Pro Music Production Course

Learn Music Production on Ableton Live, Apple Logic Pro & Steinberg Cubase. Our Pro Music Production Courses are designed to help you understand the nuances of audio production and that of a music producer. Start with the fundamentals & achieve that professional sound your music ideas deserve.

Pro Music Production Courses

The academy offers professional music production courses in India based on the software and the end goal, basis what music production skills are needed by the student to achieve it.  All courses start at a beginner level and are categorised as Fundamental, Advanced or Master Courses. 

Word to the wise: Even though we categorise it as a  fundamental course the EMP course is intense and packed with a wealth of Info. Industry Professionals have stated that they are equivalent to advance level courses based on the depth of knowledge that we get into. 

For Singer-Songwriters

Music Production Course at Intermediate Level

Level: Advanced

  • Music Theory and Fundamentals of Sound
  • Recording Basics
  • Record 1 Instrument + Vocals
  • Music Production on any one DAW:
      – Cubase
      – Logic Pro X
      – Ableton Live
  • Synthesis using the DAW Stock Synthesizers.
  • Auto-Key Correction
  • Mixing for Live Vocals
  • Mixing & Mastering – For Electronic Music

Ideal for Self / Home Recording

MMP – Studio

Music Production Course at Advanced Level

Level: Master

  • Music Theory and Fundamentals of Sound
  • Advanced Recording & Analog Mixing
  • Acoustics & Studio Basics
  • Music Production on any one DAW:
      – Cubase
      – Logic Pro X
      – Ableton Live
  • DAW for Editing and Recording
      – Auto + Manual Key Correction
      – Advanced Editing
  • Synthesis on Stock & Third-Party Electronic Synthesizers.
  • Mixing and Mastering (in the Box)

Studio level recording: Mini Audio Engineering course.

EMP

Beginners Course image

Level: Fundamental

  • Music Foundation
  • Music Production on any one DAW:
      – Logic Pro X
      – Ableton Live
  • Synthesis using the DAW Stock Synthesizers.
  • Mixing & Mastering – for Electronic Music

Best for Electronic music

For Singer-Songwriters

Music Production Course at Intermediate Level

Level: Advanced

  • Music Theory and Fundamentals of Sound
  • Recording Basics
  • Record 1 Instrument + Vocals
  • Music Production on any one DAW:
      – Cubase
      – Logic Pro X
      – Ableton Live
  • Synthesis using the DAW Stock Synthesizers.
  • Auto-Key Correction
  • Mixing for Live Vocals
  • Mixing & Mastering – For Electronic Music

Ideal for Self / Home Recording

MMP – Studio

Music Production Course at Advanced Level

Level: Master

  • Music Theory and Fundamentals of Sound
  • Advanced Recording & Analog Mixing
  • Acoustics & Studio Basics
  • Music Production on any one DAW:
      – Cubase
      – Logic Pro X
      – Ableton Live
  • DAW for Editing and Recording
      – Auto + Manual Key Correction
      – Advanced Editing
  • Synthesis on Stock & Third-Party Electronic Synthesizers.
  • Mixing and Mastering (in the Box)

Studio level recording: Mini Audio Engineering course.

CHOOSE A DAW:

Select a Digital Audio Workstation. Choose any one or learn them all. We Offer Pro Music Production training in: Ableton Live | Logic Pro X | Cubase

Music Production, DJ, and Audio Engineering at I Love Music Academy Module
DAW Ableton Live

Ableton Live is a software music sequencer and digital audio workstation for macOS and Windows. In contrast to many other software sequencers, Live is designed to be an instrument for live performances as well as music production with tools for composing, recording, arranging, mixing and mastering, as shown by Ableton’s companion hardware product, Ableton Push. It is also used by DJs, as it offers a suite of controls for beat-matching, crossfading and other effects used by turntablists, and was one of the first music applications to automatically beat-match songs.

