LEARN TO CREATE THE MUSIC YOU LOVE

BEGINNERS GUIDE TO MUSIC PRODUCTION

Your Step-by-Step Blueprint to Creating Your First Original Track 
Format

Online
Course

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Duration

1 HOUR

Price

FREE

Ready to Start Producing Your Own Music?

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by music software or unsure how to begin making tracks, you’re not alone.
This free mini course is designed to take the mystery out of music production — and replace it with real skills, creative confidence, and a full track you made from scratch.

Inside this short but powerful course, you’ll get hands-on with Ableton Live and follow along with Slam Academy founder James Patrick as he walks you through the exact tools and techniques professional producers use every day.

By the end, you’ll have everything you need to create and finish your own original music.

WHAT YOU'll LEARN

This 3 part mini course will teach you the fundamentals of music production in Ableton Live, giving you a clear course to creating original tracks.

This is course broken down into 3 core lessons:
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Meet your instructor

JAMES PATRICK

Ableton Certified Trainer,
Founder of Slam Academy

James Patrick is a sound artist, music producer, author and educator. He has been creating original electronic music works and events involving technology and live music since the 1990s. He is the co-founder and owner of Slam Academy, an Ableton Certified Training Center based in Minneapolis that teaches music production, DJing, and specialty music industry courses.

James Patrick was one of the first Ableton Certified Trainers in the world, helping pilot the trainer program in 2008. Since starting Slam Academy in 2012, he has taken on private clients from around the world that range from beginners to some of the most prolific musicians of our time. 

What slam students have to say

"The Ableton course broke down all of these walls that I have previously."


K80
PRODUCER
"Thanks to my instructors, it's given me a lot of good ideas and helpful tips to start formulating more ideas and more ways I can succeed with Ableton" 
Jacob Butler
PRODUCER
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Ready to Make Your First Track?

This mini course is free. No pressure. No upsell. Just clear instruction, powerful tools, and a creative spark to help you finally start making the music you’ve been dreaming about.


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