Learn to DJ w/ Roger Sanchez (Advanced) TUTORIAL

Jump on the ones and twos with house music icon Roger Sanchez for the advanced version of his ‘Learn to DJ’ course. The legendary DJ delivers a total masterclass in what it takes to get to the top of his profession, sharing the workflow strategies, technical mixing skills and industry insight that has kept him there for so long.

When it comes to DJing, there aren’t many who do it better than Roger Sanchez. Bringing to the table a career that includes number one records in the UK and US, a Grammy award for Best Remixed Recording, four DJ Award wins for Best House DJ, and remixes for artists including Michael Jackson, The Police, Jamiroquai and Maroon 5 – it’s fair to say that he’s the perfect instructor for this course!

In the first part of the hour-long course, you’ll start off by seeing Roger run through the pre-production strategies that help him to organise his music for fluid live sets, re-edits and remixes, and production. The main bulk of the course covers advanced mixing techniques, covering looping on the fly, dramatic risers, creative uses of acapellas, adding FX and so much more. Finally, Sanchez drops some knowledge about the music industry, giving you some tips on how to promote yourself and establish a long career.

With over three decades of experience in the world of dance music, Roger Sanchez is uniquely positioned to send your DJ career into the stratosphere. After all, this is an artist who has continuously displayed an appreciation for all areas of the industry, hosting an award-winning podcast and online radio show that attracts millions of listeners, as well as running his own label that nurtures up and coming talent.

Using Pioneer’s industry standard gear, you’ll see Roger break down the advanced technical mixing skills that he’s used to keep crowds jumping on dancefloors around the world for years. Every technique is explained clearly and succinctly, and then demonstrated on the decks in quintessential Roger Sanchez fashion. You’ll even get a final mix at the end in which he showcases the full range of skills one after another.

All in all, there are 25 chapters in this course, with unmissable insights that you simply won’t get anywhere else. Once you’ve signed up you can watch the videos at any pace you like, and return to the course content as many times as needed. So, if you’re serious about investing in your career and pushing yourself to the fullest, it’s time to take “Learn to DJ w/ Roger Sanchez (Advanced)” today!

Total runtime: 58mins

Includes the TRACKS for the song Roger uses in the course.

Preparing your Set

• Chapter 1: What to expect
  Meet your course instructor, legendary DJ and producer Roger Sanchez, and hear an overview of what’s to come in the chapters ahead.
• Chapter 2: Pre-Production
  Roger outlines how important it is to organise your music, setting yourself up for fluid sets, re-edits, remixing and production.
• Chapter 3: Exporting Loops
  Using Rekordbox’s export function, Sanchez shows you how to create loops that you can use for productions or hot cues to play out live.
• Chapter 4: Editing Tracks
  Roger Sanchez gives you the lowdown on Rekordbox’s edit mode, which can be used to re-arrange tracks in whatever way you like.
• Chapter 5: Playlist Organisation
  Roger gives you an insight into the organisation strategies he uses to prepare his own playlists, making life easier when he’s playing live.
• Chapter 6: Using the Cloud
  Rekordbox Cloud allows you to back up your entire library onto the cloud and then access it at a gig, and Roger Sanchez shows you how.

Advanced Techniques

• Chapter 7: 1-Bar Loop to the Drop
  With pre-production covered, Sanchez shows a useful technique that you can use to transition into a breakdown or a drop.
• Chapter 8: 4-Deck Layering Loops
  Roger Sanchez demonstrates a technique for creating a remix on the fly, that involves elements from different tracks across four decks.
• Chapter 9: Creating a Drum Roll
  Learn how to create a drum roll by looping a clap or snare from an existing track and shortening it to create more repetitions.
• Chapter 10: Creative Acapella Looping
  Roger demonstrates how to loop an acapella to create a sustained note, which he then scratches and transforms for a creative effect.
• Chapter 11: Making Acapella Risers
  Using the same looping technique from the previous chapter to create a sustained note, Sanchez pitches up the loop to create a riser.
• Chapter 12: Pre-Delay
  Roger Sanchez reveals a method of creating anticipation by setting a copy of your track one beat ahead and cutting back and forth.
• Chapter 13: Kick and Clap Looping
  Roger shows how to transition from one track to another, or end your set, by looping the clap or kick and de-tuning it.
• Chapter 14: Adding Impact and Drive
  Discover how looping a section of another track and placing it underneath can bring energy to a track that’s not quite hitting.
• Chapter 15: Looping on the Fly
  Roger Sanchez demonstrates how he creates loops on the fly from moments that he picks up on when he’s in the middle of a mix.
  Chapter 16: Creating a Dramatic Breakdown
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  Chapter 16: Creating a Dramatic Breakdown
  Learn how to make a breakdown on the fly by looping a section and then exponentially shortening the length of the loop.
• Chapter 17: Using Silence
  A well-placed bar of silence can heighten the impact of a section, so Roger shows you how to use it to transition into a drop.
• Chapter 18: Adding FX
  Find out how to use delays and other effects to create transitions and pauses, and how they can be handy when things go wrong.
• Chapter 19: Final Mix
  Gathering all the techniques that he’s demonstrated in the course so far, Roger puts on a clinic with a full mix.
• Chapter 20: Skills Round-up
  Roger closes out the mixing tips section of the course and touches on how important it is to maintain a connection with your audience.
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Building your DJ Career

