5 Tips to improve your Piano Practice

FANTASTiC | 24 Oct 2018 | 421 MB

How well you play is largely determined by the quality of your practice. Lots of people explain how to play piano, and tell you that you have to practice many hours, but there’s way too few information out there about how to practice. This is my first video course of many to come, that will focus on the practicing aspect of the art of piano playing. In this video I will be giving 5 tips that will help you improve your piano practice.

MuseScore Part 5 TUTORiAL

FANTASTiC | 24 Oct 2018 | 142 MB

Parts, Playback looping, Export, Plugins…

MuseScore is a FREE music notation software that you can use to write sheet music. Because of its built-in playback feature, the program is also a great tool for music composers. You can even use MuseScore to write your own play-along tracks to practice your instrument. This course is part 5 out of 5 of a series of MuseScore courses. If you’re totally new to MuseScore, I would advise you to start with “MuseScore (part 1): Quick Start Guide”, where you will learn the basics of MuseScore: where to download the program, how to install (on Windows, Mac and Linux computers), how to write your first score, save, print and playback the score.

Mixing Tracks Ableton Live 10

FANTASTiC | 24 Oct 2018 | 345 MB

Ableton Live is often seen as a creative and performance-oriented DAW, but it excels at mixing too. Watch this course and learn the skills you need to create professional sounding mixes in Live, with Ableton certified trainer Noah Pred. Ableton Live is more than a song production and performance tool. This powerful DAW includes everything tools you need to create pro-sounding mixes! Producer and certified trainer Noah Pred is here to show you how to do it! Noah starts the course by explaining how Ableton Live differs from other DAWs when it comes to mixing. He then dives into sound boxing, explaining how this concept can help you create great sounding three-dimensional mixes, and how you can take this idea further by adding a fourth dimension to it. Next, you learn about gain staging, how to keep you project organized, and you discover tips to speed up the mixing process. Every mixing tools and techniques are covered in details: compression, EQ, panning, time-based effects, Live’s Drum Buss device, gating, and a lot more… The last tutorial lets you hear the differences between the mixed and unmixed versions of the track.

Soul Tech WAV MiDi PDF

FANTASTiC | 22 Oct 2018 | 410 MB

‘Soul Tech’ contains a variety of loops, hits, FX, vocals and loads more, designed to satisfy the more Soulful of Tech-House productions. This toolkit takes inspiration from the sounds of Flashmob, Josh Butler, Camelphat, Detlef, Green Velvet, Bontan and more. If you are looking to download a sample pack that provides you with all the assets to make a track from start to finish, then this is the one for you. In addition to to audio, ‘Soul Tech’ also contains MIDI files, as well as exclusive tutorial files, providing you with genre-specific production tips and videos to help you improve your production skills. Inspired by the demo track of this pack? Not a problem. This pack contains songstarter files, consisting of all the stems used to create the demo tracks heard. Now you can fully customise what you hear and make it into your own creation.

MASCHiNE MK3: Advanced Note Sequencing

SYNTHiC4TE | Oct 21 2018 | 615 MB

Thomas Cochran delivers in-depth video tutorials on advanced note sequencing with MASCHINE MK3. See the basics and more advanced ways to handle MIDI notes in MASCHINE, and get helpful tips for creating your own musical parts and ideas. Thomas begins with a brief introduction, and then goes over the goals of the course and what will be covered. You’ll then get a quick overview of MASCHINE’s sequencer interface, including the difference between patterns and scenes, as well as their functions. Next, you’ll see how to sequence rhythmic patterns on the MK3 controller and edit note values in the sequencer via the menus, and screens on the controller hardware. Advance drum programing is then shown, including how to add subtle variation to patterns with velocity automation, swing, and how to sequence “off the note grid” to create a more natural feel and or shuffle groove.

Jup-8 V Explained TUTORiAL

SYNTHiC4TE | Oct 19 2018 | 274 MB

Travel back in time to the future… Synth wiz Tyler Coffin presents in-depth video tutorials all about the amazing virtual recreation of the Roland Jupiter 8 poly synth, the Jup-8 V! Learn this beast inside and out as well ways to sound design Bass, Lead and Pad patches from scratch. Tyler starts off by welcoming you and then gives you an overview of the synth as well as a history lesson on it. Then it’s off to the races with explanations and demonstrations of its powerful oscillator section, filters and amplifier area, and deep modulation and LFO parameters. Many people don’t know that this virtual recreation is packed with extras the original never had, such as a deep Arpeggiator and Step Sequencer, and endless Multi FX options to take the already beautiful sounds even farther down the road to sonic bliss. Learn all about these features and how to use them, including a detailed tutorial on preset management and browsing, so you can save and recall your custom presets with ease.

Singing: Music Theatre Vocal Skills

FANTASTiC | 19 Oct 2018 | 2.27 GB

Do you want to be able to sing to the standard of a West End or Broadway star? This is a course for you if you love musical theatre and also want a robust singing course that will stretch you beyond your current vocal capabilities. As well as being focused on music theatre, this course is a bootcamp for all vocalists. We will look at the singing techniques needed to hit the high notes from the major epochs of musical theatre, including music hall and operetta, Tin Pan Alley and early jazz show tunes (Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin etc), classic Broadway music theatre (Rogers and Hammerstein, Kern, Rogers and Hart etc), 70s & 80s music theatre (Andrew Lloyd Webber, Boublil and Schönberg etc) and contemporary music theatre (Schwartz, Menken etc).