Musical Composition for Short Films with Ableton Live

Playing a Melody in Ableton

A course by Jonah Schwartz , Musician and Composer

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3,564 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Playing a Melody in Ableton

Overview

“I will teach you how to play a short melody using Ableton Live and discuss the difference between midi and audio. ”

In this video lesson Jonah Schwartz addresses the topic: Playing a Melody in Ableton, which is part of the Domestika online course: Musical Composition for Short Films with Ableton Live. Learn how to create an original score by exploring the process of recording, editing, and syncing your music to a film.

Partial transcription of the video

“Playing a Melody in Ableton In this lesson, we'll open Ableton Live for the first time. We’ll see how to play a melody using just your computer keyboard. Then we’ll talk about the differences between Audio and MIDI. Ableton Live offers us two basic tracks that we can employ, Audio tracks and MIDI tracks. For this course, we’ll be working exclusively with MIDI, but it's worth spending a minute or two discussing the difference. Audio is the natural sounds that we hear captured by a microphone. If I play a guitar, or a trombone, or capture a bird singing, or speaking into a microphone, like I'...”

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Course summary for: Musical Composition for Short Films with Ableton Live

Level: Beginner
98% positive reviews (87)
3564 students
4 units
20 lessons (4h 8m)
2 downloads

Category
Music & Audio
Software
Ableton Live
Areas
Music, Music Production

Jonah Schwartz

A course by Jonah Schwartz

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Musician and Composer

Jonah Schwartz is an American musician and composer living in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He taught himself how to play the guitar, mandolin, and banjo when he was a teenager, and after studying film studies in university, he discovered his passion for film scoring. In 2004, he moved to Argentina and soon became part of the music community in Buenos Aires. The following year, his band was named “Best New Band” by Rolling Stone Argentina.

With his band Los Alamos, Jonah toured through Latin America and Europe, sharing a stage with names like Lee Perry, Calexico, Devendra Banhart and The Evens. After the split of his band in 2009, he started working in film scoring, and has worked on numerous productions, from films to commercials. Jonah wrote the musical score for the Hollywood film Hide (2008), Noche sin fortuna (2011), and others. He has also worked with well-known Argentinian production companies such as Tronco, Bamba, Can Can, and Plently.