• Chapter 21: Social Media
  Roger Sanchez outlines how useful social media platforms like TikTok can be to promote yourself and grow your audience.
• Chapter 22: Growing your Profile
  Hear how creating engaging content like re-edits and remixes and sharing them on social media can establish your sound and attract interest.
• Chapter 23: Financial Planning
  Roger emphasises the importance of a sound financial plan to ensure you stay on top of your expenditure and incoming revenue.
• Chapter 24: Getting Gigs
  Sanchez breaks down some strategies for starting dialogue with venue owners with a view to getting hired or hosting your own event.
• Chapter 25: Managers and Agents
  Once you’ve got some momentum it’s time to start looking for representation, and Roger shares some insights on what to look for.

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DJ S.K.T Track from Scratch TUTORIAL

Learn key sound design, arranging and mixing techniques while building out a full track in the studio with dance music guru DJ S.K.T

Take your music production skills to new heights, as you join floor-filling DJ and UK Top 40 charting producer DJ S.K.T in the studio for an in-depth guide to making full tracks. Using Apple’s flagship digital audio workstation Logic Pro, S.K.T will take you on a four hour journey from blank project to final mix, stopping along the way to share essential production tips with you that you can take into your own projects.

As many producers will tell you, finishing songs isn’t easy, especially when you’re getting continuously bogged down in the little issues that are bound to arise in any mix. In this course, DJ S.K.T will draw upon all his experience to teach you how to move through a number of common music production processes, including EQing, compressing, limiting and saturating, as well as plenty of creative effects processing.

This course is a unique opportunity to dive right into a studio session with a dance music producer who has put out releases with some of the world’s biggest record labels, including Atlantic, Universal, Ministry of Sound and Toolroom. Starting with just a folder of stems, S.K.T will lay out an invaluable strategy for starting and finishing arrangements, mixing as you go, and directing a project towards the final goal of exporting out a final version.

You’ll learn how to use a wide range of plugins too, as DJ S.K.T uses each stage of the production process to demonstrate production techniques with his favourite tools, from calibrating your monitors at the start of your session, processing sounds with effects during the mix and mastering at the final hour. By seeing how music software is used in the context of an actual mixing session, rather than looking at each plugin in isolation, you’ll get a better sense of how to use it.

DAW: Logic Pro
Total runtime: 4hrs 14mins

Includes the STEMS for the song DJ S.K.T uses in the course.

