I enjoyed learning how to compose basic beats, and noticed myself grinning as I tweaked them live during playback. It will teach you some of the principles at work in popular songs like Queen’s “We Will Rock You” and Björk’s “Army of Me”.
If you enjoy listening to music, but don’t know much about how it all works on a structural level, this course is for you.
It also has fun, easy to understand interfaces for programming music. And if you start one sequencer, then scroll down and start another sequencer, it will automatically pause the first one. For example, if you change the tab, the music will fade out, then fade back in when you return. One thing that immediately struck me about their web app was how well it was built. Ableton, A Berlin-based music software company, just released a free interactive music course that runs right in your browser.