Tom Casey

Part 01_Understanding Music Theory in 3 Steps

Music theory can be confusing - but it doesn't have to be

Throughout my professional life - I have consistently found music can be understood in 3 basic ideas

IDEA 1: Ther...

5 Genres in About 5 Minutes: Beat Making Tutorial

There's so many aspects to GENRE, but sometimes, it's much easier then you think to get started producing a new genre

Hip-hop, trap, lo-fi, EDM, house - all these genres share a lot of simila...

Sample Pack: Hi-Hat Tops Essentials Volume 1

An entire sample pack dedicated to hi-hats and carefully programmed MIDI clips that can instantly transform your beats!

Perfect for pop, hip hop, trap, lo-fi and EDM

Watch the accompany...

How to Audio Warp Drums in Pro Tools

Pro Tools is still one of the best ways to edit drum set performances without having to cut and rearrange audio.

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Ableton Live Lite Instrument Rack Preset

Simple, easy-to-use

Has macro knobs, top row is tone, bottom is compression and effects

This has parallel delay, reverb and chorus available and I programmed those effects to wor...

Vocal Processing: Custom Multiband Dynamics for Ableton Live

One-click and you can add pro-grade multiband processing to your vocal sound. Inspired by one of mixing engineers' best-kept secrets in getting that vocal production "shine".

RECOMMEND...

An Entire Template for Arranging Chillhop Beats

This lesson and template covers chillhop/jazzhop style lofi beats

Piano Parts Come from the Essential Chord Progressions Library

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00_Midi & Music Theory_About This Course

This course covers three things:

Music Theory

Using Your DAW (MIDI, Virtual Instruments)

Finishing Ideas

Patreon allows one video posted at a time. This page i...

11_Yes, Sample Packs Are Badly Labeled!

It's 2024 and people are still spending hundreds of dollars on sample packs that not only recycle sounds and have shady copyright terms...they aren't even labeled right!

Here's how to test i...

MIDI LIBRARY_Essential Chord Progressions

NEW FOLDER UPDATE!

[Folder 12: BRAND NEW Chord Progressions!] 159 NEW ROYALTY FREE ASSETS

From the Eagles' "Desperado" to Daniel Caeser's "Best Part", this chord progression collection ...

10_The Secret to Ear Training is Simpler Than You Think

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09_The Most Important Lesson in Music Theory You'll Ever Learn

Downloads attached below!

In this lesson, we break down the "number system"

Most commercial music revolves around the MAJOR SCALE - and even when it deviates, it only devi...

07_Let's Make Music Theory a SIMPLE Tool (Basslines, Melodies, Inversions)

This free lesson uses our 2024-07-08 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post

06_A MASSIVE MIDI Pack for Producing Unique Ideas

This is a quick preview of the new MIDI producer kit dropping for my Paid Patreon Members.

YOU CAN DOWNLOAD IT HERE!

Your support enables me to make more lessons, do more ...

DOWNLOAD: 186 Unique MIDI Clips + BONUS AUDIO and SOUND DESIGN TIPS

Everything here is royalty free, same key signature and tempo, completely MODULAR

The above video is a basic beat making process with some easy sound design tips to get you started usi...

05_The Secret to Writing Melodies

So why did we start this course with BASS PARTS?

As you go through and learn the different intervals, you can take all of that knowledge to melodies!

Melodies are not comp...

04_Bass is Monophonic, Set Your VSTs Up Properly!

I've had private students spend hours mixing their track, but their bass track was using a polyphonic midi clip

This makes your bass sound extremely muddy and confusing

All your VSTs an...

03_Understanding Chord Tones and Non-Chord Tones

There's 2 types of notes you can fit into your bass lines

Chord tones and non-chord tones

Root notes, octaves of those root notes, 3rds and 5ths are all chord tones

They're like t...

02_How to Use MIDI Packs and Create Complex Bass Lines

MIDI packs give you all the benefits of a sample pack, but because they're MIDI, you can use your own custom VSTs and instruments to make your music.

This lesson, we combine MIDI clips togeth...

How to Add Bass Lines to Your Samples/Loops - A Simple Approach

LESSON ATTACHMENTS BELOW

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Any producer that uses loops knows this pitfall.

You find an amazing loop, and you need to add bass notes.

Some higher quality sample packs will...

Lofi Meditations Vol. 1 - A Staggering Collection of Lofi Hip Hop Loops

There are so many useful aspects to this collection - I want to keep this description simple and easy. You ca...

Tops Essentials: An Entire Library of Drum Tops

An essential pack for music production, Tops Volume 1 contains a robust library of track-ready MIDI patterns,...

Essence and Essentials - An Entire Essential Hip Hop Library

Essence and Essentials is a quintessential hip hop producer library

Drums, midi, melodies, one-shots, lo...

Using Ableton 12 to make a ProphetVS Emulation

The ProphetVS has one of the most iconic string synth sounds in music (think Terminator 2 soundtrack, John Carpenter films, and many others)

I decided to create a string synth patch emulation...

Ableton Live 12 Advanced Vocal Chain (Suite, Standard and Lite)

There's so much functionality in this new vocal chain update that I had to make sure all my Patrons ha...

New Wavetable Presets

20 New Wavetable Presets I designed

These crossover into a variety of sounds

Cr...

How to Make ANY Synth Sound (in Wavetable)

You DON'T need complicated knowledge to use a synthesizer, and this video will show you why.

The Secrets to Mastering Your Music Part 2 HIP HOP

This Patreon tutorial is all about CLIPPERS

A very simple plugin that is almost never talked about, but gives us a very simple approach to creating loudness in our music, which is especially ...

The Secrets to Mastering Your Music Part 1

This video starts us off with some important topics music producers should know as they learn how to master their own music to sound great on ALL streaming platforms

topic covered:

What...

A Deep Dive into Diatonic Mastery

An essential, foundational lesson for any music producer trying to up their game on the keyboards and understand the bedrocks of Western Music Theory.

This Patreon post is a full-length, in-d...