Music Production, DJ, and Audio Engineering at I Love Music Academy Module
DAW Apple Logic Pro X

Logic Pro is Apple’s professional music production software. The software offers audio recording functionality alongside world-class virtual instruments, effects, and thousands of high-quality audio samples and loops. It features a one-time license purchase with feature-rich updates that are free life-long for Apple users. A favourite among composers and home studio professionals – Logic Pro remains one of the leading software suites in the music industry.

Steinberg Cubase DAW for Music Production
DAW Steinberg Cubase

Cubase is a popular cross-platform (macOS and Windows) DAW that is primarily MIDI and plugin instrument based. A pioneer in Audio Technology having introduced VST’s as well as a bridge between Audio devices and software in the early 90’s, Steinberg Cubase is arguably the most powerful music production DAW when it comes to MIDI, and it is no surprise that it is the DAW of choice for legendary film composers such as Hans Zimmer and Junkie XL. Similar in the workflow and UI of Logic Pro, it has a very large user base among PC users.

What is Music Production?

Music production is the art, science and business of making music. Learn music production and all aspects of creating music to ensure it is of the highest standards and is marketable. A Record producer or Music producer is responsible for audio production, in totality.

Traditionally a music producer was responsible to oversee the entire production process of music and was responsible for every aspect and decision-making, responsible for the music album from the get-go. A recording engineer, a beat maker, an artist, a vocalist or an instrumentalist were all a part of the production process, all working under the direction of the music producer or in tandem with the producer.

The Music Producer was often hired by a label or artist for his understanding and ideas as a specialist of the music genre and would be the decision maker for the music, being in charge of everything.

Choosing the artists involved, recordings the songs that would go into an album; co-writing, co-direct, editing, making alterations and ideating to improve the quality and marketability of the music as well as being involved with choosing the right studio, the beat makers or DAW specialists, the right engineering, the right mix and mastering engineering and finally the marketing and sale of the music. The Music producer was the fixer, manager, and business head, all wrapped into one; and possibly the artists/musician as well involved in the production.

Advancements in Music Technology

As Digital Audio Workstations advanced into wholesome digital studios, increasing the capabilities of the software and making it the centre of the entire music production process, the music producers started to merge all the earlier roles of the production process into one. As Music went Electronic or Digital and DAW’s more accessible, it gave rise to a stream of digital musicians and electronic music producers. Today a music producer is a one-man army, handling complex job roles on his/her own.

Electronic Dance Music genres empower music producers to be solo artists. The broad responsibility of a music producer has not really changed in 15 years, although the work execution has drastically. The modern music producer is the artist/musician himself and may be skilled as an audio engineer. He writes music and produces music, all on his own on the DAW, and may or may not collaborate with other professionals.

Today, Electronic music producers must also be performers to earn a living. Additionally, they need to possess engineering skills to stand out in the music industry. Do not limit your skills to making music on DAWs alone, skill up for a better career

What is Electronic Music?

Electronic music is music that employs circuitry based music technology in its creation, production or performance. Arguably all music today is electronic. Electronic Music Production however refers to making music Digitally on a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW).

Who should attempt the Music production Course

Advantages of a MUSIC PRODUCTION Course

Level 1: MAKE DANCE MUSIC

Electronic Music Production

CERTIFICATE PROGRAM

At I Love Music, our (EMP) Electronic Music Production course will teach you how to produce music electronically, i.e on a computer.
In this course, you will learn how to produce music by transforming your musical ideas into digital tracks using a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) – Ableton Live or  Logic Pro, and a wide array of digital and hardware instruments and effects units. 

The Electronic Music Production course will help you understand electronic music and its structure, focusing on the key elements required for audio production. Once you’ve mastered the basics, we’ll introduce you to the advanced music production tools needed to produce your own compositions and the fine art of mixing and mastering them to perfection. Finally, we will explore ‘synthesis’ – how to use industry-standard hardware emulations and software synthesizers to create sounds from scratch. 

