In a live setting Zach Saginaw - aka Shigeto - shines as a one-man operation, taking to the stage with Ableton Live, an AKAI MPD and a live drum kit - behind wh... Read More...
The natural rhythm and timing of a great drummer is a great thing to have in the musical parts - basslines, chords, melodies, etc - of your own songs, right?
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Parallel Harmony - an obscure composition technique made modern.
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One of my biggest music production time savers is setting up custom defaults in Ableton Live - and it's much easier than you think.
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Following on from showing his sampling techniques by way of Marvin Gaye, Kilter runs us through the kick drum techniques behind putting together a solid kick so... Read More...
Using a Marvin Gaye track as the source material, rising Sydney producer Kilter employs a classic sampling technique in an unusual way. Using a method more comm... Read More...
Here at Liveschool we’ve long being trying to find a better way to schedule the Liveschool course dates. We’ve tried all sort of tricks in iCal, Trello and othe... Read More...