With new music production courses online all the time, learning how to make music gets easer and easier with each passing year.

Many content creators and colleges alike deliver online music production courses that are full of techniques and useful tips and tricks that are used in professional studios everywhere. This information being so accessible means that anybody can become a professional music producer in no time.

But with so many courses tailored to specific styles of music, it can be tough to find the right online music production course for you. Especially if you’re very new to the idea of making music.

Well, we made this list of our favorite five online music production courses for electronic music. Let’s get into it!

deadmau5 Teaches Electronic Music Production

Electronic music production is full to the brim of technical details. This is part of why it’s so overwhelming for newcomers. Learning the craft can seem like an impossible challenge. But Joel Zimmerman – deadmau5 – has let everyone in on his trade secrets.

The Grammy-winning house producer takes off his disguise and has created an online course to teach everyone his take electronic music production. His course is easy to follow, comprehensive, and covers music theory, how to experiment with synths, and performing your music as a DJ too.

Andrew Huang Teaches Electronic Music Production

Andrew Huang’s music production course is equally as informational and easy to follow. Not only does he let you in on where all of the great free plugins are, but he dives in with tips and tricks that demonstrate his music production process from start to finish in a month-long course.

From working with loops, creating FX chains, and a plethora of other stuff this course is easily accessible. If you follow NAdrew’s YouTube content, you’ll be right at home with his music production course. His easy-going nature and teaching style allow you to follow along easily.

Coursera Electronic Music Production Specialization

Coursera has a multitude of online content that actual remote college courses. Powered by Berklee College of Music, one of the most prestigious music schools out there, this content will hone your skills as an electronic music producer with four courses!

The Technology of Music Production
Introduction to Ableton Live
Creating Sounds for Electronic Music
Electronic Music Performance Techniques.

These are taught by Berklee College staff and include coursework that will allow you to take your techniques to the next level.

HOFA College

HOFA college teaches much more than just music production. They also cover media duplication, acoustic treatment manufacturing, as well as their own plugins!

HOFA college has different tiers of courses. For those with the time, you can dedicate a couple of years to working towards a bachelor’s degree or diploma in audio engineering & music production if you wanted to. This is no ordinary online music course! But if you just want to improve in a specific area or a couple of areas of making music, the program can be broken down into two-month-long modules.

There are other groupings of courses too. Courses that range from 6 months to one year also offer a certification of completion.

If you enroll in any of these courses you’ll get access to their high-quality plugins for the duration of your course(s), and instructor feedback too.

Production Music Live

Production Music Live certainly has one of the biggest content libraries for learners. A lot of their educational content has a big focus on electronic music and it gets pretty specific with certain DAW software and software synthesizers such as Serum.

If you know exactly what you’d like to learn, Production Music Live is the place to be. Their a la carte courses range from full DAW tutorials to “Start to Finish” genre-type courses. The courses range in price from $18 to $350. They also feature terrific DAW templates, midi packs, and presets.

If you know exactly what you’re going for, you’re likely to find it at Production Music Live.

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