Making Your FIRST Song in Ableton Live 10 (Using Default Ableton Plugins/Instruments)

Ever wondered how to make your own music on your computer? Follow along with me as I explain the steps I take to begin creating a new song in Ableton Live 10. I will only use default/stock plugins in this video so everyone can copy my steps. As long as you have Ableton, you can follow along with this video! This is an updated, more modern rework of an older video where I do something similar in Ableton Live 9.

HUGE thank you to my Patrons:
★ Marco Genio
★Tony Bao
★Roorzey

Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:18 - Getting Started
1:58 - Chords
5:23 - Assigning Instruments
5:57 - Bass
9:01 - More Bass
9:43 - EQing
12:32 - Kicks
13:53 - Sidechaining
15:03 - Snares
16:44 - Hihats
17:45 - Stacking Layers
18:48 - Melody
21:24 - Expanding the Song
23:41 - Adding Transitions
25:57 - Exporting Audio

#Ableton #MusicProduction

[InspirAspir]

Follow along and learn how to make your FIRST song in Ableton Live 10! In this video we will start from scratch & use no external plugins to produce our very first ever song. This is a remastered video of a tutorial I made a few years back, this time with higher video quality and newfound music production knowledge that I'm excited to share!

[Supertank]

"[EQ'ing] can make your layers fit together like puzzle pieces." I have never heard such an intuitive way to explain EQ.

[NailThatLick]

Dude, this is what 99% of YouTube channel miss, you are bang on not only showing what skill is required but equally making the video crisp.
Keep loading more to inspire others.

God bless you !!

[catchkindred]

This was probably the most helpful intro video I have seen on any kind of DAW, thanks man

[outpost]

Where are you dude? Two years. Hope everything's ok.

[Somberry]

It's weird, i learned how to make music from you and my new song will be released a day before your song.

[Badboy-eict]

1:18 getting started
1:58 chords
5:23 picking instrument
5:57 bass
9:01 more bass
9:43 eq
12:32 kicks
13:53 sidechaining
15:03 snares
16:44 hihats
17:45 stack the layers
18:48 melody
21:24 expanding your song
23:41 transitions

[Spizite]

I'm only 8 minutes in But my god this is such a great introductory tutorial. I'm switching over from FL Studio and I am just so grateful for your video. It is a major help.

[Matt-tcys]

Thanks for this dude. I got Ableton ages ago and just had a go at it blindly, and just got overwhelmed and demotivated at all the different options, even at the beginning of the vid, where you press tab to change the layout made the software a lot easier to view. But I've had another crack at it using this guide and I'm leaps and bounds further than I was in half the time. Thanks brah.

[khalinbeat]

GoodBye Fl Studio
I'm going to use Ablenton from now.

[agondard]

Who else is watching because of the 90 day free trial during quarantine?

[azazelproductions]

Getting started-1:18
Chords-5:58
Picking an instrument-5:23
Bass-5:57

[TheCatholicRemedy]

By far the best I have ever seen. I almost gave up on this beat making stuff, but you get me excited for it! Thank you thank you thank you Aspir

[davehopefull]

I don't think it's a stretch to say this is the best beginner functions tutorial for Ableton on youtube. Thank you. I was using studio one and switched to Ableton to pick up the new skill set... And this was a perfect starting point. Now if I can just figure out how to rewire and use cross-platform functions I'll be stoked with Ableton. You helped turn a nearly 1000 dollar program into a functioning tool instead of a bad investment. I'll kick you some donations for that asap.

[turgutbelen]

Best tutorial I've seen. You cover many necessary tools and how to apply them, practicaly, all in less than 30 minutes. I congratulate and thank you. 👍

[nabihjabbour]

You are a genius my friend, excellent delivery. Well organized and clear to understand. Please make more !

[soapboychris]

I've had Ableton live 9 for like 4 years and always just messed around with it, picking up bits and parts. This video helped structure all the parts I already knew and taught me some really helpful new stuff too (using the compressor and equaliser - I was just using the auto filter for filtering frequencies until now. Many thanks!

[MrsMuniaa]

I really can’t thank you enough for this tutorial!! I’ve been trying to produce music for a while now but I always give up after a while. This is the first tutorial I could follow all the way through 😍

[ABG]

You explain everything so clearly and perfect lol thank you 🙏🏼

[MidosujiSen]

Learning music has got to be the skill with the single biggest learning curve out there, legitimately every single thing is insanely difficult. Even something like drawing, which is also notoriously difficult to learn isn't as bad as music is for a beginner.