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Music Production Basics

Beats, bass and arrangement in any free DAW.

4.8980 reviews7,650 learners
Created byJonas Berg Updated Oct 2026 English · 6 subtitles 6 hours

What you'll learn

  • Find your way around any free DAW
  • Program drums that groove instead of tick
  • Write a bassline that locks to the kick
  • Arrange a loop into a full song structure
  • Mix with EQ and compression, gently
  • Export and share your first finished track

Curriculum

4 sections · 13 core lessons · 4h 9m
01Your first beat4 lessons · 35 min
  • Welcome & a free DAW tourFree preview6 min
  • Tempo, bars and the gridFree preview10 min
  • Programming a drum groove14 min
  • Check-in: rhythm basics5 min
02Bass and harmony4 lessons · 1h 14m
  • Root notes and simple bass lines13 min
  • Chords without the theory dread15 min
  • Reading: keys and scales cheat sheet6 min
  • Project: an 8-bar loop40 min
03Sound and mixing3 lessons · 36 min
  • Levels and panning12 min
  • EQ and compression, simply16 min
  • Quiz: mixing basics8 min
04Arrangement2 lessons · 1h 44m
  • From loop to song structure14 min
  • Final project: a finished one-minute track1h 30m

Requirements

  • No experience needed: we start from zero
  • A laptop or phone and about 20 minutes a day
  • Curiosity, and a notebook you don't mind messing up

This course is for

  • Curious beginners who learn by doing
  • Career changers building a first portfolio
  • Teams who want a shared vocabulary

Your instructor

Jonas Berg

Music producer

  • 4.8 instructor rating
  • 20k students
  • 2 courses

Jonas produces for indie artists and shows how songs are built, layer by layer.

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What learners say

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  • Lena Fischer2 weeks ago

    Short lessons, clear tasks and an instructor who answers questions in the community within a day. I finished in five weeks.

  • Daniel Okoro1 month ago

    The projects are the best part. I used the final one in a job interview and it carried the conversation.

  • Hana Sato1 month ago

    Lovely pacing. A couple of lessons could be shorter, but the quick checks kept me honest the whole way.

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