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16+. Read more on our eligibility here.
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Start dates and course fees
Start dates alternate between Mondays , Tuesdays & Wednesdays throughout the year depending on start date. Option One : Advanced PaymentCourse Info
Course fees for paying students
£575 advanced payment to pay course in full.
When should I enrol?
In short: enrol as soon as you are ready. All live course dates are available for you to enrol on.
Unlike most training centres SEM has a limit on lecturer to student ratio and keeps its class sizes small. We therefore have limited availability and courses fill up in advance. We would recommend enrolling as soon as you are ready, to avoid disappointment.
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Suitability for this course
This course is delivered on Ableton Live. You will need a basic working knowledge of Ableton Live to attend the course.
If you are a total beginner to music production
…and have not made music before at all using a DAW, then it will not be suitable for you to take the Electronic Music Composition course just yet.
If you have made music before using a DAW, but just not using Ableton Live
We would suggest the following:
- Download the 1-month free trial of Ableton Live
- Enrol for the Electronic Music Composition Course
If you do not have a Mac at home, please do not worry. It is simply some basic shortcuts and mouse buttons that will be different from a PC. When enrolling, please notify us if you do not have a Mac.
Wheelchair Access
There is no wheelchair access for this course at present, please contact SEM for alternative arrangements.
Electronic Music Composition Course
£575.00
Introduction
You may be producing music, but good are your composition skills? Forget GCSE music lessons, this course has been created to give music producers and sound engineers a solid grounding in musical theory and keyboard skills using contemporary examples – from Daft Punk to techno.
The knowledge you’ll gain from this course will underpin your approach to making music, and will give you a confidence to experiment creatively. This course will allow you to generate ideas not only quickly but with ease, and will answer questions like:
What are keys, scales, melodies? How do they fit into a groove? What’s a time signature? How do I develop a chord structure? What’s the anatomy of a drum rhythm? How can I create a track, with a sample as a starting point? How do I work vocals, timing and tuning to make my tracks tighter? How can I improve my remixing? How do I make a bigger drop? How can I make my music more interesting? What arrangements can I look at? How can I finish this track?
It’s important to remember, this course isn’t just for music producers wanting to improve. If you’re a sound engineer, music theory will help you to communicate with the musicians around you in a language they understand. If you want to create music for other mediums such as films or TV, a foundation of music theory is absolutely essential for your workflow.
This is a great all-rounder course for anyone wanting to delve deeper into music. The training will improve your musical ear, and help take your ideas to a finished arrangement, ready for mixdown.
You don’t need to play an instrument or be able to read music in order to do this course. No musical theory background required!
The Original Electronic Music School
For the Electronic Music Composition Course you must have a working knowledge of Ableton Live to attend the course.
Lessons are delivered on Ableton Live, so you will need to be able to manipulate and input MIDI and audio to keep up with the pace of the class, as the focus will not be on music production, but music composition. We have solutions for if you’re a total beginner, or just new to Ableton Live.