus deeply on it, and help make it easy. You'll learn the formulas I wish someone had taught me that will improve the way you compose music in any genre.

✅ VST Recommendations and creating your template

✅ Modulation, expression and hearing the personality of your instruments

✅ How to orchestrate chords from small to huge

✅ Orchestral Sketching: The formula that will change the way you compose forever

✅ How to create Epic Ostinatos like you'd hear in movie trailers and epic songs

✅ How to create movement that feels alive and dynamic with staccato strings

✅ How to set "cinematic moods" with just two chords and produce them using the techniques we've learned

✅ Ensemble vs Solo instruments and what each is good at

✅ Formula: Solo piano to full orchestration - this will change the way you bring your sketches to life

✅ Orchestral percussion pattern formula

✅ Live Demo: Taking "dead MIDI" and turning it into an exciting orchestration that feels professional

Learn from more than 20 project breakdowns across genres - see how we're doing the same things just in different ways!

After you've got the essential skills, what better way to teach you production than just show you how it's done in real projects?

You'll see how we're using the same principles over and over, just in different ways. This is the key to being able to produce in any style you want.

Besides showing you many of my own tracks made for fun, I'll also show you tracks I've produced for commercial use, including tracks made for my stock store that are being sold into videos across the internet, to songs produced specifically for television placements, to songs inspired by video games and custom songs finished for clients.

There is so much to learn from mindset to arrangement to songwriting to mixing.

✅ Pop breakdowns

✅ Electronic breakdowns

✅ Orchestral breakdowns

✅ Rock breakdowns

✅ Trap / Hip Hop breakdowns

✅ TV / Stock music breakdowns

✅ Video game music breakdowns

Learn mindsets & habits to succeed in music with your own authentic voice.

These are the same concepts I've used over 15 years to get tracks signed, reach millions of streams, land placements, sell thousands of stock music licenses, win awards and connect with some of my music heroes.

These are simple ideas you can use while staying true to your values and authentic voice.

✅ What is a "success mindset?"

✅ My 3 step "Inevitable Success Plan"

✅ What makes a "professional song?"

✅ Income pathways often used by professional music composers & producers

✅ The basics of getting work and networking authentically in the age of social media

✅ Basics of a professional website

✅ Music licensing: How to get started and how it works

✅ Interview: Earning 6 figures with stock music