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Explore the fundamentals of music with our new interactive website. Experiment with beats, melody, harmony, basslines, and song structure – all in your web browser.
Enjoy!

Great site!

Great idea, great site. I shall be spreading the word with my mates that are interested in getting started. Thank you.

Oh boi, just spent about an hour playing with this site at work tons of fun lol

This is a friend of the book. Export from the web is as surprising as well done . Ableton team you are refreshing and it's a pleasure to follow you.

"Less is more" !

Great site. Love the fresh approach.

We think in 5 years all daws will move to the cloud, load projects from your browsers, work anywhere, no more files or save....

I would love to read a write-up from the web developers - I'm curious about how timing was handled, for example.

this website is amazing, i imagine it will seduce many new Ableton fans

Interesting idea but too simplistic and linear and too focussed on a certain workflow - I never use beats and would not start making music with a beat (or prebuilt patterns)

Muze wrote:Interesting idea but too simplistic and linear and too focussed on a certain workflow - I never use beats and would not start making music with a beat (or prebuilt patterns)

OK, but you don't sound like a complete beginner though, which is who the site is aimed for.

Also seems you didn't bother clicking "Chapters", on the left:

Beats
Notes and scales
Chords
Basslines
Melodies
Song structure
The playground
Advanced topics
Where to go from here

Unfolding "Advanced topics":

Advanced topics
Building major scales
Building minor scales
Modes
Pentatonic
Whole tone
Octatonic
Pelog
19-tone
Diatonic triads
Triads in every key
Inversions
Voicings
Seventh chords
“Mommy What's a Record”

this website is really well done. I will be using some of it with my young students. i'm looking fwd to it's expansion and improvement

nice work Ableton!

Fantastic site! The in-browser integration of those controls is pretty seamless.

I know most of the material in regards to music theory on there and it is fantastic, regardless. It caters to the music and aspects of music that I am interested in. Most music tutorials do not.
Reading the material in the context of my interests is helping me remember the theory in a meaningful way. I am never going to forget how starting a riff or melody a whole step above the key creates tension now that it has been explained using a Joy Division song.

Hello. I just recently bought an APC40 MKll. I know hot to create music, but this is the first time I am using a tool for mixing. I had to downloaded the live lite and normally, I used to convert audio to melody, harmony or drums just by dragging or right clicking and convert, but this time is not giving me the option. I used before the live 9. Well, can anybody that currently use the live lite help me? Also, if someone wants to share some tricks about the apc and the 5x8 that would as well really appreciate it. Thanks