Music Production

Music Production with Ableton Live – Groove, Song & Sound

Turn your musical ideas into professional tracks! Master beat programming, sound design, and arrangement in Ableton Live. Whether it’s Neo-Soul or Hip-Hop, learn the workflows to build your unique groove and produce music with a professional edge.

This course is aimed at advanced music school students with basic musical experience who want to produce, arrange, and professionally realize their own music. Ableton Live is used as the central production and creative tool. The stylistic focus is on groove-oriented, modern music such as Neo Soul, Funk, Jazz, Hip-Hop, and electronically influenced styles.

The course emphasizes songwriting, beat programming, harmony, arrangement, sound design, and production workflows, always with attention to musical expression and authenticity. It is highly practical and project-focused: participants develop their own tracks or sketches and learn how to implement musical ideas efficiently and systematically in Ableton Live. In addition to technical skills, special emphasis is placed on developing a musical mindset in production.

Topics Covered:

  • Basic & advanced workflows in Ableton Live
  • Beat programming & groove design
  • Harmony, bass & voicings in a production context
  • Arrangement & song structure
  • Sound design & creative effects
  • Working with samples, MIDI & audio
    Production aesthetics & stylistic references
    Feedback & analysis of own productions

Requirements:

  • Basic musical knowledge
  • Ideally, some experience with DAWs “Digital Audio Workstation” or music production
  • Interest in modern, groove-based music

Teacher

  • Anthony Malka

    Anthony Malka

    A French-keyboardist, composer and educator based in Neukölln since 2007 and who created the musical persona Le Commandant Couche‑Tôt to explore a visually-inflected, groove-laden sonic world. Rooted in the French keyboard tradition of artists like Chassol and General Elektriks, and inspired by cinematic composers such as François de Roubaix and Serge Gainsbourg, Malka weaves together funk, disco, Brazilian rhythms and dreamy textures in his music. Under the Le Commandant Couche-Tôt alias, Anthony crafts immersive tracks each paired with a visual universe evocative of filmmakers like Wes Anderson and Terry Gilliam, creating a distinctive blend of sound and image.

    His toured Europe with his former band and released songs that have been aired worldwide on major Radio stations.

    In short, Anthony Malka is a multi-talented musician whose alter-ego offers a rich fusion of keyboard virtuosity, rhythmic exploration and visual storytelling.

    Course 

    An experienced educator he teaches piano, keyboards, songwriting and production with a focus in jazz, funk, brazilian grooves that he shares with a wide audience of students from beginners, to new starters or more advanced pianists.

    He proposes a tailored approach to keep the motivation and the pleasure of the student always  vivid.

    Rhythm practice is at the heart of his curriculum through reading exercises, body percussion patterns and games. Anthony Malka would also like to offer band coaching sessions to small ensembles of musicians with a minimum of 2 years of instrument experience (bass, guitar, drums, horns, keyboards) where the students can learn to listen and interplay with others based on songs from the jazz and funk repertoire (Jamiroquai, Herbie Hancock, Roy Ayers, Louis Cole etc.) Recording sessions and production with Ableton Live would be another workshop he would like to propose to the students of the Global Music Academy

    Courses

    • Piano – Jazz, Blues and Soul

    • Band Coaching

    • Music Production

    Languages

    English, French