Core outcomes. 

• Feel confident using Ableton live to create music. 

• Enjoy the process of making music and feel motivated to develop skills and enhance your creativity.

• Create a piece of music showcasing the skills acquired over the duration of the course.  

Navigate Ableton live effortlessly. 

• Make effective use of Both the session and arrangement view. 

• Navigate quickly and effectively without distraction.

• Manage screen space for optimal productivity.

• Make habitual use of keyboard shortcuts to speed up workflow. 

Proficiency in editing midi data. 

• Program musical patterns.

• Trigger virtual instruments with Midi. 

• Edit every aspect of midi data using all available methods.

• Understand the musical significance of each midi data attribute.

• Utilise lives advanced midi editing suite. 

• Understand the utility of overlapping editing methods.

• Utilise scale function to create music in key. 

• Understand fundaments of musical scales. 

Program drum patterns. 

• Create variations. 

• Utilise additive and subtractive creative processes. 

• Foundational knowledge of rhythmic theory. 

Recording Midi.

• Utilise and understand the utility of the numerous methods of capturing Midi. 

• Control instrument and effect parameters.

• Learn all aspects of recording and editing automation.

Proficiency working with audio. 

• Working with audio within clips. 

• Utilise time stretching to Manipulate the timing and pitch of audio, while avoiding any negative side-effects.

• Edit audio using all available methods.. 

Sampling

• Learn all aspects and make expert use of Ableton's proprietary sampler.

• Make subtle effective changes to samples to better fit within the context of the piece. 

• Manipulate samples in creative ways.

• Utilise slicing and sampling to reappropriate samples into fresh material. 

Recording audio.

• Utilise and understand the utility of the numerous methods of capturing audio. 

• Understand the importance of audio file quality vs demands on system resources. 

Utilise the browser to its maximum potential. 

• Stay organised and maximise creative output with easy to maintain filing systems. 

• Utilise effective methods of recycling work from abandoned projects.

Make effective use of the session view.

• Use freeform methods of idea generation. 

• Experiment with musical progression. 

Proficiency working in the Arrangement View

• Become familiar with all aspects of editing clips on the time line. 

• Learn strategies to more efficiently execute complex editing tasks.

• Acquire basic compositional understanding.

• Make use of efficient methods of taking a track from the idea through to arrangement stage.

Proficiency working with the mixer and basic mix down skills.

• Understand signal flow and routing. 

• Make use of core audio effects.  

• Create a basic mix to get a satisfying sound during the creative stage.