Online Cubase Lessons over Zoom or Skype

Live online Cubase lessons –
DAW (Digital Audio Workstation)

Cubase lessons from introductory to professional level

Whatever version of Cubase you’re using, including Cubase Elements, we can help. We provide from the ground up tuition or one-off lessons to resolve any problems. For all ages at any level.
 

Composing lessons

We also offer live online composing tuition using Cubase, Sibelius and Pro Tools.
 
Jump to our online composing lessons here.
 
 

Small to complex problems solved

We offer one-off lessons to answer any questions related to Cubase workflow. Or you can take regular lessons which will elevate you to wherever you want to go, be it a competent user to an accomplished Cubase professional.
 
Cubase is a very versatile environment for working with audio and midi, so depending on your fields of interest, your lessons can take any number of different directions.
 
You might want to create a mock-up with virtual instruments, record live instruments, manipulate audio or even work with video. The possibilities are almost endless for producing your own sound.
 
Whatever your needs, we can guide you with ease. All lessons are tailored to meet your needs.
 

 

What to expect to achieve

 

Through regular lessons, depending on your starting level, you will be able to:

• Produce any type of music tracks for the project that you have in mind.
• Attain a more a consistent and faster speed when working with audio, MIDI and effects in Cubase.
• Create compositions and/or Music Worksheets with Cubase.

 

 

Quickly solve common problems

• You can’t find the right menu or button for performing a certain operation. You may feel lost because of the amount of menus and buttons available.
• Keyboard shortcuts are being unused. Consequently your workflow is slow.
• You have been using Cubase effects by ear but you don’t really understand what they do.
• The full potential and capacity of Cubase tools are not being used to their potential.
• You compose music with Cubase by ear and you feel like now is the time to gain a more solid music theory background, in order to better reproduce what you hear in your head.
• You’re finding that watching online tutorials doesn’t answer all your questions and you need some one-to-one specialist assistance.

 

How lessons work

• Your online Cubase teacher, shares their screen through the video call (eg. Skype or Zoom) to demonstrate how to operate the program, as well as to review files you send over.
• You may share your screen if you need to show any aspect of your workflow.
• Cubase and Skype or Zoom can easily be set up so sound can be heard on both. We usually help you set this up during the free trial lesson, so communication between us is seamless.

 

 

Your teacher Kelsey

 

 
Kelsey has a wide range of experience working with Cubase and different DAWs (Pro Tools, Logic Pro X, etc) since 2012.
 
Cubase is one of the best DAWs in the market because of its interface and capability for working with MIDI, Audio, Effects and Video.
 
More about Kelsey here.

 
 

Technical requirements

 
Software requirements

• Any version of Cubase or Elements. Earlier versions of the software as well as the Artist version, can limit your possibilities (please refer to Steinberg’s website to compare versions).
• Video-calling Software such as Skype or Zoom.

Hardware requirements

• Minimum of 8 GB RAM (minimum of 32 GB if you want to set up an orchestral template)
• Minimum of 50 GB of free disk space (you may find you need more free disk space if you work more with audio files, since Cubase backups the audio files of the project as WAV files)
• Speakers and headphones
• Microphone (laptop built-in is OK)
• Webcam (laptop built-in is OK)
• Internet connection

 

Live online Cubase courses prices

 
The price of our Cubase Lessons for individual students (live one-to-one tuition) is £42 (approx. US$57) per hour.
 
The price for Online Cubase Lessons for groups is £52.50 (approx. US$72) for an hour shared by two students or £63 (approx. US$86) for an hour shared by 3 to 5 students (maximum 5 students to a group lesson).
 

 

 

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Online composing lessons

 
We teach composition with or without using Cubase, Sibelius and Pro Tools or other score editors.
 
Contact us for courses in written composition.
 
Our most common workflow consists of using Sibelius for producing the score and parts, Cubase for the midi mock-up and Pro Tools for preparing the recording session.
 
However, we understand that you might have a preference for a different score editor (eg. Finale) or a different DAW (eg. Logic, Reaper, Live Ableton, Fl Studio, etc). Your musical possibilities should not be restricted by your software.
 

 
 

Online composing lessons styles

We offer two main categories of online composition tuition:

• Composing music in an existing musical styles
• Finding and developing your own musical voice

 
You may wish to create a composition using an existing musical style. For this, we can provide expert online tuition in any of an ever increasing number of styles.
 
Some of the main musical styles in which we teach composition in depth are:
 

Medieval Music

• Organa and origin of polyphony
• Ars Antiqua
• Ars Nova

Renaissance

• Vocal forms
• Instrumental forms

Baroque

• Chorals, Canons, Inventions, Fugue, Preludes, Fantasias
• Suite and Concerto
• Vocal forms (Motets, Cantatas, Messes)

Classicism (1st Viennese School)

• Sonata (solo – octet)
• Concerto and Symphony
• Opera

Romanticism

• Piano solo (nocturnes, mazurkas, intermezzi, etc)
• Chamber Music
• Concerto and Symphony
• Opera

20th and 21th Century

• Contemporary Music

• Impressionism (Debussy, Ravel, etc)
• Free Atonality eg. Schoenberg
• Dodecaphonic Music (2nd Viennese School)
• Neo-Classicism (Hindemith, Bartok, Shostakovich, etc)
• Messiaen
• Ligeti
• Spectralism (Grisey, Murail, etc)
• Gubaidulina
• Minimalism (Glass, Reich, etc)
• Musique concrete
• Elektronische Musik
• Electroacoustic Music

• Popular music

• Blues
• Jazz (Swing, Cool, Bebop, Modal, Latin, Fusion)
• Rock, RnB, Pop, Soul, Funk, etc

• Cinematic Music

• Standards: Comedy, Action, Suspense, Ethnic (World), Epic, Heroic, Moody Drama, Fantasy, Emotive
• In the style of: John Williams, Hans Zimmer, etc

See our specialist live online Music For Media Lessons here.

 
 

Learning the basics of composing

To learn the basics and principals of a certain musical style doesn’t take long. We can help you take it to the next level, even to becoming a master composer if you wish.
 
For beginners, at first it may seem like learning a foreign language. But you’ll soon begin to understand the language of composing and become fluent with how it’s working. We can help you with this process.  
 
 

Develop your own ideas

We welcome online composition students who have their own ideas which they’d like to develop. Knowing the principals and mastering many styles, will make you unique as both a composer and as a musician.

 
 

Our online composing lessons prices

 

Our live Zoom or Skype online composition lessons start at:
£17.25 (approx. US$23, €20, 87 SRI) for 30 minutes.
£25.25 (approx. US$34, €30, 128 SRI) for 45 minutes.
£31.50 (approx. US$42.50, €37, 160 SRI) for 60 minutes.
More about our lesson prices here.
 
We can also teach groups of two or more students online, together in the same location, or together from different locations. Costs for online composing lessons for groups can be shared amongst students taking the same lesson.
 
The cost for group lessons is slightly more than for a one-to-one lesson, but the cost can be shared between those attending the lesson.
 
If you have any questions, please contact Tracy who can arrange a chat over Skype or Zoom and for you to try a free lesson.