Ive been trying to learn Ableton for years. I don't know what it is about your teaching style but everything just clicks. Really love your teaching style!
3 videos later and you convinced me I can produce music, something I just thing of the other day. May sound naive, but that's how professional and intuitive you have been on your clips (except the music theory one but I'm just clueless)
I thought you seemed rather pretentious at first, but then I realized that you are a very skilled teacher and music producer. I’ve never learned through a “chill” teacher in my 16 years in culinary. So I appreciate your directness and focus, and you talking to me like I am ignorant… because I was, but now I can transition from garage band and BandLab on iphone to Ableton live seamlessly. I took many notes and working on my new ep. Thank you for being cocky and good. Also for free. Jesus.
Awesome stuff man! I am a Video Producer and Animator (25 years) and I also play a bunch of instruments. I've used ableton (since it came out) and I've learned more by watching this tutorial than I have in the entire time I've used the software. I've only ever used it as an acoustic/organic composer, or whatever you want to call it, and never knew about all of the shortcuts and just the basics of this style of composing. I have more and more clients wanting me to compose music for their commercials and the like and it had grown tiresome to record me playing live and then tweaking everything after the fact. This really helped. Thank you!
Ethan after watching about 300 videos on music production, I can definitely say that you are at the top 3 tutors, to make something simple for others to understand.
Wow after spending hundreds on courses and feeling overwhelmed and quitting a couple of times, your RU-vid video really helped me understand the process a whole lot better!!!! I might win a Grammy now 🤣 I appreciate you fam, Subscribed!!!!!
Thanks for sharing this video. It was super inspiring. I've been wanting to create beats and music with a similar vibe, but I don't know where to start. 💎
Thank you. I'm new to Ableton and beat making. This was one of the best tutorials on Ableton I've seen. I'll definitely be checking out your course. Keep up the great work. You just got yourself a new subscriber, lol.
I’ve been bench watching most of your content for a few hours today, and find them to be very inspiring and encouraging. So thank you. I’m guilty of procrastinating for some time now, and just need to get my music out rather than get buried on my hard drive. Quick question: Do you have to convert midi to waveform after mixing them?
i dont speak perfect English, but you explain it really damn well, and i like the way you teach. thank you again! iam paraplegic and now i can make musik with my healthy right hand on my pc😂 God bless you Ethan Davis!
Ethan I’m new to this whole space and your videos are incredibly helpful. I’m wondering if you’d ever want to post a video running through your favorite or most used plugins. Ableton does have plenty of good options but I just don’t know where to start when it comes to plug ins, especially for vocals
Ive tried everything and looked everywhere online but noon else seems to have this problem I can't make any beats if I can't drag sounds onto my tracks
I have gone through lots of video tutorials tired so many time fail fail fail but after watching your video i literally produce a song damnnn thank you so much love it Sub and like for my side 🎉
Hi you mention to use drive or saturation to bring out more harmonics in the bass, so it helps it to be heard on smaller speakers.....does that also work on the kick...as I'm having a lot of trouble to get my kick to come through on my phone speaker...sometimes it just doesn't sound like it's there at all, while other times its just a clicky sound....🤯
@Ethan Davis I don't understand how you make the B Bass go along with the kick. Your first kick starts at 1.1, your second at 2.2. Yet both bars for the B Bass start at x.1. If I do that then my second bass plays before the second kick. The only way I get it to work is by shifting the second bass to also start at 2.2 (which is something you clearly do not do)... So what am I missing here? Thanks in advance.
I'm coming from FL Studio and this way of working is so different. It looks more like using Audacity just dragging waveforms to create your beat. The session view is also convusing. Have to watch a view more tutorials i guess. I hope I made the right choice switching to Ableton.
I’ve used maschine for 10 years. I’ve used FL a bit, but decided to get the trial of ableton. My first 1 hour of tutorials I was confused - now I’m not. You made the right choice switching, now make the right choice sticking it out!
Not sure how to describe it but your ableton looks completely different from mine. I’m missing the whole middle section where you actually place the sounds entirely. Not sure how else to describe it. Anyway you could explain what your settings are or something?
@@CompleteProducer thanks for the response, ended up figuring out that my ableton was just set to have the timeline on a second monitor which I don’t have but I got it all onto the one screen now!
If you highlight the section u want to copy and paste and hit control+D it will automatically copy and paste idk if ur having the same struggle I was but that was my issue, you can use that in piano roll to if u do control+a and then control+D you can copy all notes then move them around
sup guys,I wanna be producer and now i m in searching online daw. I found one,this is Amped Studio, is someone hear something about this online daw ? I need to write a music in a browser,what do you think ?
I thought this was a master class video 😢. It started out great but half-way through, you switch to finished projects. Why not finish the beat? I was following along and you left me hanging.
I am sold, I am a photographer, graphic designer, motion designer, videographer learning music, do i have a problem?? 🤣🤣🤣 But yeah, this tutorial got me in Ableton first.
I've discovered your channel only few days ago and I bet you must be very soon in the top recommended producers on RU-vid. It's a true pleasure, your content is very relevant and dense, always inspiring and you do it in a very humble and genuine way. It also invited to discover your music universe. Many thanks.
bro im nine minutes in and you are single handedly teaching me how to make beats in ableton after floundering around for years. Your saying everything i need and nothing that i dont cheers
Great video man ,i just have some questions. Do you not put +6db on the master to allow headroom when mixing down? Do you not low cut on the reverb to prevent muddiness and does it matter the order of eq and reverb? Thank you for the video man
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So much time for a very simple boring beat and some bass??? In REASON this would have taken 5 minutes. And no, Ableton is horrible for making beats. They should introduce a step sequencer like FL Studio and REASON.
I’m coming over from GarageBand so it is difficult learning these new things. I am thankful for the free knowledge. But, I feel like you went fast over different things and also your cam got in the way for different steps. Maybe the video idea is to create your own beat, while following along, but I am trying to replicate what you’re doing to learn. It’s very frustrating when I’ve got to constantly rewind 3 or 4 times on every step because I miss little clicks that make a big change. Again, thanks for the knowledge, but please next time go slower and get that face cam out the way
sorry i have a problem, i can't drop a kick or a drum into an audio track only into a midi. i have my midi not connected though, because i'd like to experiment a bit in ableton without a midi first. what could be the problem?
Hey Ethan this is very helpful in the exact spot where you are new to ableton and maybe know how to make a drum pattern but you dont know what to do next - im in this position right now and this exactly shows the progression. thank you!
Hey Ethan,If you had course i would buy, my girlfriend is a singer, tryna produce for her, but I don't know much about producing , I do play the piano though
Do you mix your final version with your headphones mostly? What is the difference between Audeze and other headphones? I need to work with headphones for a while, it's a dilemma to pick a good one that will get me an accurate result, thank you!
Brooo thank you so much for this video. I have tried different methods to make a beat, and yours was definitely the best. I made an insane beat right away!! thank you!1
I was stuck at first cause I couldnt seem to get to the screen you started on but found it by going to Navigate (above the metronome) and selecting Arrangement view. I just dont know how to make that screen the default opening screen as what looks on your program, but thats not an issue. Thank you for the video!! Tremendously helpful!
Hello, when I use sound trap, I feel like I’m accomplishing what I want to with the beat I’m making but at times don’t feel like it makes sense and get frustrated. Thinking about making the switch to ableton but still unsure
Been watching your videos for the past week and I’m surprised how much I’ve improved in production. You are straight to the point without over and under explaining. Great work 💯
