Earlier this year Sydney-based producer and educator Mr. Bill visited Dubspot NY to host a free workshop about working more efficiently with Ableton Live and improving your workflow. In this video recap, we highlight some valuable techniques Mr. Bill offered up during the workshop about working quickly in music production and sound design.
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In this first video of a two-part series, Sydney-based producer and educator Mr. Bill talks about how to work more efficiently with Ableton Live to improve your music production and sound design workflow. Mr. Bill also takes us inside one of his productions and demonstrates a few approaches to bass sound design using u-he Zebra wireless modular synthesizer, Live’s Sampler, and processing techniques using various effects. Learn how to take simple bass progressions and turn them into complex sound sequences sure to excite your senses.
The Mr. Bill project is based on evocation, I like to write music that excites the ear and the brain. This requires me to explore a vast range of strange production methods and musical theories to keep exciting my senses. The best way to describe the music associated with this project is a mix of unlatched, glitchy breakbeats, heavy, swung-out bass lines and flawless edits with a large dash of palatable melodic content.
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The flagship of our music training, with every Ableton Live course offered at the school. After completing this program, you will leave with a portfolio of original tracks, a remix entered in an active contest, a scored commercial to widen your scope, and the Dubspot Producer’s Certificate in Ableton Live.
This program is about learning Ableton Live by going through the entire process of being an artist, by developing your own sound through a series of sketches and experimentation. You will also learn the ins and outs of this powerful software through a series of exercises designed to help you master the steps involved in producing your own music. After a level of getting familiar with the tools that Ableton has to offer, you will then develop your sonic ideas into full-length tracks. You will be exposed to a variety of approaches to arrangement and composition, storytelling techniques, ways of creating tension and drama in your music. At the end of the day, it is the sum total of your choices as an artist that define your sound, and Levels 2 – 6 will give you the experience of actually completing tracks to add to your portfolio.
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For this weeks episode of the Dubspot Radio Podcast, we are delighted to present an exclusive mix and interview from up and coming DJ and Dubspot Alumni, ZEEMUFFIN.
ZEEMUFFIN recently joined Dubspot’s Pozibelle for a chat about her travels over the last year, her favorite DJs on the scene, and busy gig schedule. After a delightful conversation, she finished off the episode with an exclusive mix full of hip hop gems and dancefloor grooves. Be sure to catch her in action during these upcoming event dates:
**Every Thursday alongside Major Lazer’s Jillionaire and Jay White for “Feel Up Sound System” in Chinatown, NYC at Pulquieria
**July 17 – MADD Summer at Hotel Hugo with Ricci Steez, 4-8pm
**July 18 – Sole Service at Yamez (338 Mofatt Street Brooklyn, NY) with Teeburr and Ricci Steez, 2-8pm
Investment banker turned DJ, ZEEMUFFIN (Zainab Hasnain) is baking up fresh sounds all around New York City. She’s played everywhere from underground warehouse parties to NYC’s most sought after clubs such as Avenue, Sono, Gilded Lily, Kinfolk, Mister H, SOB’s, The PaperBox and Riff Raffs and opened up and DJ’d for rappers such as A$AP Nast, Blu, T-Shyne, Forte Bowie, Cashy, Duckwrth and G4SHI.
Born in Pakistan and raised in New York, her impressive knowledge of music speaks to her diverse roots. Her foundation in music started at a young age, as a classically trained viola player and bhangra dancer. She spent her teens sneaking into every NYC show she could get into and religiously studying hip hop. All of this has contributed to her unique genre blending taste and sharp technical skills.
Her contagious energy never fails to shine through her sets. She combines a variety of sounds from classic to current hip hop, electronic, future R&B and bass, jersey club and a touch of mainstream, that please underground heads and club-goers alike.
In an industry dominated by men, ZEEMUFFIN has carved a unique space for herself as a go-to hip hop DJ. She currently holds a residency at Pulqueria on Thursday’s with Major Lazer’s Jillionaire and Jay White, called #FUSS (Feel Up Sound System) and is working on her productions and mix series. When she’s not DJ’ing she also takes photos and writes for The Hundreds and Tribeca Film.
Keep up with ZEEMUFFIN on SoundCloud | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Website
Ask questions. Watch demos. Test drive workstations.
Visit our New York and Los Angeles locations! Ask our Admissions Counselors in-depth questions about our programs, curriculum and philosophy. Watch live music production and DJ demos, and test drive our student workstations. If you are still trying to decide what you are looking for, stop by one of our Open Houses in NYC or schedule a tour in LA to find out more about the learning process at Dubspot. We can also help with scheduling details and payment options.
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Dubspot and Sonos Studio teamed up earlier this year to present “Do More Than Just Listen,” an event that celebrated electronic music culture and technology. In the following video recaps, we highlight an immersive set of workshops called “The Art of Sampling” with Salva, Mike Parvizi, and Mark de-Clive Lowe.
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Dubspot and Sonos Studio teamed up earlier this year to present “Do More Than Just Listen,” an immersive set of interactive workshops called “The Art of Sampling” to celebrate electronic music culture and technology. The workshop took place in Los Angeles and focused on electronic music history, music for film, live performance, sampling, music production, sound design, and much more. In the following videos, we highlight some of our favorite moments during the Art of Sampling workshop.
In this video, Dubspot Instructor Mark de-Clive Lowe takes us into the art of sampling and demonstrates how to apply sampling techniques to modern electronic music. Using his own method for sampling, Mark de-Clive Lowe builds a track from scratch during a live performance and shares some helpful composition and mixing tips.
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In this video, Dubspot Instructor Mike Parvizi takes us further into the art of sampling using Ableton Live and Roland’s SP-40 SX Linear Wave Sampler. Mike demonstrates his method of cutting up and processing drum loops, as well as sequencing melodic sounds to create a track on the fly.
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In this video, Los Angeles producer Salva deconstructs one of his hip hop tracks in Ableton Live and talks about his approaches to sampling. Salva also shares some helpful tips about choosing samples and developing as an artist.
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Native Instruments’ Maschine redefines the intersection of hardware and software, performance and production. With Dubspot’s Maschine program for performers and producers, you will go from shaking hands with this cutting-edge music platform to making full tracks and performing your music live over the course of three levels. The future of performance and production is here, and there is no time for the future like today.
What’s Included:
More start dates and information about payment plans can be found here.
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