Performing With Ableton Live Free Tutorial Series

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Below you can watch 5 exclusive videos from  Point Blank Online. These are just a small sample of the 80+ tutorial videos made available to Point Blank students over the 4 week DJ/Performance with Ableton Live course. The course guides you, step-by-step, through the revolutionary software package: Ableton Live, this includes both popular software and … Read more

How to make Dubstep Free Tutorial Series

Watch 5 videos exclusive to youtube in the ‘How to Make Dubstep’ series. They are a sample of the 80+ videos that Point Blank students have access to on the 4 week Dubstep Pro Producer Course taught in Ableton Live. Please subscribe to the Point Blank youtube channel to make sure you don’t miss the … Read more

What Genre Next?

Since launching them in 2009, we have been overwhelmed by the popularity of the Pro Producer courses at Point Blank Online. The genres have spanned from Minimal Tech, Deep and Soulful House, Trance, Electro House, and most recently Dubstep and Hip Hop. Developed with the more experienced producer in mind, they are perfect for anyone … Read more

Learn to Produce Deep & Soulful House

With what we know to be a proven track record Point Blank Music School has been training DJs, music producers, songwriters and sound engineers for over 15 years. The school has been voted “Best Music Production & DJ School” for six consecutive years by readers of DJ Magazine and we have previously posted on the … Read more

Minimal Tech Podcast

Point Blank Music School have been training DJs, music producers, songwriters and sound engineers for over 15 years, they have won awards for thier efforts and as a result the work their students produce is consistently of a very high calibre. When studying a course at Point Blank student’s work culminates in the submission of … Read more

Cosmogramma Fieldlines – Flying Lotus App

Point Blank tutor Danny Lewis, who has helped ion the development of the school’s new Dubstep Course, sent me a link to an amazing app that I just had to post on the blog. http://flying-lotus.com/fieldlines Cosmogramma Fieldlines is a free augmented reality application to celebrate the imminent release of the new Flying Lotus album ‘Cosmogramma’. … Read more

How To Make Hip Hop: ‘Beat Analysis’

Just a quick update to the earlier post about Point Blank Music School’s latest addition to the curriculum, the Hip Hop Course, we’ve managed to get hold of an exclusive video taster from one of the lessons! So we now know that the course will feature a section entitled ‘Beat Analysis’ which will consist of … Read more

How To Make Hip-Hop Beats…

In line with Point Blank Music School’s launch of the Dubstep Course, we are also happy to announce the launch of the Hip-Hop Production Course! Hip Hop arose during the 1970s when block parties became increasingly popular in New York City, incorporating DJs who played popular genres of music, especially funk and soul music. DJs, … Read more

Into The Red – Logic Pro Channel Strip Headroom

If you’re a regular reader of this blog then you’ll no doubt be clued up as to the fact that at Point Blank Music College all of our tutors are real industry experienced professional producers, with a great deal of knowledge behind them. This has been recently proven to a great extent by Point Blank … Read more

How to Produce Minimal Tech in Ableton Live

However you want to describe it, as minimal or tech house or minimal techno or whatever, it is a sound that has taken dance floors across the globe by storm and is unlikely to be leaving us anytime soon. There are countless amazing producers and DJs that have taken the Minimal and Tech House sub-genres … Read more

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