DJ S.K.T Track From Scratch

• Chapter 1 : Working with vocals
  DJ S.K.T compresses and EQs vocals, preparing them for the addition of drums. He also shares a few of his favourite plugins for producing.
• Chapter 2 : Building a drum beat
  DJ S.K.T selects the best drum samples for his track, builds a groove, processes the samples and shares workflow tips
• Chapter 3 : Piano stabs and vocal doubling
  Time to develop the track. DJ S.K.T adds some piano stabs and brings the track into the next section with pitch shifted vocals.
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• Chapter 4 : Adding energy to the buildup
  Risers and effects automation help make an exciting buildup. DJ SKT shows off the manual automation function in Logic Pro.
• Chapter 5 : Finalising the intro and buildup
  DJ S.K.T finalises his intro and buildup with layered synths, mixing as he goes with compression, EQ, saturation and limiting.
• Chapter 6 : Adding bass to the drop
  Every drop needs low end energy. DJ S.K.T adds a bassline to match the rest of the track, tweaking the sound with FX for maximum impact.
• Chapter 7 : Developing the drop further
  To pad out the drop and add more groove, DJ S.K.T adds plucks and a second tom-style bassline.
• Chapter 8 : Building a hard hitting kick
  DJ S.K.T gets the kick hitting hard and punching through his mix with a resonator, limiter, equaliser and saturator.
• Chapter 9 : Balancing out the drums
  DJ S.K.T balances each drum element and layers his kick for added character
• Chapter 10 : Adding extra interest
  For more interest and detail DJ S.K.T adds new percussive elements, white noise, effects and some creative processing.
• Chapter 11 : Developing the arrangement
  A new synth lead sound is added. DJ S.K.T develops the track’s energy by adding and removing elements in different sections.
• Chapter 12 : Creating a breakdown
  Use a low pass filter to create a warm breakdown. Gradually re-add elements to build energy into his second drop.
• Chapter 13 : Differentiating drop two
  DJ S.K.T differentiates the second drop from the first by adding a counter melody to play off the existing percussion.
• Chapter 14 : Building out the drop
  To develop the drop further DJ S.K.T adds complementary sounds, keeping the audiences’ interest by varying the types of sound used.
• Chapter 15 : Controlling the low end
  DJ S.K.T tightens up the low end by rolling off high and mid frequencies and fine tuning his drop melodies.
• Chapter 16 : Tweaking the mix and arrangement
  To get the energy throughout his track flowing just right, DJ S.K.T makes a few changes to the arrangement and mix
• Chapter 17 : Making the vocal pop
  To get the vocal cutting through the mix, DJ S.K.T adds reverb, delay, limiting and EQ; balancing other elements to match.
• Chapter 18 : Percussion sparkle
  DJ S.K.T carves out space for percussion elements like hi hats and shakers to add detail and sparkle to his drums.
• Chapter 19 : Adding pads
  To create background atmosphere, DJ S.K.T adds a pad, being careful not to overpower other elements in the mix.
• Chapter 20 : Mixing as you go
  DJ S.K.T continues to mix as he goes, targeting and tweaking frequencies with a resonator, EQ and compressor.
• Chapter 21 : Fixing issues in the mix
  Scanning through the mix, DJ S.K.T fixes spectral issues, elevates elements and layers on top of existing elements where needed.
• Chapter 22 : Perfecting transitions
  DJ S.K.T fine tunes transitions between sections with FX and edits for the best possible flow.
• Chapter 23 : One final element
  By adding a sustained sound to the track, DJ S.K.T blends all the elements in the arrangement together.
• Chapter 24 : Final tweaks
  With the end in sight, DJ S.K.T makes his final EQ and arrangement decisions.
• Chapter 25 : Mixing and mastering
  DJ S.K.T masters his track and finalises his mix. Changes at this stage are minimal but crucial for club sound systems.

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Timmo Hendriks Track from Scratch TUTORIAL

Learn how to build out a mix and turn a simple chord progression into a fully fledged progressive house track with Timmo Hendriks.

Dive into a music production masterclass with rising star Timmo Hendriks, and get a first-class grounding in how to put together big-sounding progressive house tracks. Using Apple’s flagship digital audio workstation Logic Pro, Timmo works his way through a full session of melody writing, sound design, arranging and mixing.

Timmo Hendriks studied at the same academy that produced artists like Martin Garrix and Julian Jordan and signed to Nicky Romero’s Protocol Recordings in 2018. He’s played at major festivals and venues around the world, working crowds into a frenzy with his soul-stirring sets.
This course is your opportunity to get into the studio with Timmo and watch his creative process and problem-solving techniques in the context of a mix.

Over the course of two hours, you’ll see Timmo design leads, bass and chords, build atmospheric FX in breaks, and write melodies. Starting by writing a chord progression using his MIDI keyboard, Hendriks reaches deep into his bag of tricks to add layers of melody, atmosphere and rhythm until the track has reached completion.

If you want to get better at something, there’s no substitute for watching a professional work with their tools, and that’s exactly what you get when you take this course. Timmo Hendriks gets hands-on with a variety of plugins including u-He Diva, LennarDigital Sylenth 1, KONTAKT and many more. You’ll see him design patches and go through his favourite presets, as well as pick up his workflow for mastering and other crucial parts of the mixing process.

All in all, there are 20 chapters of production gold in Track from Scratch – Timmo Hendriks.
Once you’ve signed up for the course you can return to the material as many times as you like, and you’ll also get access to the stems from Timmo’s project so you can follow along on your own DAW.
Timmo Hendriks has proven himself to be a producer and DJ with impressive output, so this is your opportunity to finetune your skills and step up your music production game to similar levels.

