Com Truise's Writing Lab
Join an intimate group of dedicated musicians for a month-long, project-based course taught and led by the artist Com Truise.
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Course overview
Make better tracks, with feedback & guidance from Com Truise
In this one month long course, we'll get nerdy about warbling synths, retro-sounding drum machines, and how to mix them together to create songs that transport listeners to other worlds.
It's like a small, in-depth, graduate-level college seminar — but the teacher is celebrated electronic artist Com Truise. We'll do weekly Zoom calls, projects, discussions, and more.
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Who is this course for
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Producers and music makers wanting to learn how Com Truise makes music
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People interested in accountability, support, and community
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Musicians wanting to take a significant leap forward with their music
Make Tracks. Get Feedback. Meet People. Level Up.
Go deep into Com Truise's methods with weekly workshops
Com Truise will be leading you through workshops on a weekly basis, exploring different aspects of his craft and helping you with yours. You keep the recordings. Calls will last 1.5 hours, and happen on Wednesdays at 1 pm EST.
Get feedback on your music from Com Truise
At the end of the course, Com Truise will provide a final report and feedback on your tracks to help you grow and level up your music.
Join a supportive peer-community on Discord
You'll be invited to join an exclusive Discord with Com Truise and Soundfly Team members where you can share tracks, ask questions, get support, and much more.
Take on weekly assignments & projects
The best way to learn is to do. Each week during the course, you will have specific assignments, content, and projects to take on. All students will also be given access to all Soundfly courses for the duration of the Lab.
Get more support during weekly project sessions
Join highly qualified Soundfly Team members for weekly open Office Hours where you can get help, ask for clarification, or share work.
Get a certificate at the end
Finish the final project and get a certificate signed by Com Truise affirming your completion of the course — and graduation as a synthwave funk master.
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Meet Your Instructors
Com Truise
Com Truise
Celebrated artist
Seth Haley (aka Com Truise) has been a mainstay of the electronic music scene since his 2011 album Galactic Melt turned heads and melted brains. Known for his evocative music and imaginative space narratives, Com Truise has released multiple highly celebrated albums on Ghostly International, toured the world, created remixes for artists from Daft Punk to Maroon 5, scored ads and films, and much more.
Soundfly
Soundfly
Online Music School
Soundfly makes high-quality online learning experiences, from best-in-class video courses to mentorship and beyond. Subscribe for access to all our courses, including Com Truise: Mid-Fi Synthwave Slow Motion Funk, at Soundfly.com today.
Course syllabus
9 live sessions • 8 lessons • 2 projects
Week 1
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Pre-Lab Survey
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Pre-Workshop Video: The Sound of Sound
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Pre-Workshop Video: Com Truise's Gear
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Video: Creating Nostalgic Patches on the 106
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Video: The ObXa
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Synth Fundamentals Review
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Patch Rebuild: How to Make the Stranger Things Pluck
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Patch Rebuild: How to Make Tycho's Into the Woods Lead
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Week 1 Practice Suggestions
Submit by Jun 5 - ✍️
Week 1 Creative Challenge
Submit by Jun 5
May
31
Synths & Sounds Workshop
Jun
2
Office Hours / Project Work Session 1
Week 1: Synths & Sounds
The focus this week will be on the “Sound of the Sound” and how specific gear can inspire new song or track ideas. Com Truise will walk us through his philosophy on gear, his favorite synths, FX, and their applications. He'll take questions, demonstrate some patch making, talk about some songs, and assign the first project for the course.
Below there are some videos we recommend watching before the workshop on Wednesday. If you've taken Com Truise's course on Soundfly, you've likely already seen them, though it still may be worth watching for review!
Also, if you haven't already please take the course survey before the call if you're able, it's linked below.
Week 2
Jun
7
Drums & Beats Workshop
Jun
9
Optional: Office Hours / Project Work Session 2
Week 2: Drums & Beats
This week we'll focus on on making interesting and retro-futuristic sounding beats and drum patterns. Com Truise will walk us through his process of beat making, looking at drum sound design, his approach to time feel, and methods to make more interesting rhythms.
He'll take some questions and demo some beat-making before spending a little time to review some the last week's projects.
Week 3
Jun
14
Arranging Workshop
Jun
16
Optional: Office Hours / Project Work Session 3
Week 3: Arranging
In this workshop, we will look at how Com Truise puts different pieces of a track together to turn it into a song. We'll explore some of his iconic songs and remixes, and how he approached them – taking questions throughout.
We'll sum up some of the main ideas and challenge you to apply them to your projects.
Week 4
Jun
21
Mixing & Mastering Workshop
Jun
23
Optional: Office Hours / Project Work Session 4
Week 4: Mixing & Mastering
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Week 5
Jun
28
Final "Wrap Party"
Course schedule
4-6 hours per week
Wednesday Workshops
1:00pm - 2:30pm EST
Each week will focus include a workshop and Q&A portion. Workshops will be recorded so you can review afterwards.
Weekly Assignments
2-4 hours a week
After each workshop, you'll receive a series of assignments and activities, including content to check out, songs to listen to, challenges to take on, and a specific project to help you improve.
Discord Community Chat
Ongoing
You can chat with fellow students, Soundfly Team members, and Com Truise at any time on Discord. Com Truise will engage with comments on Discord (but not every single day).
Weekly Project Work Sessions
Timing TBD
Each week, there will be at least one "open time slot" where you'll be invited to work alongside peers and a Soundfly Team member on your projects, so you can ask questions and get help as you go.
Learning is better with cohorts
Active hands-on learning
This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects
Interactive and project-based
You’ll be interacting with other learners through chat groups, project work sessions, and breakout groups
Learn with a cohort of peers
Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you