Curriculum

Learn Electronic Music Production for Electronic Dance Music on any one DAW: Ableton Live or Logic Pro.
Become a Pro music producer. From the building blocks of music to the structures of a completed track, the Electronic Music Production Course at I Love Music Academy is designed specifically to teach you how to produce music digitally on a DAW.

Fundamentals of sound
  • Waveforms, Wavelength & Amplitude
  • Decibels & Frequency spectrum
  • Mono , stereo, & Surround

Beats Foundation

  • Making Beats
  • Beat, Bars and tempo
  • Rhythm Theory

Music Theory

  • Notes and scales & Pitch
  • Hacks and cheat codes – the essentials needed to make your audio production sound great

Learn the User Interface

  • DAW basics & layout
  • Editing shortcuts & Key commands
  • Creating projects
  • Loop controls
  • Creating tempo markers and hit point markers
  • Automation, clips, quantising, automation launch actions, follow actions
Work with the DAW
  • Intro to MIDI for Music Production
  • Time based Effects( Reverb & Delay)
  • Dynamic processing (Compressor, Gate, Limiter, Expander)
  • EQ, Filters and Plugins
  • Reverb & Echo
  • Modulation (Chorus, Phaser & Flanger)
  • Other DAW Utilities
  • Macros & Racks
  • Mixing and Mastering (in-the-box)

Synthesis of Sound

  • Basics of Synthesis
  • Types of Synths and how they function (Subtractive, Wavetable, Granular, FM synthesis)
  • Exploring the DAW native Electronic Synths and Emulations for Electronic Music Production
  • Creating your unique sounds using Synths

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MUSIC PRODUCTION COURSE PROGRESSION

LEARN THE USER INTERFACE (UI):

Music Production School Ableton India

An introduction to the DAW, learn how it works and what goes where.

  • Navigate the DAW, and understand the layout & main areas
  • Creating tracks in the tracks area. 
  • Learn controls and shortcuts
  • Accessing the inspector, library, browsers and editors

IDEATE & TRANSLATE YOUR IDEAS INTO A TRACK:

Now that we understand the user Interface of the Digital Audio Workstation, we start with your first project
  • Learn how to put down your musical ideas onto the DAW and make a scratch/sketch of your track 
  • Understand the basics of song structure and build on your idea to crate more parts to form a full song
  • Understand Music Theory fundamentals so that your audio productions are musically correct.
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MAKE IT YOUR OWN: THE PRODUCTION PROCESS

Arjun Vagale working in a studio
Deep-dive into Music Production and make outstanding music:  
  • Edit, sample, and use virtual instruments and plugins to mould your tracks
  • Make your music productions stand out using synthesisers. Learn to synthesise sounds and make them unique, making them your own.

FINISHING YOUR TRACKS

  • Pre-mix: Finalising the creative production process by labelling and grouping the tracks and readying it for mixing is called the pre-mix. 
  • Mixing: A mixing engineer is as much an artist as a producer. Crafting and sculpting the best of your multi-track productions. 
  • Mastering: The Science of Mastering is the final stage of Music Production and the final translation for all playback systems.
Mixing and mastering your Music Production

  DJ|PRODUCER: UPGRADE THIS COURSE With Performance capabilities by adding on the PRO DJ Training.

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Advanced Music Production: Singer-Songwriters

ADVANCED CERTIFICATE PROGRAM​

DAWs have replaced the need for full-fledged studios allowing would-be producers to make pro-level music through the use of these virtual–digital studios from the comfort of home in a semi-pro environment.

