[Top 100 DJs Teach You to Make Electro] Monthly Electronic Music Production with Kygo (Pre-class Checklist) (7Gb)

World-class music producer Kygo changes the way you make music by teaching you everything he knows in a 1-month program. Immerse yourself in Kygo's unique process and prepare the class with 3 releasable songs and a new, end-to-end set of lifelong music production skills.

Song #1: Synth Lead Drop

For song #1, Kygo walks you through his end-to-end production process by making a new song with Kygo-style synth leads. You'll follow along and produce your own synth-led song, improving your production skills across the board.

Song #2: Vocal Downgrade

For track #2, Kygo delves into vocals and vocal processing, showing his entire process for producing a song with vocals. You'll follow along and produce your second song featuring vocals.

Song #3: Developing Your Voice

For track 3, Kygo shares his approach to finding a unique sound as a producer and evolving your style over time. You'll complete the course by producing the third track, which is designed to help you discover or refine your signature sound as a producer and artist.

Enhance your full range of music production skills

Learn the end-to-end music production skills Kygo uses to make electronic hits in this 30-day course. This course meets your needs and pushes your skills to new heights.

Enhance your full range of music production skills

Learn the end-to-end music production skills Kygo uses to make electronic hits in this 30-day course. This course meets your needs and pushes your skills to new heights.

1. Production Basics
   Learn the end-to-end skills of a music producer, from tracking your first MIDI instrument and finding the best sound to bus processing and sound design. In the class, Kygo demonstrates his real-time production process and all the tools he uses.
2. Selecting and deconstructing presentations
   Kygo explains his process for analyzing and selecting demo songs to produce, including what he listens for in terms of melody, vocal performance, chord progressions, lyrics, rhythm, etc., as well as his process for deconstructing the demo to begin production.
3. Sounds, synthesizers, samples and plug-ins
   Kygo shares all the tools he uses to make music, including his preferred instrument sounds, plugins and synthesizers. He'll show you how he finds the perfect instruments, audio samples and effects, as well as how he saves his sounds and organizes his library.
4. Vocals and manipulation
   Kygo shows you the complete process of producing his vocal leads. You'll watch as Kygo manually splits his vocals into samples, improvises melodies on the keyboard, and creates rich vocal textures with effects like pitch shifting, vocoders, and resonant peaks.
5. EQ, Reverb, Sidechain and More FX
   Kygo delves into EQ, reverb, sidechaining and more, teaching him how to make the most of these audio processing effects. In this course, you'll learn how to use these effects in more creative and powerful ways to customize and customize your sound.
6. Writing drums, bass, synthesizer and piano parts
   Kygo details how he wrote all the instrumental parts for the song, from powerful bass lines and energetic drums to large synthesizers and rhythmic piano parts. Learn to write and produce every part of a song using a MIDI keyboard, no instruments required.
7. Sweeps, Risers, Reverses and Fills
   Kygo shows how to use reverse crashes, up sweeps, down sweeps, risers and fills to build and release tension throughout the song. These transitions will help you draw the listener in from one part to the next and ensure that your song maintains momentum.
8. Song structure and arrangement
   Kygo demonstrates the end-to-end process of his arrangements, including how he decides on the order and number of verses, choruses, and deletions, as well as how he writes and produces to effectively round out his intros and outros. Arrangement.
9. Automation and advanced technologies
   Kygo describes all the advanced techniques he uses to take tracks to the next level, including a variety of automation tricks, side-chaining techniques, filtering effects, bus processing, and more to create beautiful, professional dance music.
10. Layering, composing, sound selection
    Kygo demonstrates his process of layering instruments to create powerful and sonically rich arrangements. In the class, you'll learn how to stack pianos, synthesizers, drums, percussion pads, and bass to create a thick, full sound while avoiding messy, overproduced tracks.
11. Powerful Drops and Catchy Melodies
    Kygo breaks down every element of his signature high-energy drops, from drums and bass to piano and synthesizer. Learn how to write compelling melodies for synthesizers or vocal leads, and how to add power with sidechains, layering, and effects.
12. Control of energy and momentum
    Controlling the energy level of an entire song is a key skill for electronic music producers, and Kygo will teach you how to strategically introduce or remove production elements in order to change the energy level and keep the listener engaged throughout the song.
13. Kygo's experimental procedure
    Kygo uses a hands-on, experimental approach to making music. In class, he will demonstrate how he improvises to find catchy rhythmic patterns, creates melodies through improvised piano, and tests different instrumental sounds to choose the perfect sound.
14. Mixing, mastering and touching up tracks
    Kygo will break down the mixing and mastering process he uses to touch up and finish tracks. During the class, you'll watch Kygo mix and master multiple songs in real time, explaining every tool he uses and every decision he makes in the process.
15. Find your unique voice
    Kygo has achieved success in the music industry by producing unique and differentiated sounds. In the class, he will share how he developed a unique production style by exploring music, curating a library of favorite sounds, and constantly integrating new influences.

Through a step-by-step program of study

• Pre-course: induction and orientation
  Before the course begins, there are a few things you need to do to get ready for Day 1. Kygo explains how to get set up and what you need to prepare and know ahead of time to make the most of the class.
• Days 1-13: Synthesizer Vocals
  In this part of the course, Kygo takes you through his music production process from start to finish. He'll produce an original track with Kygo-style synthesizer leads, detailing every idea, trick and technique he uses in the process. By the end of Part 1, you'll have made your own beautiful track with synthesizer vocals, improving your production skills across the board.
• Days 14-24: Vocal Chops Song
  In this segment, Kygo will delve into vocals and vocal processing. He'll demonstrate his end-to-end process for producing a song with a vocal lead, including how he creates an appealing vocal melody and processes vocals with a range of effects. You'll continue on, and by the end of Part 2, you'll have produced a second song with a vocal part.
• Days 25-30: Finding Your Voice
  In the final part of the course, Kygo will share his approach to finding unique and memorable sounds as a producer. He will explain how he draws inspiration from other artists and producers, curates a library of signature sounds, and develops his sound over time. You will complete the course by producing a third track that will help you discover or refine your own personal sound as a producer.