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Performing Live with Ableton

Performing Live with Ableton | Los Angeles & Live Online (33% off)

Curate a captivating performance for your fans using On-Stage Looping, Sample Triggers and Ableton Live.

 

At Garnish Los Angeles, learn the art of shaping your songs for an exciting performance on stage, online and all your social media videos. You will learn how to sample in real-time, create loops on the spot and be your own band. We will also teach you to creatively re-arrange and process your songs and vocals. Explore Ableton's session view with LA Artist, Songwriter and Producer Paola Gladys. Let's give your fans and followers unforgettable performances.

Introduction and Ableton Prep
• Teacher and Student intros - Backgrounds, Influences, Genres and Styles
• Show and Tell from their past work
• End of class Goals
• Analyzing performance videos - Reasons to achieve that
• State of mind and soul
• Creating a beat / song "On the Spot"
• Choosing the song to perform live with Ableton - Cover/Original
• Ableton live recap - "The Clip View"
• Clip view in action
• Scenes
• Color coding and BPM
Homework: Research recommended electronic performance artists

Let’s get it started
• Rearranging your song for performance.
• Which instrument are you going to play live and why?
• Synthesis and sound design.
• Sampling- Your favorite songs, Your own sample recordings etc
• Editing, processing and creating custom Drum Racks with your own recording.
• EQs, Compressor and FX for your instruments.
Homework: Create Song 1 First Draft

Live recording
• Performance Techniques- Rhythm and Phrasing
• Recording Vocal and Instruments
• Recording Multiple tracks together
• Editing and Comping in Ableton
• Fixing mistakes without stopping playback. Homework: Recording Exercise 1
LESSON 4 Loops (3Hrs) Loops pt. 1
• Staying focused on rhythm while looping
• Using Ableton Looper
• Different loop durations
• Sequencing Loops as a performance
• Fixing mistakes in looper without stopping playback.
• Instrument loops- Drums, Synths, Bass
Homework: Looping Exercise Part 1- Recording

Loops pt. 2
• Vocal loops- Creating Lead, Background and Fx parts, Melody and Harmony.
• Claps, Snaps, Vocal percussion, creating percussion loops from sample recordings.
• Advanced sample processing, Transforming your sample recordings, Creating unique sounds
and textures (Granular Synthesis) Homework: Looping Exercise Part 2- Processing

Triggers and Controller Mapping
• Key mapping
• MIDI mapping
• Tracks- Arm, Disarm
• Assigning specific commands to Mute/solo
• Controlling multiple tracks
• Song 2 start

Homework: Creating your performance set, Organize tracks for Song 2

Adding magic to your performance 
• Song structure and Rearranging
• Launching Scenes
• Transitions and Breakdowns
• Launchpad and Push
• Staying Creative- Improvising within your Live setup and making each performance unique
• Additional Layers Effects
• Using Pedals
• Group Tracks- Make Your Life Easier And Group Tracks!
Homework: Using Launch Pad, Push and controller of your choice.

Mixing your Live Set
• Volume Balancing, Pan, FX Processing, Sub mixes, Stems, Mono vs Stereo
• Experiment with different sounds and effects
• Create your own Fx chains for workflow optimization
• Master Channel
• Starting Song 3
Homework: Finishing the Mix and organizing tracks for Song 3. LESSON 8 - Put it all together (3Hrs)
• Create And Perform A Set Of 3 Songs
• Transitioning between songs
• Reorganize all the instruments you’ll need for each of the song
• Memorizing key commands
• Practice practice practice

FINAL THOUGHTS- YOU GOT THIS!
• Stage Presence, Interacting with your fans, Social Media videos, Performing online
• Booking shows and mapping out a career.
Homework: Final Performance

Let’s Go!

• What sets Ableton apart from other DAWs?
• Getting set up: Audio and the preferences window
• Session view vs. Arrangement view: applications of each
• Live concepts: clips / scenes / browser / library
• The concept of Ableton’s unique warp engine
• Launching clips
• Intro to FX
• Intro to instruments

MIDI Tracks and Composing with Virtual Instruments

• Simpler - Unlocking the full potential of this simple sampler
• Drum Rack - Programming beats, manipulating sounds, chopping up loops, vocals, and tracks - making rhythms from anything. Slice to MIDI
• Using and controlling third-party virtual instruments
• Grooves + groove extraction
• Setting up a MIDI keyboard or drum pad controllers
• Getting creative with MIDI effects

Creating With Audio & MIDI

• Warping in practice
• Quantizing audio
• Clips: clip view and clip properties
• Making beats with Drum Racks and Simpler sampling
• Effects: Live’s effects and using third-party effects
• Recording MIDI and live looping
• Basic routing and resampling
• Automation: creating dynamic changes in your arrangements

Recording Techniques and Introduction to Sound Design

• Balancing, introduction to the art of mixing. Group tracks and advanced uses of routing
• Introduction to sound waves, frequency, and amplitude
• The recording patch in detail, introduction to gain structure
• EQ and compression for recording
• Foldback, headphone mixes, and latency
• Digital, analog, sampling rate and bit-rate explained
• Microphones overview and stereo miking techniques
• Recording specific aspects of Ableton
• Compiling audio takes

DJing and Live Performance

• Preparing (warping) whole tracks and harmonic mixing
• On the fly DJ effects
• Using MIDI controllers effectively / mouse-free control
• Bespoke Ableton controllers - Akai, Novation, and Push
• Grouping tracks and basic routing
• Structuring your sets and using loops
• Recording your performance + editing the arrangement view
• Bouncing down

Advanced Techniques

• Advanced warping - acapellas, classical music and anything without beats!
• Multi-track warping
• Clip envelopes - creative uses of Ableton's unique loop-based automation on audio fx, instruments, and midi fx. Easily achieve complex music, sound, and rhythm manipulation
• Using all automation types together - creating build-ups and break-downs with complex sounds
• Intro to Racks & Chains – powerful hidden features. Layering FX and instruments

36 Hours | $1499 + $100 Registration if booked 14 days before start or $1799 + $200 Registration | 33% off Online Remote Attendance

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