Learning Music is a new, interactive website that helps you learn the basics of music making – beats, melodies, basslines, chords, and song structure – right in your browser. It’s now available in English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Dutch and Italian.
You can even export the music you make on the web as an Ableton Live Set, so you can take your music further.
Learning Music is free, there’s nothing to install, it works on any internet-connected device, and you’ll be creating your own musical ideas right away.
Another fun thing you can do from here is you can use the drum machine on that site to learn things not in there if you’re cool with the sounds.
Go on YouTube and look up things like “beginner drum beats,” “lofi drum beats,” “90s boom bap drum beats” or whatever your taste is and try to recreate them on the drum machine. I was just doing this the other night on my hardware drum machine. It gives your a quick feeling of success to make the kind of thing you want to make, or at least you can relate to. Here is a simple and well explained video I watched and copied all the patterns he showed.