DAW: Logic Pro
Total runtime: 2hrs 8mins

Includes the STEMS for the song Timmo creates in the course.

Timmo Hendriks Track From Scratch

• Chapter 1: First steps: chords
  Timmo Hendriks begins writing a progressive house track. First he writes a foundational chord progression with Logic’s stock piano.
• Chapter 2: Writing a melody
  To accompany the chord progression, Hendriks writes and records a melody.
• Chapter 3: The breakdown
  For the breakdown, Timmo Hendriks adds a Kontakt guitar. He builds tension using automation, and by experimenting with the arrangement.
• Chapter 4: Writing a bassline
  Hendriks crafts a warm, analog style bass patch and writes a bassline to accompany the breakdown.
• Chapter 5: Adding atmospheric elements
  Using synths and samples, Timmo Hendriks adds atmospheric melodic and percussive elements to the arrangement.
• Chapter 6: Adding drums
  Hendriks adds more energy with a kick and snare. The track is starting to take shape.
• Chapter 7: More drums
  The track continues to build. Timmo creates interesting transitional FX with cymbals, reverb and delay.
• Chapter 8 : The drop
  Now the breakdown is in place Hendriks starts work on the drop, sharing insight on layering leads, bass and chords.
• Chapter 9: Drop drums
  Choosing the optimum samples for the drop, Hendriks programs a drop beat, layering, sidechaining and compressing for maximum impact.
• Chapter 10: Layering the drop drums
  Timmo continues to develop the drums in the drop, adding new elements and extending the length of the drop.
• Chapter 11: Drop effects
  Timmo Hendriks adds white noise, downlifters, and crashes to the drop.
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• Chapter 12: Energy boost
  To add more energy to the mix, Timmo adds an atmospheric vocal loop throughout the drop.
• Chapter 13: Transitioning between sections
  Timmo Hendriks transitions between the breakdown section and the drop using EQ and gain automation, and Dada Life’s Endless Smile.
• Chapter 14: Amping up the buildup
  The buildup has to create anticipation in the listener. Hendriks shares how he squeezes everything out of the buildup with FX and samples.
• Chapter 15: Introducing the melody
  Timmo Hendriks introduces the drop melody in the buildup to help the track flow from section to section.
• Chapter 16: Adding a snare roll
  To add more energy to the buildup, Timmo adds a snare roll, layering the snare, grouping the layers and automating the group for movement.
• Chapter 17: Mixing and mastering part 1
  Timmo Hendriks shares his go to mixing and mastering plugins, and demonstrates how he uses them.
• Chapter 18: Mixing and mastering part 2
  Timmo finalises the mix and master, referencing the track against an already mastered song to get a festival ready end result.

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wAFF Track from Scratch TUTORIAL

Join tech house DJ and producer wAFF as he recreates the title track from his 2022 EP Mesmerized.

Enter the studio with tech house DJ and producer wAFF, and relive the production journey that he went through to make the title track from his 2022 EP Mesmerized. Using Ableton Live, wAFF recreates each section of his energy-filled track one by one, explaining the thought process behind every mixing decision and sharing invaluable insights as he goes.

wAFF is an artist with a truly international profile, built from the ground up since his debut EP Rainbows was released on Jamie Jones’ Hot Creations label in 2012. He’s the only British producer who’s recorded for all three European techno hubs, Sven Väth’s Cocoon, Adam Beyer’s Drumcode and Loco Dice’s Desolat, and has played in electronic music havens like fabric London, Lost Beach in Ecuador and Amnesia in Ibiza. Sets at festivals like Glastonbury and Tomorrowland don’t come easily either, so rest assured you’re in good hands for this masterclass!

Running for over two hours, this course is packed with production knowledge for you to bring into your own projects. Watch wAFF program bouncy drums and bass loops, chop up club-ready vocals, and employ a variety of arrangement techniques to manage the rise and fall of the track’s energy. You’ll get a close up look at how a professional producer uses tools like the Roland TB 303 to create sticky acid synth bass melodies, as well as hearing his approach to common issues like where to source unique vocal samples.

You don’t get to where wAFF is in his career without picking up a wealth of knowledge along the way, and in this course you’ll see him apply the full range of his skills to a mix. Whether it’s using sidechain compression to carve out space for a kick drum, or EQing the master to make sure the track performs well wherever it’s played, you’re sure to pick up some tricks of the trade that will level up your own productions.