The Advanced Music Production course takes you through the basics and shows you the ropes, from recording at home to producing your own compositions. Targeted at Singer-songwriters who want to start producing and recording themselves, this course is a step above electronic music production, enabling musicians to add recording and advanced editing capabilities to their music production workflow. Be it recording your Demo at home or perfecting the audio for your youtube channel, this advanced music production course will hone those much-needed production skills and give musicians an edge in their recording capabilities. 

pre-requisit

Interested in developing ones-self and/or already have the ability to sing (vocalist) and play at least 1 instrument (preferably a “string” instrument like Guitar, Sitar or Violin)

Curriculum

Learn Advanced Music Production covers all aspects of Electronic Music Production and more. Learn on any one DAW: Logic Pro or Cubase, are preferred however you can also learn on Ableton Live.
Get that Professional edge you have been missing as a music producer. Bring out the best in your Vocals and Instrumentation. The Advanced Music Production Course at I Love Music Academy is designed specifically for self-use by Singer-songwriters.

Music Foundation

  • Fundamentals of Sound
  • Beat Foundation 
  • Music Theory

 

DAW – Music Production

  • Learn the DAW User Interface
  • Working with the DAW- Music Production
  • Synthesis of Sound
  • Mixing & Mastering (In-the-box)

Recording & Advanced Editing

  • Aspects of audio and MIDI recording in DAW. 
  • Recording process and setting up the microphone (positioning, distance, direction, etc)
  • Choose the ideal Microphone & Recording location
  • Recording vocal and Instrumental recording
  • Auto-correction of vocals, Clean up using stock plugins & filters
  • Advanced Editing and Mixing of recorded sounds.

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You are on the right path, enhance your skills even further with add-on modules. Progress to the advanced program:

ADVANCED MUSIC PRODUCTION COURSE PROGRESSION

Mic

Recording:

Start with understanding the recording process and choose the ideal type of Microphone best suited for you, its setup and use.

DAW Basics:
Learn the Digital Audio Workstations User Interface (UI) for Music Production.Music Theory:Reinforcing the music theory basics with an understanding of song structure, it is possible to translate one’s music composition onto the DAW using the digital keyboard for songwriters, non-musicians, and string, percussive and wind instrumentalists.
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Mixing for Music Composer

Ideating:

Translate your musical ideas onto the DAW and make a scratch or sketch of your track.

Editing: 

Structure the song from the scratch and then introduce other elements to back it up.

Advanced Editing & Vocal Correction:

Using auto-correction techniques to correct pitch and tone mistakes during the recording process, you can make your vocals sound awesome. 

MAKE IT YOUR OWN IN THE PRODUCTION PROCESS

Mastering in Audio Engineering Studio
Deep-dive into the Music Production and make outstanding music:  Edit, sample, and use virtual instruments and plugins to mould your tracks


Sound Synthesis:
Make your music productions stand out using synthesisers. Learn to synthesise sounds and make them unique, making them your own.

 

Mixing Vocals & Recorded Sounds: 

Layering and other techniques to bring out the best of recorded music before we finalise the track. 

FINISHING your Tracks
Once you are done with the production process, its time we organise and clean it up – this is called the pre-mix, but we are not finished yet:  
 

Mixing:

The Art of Mixing is done to bring out the best of your multi-track productions. Achieved By adjustments of levels, panning and time-based audio effects (chorus, reverb, delay) processing. 

Mastering:

The Science of Mastering is the final stage of Music Production where frequencies are checked and arranged to the requirements of the medium of final use: CD, Vinyl, Digital (Youtube, Digital Audio or Video release, streaming services). This Digital optimisation is the final translation for all playback systems. 

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Master Music Production in a studio environment

MASTER MUSIC PRODUCTION - STUDIO

MASTER PROGRAM (CERTIFICATE)

The Master Music Production – Studio Certificate Program at the I Love Music Academy concentrates on understanding the studio environment. It encapsulates fundamental concepts like compression, equalisation, phase cancellation, microphone selection and recording studio setup. Students discover how to use microphones, and consoles, in relation to the digital audio workstations (DAWs) to record audio and enhance their Mic-ing techniques leading to mixing and music production.

Referenced as a Mini Audio Engineering Course, our Master Music Production course goes beyond the shell of the DAW. It equips our music production students to explore the studio as a whole including editing, mixing, reproduction and reinforcement of audio, as the basic stepping stones to a career as a professional music producer. 

