How To Recreate Your Favourite Tracks Using Ableton Live 10

Ever wondered how your favourite track was made? In this series, SEM’s Ableton expert Tom Lonsborough recreates a selection of classic tracks using existing music samples and editing features available in Ableton Live 10.

2pac ‘California Love’Eddie Johns ‘More Spell On You’Drake ‘Hotline Bling’Inner City track ‘Good Life’

2pac ‘California Love’

Features a nifty sample from the classic track ‘Woman to Woman’ by Joe Cocker.

Tom shows us how to reproduce the track’s rich crunchy sounds with additional hints on how to tweak Ableton’s Beat Tools and methods of warping vocals with Ableton’s Talk Box feature.

Eddie Johns ‘More Spell On You’

Tom shows us how the Eddie Johns track ‘More Spell On You’ was tweaked to produce one of 2001’s biggest hits, Daft Punk’s single ‘One More Time’.

Drake ‘Hotline Bling’

Tom shows us how the Eddie Johns track ‘More Spell On You’ was tweaked to produce one of 2001’s biggest hits, Daft Punk’s single ‘One More Time’.

Inner City ‘Good Life’

Inner City ‘Good Life’ gets the treatment in this video as Tom shows us how Nitro Deluxe’s track ‘Let’s Get Brutal’ can be tweaked to reproduce this legendary dance track.

Ableton Live Short Course

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Our 4 day weekend short course (or 6 week evening) course is aimed at complete beginners and those with a basic knowledge of Ableton Live or music production generally. Initially, an “everyday” working knowledge of the software is taught, moving on to general music production and performance techniques as the course progresses. You will leave the course with a good understanding of how the software works, and plenty of ideas for how you might start to put tracks together at home.