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Introduction
Ableton Live is a hugely popular software choice for professional music producers and DJs and the program that your teenage students probably want to learn the most.
In this episode of the Music Tech Teacher podcast, Ableton’s Education Specialist for Australia/New Zealand Matt Ridgway and I discuss how Ableton is being used in schools, where to find free lesson plans and learning materials and how you can get your hands on free Push controllers.
Ableton links and resources
- Ableton website
- Ableton education offers
- Apply for free Push controllers for your school
- Learning Music: extensive series of interactive lessons for students
- Learning Synths: interactive lessons about synthesizer basics
- The Playground: free interactive music-making tools
- Matt’s collection of Ableton lessons (units of work): First Steps, Found Sounds, Creating a Soundtrack, The Art of the Mashup, Theory Hacks
- Education resources: Live and Push in the Classroom
- Found sound composition examples: Andrew Huang’s Song Challenges
- Making Music with Everyday Items: free Soundfly course with Youtuber Andrew Huang (found sounds project)
- Andrew Huang shows how he makes a remix of his baby’s sounds in Ableton Live
- Diego Stocco: Music From A Bonsai
- Beethoven Remixed – free remix stems you can use with students
- Download the remix stems here
- Beethoven Remixed Ableton tutorial by Rachel Collier part 1
- Beethoven Remixed Ableton tutorial by Rachel Collier part 2
- Tutorial videos for Ableton Live 11 (Youtube playlist)
- Tutorial videos for the Push controller (Youtube playlist)
- Make your own GIFs with Giphy Capture
Connect with Matt Ridgway
- Matt’s website: Winter Park Music
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Looking for More Resources for Music Teachers?
Hello! I’m Katie Argyle – an Australian music technology trainer and consultant with a passion for helping music teachers through my business Midnight Music.
I’m a qualified teacher but no, I don’t currently teach in a school. I help teachers through my online professional development space – the Midnight Music Community – where there are tutorial videos, courses, links and downloadable resources.
I like to focus on easy ways to incorporate technology into what you are already doing in your music curriculum through a range of creative projects. I also run live workshops and have presented at countless conferences and other music education events.
If you want simple, effective ideas for using technology in music education, I would LOVE to help you inside the Midnight Music Community.
