Make Your First Track
A DAW, enough theory to write, and prompting craft for the AI parts.
Free to watch. Starting adds a personal copy to My Learning with progress tracking and a curated-path certificate on completion.
About this path
Music production courses assume either that you already read music or that you never will. This path splits the difference: the FL Studio modules that get a track from empty project to bounced file, the music theory that makes your chords intentional, vocal foundations for a topline, and the AI prompting craft that turns a generator into an instrument rather than a slot machine.
What you'll learn
- Build an arrangement in a DAW from empty project to export
- Write chord progressions you chose rather than stumbled into
- Record and treat a vocal that sits in the mix
- Prompt AI music tools with real musical intent
- Finish a track instead of collecting eight unfinished ones
The path, module by module
Each step is lifted from a full course in our catalog, and where a course repeats itself we keep only the lessons that earn their place.
Module 1 · from FL Studio: Beginner to Confident Producer
The DAW, the Piano Roll, and a First Beat
The interface, the piano roll, and a first pattern. Two hours to a loop that sounds like music.
8 lessons · 1h 31m
FL Studio - Complete Beginner Basics Tutorial · FL Studio 20 Basics - The Channel Rack (Step Sequencer) · FL Studio 20 Basics - The Playlist
Module 2 · from FL Studio: Beginner to Confident Producer
Mixing, Automation, and Vocals
Arrangement and mixing basics, the step where a loop becomes a track.
8 lessons · 1h 27m
How To Sidechain in FL Studio 20 · Vocal Processing in FL Studio · How To Set Up Your Midi Keyboard and Drumpad
Module 3 · from Learn Music Theory from Scratch
Notes, Intervals, and Scales
Notes, intervals, scales, and chords. Enough theory that your progressions are decisions.
8 lessons · 2h 35m
#1 LEARN FREE MUSIC THEORY · #2 LEARN FREE MUSIC THEORY · #3 LEARN FREE MUSIC THEORY
Module 4 · from Learn Music Theory from Scratch
Theory Reference & Ear Training
A theory reference plus ear training. The part you return to weekly, long after the lessons.
2 lessons · 4m
Music Theory in One Page · Train Your Ear
Module 5 · from Singing & Voice Foundations
Tone and Sound Colour
Voice foundations for recording a topline yourself, rather than waiting for a vocalist.
3 lessons · 40m
Changing Sound Color for Beginning Singers - part 5 | VOCAL NEBULA · Changing Sound Color for Beginning Singers - part 6 | VOCAL NEBULA · Final Summary of Free Singing Course for Beginners
Module 6 · from Suno AI Music Production
Prompting Craft
Prompting craft for AI music. The difference between a usable stem and generic filler.
2 lessons · 4m
Anatomy of a Suno Prompt: Style and Structure · Writing and Formatting Lyrics for Suno