A Prolific Music Producer's Workflow for Finishing Tracks
3h 4mIntermediate2016-01-22
Authors

Evan Sutton
Music Producer, Engineer, Composer, and Sound Programmer
Course details
So many of us have rough recordings or bare bones song ideas just sitting on our hard drives, waiting to be finished... This course provides strategies for completing those tracks and releasing them to the world. It's based on industry pro Evan Sutton's own workflow for being a more productive, prolific music producer.
Evan starts with the music production tools that can make it easier to see a song through to completion, such as templates, presets, and foolproof hardware setups. Next, he gets into the heavy lifting, mixing both songwriting and production techniques with tips for dealing with the psychological factors that may trip you up when completing a song. He wraps up the course with techniques that help to clear the final steps of song completion, including building transitions, adding ear candy, mixing strategies for increased efficiency, and simple mastering techniques, whether you choose to master your tracks yourself or hire a professional.
Learning objectives
Planning your track with a problem-solving mindset
Prepping to record vocals and music
Using DAW song templates
Getting basic musical ideas down
Making decisions that serve the song
Using channel strip presets
Creating sections and structure
Building better transitions
Adding FX, ear candy, and automation
Mixing and mastering
Evan starts with the music production tools that can make it easier to see a song through to completion, such as templates, presets, and foolproof hardware setups. Next, he gets into the heavy lifting, mixing both songwriting and production techniques with tips for dealing with the psychological factors that may trip you up when completing a song. He wraps up the course with techniques that help to clear the final steps of song completion, including building transitions, adding ear candy, mixing strategies for increased efficiency, and simple mastering techniques, whether you choose to master your tracks yourself or hire a professional.
Learning objectives
Planning your track with a problem-solving mindset
Prepping to record vocals and music
Using DAW song templates
Getting basic musical ideas down
Making decisions that serve the song
Using channel strip presets
Creating sections and structure
Building better transitions
Adding FX, ear candy, and automation
Mixing and mastering
Skills covered
Logic ProMusic ProductionAppleAudio and MusicOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome
- 02 - What you should know before watching this course
- 03 - Using the exercise files
1. Planning Your Track
- 04 - The problem-solving mindset
- 05 - Why use templates
- 06 - Working with instrument and routing presets as part of your templates
- 07 - Prepping to record vocalists
- 08 - Prepping to record musicians
- 09 - Template examples in Logic
- 10 - Template examples in Pro Tools
- 11 - Template examples in Live
2. Production Heavy Lifting
- 12 - Getting basic musical ideas down
- 13 - Working with simple variation - How much is too much
- 14 - Learning to trust your production process
- 15 - Making musical decisions that serve the song
- 16 - Basic mix considerations while composing, and using channel strip presets in Logic
- 17 - Channel strip preset examples in Pro Tools
- 18 - Channel strip preset examples in Ableton Live
- 19 - Creating simple sections and structural considerations
- 20 - Planning structure and using markers and reference tracks
- 21 - Building a bridge or middle eight section
- 22 - A simple approach to creating intros and outros
3. Taking Your Track to the Next Level
- 23 - Building better transitions
- 24 - FX, ear candy, and automation
- 25 - Knowing when your track is finished
- 26 - Philosophical mix strategies (the journey)
- 27 - To self master or not to self master
Conclusion
- 28 - Next steps
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