Get Live and Push set up in your organization, use ready-made resources to prepare engaging lessons, plus share ideas with other teachers.
Classroom projects
Show learners how to make their own music, and explore music fundamentals and production through a growing collection of classroom projects. Designed by experienced music teachers, each project can be adapted to your learners’ needs and includes lesson plans, activities and supporting learning resources.
First Steps with Ableton Live
Modern musical artists are drawn to Ableton Live for its flexibility and the creative possibilities it offers in the studio and on the stage. This project introduces two formative concepts of Ableton Live to students as they explore music-making within Session View and Arrangement View.
Keywords: Composition, Performance, Audio Editing, Production
Making Music from Found Sounds
Music concrète to hip hop, electronic to pop, artists have been sampling the sounds around them for decades. In this project, students get hands-on experience in recording, sound design and composition using the sounds of their everyday lives.
Keywords: Recording, Sound Design, Composition
Creating a Soundtrack
For the beginner musician, the music they hear and experience when watching films can be truly formative. In this project, students learn about soundtracks and compose their own using the included cinematic samples and instruments.
Keywords: Film Music, Composition, Performance
Theory Hacks
Many producers struggle with music theory. In this module, we make concepts like chords and scales intuitive using the MIDI keyboard, Push, and Live’s MIDI devices.
Keywords: Composition, Performance, Theory
The Art of the Mashup
A mashup combines disparate songs from a variety of genres to create a new single musical work. In this project students learn about mashups, then create and perform their own using included songs.
Keywords: Mashup, Sampling, Performance, Copyright
More activities
Looking for ideas how to kickstart your lessons with Live? Elevate your curriculum with short exercises crafted by educators for educators. Each activity comes with ready-to-use resources like Live Set templates, teacher guides, and step-by-step instructions.
Have you used these resources in your teaching? Send your feedback to classroom@ableton.com
Online interactive learning
Teach the building blocks of music and synthesis with these free-to-use online tools.
Learning Music
Teach the fundamentals of music-making – beats, melodies, harmonies, basslines, and song structure – with this interactive website.
Learning Synths
Students can learn the fundamentals of synthesis by designing their own sounds with this powerful online synthesizer.
Learning Live and Push
Learn the fundamentals of Live and Push, and find out more about the features, workflows and music-making techniques they make possible.
Learn Push
Get to know the different music-making elements Push puts at your fingertips. Choose topics you’d like to learn or watch them in order – they’ll take you from setting up your Push through to in-depth sampling techniques.
Community support
Get advice and support from other teachers using Live and Push in their classrooms.
Facebook group
Make new connections in the Ableton for the Classroom Facebook group – exclusively for educators who use Live and Push in their teaching. Teachers of all levels of experience share tips, ideas, resources and knowledge around teaching with Live and Push, and music education more broadly.
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Events
Ableton for the Classroom participants can attend events to share ideas, upskill and meet other music educators. You can find out about upcoming events in the Ableton for the Classroom Facebook group, or in our regular newsletter to educators.
Technical support
A selection of articles from our Knowledge Base that offer guidance on how to get Live and Push up and running on your organization’s computers.
General Information
Installing and authorizing Live without an IT deployment system
- Installing and authorizing Live for a single user on a computer
- Authorizing Live for all users on Windows
- Authorizing Live for all users on Mac
Installing and authorizing Live with an IT deployment system
Setting up Push
Push 3
- Getting Started with Push 3 FAQ
- Push Minimum System Requirements
- Push 3 Technical FAQ
- Setting Up Push 3
Push 2
Setting up Move
Need help?
For more product support visit the Knowledge Base.
Contact our technical support team with any questions you have about how to install and maintain Live and Push.