9 chapters, 42 short lessons and 85 patterns you play on a grid. Learn how music is put together, one idea at a time. No DAW, no instrument, and it works on your phone.
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Tap play. Move one kick. Hear the groove change. That pattern is card 1 of 85.
You love music and want to know how tracks are built. Start from nothing; every idea arrives with something to play.
Describe the beat you want in the words producers use, and get prompts that land closer to the sound in your head.
A course that runs in any browser, with nothing to install, and a free first unit the whole class can start today.
And at the end, the capstone: pick a purpose and build a full track from your crate.
9 chapters · 42 lessons · 85 cards · a project after each
Time is a grid that repeats. A drum beat of your own, built on the grid.
Cards: Four-on-the-floor, Backbeat, Off-beat hats, Eighth-note hats, Sixteenth-note hats
Why the same pattern can feel stiff or alive. Beats that groove: swung, syncopated and alive.
Project: Make it walk. Give one beat three feels: a walk, a strut and a rush.
Cards: Half-time, Boom bap, Trap hats, Shuffle, Two-step, Dembow, Breakbeat, Ghost-note groove, Drum fill
The first notes with pitch. A beat with a bass line that locks to the kick.
Project: Beat and bass. Add a bass line to your beat and make it heavier without adding drums.
Cards: Root-note bass, Off-beat bass, Octave bass, Walking bass, 808 slide, Pedal note
Mood without music theory. A full loop with chords that set a mood.
Project: A loop with a mood. Drums, bass and chords for one mood.
Cards: Pop loop, Sad loop, Two-chord vamp, Andalusian descent, Jazz turn, Twelve-bar blues, Long pad, Off-beat stabs, Strummed eighths
The part people hum. A hook of your own over your loop.
Project: Write a hook. Write something on your loop that someone could hum after one listen.
Cards: Hook, Riff, Arpeggio, Call and response, Question and answer, Idea, repeat, continue, Counter-melody, Climbing line
The words for vocals, not singing lessons. A loop arranged around a vocal.
Project: Room for a singer. Clear space for a voice in your hook loop and choose its voice cards.
Cards: Choir “ooh”, Chopped vocal, Backing harmonies, Rap verse, Whispered vocal, Belted vocal, Auto-tuned vocal, Instrumental
From a loop to a song. A whole song, from intro to ending.
Project: Your song. Combine your loops into a 2–3 minute song with a build and a bigger last chorus.
Cards: Build-up, The drop, Breakdown, Verse and chorus, Pre-chorus lift, Bridge, Cold open, DJ intro, Silence before the drop, Key change, Fade-out
Not what plays, but what plays it and how it sounds. The same track dressed three ways.
Project: One song, three rooms. Make one track sound like a small club, a cathedral and a bedroom at 3 a.m.
Cards: Acoustic kit, 808 kit, Lo-fi kit, Electronic kit, Piano, Rhodes, Warm pad, Pluck, Strings, Guitar, Bell, Reverb wash, Echo delay, Sidechain pump, Filter sweep, Vinyl crackle, Tape warmth
A style is a familiar combination of cards you mostly own. Two remixes of your song in different styles.
Project: Two remixes. Move your song into two styles and decide what to keep.
Cards: House, Techno, Lo-fi hip hop, Boom bap, Trap, Pop, R&B, UK garage, Drum & bass, Reggaeton, Amapiano, Ambient
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Most music courses start with software: menus, plug-ins, a manual. We think music starts with patterns. A kick on every beat, a bass in the gaps, a chord that sounds like Sunday morning. Learn their names and how they fit, and any tool makes sense.
Swung is new, so there are no reviews yet. That’s why the whole of Unit 1 is free: play it, and decide. If you have a question first, write to support@swung.app.
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No DAW and no instrument: everything plays in your browser. Headphones help you hear the bass, but phone speakers work for every lesson.
Yes. Every lesson, grid and project works in a phone browser. Turn the sound up and tap play.
Your card is charged $59 for the year on the day the trial ends, unless you cancel before. The exact date is shown before you start and on your account page. The trial is for the yearly plan, once per person.
Open your account, choose Manage billing and cancel: two clicks, no email needed. You keep the full course until the end of the period you paid for. Within 14 days of any payment, write to support@swung.app and we refund it in full.
A launch offer for the first 500 members: one payment of $99 for the full course, including every chapter added later, for as long as Swung runs. Nothing renews. When the places are gone, it’s gone.
Everything that is free stays free: the pattern dictionary, the genre pages, the beat maker and Unit 1. Your progress stays saved.
Yes. Each lesson gives you the words producers use for what you hear: the pattern’s name, its tempo, its instruments. Put those in a prompt and you get much closer to the track in your head.
Yes. The free parts need no account, so a class can start at once. For a group plan, write to support@swung.app.
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