Learn Ableton Live 11 in 2024 - FULL COURSE (Beginners)

A complete 8+ hour course designed to take you from a complete beginner to writing full melodic house & techno, and progressive house tracks using advanced techniques. Follow along as we write 3 tracks each time getting more complex.

★★★ Sample packs used in this course ★★★

00:00 - Welcome
00:08 - Song Preview 1
00:18 - Song Preview 2
00:37 - Song Preview 3
00:58 - Intro
01:39 - Ableton Settings
04:24 - Writing your first song - Making melodies and chords and basic music theory
01:09:31 - Song 1 - Drums and Sidechain
01:56:26 - Song 1 - Arrangement, breakdown and second drop
02:20:22 - Song 1 - Arrangement, breakdown and second drop, Intro and outro
02:41:34 - Song 1 - Listen to the full track
02:45:41 - Introduction to basic synthesis - Envelopes and Filters
02:58:06 - Song 2 - Sound design of a rolling bassline in Wavetable
03:11:28 - Song 2 - Drone sound design in Wavetable
03:22:54 - Song 2 - Lead sound design in Wavetable
03:38:20 - Song 2 - Drum programming and intro to return effects
04:00:30 - Song 2 - Arrangement, resampling, earcandy and noise fx
05:17:17 - Song 2 - Final touches
05:19:18 - Song 2 - Listen to the full track
05:24:44 - Introduction to LFOs (Low Frequency Oscillators)
05:33:11 - Song 3 - Using LFOs to add detail to pads and drums
06:49:07 - Song 3 - Arranging the song
07:50:54 - Song 3 - Making a big moment (Crazy LFO chord stack)
08:19:10 - Song 3 - Working on the drop transition and final touches
08:24:14 - Song 3 - Listen to the fill track
08:29:28 - Final words & 20 tracks in 20 days

[BoundtoDivide]

If you want to grab the sounds used throughout this course and support the channel check out the below links:

[eljefedelsur]

This is it I'm done not producing anymore. This dude just putting an 8, 5 hrs tutorial on YouTube. Absolute legend.

[KagedDJ]

I'm 2 hours in and have learned more about production structure than I have in the past 40 hours of watching YT videos.

[Ardemamusic]

This is BY FAR the best ableton course there is. It is just insane how much more you actually learn if you can follow along rather than just listening for hours. Thank you so much for your effort!

[Rlcs]

Dude, this 8h tutorial just droped harder than most dubstep songs. What a champ!

[stefaniaponitz]

Just like everyone else here I'm very appreciative of you sharing your knowledge in this way. I just wonder, am I the only one that wants to throw their computer out of the window? What did I click, why is there no sound coming out of my chanel again, and all of those little things that built up to great annoyance LOL

[meathead]

talk about GIVING to the community. Very generous of you! Thank you so much.

[GraemeSmillie]

I’ve had a copy of ableton installed for 3 years now and despite multiple attempts could never get my head round it. I play piano and have been eyeing up the roli seabord 2 but thought no point until I learn Ableton properly. Stumbled across your channel the other day and just sat down to go through this. It’s 2am and the whole day disappeared. Love this video. I now understand ableton a lot more than I ever have. Can’t thank you enough. Gonna join the discord and will share the finished tracks. Thank you thank you thank you.

[heisenerg]

Very much appreciated, I have taken up music production at the age of 45 in the last 2 weeks with no production experience, and only knowledge of mixing on a dj controller for the last 5 years, and getting bored of mixing other peoples' songs. Your style is laid back, but explained better than all I have come across so far, it encourages you to tamper gently with the settings to work this gig out for ourselves. Excellent, thank you, I definitely have a skill, and with your help I am learning to develop it. Thank you much love.

[XiTrOnE_SBT]

i set a goal to learn making music in 2024, just finished the first song and i already learned so much. I watched some other youtube tutorials before, but most of them skip parts that i would say as a beginner would be good to understand, they just turn button do this do that, it sounds nice but they dont really explain what each button does. So watching you explaining literally everything important that we are doing is really helpfull to not only do stuff but understand what we are doing. Im going to create the 3 songs now and come back for part 2
good contetn :)

[brujovlzzz]

This leaves me speechless, I dare to say that you are the channel that most helps new producers to organize their ideas well, see your processes and that it is in such a disinterested way makes me think that you are really made to teach people, you are a great among the great and I thank you for so many lessons, much success and a big hug from Mexico brother🤘🏼

[beinghumanwithcgjung]

Feels like I was just sitting next to you for a week following along... Thank you!

[nialledmonds]

Amazing stuff! what you do for the production community is incredible Jules!

[johnvictor]

I finished this course and yet it's the best of all

[AndyParkinBali]

Thanks Julian, it's like you are sitting next to me, teaching me on a 1-2-1. I am so lucky I found you. Its a dream come true!

[lu]

Hi Julian, I watched this video in several parts because I'am a beginner and I wanted to stay focused every moment of this video. I am french speaking, I'm from Belgium and despite the fact that I'am not perfectly bilingual, I was able to understand everything. Thanks for your good pedagogy and your didactic means and also to your good way explaining slowly and your calm. And above all the fact you justify each gesture which help me a lot. A year ago I bought several books on sound design subject and watched a lot of videos online. But never practiced, because I wanted to know all the theory before I started. Three weeks ago I followed an online training explaining the chords, the piano roll etc and in parallel I installed the trial version of Ableton on my computer. Then, I came across your channel by chance, and by following this video I was able to realize three tracks, it's just amazing. Thank you so much. Also, I wanted to tell you that I followed a lot of people on YT for a year. And for me you are the best teacher online! I will visit your store so that it is necessary for me improve my skills and to continue learning by following you. And sorry for my english, but thanks to you, I had 8 hours of English lessons in addition to a course in music production :-) Enjoy and I wish you all the best!

[planttrees]

I work a lot, so its taken me about a week to watch this. I do skip some parts, but this is the ultimate video for anyone truly serious about wanting to learn Ableton, or at least enough to create what you hear in your head. I cant thank you enough. I can hear these differences and nuances in the music i listen to but i didnt understand what they used to do it. A lot of people on youtube are just showing their little tricks and such, but you sir have laid out a great way to understand ableton. By far top notch information here. Its a shame the average attention span wont sit for 8+hours. Unless youre dedicated. Thank you for your dedication to our dedication. You knew we needed this. We knew we needed this.

[MasonJames_Ofc]

The dude for giving this to the community. It’s m sure there is something in here for everyone.

[BehnämakaBen]

You're a legendary intelligence, thanks for creating such a great content in youtube where there are heaps of useless stuff that are misleading people.

Thanks again 🤜🏻🤛🏽

[dagide]

I've been using FL for over 10 years now, I think this video will be enough for me to make my first EP on AB Live