deadmau5

Teaches Electronic Music Production

Masterclass is $20/month (billed annually)

Before he was deadmau5, all Joel Zimmerman wanted for Christmas was old toasters to take apart. Now, you can watch him take his music apart. In his first-ever online class, Joel teaches you how he approaches melodies, mixing and mastering to make unique sounds you can't find in a cookie cutter sample pack. You'll not only get his lessons, you'll learn how to create your own music without spending money on million dollar gear.

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1. Introduction

Welcome to the deadmau5 studio. Meet Joel, the man behind the mau5head, and learn what he's got planned for your class in electronic music production.

2. The deadmau5 Process: Theory

It's all about experimentation. Learn Joel's unique approach to the music creation process and how to get the most out of your time in the studio.

3. The deadmau5 Process: Practice

Get in the studio and watch how deadmau5 music takes shape in real time: from an empty project to beginnings of a track.

4. Building Your Home Studio

Ready to start building out your home studio and making tracks of your own? Here's Joel's advice for what gear you need and what you don't.

5. Developing Melodic Structures

Whether you've had musical training or not, you can use these deadmau5 techniques to start drawing melodies into your DAW and creating loops that resolve.

6. Turning Melodies Into Arrangements

Here's how deadmau5 takes basic chord structures and spreads them out across different instruments to make full arrangements including bass parts and leads.

7. Introduction To Synthesized Sounds

Once you've got a chord structure and an arrangement, it's time to build the unique instrumental sounds that give your track its character. It all starts with learning the basics of synthesis.

8. Experimenting With Modular Synths

Don't be intimidated by the wall of knobs and flashing lights. For deadmau5, modular synths are all about messing around and finding unexpected sounds. Watch how he builds and tweaks his patches from scratch.

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