In this tutorial I cover some of the basic features of Live's interface (the main ones needed to operate it efficiently enough to write electronic music quickly) and write a drumbeat concentrating heavily on the mixing process, getting it sounding as big and clean as possible!

In this tutorial I begin to go through some of the methods I use to make bass lines. This includes, synthesis, sampling, automation and of course, heavy amounts of processing. I also go through how to get this sitting in the mix properly with healthy processing methods.

This tutorial covers how to take your 4 / 8 / 16 bar loop and start turning it in to a track, It concentrates on arrangement, and how to make a track flow from start to finish. Build-ups and breakdowns start in this tutorial.

This tutorial is a continuation of Part 2 and 3 in the sense that I continue working on the bass lines and arrangement and making something more interesting out of it. Continuing on from this some melodies start to make themselves apparent within the piece. A lot of attention is paid to very careful automation and processing to make the melody really stand out and sound excellent.

In this tutorial I continue working on the bass and melody some more, making more of a tune out of it and essentially creating building blocks for Part 6.

In this tutorial I turn those building blocks from part 5 into a bit more of a tune, The arrangement starts to get really technical and busy by this stage.

This tutorial continues with messing with bass sounds and arrangements a bit more, getting everything sounding really tight and technical, again careful attention to detail is paid to the mix at around this point.

Continuation of more melodies and arrangement. By this stage the piece is coming to it's final stages and the mix is getting tighter and as it gets tighter I pay even more attention to it trying to get it sounding as good as possible.

In this tutorial I finish the track off and do a bit more mixing (however this one was done in headphones so the mix couldn't possibly be finished this way).

In this tutorial I finalise the mix from Part 9 and then show you the best/healthiest way of rendering your tracks. The majority of this tutorial concentrates on mastering!

Here is the project file relating to this series so you can watch along as well as play with the project and take an even closer look in to the inner workings of this track. You will need Ableton Live 8.2.1 Suite to open this project file.