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I just signed up after this course was recommended to myself by a friendly chap on here. I just signed up and it said.. "You're signed up for Introduction to Music Production. The course will start on Feb 2nd 2015 and we will notify you just before then to remind you when class will begin." https://www.coursera.org/course/musicproduction
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I've taken it. It's a good class but you must consider the word "introduction" in the course title. The concepts and information are fairy basic. Even so I have not doubt you will consider the time and energy you put into it well spent. One fact you may not know, you can download the course videos and transcriptions for future review and reference. During the six weeks you are exposed to so much information, and so intent on performing well on exercises and tests, that information may not be absorbed into long term memory. Videos and transcripts become valuable resources. Another course you may want to consider is PLAY WITH YOUR MUSIC; abbreviated to PWYM. The cost is free and there are no time constraints. You'll learn mixing using music tracks provided by Peter Gabriel. Play With Your Music The two courses approach the subject of music production differently but in a complementry manner. Introduction to Music Production provides knowledge while Play With Your Music highlights skill development.
Jim Fogle - 2024 BiaB (1111) RB (5) Ultra+ PAK DAWs: Cakewalk by BandLab (CbB) - Standalone: Zoom MRS-8 Laptop: i3 Win 10, 8GB ram 500GB HDD Desktop: i7 Win 11, 12GB ram 256GB SSD, 4 TB HDD Music at: https://fogle622.wix.com/fogle622-audio-home
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+1 It's been a while but I enjoyed the course - it covers the basic really well.
I hadn't heard about the other one. Thanks Jim.
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My introduction was in 1965 when a college buddy and I leased a small studio for the summer to record English Invasion copy bands that were sprouting up everywhere. Trial by fire. :-)
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I just signed up after this course was recommended to myself by a friendly chap on here. I just signed up and it said.. "You're signed up for Introduction to Music Production. The course will start on Feb 2nd 2015 and we will notify you just before then to remind you when class will begin." https://www.coursera.org/course/musicproduction Good forum on there as well Paul when the course starts. If you want to, you can do peer marked assignments as well as multiple choice quizzes each week so as to "pass" the course, but watching the main video lectures and doing the quizzes was the main thing for me. In the past if you hadn't time you could actually pass the course by missing out on the assignments, but getting over 90% on each quiz (you can have up to 100 tries on each quiz) and over 90% on final exam (2 tries if you want) it lasts for 45 mins, multiple choice answers of a randon selection from the quizze. Without doing assignments and getting 90% on quizzes and final exam will give you around 70% overall score which is a pass. The other way to do it is just to watch the video lectures at your leisure and not worry about getting any marks or so called passing the course. Basic it may well be for some people on here, but I found it absolutely brilliant, have signed up again jut to refresh on the quizzes and the forum. Coursera does offer an additional thing called "signature" where you can pay 40$ and get I think a downloadable certificate with Berklee's logo or something like that on it, but that doesn't really interest me atall, its the content of the course that counts. musiclover
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I have been doing home recording since mid-90's with a computer, mixing live sound since early 80's, and have had undergraduate and graduate courses and degrees involving acoustics and signal process. I took this course last year at roughly the same time frame.
While it is an introductory course, it also goes deep enough to make it worthwhile for someone with my background.
My 'AHA' moment in the course, was that when applying reverb in a bus in my DAW, that it should be post-track-volume fader. I have used a couple of DAW softwares in my lifetime, and countless live sound mixing desks (though my environments that I mix in have almost never used artificial reverb) and this was the first time the light came on for me that this is where you put reverb and sometimes delay. Yes, the course was kind of basic, but there are concepts in there for everyone on this forum.
One thing I hear in many home recorded tracks is comb-filtering due to recording too close to reflective surfaces. The instructor does a great job explaining what comb filtering is and how to avoid it.
It's a free course, and probably worth several hundred dollars at minimum if you feel like you are a newbie, or would like a new perspective on the topic of home recording and production. One note, the syllabus makes mention of covering MIDI, and in the course offering last year, that pretty much was dropped off the actual course material offered.
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Perhaps I used the wrong word in my description. Substitute the word essential for basic and you may understand better what I intended to say.
I have nothing but good things to say about Introduction To Music Production. Hands down it is one of the best classes I've ever been involved with. I suggest it to others as much as I can. I strongly believe everyone interested in music production, regardless of skill level, will learn something from the course.
Introduction to Music Production concentrates on the technical side of music production (how sound is transformed into the digital realm, daws, synthisis, etc.). Play With Your Music concentrates on the more artistic side of music production by focusing on things like listening, song structure and arrangement and mixing. Both are essential to music production.
Back in the "good ol' days" I never recognized two guitar players working out who is going to solo while the other plays fills as arrangement. Never thought argueing over volume levels as mixing. I just knew when we sounded good.
I've always had an appreciation for music production to the point of sometimes getting lost in the sound more so than the song. Introduction to Music Production and Play With Your Music have helped my understanding and raised my proficency.
BiaB and RealBand are the tools I use to learn. I am not a good musician and really no longer have the desire to be better since PG Music provides me better musical tracks on many more instruments in more styles than I ever could record myself.
What a wonderful product that is so diverse that it can be used in so many ways by so many people.
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Thanks for the insights guys. I see there's a "Modern Musician" certificate you can earn by taking all 3 of those classes Berklee offers on the CourseRA site. Anyone here pursue that? Doesn't sound too expensive.
That course you posted sounds interesting too, Jim. Thanks!
@Rockstar_not: I've got a similar history to you, I took a year of music theory and piano lessons at the local college back in '94. Played in a garage band for a few years after that when I started recording to PC. Was on the Tascam 4-Track cassette recorders before PC. Almost had a mini disc recorder but they went away as fast as they came.
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Spending the extra few dollars on that certificate as mentioned above. Started the "Developing Your Musicianship" course this week. That's the theory course. Pretty much a review of the course I took 20 years ago. Fun so far....
Steve BIAB/RB 2022, Pro Tools 2020, Korg N5, JBL LSR 4328 Powered Monitors, AKG/Shure Mics.
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Joined it yesterday just to watch the video lectures at my leisure. Forums seem interesting and the information on the Videos so far are interesting helpful.
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Introduction to Music Production just started this week. I finished Developing Your Musicianship and proceeding with the recording class.
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