Course 1 will be introducing simple concepts that go with any style of beat you want to produce. The concepts apply to your process rather than your preference. So they can be customized to your own taste and style. Each lesson will focus on a separate part of building a song.

Course Overview

01 - Course Introduction
02 - Starting with a 2 Bar Drum Loop
03 - Sampling with JMo Packs
04 - K I S Keep It Simple
05 - Manipulating Your Sound
06 - Put it in Immediately
07 - Layering on Top of Drum Loops
08 - Drums Must Cut Through
09 - Side Chained Bass and Kick
10 - Imagine Your Live Band
11 - Why Are His Drums Stronger Than Mine
12 - Adding Temp Synth for a Chorus
13 - Beat Formatting Ideas
14 - Course Close 2 Bars to 97 bars

A Message From L's:

What I Hope That You Can Take Away From This Course:
My goal is to help you either achieve your own perspective or help elevate your existing one. I hope it makes it easy to understand your own building process, and that you can apply some of these concepts to what you already know. These are just some methods that I use, that may help you also. The ideas are yours to manipulate in any way.

Anthony "L's" Cruz is a music producer from Long Beach, California. Through his 15+ years as a creative, he's worked as an engineer, producer, writer, recording artist, and more recently began film scoring. He runs an entertainment company called Water The Seed Ent LLC (WTS) where he works with new and established artists or musicians. They collaborate on joint venture EP projects and release them independently and utilize all their networks to create visuals and spread good music. In addition to WTS, he is involved in various film projects, as well as a handful of hip hop albums. He's had the privilege of traveling and working on music from India to Canada and beyond, which helped him realize that energy is different in different locations. [The ENERGY] is special to that geographic location. So his mission is to globally find and harness that energy and spread love and water the seed with all that he's been blessed with and learn from it all.

Artists L's Has Collaborated With:
Techniec
Blu
Miguel
Layla Hathaway
Kindred the Family Soul
Gloryforthepeople
Mickey Taelor
Propaganda
Crooked I
AMG
Bo Roc of the Dove Shack
Tray Dee
The Mexikinz
Mopreme Shakur
The Twinz
Glasses Malone
Billy Danze of M.O.P.
Geechi Gotti
Buye Pongo
Bad Azz
Domino
RBX

Filmed Scored by L's:
The Manchild (documentary)
5150 (suspense thriller)
GANGSTA (futuristic episodic series)
The Conversation (short film)
Kilroy (feature film)

Producers L's Has Collaborated With:
Jairus "J.Mo" Mozee
David Balfour
Dae One
Joseph Leimberg
Co-T
Daryl Harper

Music Has Appeared on TV:
HBO
ESPN
SHOWTIME
ABC
NBC
Apple TV
Netflix
Prime
HULU