Course Overview: Producing Songwriting Demos with Logic | Berklee Online

If you ever want an established artist to cover one of your songs, you need to have a demo that shows just how much potential your composition has. This course is designed for the songwriter interested in producing and engineering high-quality demos at home using Logic Pro X. The course acts as a springboard for the novice producer/songwriter to jump into the world of producing, recording, and mixing songs to a professional level. The curriculum begins with active listening, analysis, and exploring the producer’s role in recorded music. You’ll explore Logic Pro X techniques, drum programming, synthesis, sampling, guitar and vocal recording techniques, EQ, compression, reverb, and other effects. Producing Songwriting Demos with Logic concludes with you assembling all of these musical elements together with mixing. The course will be taught via a combination of listening and analysis, discussion, and video demonstration. The projects are hands-on and include recording other instrumentalists/vocalists.

By the end of the course, you will be able to:
analyze productions and apply active listening to them
identify various genres for stylistic study and influence
apply basic to intermediate Logic Pro X techniques for self-production
identify and use synthesis techniques and develop electronic patches
apply drum programming and electronic textures realistically
apply sampling and create realistic-sounding instruments using the computer
apply guitar recording and production techniques
apply vocal recording and production techniques
identify EQ basics for mixing purposes
apply basic compression for mixing and for effects
identify mastering basics to make mixes louder for radio

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