About Course
This intensive Advanced Ableton Live: Bass Music 4-week course gives students the tools to create hard-hitting, festival-ready bass music using Ableton Live. Whether you’re into dubstep, riddim, trap, or bass house, you’ll learn how to sculpt aggressive bass patches, program modern drums, build explosive drops, and polish tracks for live and streaming contexts. The class focuses on genre-specific production techniques, mixing for loudness and clarity, and translating creative energy into structured, high-impact tracks.
- Brand Subgenres and History
Learn dubstep, riddim, trap, and bass house traits including BPM norms and rhythmic feel.
- Drum Design for Bass Genres
Layer kicks and snares, shape transients, and program hi-hats, fills, and groove.
- Ableton Drum Tools and Bussing
Use Drum Buss, saturation, compression, and multiband workflows for punch.
- Bass Sound Design
Build wub, tearout, reese, and growl patches using Serum, Wavetable, and Operator.
- Sub Bass and Low-End Management
Tune subs, carve space, and manage distortion and compression for clarity.
- Resampling and Processing
Bounce to audio, create edits, and add movement with filters, bitcrushing, and frequency shifts.
- Drops, Groove, and Call-and-Response
Write 16-bar drops with triplet or straight grids and lock kick to bass.
- Build-Ups, Transitions, and Arrangement
Use risers, automation, and silence to drive energy and structure full tracks.
- Creative Mixing and Loudness
Apply EQ, sidechain, width, and limiting to achieve clean, loud, genre-ready results.
- Export and Presentation
Prepare a final track for class playback and release contexts.
- 12 hours of in-person instruction at our NYC Facility
- Practice time on the day of your class
- 4 Day passes to be used on non-class days
- Free course assets and learning tools (for applicable courses)
- Access to In-Circle events while enrolled
- Access to the Sound Collective Talent pool while enrolled
- Certificate of completion
Sound Collective features a full suite of professional spaces, including a dedicated recording studio, modern production labs, a PA-equipped performance space, and a fully outfitted DJ studio. Every room is stocked with industry-standard gear, modern hardware & software, and flexible setups for classes, practice, and collaboration.
Located at 28 Broadway, New York, NY 10004
