Cinematic music production · Ableton Live
After
Bedtime
Big, cinematic music — made in the hours you actually have.
The work
Everything I teach, I use on these.
Not demo loops — finished, released tracks. Every technique in the tutorials and the course exists because it earned its place on one of these.
Cold Harbour
Trailer · 92 BPM · D minor
3:12
The Long Hallway
Cinematic · 74 BPM · F minor
2:48
Nine Weeks of Rain
Ambient score · 60 BPM · A major
4:05
Free on YouTube
The slow, unintimidating way in.
No gear talk, no jargon sprints, no “simply”. Every video assumes you are new, busy and tired — and gets you somewhere anyway.
The course
From nothing to your first finished score.
Six modules in plain language, built around forty-minute evenings. You finish a real, releasable piece of music — not a folder of exercises.
- 01
Open the thing without panicking
What every window does. Nothing else.
- 02
Four chords that sound cinematic
No theory background required.
- 03
Making small sounds feel enormous
Reverb, space and layering with stock devices.
- 04
Rhythm without drums
Pulse, tension and the trailer build.
- 05
Arranging in forty-minute blocks
A system for finishing when time is short.
- 06
Mixing, exporting, releasing
Get it out of your laptop and into the world.
One payment
$149 CAD
Lifetime access, every future update included.
- 6 modules · 4.5 hours of lessons
- Every Ableton project file, unflattened
- Works in Live Intro, Standard or Suite
- Private community · monthly feedback
No subscription. No upsell.
The switch
The kid is down. The mug is empty.
When the house goes quiet, the lights change.
Sounds & tools
The instruments behind the tracks.
Every sample here was recorded or synthesised from scratch — no third-party library material, so you can use it in anything you release, commercially, forever.
Night Textures
Sample pack · 412 sounds
$29
Starter Racks
Ableton racks · stock devices
$19
Lullwave
Plugin · in development
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Who’s teaching
“Whatever you can give this — even forty minutes after bedtime — is enough to get somewhere real.”
I'm not a conservatory graduate and I didn't grow up in a studio. I'm a mum with a job and a young kid, and I write cinematic music in the evenings — because that's the time that exists.
Most production tutorials are made by people with all day and a room full of gear. That wasn't useful to me, so I started making the ones I actually needed: short, plain-spoken, stock devices, no shopping list.
If you've been told you started too late, or that you need to be technical, or that you'd need a proper studio first — you've been told wrong. Here's the shortest path I know.
Claire
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- Beginner Ableton template
- 12 cinematic samples
- First lesson, 18 minutes
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