9 Best Music Production Courses for Beginners
We compared 9 Music Production courses currently listed on Udemy and Coursera, priced from $34.99 to $199.99. 1 comes from a named university or institution, including University of Rochester. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 9
- Price range
- $34.99 – $199.99
- Providers
- Udemy, Coursera
- Last updated
- 18 Sep 2026
How these 9 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Udemy, Coursera, matched to "music production" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $34.99 to $199.99, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Music Production for Beginners | The Beat-making Process
The course walks you through selecting affordable gear and free or low‑cost DAW software, then shows how to build beats, arrange tracks, and apply basic mixing and mastering techniques. You’ll learn to finish a track and...
$34.99listed price -
2
Ableton Fundamentals With TWERL
In this start to finish course, worldwide touring artist TWERL covers everything for a complete beginner. From opening up Ableton for the first time through to completing a full track from start to finish, as well as:50...
$199.99listed price -
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Fundamentals of Audio and Music Engineering: Part 1 Musical Sound & Electronics
Offered by University of Rochester
In this course students learn the basic concepts of acoustics and electronics and how they can applied to understand musical sound and make music with electronic instruments. Topics include: sound waves, musical sound, b...
$49.00listed price -
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Complete Cubase Mastery - from Beginner to Pro in any Genre
From your first tracks to advanced mixing plugins and beyond in Cubase 14, 13, 12, 11, or 10.From beginner to PRO in weeks.14+ hours easy to follow video content packed with insights and practical examplesLifetime-access...
$199.99listed price -
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Adobe Audition CC: The Beginner's Guide to Adobe Audition
Make your audio sound amazing with Adobe Audition CC! If you are looking for an audio editing application that will allow you to record, edit and mix audio like the pros, Adobe Audition is the best answer.Audio Audition...
$199.99listed price -
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Bandlab - A Comprehensive Beginners Course
Unleash your creativity – no experience or fancy gear required! Bandlab is one of the most accessible and inspiring music creation tools ever made, and it’s completely free and operates in the ‘cloud’! Whether you're 9 o...
$49.99listed price -
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Learn Compression: Dynamics Processing for Beginners!
Audio Compressors are crucial to make music loud, while still controlling volume to sit in a controlled, yet musical way.The problem when mixing music without compression is that audio tracks contains loud and quiet part...
$74.99listed price -
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Rekordbox - The ULTIMATE Beginners Course To DJ Software
Learn how to use one of the industries leading DJ Softwares from Ibiza Resident DJ Omar Meho5-Star Reviews 1. RandyOmar has alot of experience as a DJ and a good understanding of the music business side of things. He's h...
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NI Maschine Beginners guide to professional drum patterns
Learn to easily create 3 styles of professional hip hop drum patterns for your instrumentals, all within using your Native Instruments Maschine software alone. I've know known many people who struggled to create a decent...
$39.99listed price
Best Music Production Courses for Beginners compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Music Production for Beginners | The Beat-making Process | Udemy | — | $34.99 | View → |
| 2 | Ableton Fundamentals With TWERL | Udemy | — | $199.99 | View → |
| 3 | Fundamentals of Audio and Music Engineering: Part 1 Musical Sound & El... | Coursera | University of Rochester | $49.00 | View → |
| 4 | Complete Cubase Mastery - from Beginner to Pro in any Genre | Udemy | — | $199.99 | View → |
| 5 | Adobe Audition CC: The Beginner's Guide to Adobe Audition | Udemy | — | $199.99 | View → |
| 6 | Bandlab - A Comprehensive Beginners Course | Udemy | — | $49.99 | View → |
| 7 | Learn Compression: Dynamics Processing for Beginners! | Udemy | — | $74.99 | View → |
| 8 | Rekordbox - The ULTIMATE Beginners Course To DJ Software | Udemy | — | $199.99 | View → |
| 9 | NI Maschine Beginners guide to professional drum patterns | Udemy | — | $39.99 | View → |
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 9 priced courses on this page run from $34.99 to $199.99, with the middle of the range around $74.99 — a spread of $165.00. That is a wide gap for one subject. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from Udemy and Coursera. The platforms differ in how they sell: some charge once per course, others expect a subscription, and the listed price is not always what you pay at checkout after a promotion. 1 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including University of Rochester — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
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