BandLab For Beginners (Public)
Learn How To Create A Song In BandLab
">
I am so excited that you have made the decision to take your music making to the next level. You are joining a growing group of Digital Musicians who know that the quality of BandLab's music and technology platform makes it possible for anyone to discover the musician in them and follow a personalised path of creativity and self-expression.
BandLab's Award-winning Music Creation Tools
BandLab brings award-winning music creation features to the public enabling access to everything you'll need for collaborative and fun musical learning.
Nothing to patch or install – the cloud-based platform works on Mac, Windows, Linux and Chromebooks. It's safe and it's free!
Learning Through Doing
In this course, you will learn through doing. You will discover how to get started exploring the thousands of sampled loops and virtual instruments and how to best use them to create your own personal projects. The video tutorials will allow you to learn at your own pace. Just press play and pause and construct your structured song in exactly the way that suits you.
Real-Time Collaboration
This is a new feature of BandLab and enables you to work with any of the 30 million BandLab users worldwide. This offers a really exciting way to connect and collaborate with like-minded musicians like you. That's what music has always been about!
Through the process of creating a structured song in any one of over 100 genres, you will learn:
This course will empower and motivate you to become a musician. It will give you the confidence in your innate ability to create in the medium that you know so well - technology. The results will astound you! And now there is an app that makes making music even easier. Whilst we focus on the desktop version in this course, it's still worth downloading as the two versions work seamlessly together. For example, with a touch screen phone or tablet, you can create the most amazing drum beats
I hope you gain value and satisfaction from this course and enjoy developing your songwriting craft for years to come.
Keep Making Music!
Phil Heeley: Founder & Director Inclusive Music
Video - BandLab Overview
FREE PREVIEWVideo - BandLab Basics: How To Make Great Music In Minutes
FREE PREVIEWDemo Song Structure
Video - An Example Song Structure With Sections
FREE PREVIEWBandLab Demo Song by Phil Heeley
FREE PREVIEWVarious Song Structures
Song Structure Template
Keyboard Shortcuts
Quiz 1 - Getting Started
FREE PREVIEWSummary - Basic Skills
Video - Basic Skills - Part 1
FREE PREVIEWQuiz - Basic Skills - Part 1
FREE PREVIEWVideo - Basic Skills - Part 1A
Quiz - Basic Skills - Part 1A
Video - Basic Skills - Part 1B
Quiz - Basic Skills - Part 1B
Video - Basic Skills - Part 1C
Quiz - Basic Skills - Part 1C
Video - Basic Skills - Part 1D
Quiz - Basic Skills - Part 1D
BandLab Basic Skills - Part 1E
Quiz - Basic Skills - Part 1E
FREE PREVIEWSummary - The Introduction
Demo Song Structure
Video - Example: Introduction (0:00 - to 0:50 seconds)
Video - The Introduction - Part 1
Quiz - The Introduction - Part 1
Video - The Introduction - Part 1A
Quiz - The Introduction - Part 1A
Video - The Introduction - Part 1B
FREE PREVIEWQuiz - The Introduction - Part 1B
FREE PREVIEWHow to Write Song Lyrics (Wikipedia)
Summary - Getting Organised
Video - Getting Organised
Summary - The Chorus
Demo Song Structure
Video - Example: Chorus (0:50 to 1:11)
Video - The Chorus - Part 3 - First Attempt
Quiz - The Chorus - Part 3 - First Attempt
Video - The Chorus - Part 3A
Video - The Chorus - Part 3B
FREE PREVIEWQuiz - The Chorus - Part 3B
FREE PREVIEWHow to Write Song Lyrics (Wikipedia)
Summary - The Break
Demo Song Structure
Video - Example: Break (1:11 to 1:22)
Video - The Break - Part 4
Video - The Break - Part 4A
Quiz - The Break
FREE PREVIEWHow to Write Song Lyrics (Wikipedia)
Tom Watts I enjoyed the course and I now feel that I have a good grasp of the BandLab essentials. The course was excellent, lucid, nicely paced and it ...
Read MoreTom Watts I enjoyed the course and I now feel that I have a good grasp of the BandLab essentials. The course was excellent, lucid, nicely paced and it covered everything I wanted to know. The BandLab videos at the end were a bonus too. I would give the Course 5 stars and I would recommend it to anyone wanting to learn how to use BandLab.
Read Less