Intermediate Production 6 hours 290 XP on completion

Genre Workshop

The conventions that define a style, and how to use them.

Six genres taken apart: instrumentation, tempo, structure, sound and production conventions. Then you build one of each.

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1. Electronic

4 lessons

Four-to-the-floor and its relatives.

○ House: tempo, groove and arrangement Reading 13 min ○ Techno: repetition and texture Reading 12 min ○ Drum and bass: breaks and sub Reading 13 min ○ Build an electronic sketch Studio 30 min

2. Hip-hop and R&B

4 lessons

Groove, space and vocal focus.

○ Boom-bap and sample-based production Reading 13 min ○ Trap: 808s, hats and space Reading 13 min ○ R&B: chords, stacks and restraint Reading 13 min ○ Build a hip-hop or R&B sketch Studio 30 min

3. Band-based

5 lessons

Real instruments, real arrangement.

○ Rock and indie: guitar arrangement Reading 13 min ○ Pop: the modern production template Reading 13 min ○ Acoustic and folk: space and honesty Reading 12 min ○ Build a band-based sketch Studio 30 min ○ Genre final Quiz 12 min

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