Tag Archives: Tutorial

Sonic Academy – How To Make Chilled House With Vince Wantson

By | June 18, 2016

  Following on from his hugely popular How To Make Deep Tech House course, we welcome back Vince Watson to Sonic Academy as he delivers a rather stylish Chilled House course. Think poolside party, beach vibes, and sun kissed beats. Vince also delves deeper into the world of chords with a straight ahead look at 7ths, 9ths, Augmented… Read More »

Sonic Academy – How To Make Nu Skool Retro House With Dancing Divaz

By | June 18, 2016

  Sonic Academy proudly presents ‘How To Make Nu Skool Retro House with Dancing Divaz’. With 20 years experience remixing the likes of Queen, Prince and Baby D and accounting for 20 UK top 40s, the man behind the Divaz brand, Ian Bland, certainly knows how to make hits. Here he uses his Divaz moniker to remix in… Read More »

Sonic Academy – How To Make Nite Rite 5 with Mason

By | June 17, 2016

  Dutch heavy weight of the Nu Disco scene ‘Mason’ returns to Sonic Academy delivering another monster course. Here he rebuilds last years beatport chart smash ‘Nite Rite Five’. Released back in June of last year and tearing up dance floors across the globe, ‘Nite Rite Five’ is the blue print to that Nu Disco sound. Using mainly… Read More »

Sonic Academy – How To Make Melodic Techno with Chymera

By | June 17, 2016

  Sonic Academy welcomes the Berlin based Irish music maker Chymera to the helm for this truly deep and wonderful ‘How To Make Melodic Techno’ course. Chymera’s productions often fit comfortably between house and techno, and range from deeper cuts to more dancefloor focussed tracks, but always with a keen sense of melody. He has released various diverse… Read More »

Sonic Academy – How To Make Future House With Ryan Enzed

By | June 17, 2016

  Sonic Academy regular.. and our favourite Kiwi, Ryan Enzed returns with another monster course. How To Make Future House takes the lid off this trending sub genre and dives into the production secrets of artists such as Don Diablo, Tchami, Kayliox and man of the moment Oliver Heldens. Expect metallic leads, subby baselines, bloc rocking beats and… Read More »

Sonic Academy – How To Make Progressive House

By | June 17, 2016

Sonic Academy proudly presents one of our most in depth courses to date. Welcome to ‘How To Make Progressive House 2015 with Echo Sound Works’. Taking apart this stadium filling genre, ‘Echo Sound Works’ expertly guides you through every nuance and twist in what is the world’s most popular sound today. Right from the first video where he… Read More »

Sonic Academy – How To Make Progressive Psy Trance With James Dymond

By | June 17, 2016

  After the fantastic response to his previous course we asked James Dymond back to bring you another top notch FL Studio course. This time round we look at ‘How To Make Progressive Psy Trance in FL Studio’ This is a club thumping, ground shaking monster of a track, with tight baselines, epic breakdowns and killer drops. Working… Read More »

Sonic Academy – How To Make Uplifting Trance with Bjorn Akesson

By | June 17, 2016

  After his interview with Chris, Swedish native and uplifting trance star Bjorn Akesson is back on Sonic Academy, this time with a monster course – ‘How To Make Uplifting Trance’. Bjorn shows from the first kick to the last effect, how to produce an uplifting 138 monster in this 7 hour course in Cubase 8. He starts… Read More »

Sonic Academy – How To Make Tech Trance in Ableton Live

By | June 17, 2016

  How to Make Tech Trance is Sonic Academy’s guide to emulating the Tech Trance style made popular by the likes of Sander Van Doorn, Randy Katana and Simon Patterson. The nineteen video tutorials (detailing drums, percussion arranging, basslines, adding strings, synth programming and more) are also a great, focused way to enhance your music production skills using… Read More »

Sonic Academy – How To Make Deep House 2016 in Ableton Live

By | June 17, 2016

  Sonic Academy welcomes back Ian Bland AKA ‘Dancing Divaz’ for another monster course. This time Ian guides us expertly through ‘How To Make Deep house 2016 using Ableton live 9’ From a very detailed look at drum programming, groove creation and adding an ambient reverb, through to sound design using Korg’s Legacy M1 softsynth and of course,… Read More »

Truefire – Robben Ford’s Rhythm Revolution [Guitar Tutorial, ENG]

By | May 30, 2016

  Over the course of his 40-year recording and performing career, Robben Ford’s rhythm guitar work has excited the ears of his audience, fired up his musical collaborations with dozens of top artists and simply amazed his fellow guitar players. “Playing rhythm guitar is the greatest joy in my musical life,” says Robben, “I love the subject of… Read More »

Truefire – Carl Verheyen’s SWAT Rhythm [Guitar Tutorial, ENG]

By | May 30, 2016

  True to Verheyen form, this nine-section SWAT Rhythm Guitar curriculum over-delivers fretboard wisdom for virtually any style of rhythm guitar. SECTION 1: Rhythm Tips In this first section, Carl presents four key concepts: The Drummers Heartbeat, Energy Concentration, Shuffle Types and Less Is More. Key learnings here include the importance of underplaying, how to identify and locate… Read More »

Truefire – Corey Congilio’s Rhythm Factory Texas Blues [Guitar Tutorial, ENG]

By | May 30, 2016

  On January 24th in 1848, James Marshall triggered the California Gold Rush when he uncovered a handful of shiny pebbles while building a lumber mill in Coloma, California. Subsequently, hundreds of thousands of people, from all over the globe, suffered great hardship to make their way by land and sea to seek their own fortunes. We guitarists… Read More »