Ableton Live 9 instructor

Welcome on board, Sam!
Simone Tanda, or Sam as his friends call him, or Sam4Toys as the rest of the lot know him, is a certified Ableton Trainer and we are very lucky and thrilled to be welcoming him to our small team. Simone teaches in schools in London and Italy and is also a Keith Macmillen Product Specialist. In love with music from a very young age Simone started off with playing electric bass, moved on to Rome to study with the best professional musicians, later on focused on professional music production, recording, and composing. Passionate, creative, sometimes rough, Simone’s music is full of personality and that is, well, a rare gem! Students at Become A DJ will surely not leave the course empty handed!

Music Production with Ableton Live 9

Ladies and gentleman, let the show begin! Delighted, thrilled, and excited to announce our newest addition to the Become A DJ arsenal - the Music Production Course. It is designed for those who have a heart for creating music and want to learn to do it with the powerful Ableton Live 9. You know, master the tricks of the platform, pick the brains of our talented music production instructor... OK, on to the specifics. The course will jump start on February 16th with an ‘Introduction to Ableton Live 9’ workshop - the first of our regular introductory workshops that we plan to give monthly. During the 3hr session the students will get a fantastic opportunity to get to know the platform and even start making their own music right there on the spot. Awesome! The session will help the undecided to answer two very important questions: is it for me? and if it is which of the two options should I choose? The two options being: Music Production with Ableton Live 9 Course or a Custom Ableton Live 9 Course (Dj and Live Performance). The price? £30 for 3 hours, a proper bargain! For more information about the Workshop and to book your spot click here.

New Horizons

NO! We are not talking about Richie Hawtin's mix for the cover of the March 2012 issue of Mixmag (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZBSVdtUTlA). Something even more exciting has happened (in our opinion anyway) for Become a DJ. Our very own Traktor instructor, Swim the Shine (www.facebook.com/swimtheshine) was invited to the Audio-Visual Open Studios in Budapest, Hungary to deliver a lecture on the differences/similarities/misconceptions of digital vs analogue musical formats. As this boy has a PhD in something we don't understand, he didn't simply go through the motions and give a lecture that has been given a thousand times beforehand, based on every recording engineer's school curriculum. Instead he managed to spice up the lecture with facts from fields as far apart as theorems from Information Theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_theory), law making and criminology, facts from the neuroscience of sensory processing, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) results of professional piano players and his own experiences from the 2012 Olympic Games in London where he performed as a drummer. We cannot fathom how these topics could help you understand digital and analogue recordings of sound waves but the lecture was so well received that he's been invited back to repeat it at other events to different audiences. Maybe next time we will have to fly with him to hear that lecture. But in any case, we are very proud and excited and thought we'd let you know! Sign up for our Traktor course if you want to be taught by an exceptional teacher and have a unique experience in learning how to DJ.