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KULTURE GUIDES / LEARN BY DOING

Start here.
Make something.

A clear next step, from your first idea to a finished track.

Six learning paths, hands-on tools and 173 guides to explore at your own pace.

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THE ROUTE THROUGH A TRACK

  1. Get set upOpen a project. Make a sound.
  2. Build an ideaRhythm, notes and a sound you like.
  3. Give it a shapeTurn a loop into an arrangement.
  4. Balance and finishListen, refine and export.

PICK A GOAL. FOLLOW THE STEPS.

Where should I start?

Choose what you want to make. Each path puts the lessons in order, explains what to do at each step and points you to a tool for practice.

8 STEPS / LEARN BY DOING

Make my first track

New to making music? Follow one small project from a working setup to a finished audio file.

WHAT YOU’LL MAKEA short track you can play from beginning to end.

Start with step 1. Take each lesson at your own pace.

Start this path →Try the beat maker
  1. 01See the whole processUnderstand the small track you’re going to build.
  2. 02Get your setup workingOpen a project and make sure you can hear it.
  3. 03Build a drum grooveMake a simple rhythm you can loop.
  4. 04Add some chordsGive your idea a harmonic foundation.
  5. 05Write a basslineSupport the chords without crowding the kick.
  6. 06Arrange your ideaGive the loop a beginning, middle and ending.
  7. 07Balance the partsMake the important sounds easy to hear.
  8. 08Export and listen backFinish a file you can play outside your project.

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Music Production Setup for Beginners: Your Tools and First Project: Microphone to mic preamp to ADC to DAW, then DAC to headphone amplifier to headphones.Getting set up7 min

Music Production Setup for Beginners: Your Tools and First Project

Read & try What Is a DAW? Tracks, Instruments and Effects Explained: MIDI note instructions enter a software instrument, which generates audio for playback.Getting set up6 min

What Is a DAW? Tracks, Instruments and Effects Explained

Read & try MIDI vs Audio: What's the Difference?: MIDI note instructions enter a software instrument, which generates audio for playback.Getting set up6 min

MIDI vs Audio: What's the Difference?

Read & try What Equipment Do You Actually Need to Make Music?: Microphone to mic preamp to ADC to DAW, then DAC to headphone amplifier to headphones.Getting set up6 min

What Equipment Do You Actually Need to Make Music?

Read & try How to Create Your First Music Project With Stock Sounds: Am contains A C E, F contains F A C, C contains C E G, and G contains G B D; roots, thirds and fifths form separate labeled rows.Getting set up7 min

How to Create Your First Music Project With Stock Sounds

Read & try How to Record Your First Vocal or Instrument at Home: Side view singer, pop filter and microphone, with the microphone slightly above the direct stream of breath.Getting set up6 min

How to Record Your First Vocal or Instrument at Home

Read & try Music Theory for Producers: Understand Notes, Scales and Chords: Thirteen pitches C through upper C, MIDI 60 through 72, with a twelve semitone octave arrow.Notes & chords7 min

Music Theory for Producers: Understand Notes, Scales and Chords

Read & try Notes, Semitones and Octaves Explained on a Piano Roll: One short MIDI gate followed by a long one shot decay and a gate controlled envelope with a shorter release.Notes & chords6 min

Notes, Semitones and Octaves Explained on a Piano Roll

Read & try Major vs Minor Scales: How to Build and Hear Them: D major and D natural minor scales with each intervening semitone step labeled.Notes & chords6 min

Major vs Minor Scales: How to Build and Hear Them

Read & try How to Build Major and Minor Chords: C major at offsets zero, four and seven; C minor at zero, three and seven.Notes & chords6 min

How to Build Major and Minor Chords

Read & try How to Write a Chord Progression in Any Key: Four columns map D to C, B minor to A minor, G to F, and A to G, each two semitones lower; roman numerals remain I, vi, IV and V.Notes & chords6 min

How to Write a Chord Progression in Any Key

Read & try Chord Inversions and Voice Leading: Make Your Chords Flow: C major voicings 60 to 64 to 67, 64 to 67 to 72 and 67 to 72 to 76, with lowest notes highlighted.Notes & chords6 min

Chord Inversions and Voice Leading: Make Your Chords Flow

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