A friend of mine has created a 12 hour music production course (HD video)

**Sigma** · 08-10-2012, 09:41 AM

This thread is a bit spammy, but I've written enough guides and shit for this site so you can give me a pass on this one!

The guy that created the course, Chris, has 15 years experience in music production (and teaching it) and he's really good at explaining things in plain English. He's not one of those clowns that just knocks up an ebook and then expects people to pay $50 for it. This course features 12 hours of HD video tutorials, plus if you have any questions about anything in the course you can email Chris and he'll get back to you. It's aimed at both PC and Mac users and he provides a list of free software you can use, so you can start learning without having to buy expensive software.

He's doing an introductory offer at the moment, so the full course is $61 for the next 10 days. Chris is also offering a full money back guarantee for up to 60 days after purchase.

You can find more info, view sample videos of the course, and buy the course here: -

http://ohdratdigital.com/totalmusicproductioncourse/

Oh yeah - just to be straight on why I'm posting this. I get no share of any money that Chris makes from sales of his course. I'm trying to help him out because he's a friend, but if I didn't feel that he was offering a quality product I wouldn't post about it because I wouldn't want people saying "Sigma, I tried your mate's course and it was shit!". If you want to get into music production, go check it out.

**Adzm00** · 08-10-2012, 09:57 AM

Looks interesting Smegma.

Can't really complain for what is about 40 quid.

**Mixxed** · 08-10-2012, 02:06 PM

Nice...

**DennisBdrmDJ 2.0** · 08-10-2012, 02:56 PM

I'll give it a look.

**Evolved** · 08-10-2012, 03:16 PM

Looked at it briefly but at work now. Looks like it might be all MAC specific instruction no? But also what about all the equipment/software needed how much does that cost?

**Sigma** · 08-10-2012, 03:35 PM

Originally Posted by Evolved

Looked at it briefly but at work now. Looks like it might be all MAC specific instruction no? But also what about all the equipment/software needed how much does that cost?

He's chosen to use Reaper as the main DAW because it works on both Windows and OS X, it's free to use for 30 days, then you get a nag screen on startup asking you to buy a license, but it's still functional. If you do buy a license, it's only 60 bucks. AFAIK, everything else he uses in the tutorials is completely free software. While Chris is a Mac user, he's been careful about making sure that this course can be used by OS X and Windows users alike.

Similarly with hardware, you can use your existing computer keyboard to do everything he does, but if you want to buy a MIDI keyboard or whatever, that's up to you.

Basically, he's tried to make it as accessible as possible. The only outlay you have to make is the initial $61 for the course itself, which works out to $5 (and a few cents) per hour of course material.

**lingk** · 08-13-2012, 07:59 AM

I took the drive. In my effort to have legal software and such I figured this would be a good way to learn reaper, because I can't affordfull blown ableton at the moment(even tho I just bought an f1.. but I was saving for that for a while). I like the sample video on the delay. he goes way more in-depth on what dose what and why. I liked that rather then a paint by numbers video because in the end I'll know how to my up new sounds rather then the same sound.

**Sigma** · 08-14-2012, 06:52 AM

You bought it? Cool man. Post up your thoughts when you've had some time to watch more of it.

**lingk** · 08-14-2012, 08:02 AM

will do, I have only watch a few of the intro videos and for me they where review mostly on what a DAW is and such things. Installing all the VSTs take a little bit of time but that's with anything. I'll keep you posted.