Getting Started with Pro Tools
With Anthony Falcone, for LANDR Courses — the same subject as the books, in the format that replaced them.
The same job, four formats later
Teaching somebody Pro Tools has now been, for me, a boxed DVD set, a subscription website, two books, and a streaming course on a platform that started life as an automated mastering service.
The delivery keeps changing and the actual problem does not move at all. A beginner opening a digital audio workstation for the first time is not confused by the software. They are confused about what a recording is — what a track is, why there is a difference between what they played and what got captured, and which of the four hundred visible controls they are allowed to ignore for now. Every format I have taught this in has failed in the same place, which is starting with the interface instead of with that.
Related
Gibson’s Learn & Master Guitar is where instructional production started; the GRAMMY Foundation curricula are the non-commercial version of the same work.