Curriculum

Targeted at those who aspire to run their own commercial studios, record and produce for others or want to learn Audio Engineering in a shorter duration(crash course). However, it does not include all Audio Engineering courses topics such as Hardware synths and Audio for Video (Sound design/foley/dubbing/background scoring/etc) and is limited to only One DAW.
Master Music Production Studio  covers all aspects Advanced Music Production; with a deeper understanding of Synthesis, Mixing & Mastering. If you look forward to working in a professional studio environment this is the pro music production course for you. 

Recording & Analog Mixing
  • Recording process and microphone setup (positioning, distance, direction, etc)
  • Types of Microphones, their properties & use (polar patterns, directional, power)
  • Recording Instruments (String, Wind, Percussive & skin, Vocals)
Advanced Editing for Recording
  • All Aspects of audio and MIDI recording in the DAW.
  • Manual and Auto-correction of vocals.
  •  Clean up noise, Advanced Editing and Mixing recorded sounds.
 

Learn the User Interface

  • DAW basics, layout & controls
  • Editing shortcuts & Key commands
  • Creating projects
Mastering Music Production Tools in the DAW
  • MIDI & MIDI devices to produce music
  • Time based Effects( Reverb & Delay)
  • Dynamic processing (Compressor, Gate, Limiter, Expander)
  • EQ, Filters & plugins 
  • Reverb & Echo
  • Modulation (Chorus, Phaser & Flanger)
  • Other DAW Utilities like Amp, Beat Repeat, Cabinet, Tube, Saturator & Pedal
Fundamentals of sound
  • Waveforms
  • Phase & Metering systems
  • Wavelength & Amplitude
  • Sound propagation
  • Decibels & Frequency spectrum
  • Mono, Stereo, & Surround

Beats Foundation

  • Making Beats
  • Beat and Bars
  • Tempo and genre
  • Rhythm Theory
 

Music Theory 

  • Notes and scales & Pitch
  • Make patterns with pitch
  • Keys andScales
  • Adding more notes
  • Playing with notes and scales
  • Hacks and cheat codes – the essentials needed to make your Music production sound great
Acoustics & Studio Basics
  • Sound Absorption
  • Impulse Response
  • Diffusion & Practical Sound isolation
  • Standing Waves/Modes,
  • The Listening Position & Placement/Fitting
  • Room Acoustics for the listening Environment

Enhanced Synthesis

Go beyond the Daw-Based Synths, and explore Third party Synths in this module

  • Components of a synth
  • Generators and Processors, Properties of Sound, Pitch, Timbre & Loudness.
  • Subtractive Synthesis
  • FM synthesis
  • Additive Synthesis
  • Wavetable synthesis 
  • Sample-based Synthesis
 

Mixing

  • Balancing the elements of the song
  • Tones and depth of sound
  • Automation
  • FX Vocals and tuning issues
  • Cleaning up noisy tracks
  • EQ and compression in action Sub mixes
  • Mixing & processing techniques
 

Mastering 

  • Introduction
  • Compression / Multi-band EQ
  • Harmonic Excitation / Saturation / Tape
  • Limiter / Dithering / Down-sampling
  • Mastering Audio Process

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Music Production - Student Success

We encourage our students to seek out challenging assignments and make fame their goal for success. The journey to fame is through the quality of work and music that they release. Here we showcase some of our talented students, who have put their technical and music sensibilities out there and gained recognition though their assignments & music. We wish them all the fame and success and are proud to have been a part of their journey.

Kaxi Aftab student of ILM

Kaxi
Aftab Ganguly 

32 stitches ILM student

32 Stitches
Arpit Gawri

Crooked Illusion Student success

Crooked Illusions
Aditya Dawra

Subhashish aka Albela | DJ producer student

Albela
Subhashish

Gam3 Music (India)
Vicky Tyagi 

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