Hey, Just saw this thread. I'm borderline shocked that this discussion has been so pleasant so far. No-one has been outraged at someone interested in going to a college to learn yet, which is unusual, but very nice. Just came on to answer a few of those points anyway. - Virtualmark: Our courses aren...

Rinse FM's new recruit and ex-Point Blank student, Lucy 'Monki' Monkman delivers the second installment to our 'Catching Up With...' series where we reconvene with our past students who have taken their skills beyond the classroom. In the space of a year, Monki has gone from student to landing her o...

Award winning music college, Point Blank are proud to present the launch of Ambideckstrous 27th October, at Camden’s trendiest little DJ joint - Bar Vinyl. With an abundance of talent regularly being turned out of Point Blank Music College, Ambideckstrous has been setup to showcase the finest DJs th...

Point Blank's Dubstep tutor, Jonny Miller AKA Joshua Black produced this moody, atmospheric cut exclusively for the course. http://soundcloud.com/point-blank/joshua-black-terra-firma# Online Course info: http://www.pointblankonline.net/dubstep-course-ableton-live.php During 4th and 5th September 201...

Howdy folks, Inspired by the popular online Pro Producer courses, Point Blank will be teaching the genre based classes at their London studios in Hoxton on the first weekend of each month for the Pro Producer Weekend Series. The 4th and 5th of September sees Point Blank kick off the Pro Producer Wee...

@JFK I'm sorry to hear that you class my last post as spam. I'm simply just offerening an alternative to the other suggestions posted in the thread. I personally think that some formal learning will benefit every budding producer at some point in their career. Hopefully you will have a look at our w...

Hi there, You definantely have to learn music theory and your software before you'll really start to see the benefits of your creativity. After reading your post i feel that i feel that we might be of some help to you. At Point Blank we have just launched an online course in producing Dubstep which ...

Hi there, Good to see some healthy discussion in this thread! I'll try and throw in my 2 cents. Firstly as there are some common traits in Hip-hop it is one of the most diverse genres of music around taking influence and inspiration from everything and everyone. Also 140bpm is the tempo for crunk mu...

Hi there, @Seda Yes our tutors are Ableton certified trainers and successful artists/producers in their own right. Some of them having tracks released on Defected & Cr2 records. You can have a look at all our tutors in more depth at http://www.pointblankonline.net/about-point-blank/tutors.php. N...

Hi there, Good to see alot of interest in this thread! I see i'm not alone in my interest of Techno. Alot of the advice on this thread is really good. I was just wondering have you ever thought about doing a music production course of some kind? Many people find that it gives them a firm step in the...

Hi There, I would have to agree with Dub Fiend; Ableton is the way to go. It gives you alot of options in terms of doing live mixing, FX, mash ups etc. Also if people such as Calvin Harris (I know he's not dubstep) gets bookings left right and centre using it, you know you can't be going wrong. At P...

Sorry to hear that you think its an expensive course. The course is designed to give you a thorough rundown of Dubstep with Ableton. You'll be taught all aspects of Dubstep & Ableton (see previous post with curriculm link) with an industry professional. This in essence means you'll be paying for...

Hi there, Nice to see that there's alot of interest in this thread. I can see that the popularity of using Ableton as a Dj tool is slowly on the rise! As I'm sure you'll agree, in this everchanging industry where the DJ scene is slowly moving away from CDJs/Vinyls it is vital to gain knowledge in th...

Hi, It's nice to see this post generating alot of interest. Ableton seems to be even more popular than i thought! As i'm sure you'll all agree knowledge of both music and software will benefit all of us within our productions. And as there seems to be alot of questions in regards to Dubstep within A...

Hi everyone, We've recently taken the time to re-update the video taster of what's on offer from the Dubstep Course, so now the video features clips from accross the full spectrum of lessons and topics covered on the course. Follow the link below for the taster video and the full course details: htt...

Again let me reiterate a point: What we are offering cannot be gained for free simply by searching the internet...it is true that you can find similar tutorials on the net to those included on the DUbstep Course. BUT what you cannot get for free and that we offer is the opportunity to upload you tra...

Just for an update: We've added a new video to the course page, it should provide a bit of a better insight into what you can expect when enrolling on the Dubstep Course: http://www.pointblankonline.net/dubstep-course-ableton-live.php Also the course starts on 7th June and places are limited and fil...

Just for a bit of an update: I had a talk with the Dubstep Course developer in relation to some of the discussion on this and other forums about the course, and in light of some of the comments on the video which is featured on the course page we've put together another video taster of the course wh...

I think it's a pretty good idea to be honest, but also a lot of the dubstep specific production elements, aren't actually dubstep specific, they would surely be used widely throughout general music production? Yeah that's exactly true! All of the techniques and skills taught on the genre specific c...

Big ups man, I like what you're doing - giving people who wanna be creative and don't know how, a option to learn by professionals! I just plead that you cater all aspects of dubstep and don't get another 1000 filth producers floating around using massive and vengeance sound packs! I can see the po...