All in all, there are 16 chapters in this course that cover the full journey of the track, from drum programming to mixing and mastering. So, if you’re looking to learn from a dance music specialist and see behind the curtain of how your favourite tracks are made, this is the course for you!

DAW: Ableton Live
Total runtime: 2hrs 33mins

wAFF Track from Scratch

• Chapter 1: Basic Drums and Bass
  wAFF recreates the drum beat and bass line from his track ‘Mesmerized’, demonstrating his strategy for starting off tracks.
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• Chapter 2: Percussion Loops
  With a solid foundation in place, wAFF layers percussion loops on top to give the track some bounce.
• Chapter 3: Acid Synth Bass
  wAFF sprinkles in some acid synth bass, and sidechains each of the bass parts to the kick to create some space.
• Chapter 4: Additional Sounds
  wAFF adds swing to his hi-hats using Ableton’s Swing and Groove library, and assembles further FX, percussion and vocal sounds.
• Chapter 5: Lead Vocals
  wAFF describes the process of sourcing a lead vocal for the track, then syncs the audio with the rest of the track.
• Chapter 6: Arrangement View
  With all the sounds in place, it’s time to move into Ableton’s Arrangement View. wAFF records the session clips and drops in the vocal.
• Chapter 7: Vocal Syncing
  After fine tuning an issue with the bass groove, wAFF tweaks the clip’s warp markers and makes sure it’s locked in on the beat.
• Chapter 8: Auto Filter
  wAFF shows how to use a low cut filter on the master to control energy, and starts to arrange the track.
• Chapter 9: Arranging
  wAFF continues to build out the arrangement, adding FX and vocal samples for extra interest at certain points.
• Chapter 10: Roland 303
  Using a Roland TB 303, wAFF programs the acid synth bass line from Mesmerized then captures it on a separate audio track.
• Chapter 11: Vocal Build
  wAFF automates the auto filter to kick in on the master, then chops up the main vocal to create a vocal build.
• Chapter 12: Fine-tuning the Build
  wAFF adjusts the Roland TB 303 patch and automates the volume to gradually fade out towards the end of the build.
• Chapter 13: Creating an Outro
  Nearing the end, wAFF whittles down the arrangement and creates an outro section.
• Chapter 14: Adding FX
  Having finished creating the track, wAFF adds effects to build it out and add interest.
• Chapter 15: Final Edits
  wAFF goes through each section of the track, making precise adjustments to the transitions to make sure everything flows together.
• Chapter 16: Mastering
  wAFF shares a simple strategy for EQing the master track, and talks about what happens after the track has been exported.

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KO:YU is a Turkish/German DJ and producer who specializes in progressive house and electro house. He has received worldwide support from acclaimed DJs such as Avicii, Swedish House Mafia,Tiësto, Dada Life and Fedde le Grand and was named an EDM artist to watch in 2012 by MTV. He lists Daft Punk, disco house and later on progressive and electro house as influences.

One of the most incredible things about dance music is its never-ending search for innovation; new sounds, new styles, new projects, always moving forward. KO:YU is an artist who embodies that ethos. Previously known under the name Deniz Koyu – a shortened version of his birth name – KO:YU has already achieved far more than most. But his new project is set to be the most exciting step in his musical career since he laid his hands on piano keys at the age of five.

This is bar far one of the most anticipated courses we have ever produced at FaderPro. From the tweets, the messages on Facebook and direct emails of fans & producers alike both requesting and asking, “WHEN”? Well, now it’s actually happening and in perfect timing for his big Spinnin records and new alias release with what we think is one of the biggest records of the year. Enjoy learning how the production of, “Don’t Wait” feat Example was made.

“I’m super excited to begin this new chapter and share fresh sounds with you guys…”~Ko:Yu

About the course:

3.5 Hours Course Content
Platform: Cubase

In the Studio w/ Deniz Koyu

• Chapter 1 – Introduction
• Chapter 2 – Main Melody
• Chapter 3 – Adding the Pad
• Chapter 4 – Vocal FX sounds
• Chapter 5 – Main Vocals
• Chapter 6 – Percussion Elements
• Chapter 7 – The Main Bassline
• Chapter 8 – Percussion Elements
• Chapter 9 – Additional Pad Sounds
• Chapter 10 – The Build Percussion Elements
• Chapter 11 – Creating the Drop
• Chapter 12 – Checking Your Mono Mix
• Chapter 13 – Adding Elements To The Drop
• Chapter 14 – Finishing the Drop

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