Ableton Training courses

Jonny V · Post by **Jonny V** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:40 am

Has anybody here done any courses anywhere on how to use Ableton? I've been considering doing one at the London School of Sound or perhaps via correspondance at Berkley. Anybody had any good or bad experiences at either of these places or anywhere else for that matter?

robbmasters · Post by **robbmasters** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:59 am

I went to a Live event at LSS. They seemed to know their stuff on Live. None of their course syllabuses appealed to me personally, but check them out and see if any of their courses cover what you're interested in.

I wouldn't want to learn Live by a correspondence course. You might as well just read the manual.

littlepig · Post by **littlepig** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 11:16 am

CityLit in London do several courses. Most are 10wks, 2 hrs per week.

I went a few years ago, the instructor was really good.

A lot cheaper than Berkley.

mrjameskent · Post by **mrjameskent** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 1:01 pm

I just finished the CityLit course a couple of weeks ago - Loop Based Music Using ABleton Live.

Pros:
- tutor was a nice guy, did know his stuff
- small group that dwindled in size as course went on, people thought they knew all the stuff already
- very basic introduction but even though i knew a lot of the stuff there was a lot of the basic stuff that i still didn't know and therefore was worth knowing
- cheap
- if your a full time student i think it is free to do!

Cons
- had to share computer most weeks which did annoy me, i ended up taking my laptop towards the end which was better because i could work on my projects
- felt like it ran out of steam toward the end of the course
- very basic step by step of the programme which you could easily teach yourself with a good book BUT it does put it into context and you can ask tutor questions straight away which is good
- i was going after work and so was knackered most of the time

Hope that helps.
J

landrvr1 · Post by **landrvr1** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 1:16 pm

Check this out:

http://www.macprovideo.com/tutorial/abletonLive6

Seems very comprehensive. Been thinking about getting this myself.

Jonny V · Post by **Jonny V** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 1:18 pm

I was looking at the School of Sound course as its 2 days over the weekend. As I live in Bradford, commuting to London is expensive to travel and takes ages (4 hours from Kings Cross to Leeds last weekend!) so doing 2 hours every week for 10 weeks isn't ideal. This course gets it all out of the way with on one go.

Thanks for the advice everyone.

brightonalex · Post by **brightonalex** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 3:11 pm

City Lit do intensive courses too, i think.
I was on the course with Littlepig and I thought it was great.

I think the tutor James is missing a trick though by not putting together advanced courses, and Live 7 courses. So much has changed in the last couple of years.

mpresev · Post by **mpresev** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 5:53 pm

the best one that I know is

www.grooveboxmusic.com yer welcom

zooli · Post by **zooli** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 7:01 pm

Does any one know about Ableton Course / Training in NYC area ?

Any one tried berkleemusic.com on-line course?

cheers,

zooli

beats me · Post by **beats me** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 7:09 pm

landrvr1 wrote:Check this out:

http://www.macprovideo.com/tutorial/abletonLive6

Seems very comprehensive. Been thinking about getting this myself.

+1

They make great videos, also got a bunch for Logic. The nice thing about having videos is you can always go back and reference when you want and you also get to see things you might have never even thought of. IMO way better than books or manuals.

contakt321 · Post by **contakt321** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 7:48 pm

In NYC there is a place called DubSpot that teaches Live. My friend went and felt like he really got a lot out of it. Here is a link: http://www.dubspot.com/

forge · Post by **forge** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 12:57 am

mpresev wrote:the best one that I know is

www.grooveboxmusic.com yer welcom

Actually my new video series goes online @ Groovebox tomorrow (Wednesday) US central time

It's a 'power pack' (15 videos) on designing electronic drums using Live 7's drum rack, slice to new MIDI track and mostly Simpler but occasionally Sampler as well.

This is quite a specific offering, but we have a more entry level Live 7 offering coming 1 month from now, and there will be a promotion with upgrading to Live 7 and getting a month free or something like that - basically that will mean you get to check out the new series volume 1, then individual videos from volume 2 as they go online

sorry for the shameless plug, but it came up!

there will be some kind of announcement tomorrow.

But for now the Live 6 series is still online

Michael Hatsis · Post by **Michael Hatsis** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 12:59 am

Ill teach you anything you need to know about Live. Im in Brooklyn, NY...PM me if your interested...

beats me · Post by **beats me** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 2:26 am

forge wrote:
mpresev wrote:the best one that I know is

www.grooveboxmusic.com yer welcom
Actually my new video series goes online @ Groovebox tomorrow (Wednesday) US central time

It's a 'power pack' (15 videos) on designing electronic drums using Live 7's drum rack, slice to new MIDI track and mostly Simpler but occasionally Sampler as well.

This is quite a specific offering, but we have a more entry level Live 7 offering coming 1 month from now, and there will be a promotion with upgrading to Live 7 and getting a month free or something like that - basically that will mean you get to check out the new series volume 1, then individual videos from volume 2 as they go online

sorry for the shameless plug, but it came up!

there will be some kind of announcement tomorrow.

But for now the Live 6 series is still online

I'm still enjoying your "157 tracks I never finished and you won't either" series.

forge · Post by **forge** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:19 am

beats me wrote:
forge wrote:
mpresev wrote:the best one that I know is

www.grooveboxmusic.com yer welcom
Actually my new video series goes online @ Groovebox tomorrow (Wednesday) US central time

It's a 'power pack' (15 videos) on designing electronic drums using Live 7's drum rack, slice to new MIDI track and mostly Simpler but occasionally Sampler as well.

This is quite a specific offering, but we have a more entry level Live 7 offering coming 1 month from now, and there will be a promotion with upgrading to Live 7 and getting a month free or something like that - basically that will mean you get to check out the new series volume 1, then individual videos from volume 2 as they go online

sorry for the shameless plug, but it came up!

there will be some kind of announcement tomorrow.

But for now the Live 6 series is still online
I'm still enjoying your "157 tracks I never finished and you won't either" series.

Cheeky fucker!

no more tips for you!

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