If Ableton Live has ever felt confusing, overwhelming or too technical, Ableton Accelerator changes that fast. 4 unique frameworks, developed over 10 years teaching Ableton Live at universities across the UK and with thousands of students online at Push Patterns, built to help you create professional sounding music fast.
Taught by Craig Lowe 10 years teaching Ableton Live at UK universities
14 day money back guarantee. If it's not for you, ask for a refund. No drama.
$29 one time. Lifetime access. Pay in 3 available at checkout.
The mechanism
How it works
The course is built on one mechanism, the Repeatable Finish Workflow: capture the idea, build it out, arrange it, rough mix it, finish the track. Here's what that looks like for you.
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Follow the build
6 modules, 9 short lessons, just over 3 hours total. You build a real track alongside me from the first lesson. Every lesson gives you one clear job.
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Use the frameworks
4 unique frameworks handle the parts that normally stall people: drums, chords, arrangement and mixing. PDF guides and checklists tell you what to do, when you've done enough, and when to move on.
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Export and repeat
You finish with a professional sounding track and a format you can reuse. Next weekend, new track, same workflow. It gets faster every time.
What's inside
The 4 frameworks inside
These are the exact systems I've refined over 10 years of teaching. Each one removes a place where beginners normally get stuck.
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The 3 Part Drum Framework
A simple way to programme drums in any genre, so you get a beat moving without staring at an empty clip. You'll never open Ableton and wonder where the kick goes again.
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The 4 Step Chord System
A clear way to write chord progressions in Ableton, no theory needed. You don't read music. You follow 4 steps and out comes something musical.
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The Destination First Arrangement Method
Map the track before you arrange it, so you know where it's going before you start moving clips around. This is the one that turns loops into finished songs.
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Top Down Mixing
Group, balance and export your track so it sounds finished enough to share. Not a mastering degree. A rough mix that holds together.
And running through all of it: the Eight Track Rule. It keeps the project small enough to finish, because most tracks don't die from lack of ideas. They die from too many.
$29 one time. Lifetime access. Pay in 3 available at checkout.
Students on camera
From inside the course
"You can just hit the ground running. You're not drowning in the nitty gritty. It really gets you from blank page to arrangement really quick."
Robbie Sko/// Ableton Accelerator student
"It's less like a manual. It's easier to learn when it's relevant to what you're trying to do. There was enough for me to make something without getting bogged down in technicalities."
David Spilsbury/// Broadcast engineer /// Ableton Accelerator student
Everything included
What you get
6 focused modules
9 short lessons
3+ hours of lessons
4 unique frameworks
A finished professional sounding track
No music theory or previous production experience required
PDF guides and checklists for every stage
Lifetime access, including updates
Saturday morningSunday night
The curriculum
6 modules /// 9 short lessons /// 1 finished track
Module 1
Setup
Get Ableton configured properly... the right audio settings, buffer size, and a saving system so you never lose work. The boring bits, done once, never again.
Module 2The 3 Part Drum Framework
Building The Beat
Piano Roll + Beat Making Basics. Load a kit, draw your first pattern, and humanise it so it sounds professional rather than robotic.
Genre Drum Programming. Real patterns across House, Techno, UK Garage, Hip Hop and Trap, with a PDF of tempos and swing settings for each genre.
Module 3The 4 Step Chord System
Chord Creation
Chord Creation. Build professional chord progressions with no theory degree, using Ableton's scale tools.
Creating Chord Progressions. Put the system to work across 5 progressions, so you can take a chord progression from almost any song, in any key, and make it your own.
Bassline Creation. Turn your chords into a bassline in under 5 minutes... root notes, the right octave, tone and rhythm.
Module 4
Working With Splice
Layer up the track with percussion, a synth, atmosphere and a vocal chop using Search by Sound. Learn the gain staging habit that keeps levels healthy, and learn when to stop.
Module 5The Destination First Arrangement Method
Destination First
Turn your loops into a complete arrangement. Decide where the track is going, build backwards towards it, and use automation to keep the energy moving. A beginning, a middle and an end, not an 8 bar loop on repeat.
