LinkedIn Learning, formerly Lynda.com, is a great resource for Audio and Video Recording Room patrons. LinkedIn Learning allows library card holders to access a vast amount of courses, including many related to recording, editing and photography taught by recognized industry experts. And, you can learn at your own pace!
Be sure to log in with your library card to access the following courses free of charge!
Learn a new software
Ableton Live 12 Essential Training, opens a new window: Learn setup, core workflows, recording and editing, effects, automation and file management.
Topics include:
- Set up your system and use the Ableton Live user interface.
- Learn how to work with the browser, the Arrangement view and the Session view.
- Discover how to use the MIDI Editor.
- Learn how to record and edit audio.
- Describe how to work with arrangements.
- Explore Live plug-ins and effects racks.
- Find out how to use the live mixer and mapping controls to hardware devices.
- Learn how to automate graphics, editing and clips, including real-time automation.
- Obtain practical advice from the instructor on managing your files.
Learning Adobe Audition: Core tools and workflows to help creators produce professional-quality audio.
Topics include:
- Recording, editing and mixing audio of all kinds.
- Outlines key features and processes
- An ideal fit for podcasters, audio producers and video producers
Learning Audacity, opens a new window: Record live audio, edit sound files, change the speed or pitch of a recording and more.
Topics include:
- Downloading and installing Audacity
- Importing audio
- Setting up hardware to record
- Recording two tracks simultaneously
- Basic editing and common effects
- Splitting clips
- Exporting a project
- Inserting silence
- Bleeping unwanted words and sounds
Premiere Pro Essential Training: Learn the essentials of Adobe Premiere Pro.
Topics include:
- Importing and organizing media in Adobe Premiere Pro
- Editing video and audio
- Building a project from start to finish
- Color correction
- Adding titles and visual effects
- Applying creative and technical editing techniques
- Understanding foundational video editing workflows
Producing a Podcast, opens a new window: Learn about recording and editing clean audio takes, and building an audience.
Topics covered:
- Podcast planning and format development
- Choosing and purchasing recording equipment
- Setting up a recording environment
- Recording clean, high-quality audio
- Editing podcast episodes
- Publishing and distributing episodes
- Growing and engaging an audience
- Building a podcast community
Introduction to Photography, opens a new window: Designed strictly for beginners.
Topics covered:
- Exploring cameras and lenses
- Understanding media
- Controlling exposure
- Composing with autofocus
- Shooting portraits
- Understanding form and geometry
- Exporting and editing digital images
Learning Studio Lights and Flash Lighting, opens a new window: Learn essential studio lighting techniques, including flashes, strobes and lighting setups.
Topics covered:
- Fundamentals of studio lighting for beginners
- Types of artificial light: speedlights and studio strobes
- Setting up continuous lighting
- Understanding lighting ratios
- Using on-camera flash effectively
- Improving photos with external speedlights
Learn to play an instrument
Beginning Acoustic Guitar Music Lessons, opens a new window: Learn how to hold the instrument, play with a pick, count time, read music, and play simple chords.
Topics Covered:
- Styles of acoustic guitar masters
- Getting to know your tools
- Tuning
- Strumming
- Reading music
- Playing chords
- Flatpicking and fingerpicking
- Music theory
- Switching chords
- Understanding musical expression, phrasing, and dynamics
Piano Lessons: 1 Fundamentals, opens a new window: Learn fundamentals like reading sheet music, finger placement, and posture, playing melody and rhythm.
Topics Covered:
- Learning a song
- Practicing piano
- Understanding the keys: middle C, flats, sharps, and octaves
- Sight-reading music
- Playing melody or treble clef with the right hand
- Playing rhythm or bass clef with the left hand
- Combining hands
- Playing songs in different tempos
Ukulele Lessons: Fundamentals: Learn chords, music notation and music theory.
Topics Covered:
- Reading tablature
- Changing chords
- Navigating a musical map
- Strum patterns
- Adding percussion with mute strokes
- Using movable chords
- Transposing the blues and the minor pentatonic scale
- Fingerpicking
Electric Bass Lesson: Fundamentals: Learn style, tunings and the basics of playing bass guitar.
Topics Covered:
- Choosing a bass
- Right-hand and left-hand basics
- Slap and pop
- Breaking down a lick
- Playing in time
- Locking with the bass drum
- Playing in different styles
- Using an amp
- Changing strings
- Tuning
Drum Set Lessons: On the Beaten Path: Learn how to play the drums using popular drum beats and fills.
Topics Covered:
- Setting up your drums
- Basic hand and foot technique
- Reading music
- Playing basic beat and fills in a variety of styles
- Playing in 3/4, 5/4, and 7/8 time and more
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