Learn to produce your sound.
Personalised one-to-one Ableton Live lessons for every experience level, built around the music you want to make. Live on Zoom, from wherever you're based.
I've been teaching Ableton Live and electronic music production one to one since 2012. Every lesson starts from where you are: your genre, your goals, and the track you're stuck on right now.
Tutorials are made for nobody in particular. They can't see your project, they don't know which bit you're stuck on, and three videos on sidechain compression will give you three different answers. In a lesson we open your actual session, I hear what you're trying to make, and we work on the thing you need next.
After 11,000 hours of one to one lessons, the thing I'm surest of is that no two people learn the same way. Some want to understand why something works before they touch it. Others need their hands on the controls and learn by breaking things. Some arrive with a folder of reference tracks, others with a feeling they can't quite put into words.
Everyone brings different inspiration and different goals, too: a first finished track, a release on a label you love, a live set, or making music purely for the joy of it.
Reading that is where I'm strongest. From the first session I'm working out how you learn, what lights you up and what's getting in your way, and then I adapt to you: what we cover, the order we cover it in, and how I explain it. Your lessons are built for you, and they keep changing as you do.
We talk about where you are, the music you want to make and what's getting in the way.
A course, a few sessions, or my honest advice that you don't need lessons yet.
90 minutes, screen share and audio routed so I hear exactly what you hear. Like sitting next to me in the studio.
All one to one, all online, all tailored. Not sure which fits? Compare them on the lessons page or ask me on a free call.
£799
12 sessions
For complete beginners. If you have never opened Ableton Live, or you opened it, panicked and closed it again, start here.
£1,999
32 sessions
Ableton Live properly, genre-focused production, sound design and mixing, structured around your goals.
£360
5 sessions
Bring a specific problem, a half-finished track, or a list of things that have been bugging you, and we work through them.
From£550
a day, plus travel outside Lisbon
Wherever you are, I'll come to you. A few days, six hours a day, in your own studio on your own gear.
Whichever you choose, every session is fully bespoke. No two people learn the same way, so the course follows you: how you learn, what inspires you and where you want to get to.
I'm a producer and former DJ. Before starting Decloak Music in Manchester in 2014, I spent a decade playing across the UK with Micron, Manchester's long-running house and techno collective.
I started teaching Ableton Live one to one in 2012, and I've now taught over 11,000 hours of lessons: in Manchester, in Berlin, and online to students all over the world. House and techno are home turf, but I teach every electronic genre, from drum and bass and garage to ambient.
My approach starts with you: how you learn, what inspires you and where you want to get to. From there we make music from the very first session, keep it fun, and focus on finishing tracks.
In a little over 6 months Jack has taken me from being literally scared of the german spreadsheet looking Ableton to be able to produce a full track start to finish. I had literally zero previous experience before
Jacks the best around. He’s taken me from never touching Ableton to having tracks singed in 6 month. Guys a genius.
Was trying to teach myself how to use Abelton on YouTube for way too long and just getting frustrated with it, I booked 10 hours with Jack after a friend’s reccomendation and I’m at the point where I can finish tracks and have fun with it. I’ll be reccomending him to friends in the future.
Signed tracks, radio plays, Boiler Room sets and label releases from people I've taught.
I'm recording a series of pre-recorded courses that go deeper into Ableton Live, at your own pace, with the same approach I bring to one to one lessons. Join the waitlist and get 50% off when they launch.
Thirty minutes, one to one. Ask anything, talk through your goals and see how lessons work. No pressure, no obligation.