Module 6Top Down Mixing
Finish It
Rebalance the mix, build a simple master chain with EQ, compression and a limiter, then export as WAV and MP3. A finished track out of Ableton, ready to share with the world.
Included free
Plus 5 bonuses to make the workflow faster
Chord Sequence PDF
Professional chord progressions you can copy, adapt and build from. No staring at a blank MIDI clip.
Genre Drum Pattern PDF
Drum patterns across different genres. Copy the rhythm, then make it yours.
Ableton Drift Preset Pack
Usable sounds from a synth that comes with Ableton Live. No extra plugins to buy.
Destination First Blueprint PDF
A printable arrangement guide. Map the track on paper before you get lost inside Ableton.
Free Plugins and Sample Packs List
A short, trusted list to expand your setup without spending more money or falling into plugin overload.
Before you decide
The 3 things people ask first
"I don't have enough time."
That's why it's built around a weekend. Just over 3 hours of lessons, and each one gives you one clear job. You're not signing up for a huge course. You're setting aside a weekend to finish 1 track.
"I don't know any music theory."
You don't need any. The 4 Step Chord System shows you how to make chords and basslines inside Ableton without reading a note of music.
"I start courses and never finish them."
Same. This one is short by design. It doesn't teach everything in Ableton, deliberately, because more information usually means less finished music. 9 short lessons, 1 result: finish the track. Go deeper later. First, finish something. It's the only course I've built that's meant to be completed in a weekend.
$29 one time. Lifetime access. Pay in 3 available at checkout.
14 day money back guarantee
If you're not entirely happy with the course, I'll just give you your money back. I just want you to make more music.
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Who's teaching you
I'm Craig. I teach Ableton Live for a living.
Not as a side hustle. As an actual job. I've taught Ableton Live at universities across the UK for 10 years... ICMP, BIMM, ACM and more, as a course tutor and module leader. Some of those courses had pass rates around 90%.
Outside the classroom I've used Ableton professionally for over a decade. Touring, playback for live shows, and 2 prime time US Fox TV game shows.
And for the last 5+ years I've been teaching online at Push Patterns, where thousands of students have learned Ableton Live and Push 3. They've left us a 4.7 star rating on Trustpilot.
Here's what all that teaching showed me. The people who finish music regularly aren't more talented. They have a workflow. They get the idea down, then they know how to move it forward.
My university students had no production experience and no theory, but still had to make tracks quickly. They didn't need more information. They needed a simple order to follow.
So I built one. Ableton Accelerator takes the way professional producers finish music fast and breaks it down into a workflow anyone can follow. You're not finishing one track. You're learning the start of a workflow you can build on.
Real students
What students say about learning with Push Patterns
You can find parts of it on YouTube. That's usually the problem. The parts are everywhere. This course puts the process in order, so you're building a track instead of collecting tips. I say this as someone who puts a lot of Ableton content on YouTube.
I've never produced music before. Will I keep up?
Yes. The course is built for people starting from zero. You follow the process step by step, and every lesson tells you when you've done enough to move on.
What do I need?
Ableton Live 12 Standard or Suite, a computer, and a Splice account. Intro and Lite work for everything except the mastering section at the end, which uses EQ Eight and a couple of other stock devices those editions don't include. There are free VST alternatives, and I list them in the course. No extra hardware, no theory knowledge, no previous production experience.
Do I need Splice?
Yes. The course uses Splice to build the track out, through the Ableton integration. There's a 7 day free trial, which covers the whole course. Every sample you download during the trial is yours to keep, and you can subscribe afterwards if you want to.
Am I too old to start?
This course isn't built for teenagers chasing trends. It's built for people who want a calm, practical way to learn Ableton and finish music around real life. One of our students is 70 and making beats. Her grandkids can't believe it either.
What if it's not for me?
14 day money back guarantee. Reach out, get a refund, no drama.
How long do I get access?
Lifetime. Grab it now, start whenever suits you.
Last thing
If you've been meaning to finish a track, now's the time.
You don't need more tutorials. You don't need more time than you've got. You need a workflow, a weekend, and $29.
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