What's the best way to learn everything about electronic music?

[malachy5]

I'm also struggling to learn as much as possible but I find the Ableton book on creating music to be very good, it breaks things down to very manageable chunks and also covers the history of styles or at least techniques common in popular styles. https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/making- ... trategies/

Another learning technique I'm trying is to pick a track I like and take it apart and try to remix or focus on a particular sound and try to recreate that. Best way to learn how a machine works is to pull it apart and put it back together again I've lost hours on things I used to think were simple like getting hi-hats just right. As always there is a ton of info on Youtube but sometimes hard to filter good from bad advice. Some of the tutorial sites like Groov3 have pretty regular sales and have good coverage of VST's and production technique.

Another good one is CreativeLive, https://www.creativelive.com/onair?via= ... -classes_7
I've learnt a lot from Isaac Cotec, I think getting to know your DAW of choice really well helps a lot with the process. Unfortunately not a lot of content yet but they allow you to watch for free if you can wait and can live without pause and rewind. They also have sales occasionaly to buy the courses.

[highkoo]

Another learning technique I'm trying is to pick a track I like and take it apart and try to remix or focus on a particular sound and try to recreate that.

Same thing basically, but one of the biggest helpful things I did waaaay back, probably upon advice from this forum, was recreating whole tracks that I was already very familiar with. If you come from DJing, or even being a big fan of the music, you get can get very tuned into particular sounds/dynamics/change ups of your 'faavorite' tracks. And when you go in to try and recreate them yourself, youre using the 'ear' that has already been tuned in to a particular target, while listening. It felt like a head start to learning tools/techniques, because the target is already there. You can actually say 'right/wrong', or 'hot/cold' with tools and techniques, because your ear knows where it is trying to get to. So, then, that knowledge feeds you when you are doing tracks that are yours.

Is that rambling...?

I tried the 'track a week' kind of things a bit too. I could never get into it...
I think that is a really great thing to do for people who are both still learning fundamentals, and prone to getting attached to projects. When starting out, I think its best to just keep things moving. Keep trying new things, new sounds/techniques/tools/genres/working conditions, anything. For certain, we all think we have a clue long before we really do.

Rambling.., and offtopic.

So, uh, yeah.. Ah, 'Beat School'...
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This is a great site to learn about different music genres: http://musicmap.info/ (http://musicmap.info/)

i've been following this website as well for some basic ableton tutorials: https://www.beatlabacademy.com/category/tutorials/ (https://www.beatlabacademy.com/category/tutorials/)

There are also documentaries out there on YouTube like Pump up the volume [documentary on house music ] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1HpY65cXDA

[acYm]

This is a great site to learn about different music genres: http://musicmap.info/

I'm genuinely smitten by the relative accuracy of that place. Probably the best list as of yet.

[audioonlyplease]

Ask very specific questions - That's one way - However, I would say find a DAW you like and Master it. Master your tools. Practice everyday, learn something new everyday. Just like learning anything else really. ALSO big thing is to learn when you don't want to. Don't let your 'feelings' get in the way of mastering your craft.