Course Description

A gigantic music production course create by Cinnamon Chasers, covering all his favourite creative tricks and techniques for creating awesome electronica. 

This course contains over 6 hours of video content and manuals, covering everything from his core production essential process', his favourite engineering and mix techniques, amazingly useful tools for composition and arrangements, as well as a neat toolkit of mental hacks to skyrocket your productivity and dramatically improve the quality of your workflow. Oh yeah and there’s a cool drum sample pack thrown in for free featuring his favourite drum samples.

Electronic Music Composer

Cinnamon Chasers

Cinnamon Chasers is the artist project of electronic composer Russ Davies, who is part of a new wave of composer bringing together a broad spectrum of music disciplines from experimental electronica through to modern film composition.  Having recently completed the  score for the BBC1 TV series "The War Of The Worlds" Russ is taking some much treasured time off to bring you a production and composition course that provides a complete insight into his world of music creation.  Russ has a myriad of albums and singles under his belt to critical acclaim (Mojo, Independent, Rolling Stone, Earmilk, Mojo, Observer), notably under his award winning alias Cinnamon Chasers where his prolific output has gained plaudits across the electronic world. Russ comes from a unique lineage in music and in 2017 cowrote an album with his father Dave Davies, founder and guitarist of rock band The Kinks. He has remixed artist as diverse Roxy Music through to The Orb, and recently teamed up with the iconic Anjunadeep Records, dance label of Above & Beyond, to release a string of songs for their iTunes No1 albums.In his course in addition to hours of detailed and inspiring tutorials you'll also learn in detail how these songs were produced 

Course curriculum

  • 1

    WELCOME TO THE COURSE: Introduction

    • WELCOME TO THE COURSE: Introduction
  • 2

    MODULE 1: Full Walkthroughs

    • Full Walkthough Introduction

    • Abakus - The Beginning (Complete Walkthrough)

    • Cinnamon Chasers - Luv Deluxe (Complete Walkthrough)

    • Abakus - The Dreamer (Complete Walkthrough)

    • Cinnamon Chasers - Great Escape (Complete Walkthrough)
  • 3

    MODULE 2: Developing Your Core Idea

    • Introduction

    • Drum Sample Pack

    • Meticulous Programmer Technique

    • Arp Technique

    • Mesh Technique

    • - Mesh (90 Minute Example)

    • Riff Foundation Technique
  • 4

    MODULE 3: Composition & Production Overview Key Principles

    • Introduction

    • Rhythmic Homogeneity

    • Systematic Sound Design

    • Melody Development

    • Bassline Technique

    • Harmonisation

    • Harmonisation Using Layered Ambience
  • 5

    MODULE 4: Advanced Arrangement Techniques

    • Introduction

    • Fundamental Theory: Contrast & The 4 Dimensions Of Arrangement

    • Fundamental Theory: Traditional Song Arrangments for Underground Electronica

    • Fundamental Theory: Dancefloor Arrangements
  • 6

    MODULE 5: Mindset, Approach and Psychology

    • Mindset, Attitude & Psychology: Introduction

    • Venture To The Unknown

    • The Tides Of Creativity

    • The Idea You Doubt Might Become Your Greatest

    • The 4 Fs

    • The Myth Of The Idea In Your Head

    • Maximalise To Minimalise

    • Unleash Your Mind

    • Knights Of The Round Table

    • Meditative Problem solving
  • 7

    MODULE 6: 4 Hour Video Production Walkthrough - Telekinesis

    • Introduction

    • Download: Samples & Synth Presets

    • Drum Track - 21:08 Mins

    • Composition - 46:49 Mins

    • Arrangement - 45:09 Mins

    • Mixing - 47:06 Mins

    • Finishing Touches - 81.58m Mins
  • 8

    MODULE 7: Mix Engineering & Post Production

    • Introduction

    • Understanding Aesthetic

    • Referencing

    • Bin Your Plugins

    • Juxtaposition & Contrast

    • Game Changing EQ Technique

    • Creative Compression

    • Mixing In Groups

    • The Power Of Mono

    • Parallel Processing

    • Managing Ear Fatigue

    • Creative Automation

    • Post-Production // Pre-Master

    • Work Flow Summary