
“I work with some of the biggest music producers in the industry on a daily basis. Now I understand how they do what they do.”
Shaun Royer
10 classes, each covering lectures, discussions and hands-on activities.
No, though there's a dedicated session on AI in EDM production and composition specifically.
Yes - see AI in Music Private Instruction.
Yes - a full session is dedicated to ethics, intellectual property and bias in AI-generated music.
No - it combines theoretical knowledge, hands-on exercises and case studies to build understanding from the ground up.
AI composition tools, automated mixing and mastering, album art generation, generative music tools, and AI remix/mashup software.
A music production college once asked me to teach music theory and composition - chord progressions, keys and scales, from the ground up.
Read →The major and natural minor scale formulas, building any scale from them, relative majors and minors, key signatures, and the circle of fifths as a map of related keys.
Read →Music theory practice, part two: major, minor and extended chords on the keyboard, and how to voice them.
Read →Major sevenths, minor sevenths and dominant sevenths, ninths, elevenths and thirteenths, sus chords, inversions, and how to make one chord do the work of several.
Read →A last day with a songwriting and composition class - chord sequences, melody, structure, rhythm, lyrics, arrangement and bass lines.
Read →Why producers need music theory, which concepts matter most in a DAW, and the exercise that turns a scale into a song in an afternoon.
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