Overview

The purpose of this video class is to teach you the most valuable skills I learned in "Deadmau5 Teaches Electronic Music Production Masterclass" in just thirty minutes!

To begin, would you listen to my quick summary of Deadmau5 Teaches Electronic Music Production Masterclass? Next, you might enjoy the skills I think are valuable for making electronic music based on what I learned in the class followed by stories Deadmau5 shares that I enjoyed. Then, I think sharing the context for my journey in learning electronic music production combined with the actions I took as a result of watching the videos in Deadmau5's masterclass will be really helpful for you in your own adventure in producing music! Finally, finish strong with a look at the challenges I faced using this masterclass, a class project, and a thank you for watching!

I hope to communicate the skills I spent hours learning to you in just about 30 minutes of your time! If you have never heard of Deadmau5, that's okay because prior to taking his masterclass I had never heard of him either! Here is a bit more about him from selected parts of his Wikipedia page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadmau5

Joel Thomas Zimmerman was born January 5, 1981. His stage name is deadmau5 which is pronounced "dead mouse." Joel is a Canadian record producer and DJ from Toronto, Ontario working in variety of styles within the progressive house genre and sometimes other forms of electronic music. His music career began in the 1990s and he chose his name because a mouse died inside his computer. "Get Scraped" released on July 26, 2005 was Joel's first album nearly ten years after he started trying to make music.

Joel has received six Grammy Award nominations for his music and has worked with other DJs and producers, such as Kaskade, MC Flipside, Rob Swire, Wolfgang Gartner, Duda, Tommy Lee, and DJ Aero. Deadmau5 is currently one of the highest paid electronic music producers in the world according to Forbes. His albums include Vexillology, mau5trap, Random Album Title, For Lack of a Better Name, 4x4=12, > album title goes here <, Astralwerks, 7 EP, while (1<2), and W:/2016ALBUM/. My favorite songs by Deadmau5 are My Pet Coelacanth and Infra Turbo Pigcart Racer.

If you have played video games as much as I have, you might have heard Joel's music in video game titles such as Dota 2, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, Saints Row: The Third, FIFA 13, Grand Theft Auto IV, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, Need for Speed: Shift, Midnight Club: Los Angeles, GoldenEye 007, Wipeout 2048, The Sims 3, Asphalt 8: Airborne, Test Drive Unlimited 2 and Sound Shapes.