No more stacking processors blindly
Hear what each stage changes before you add another EQ, clipper or distortion.
Uptempo · Hardcore · Frenchcore · FL Studio
Step by step from the FL Studio basics to a finished Uptempo, Hardcore or Frenchcore track, including a full 9+ hour track build. For producers who can make a loud kick but can’t make the whole track work yet.
No more copying kick chains you don’t understand.
Get the program · €299.99Bi-weekly feedback from me and Pro Membership (The Forge Pro + community) included for 12 months.
5.0 on Google · 180 reviews1,094 producers in the community · 1,450+ students trained
Sound familiar?
You spent hours on the kick. More distortion. Another EQ. Another clipper. The waveform looks like a brick and it still doesn’t feel right.
Then the screeches, vocals and effects come in. Everything fights for space and the mix sounds like one big angry washing machine.
So you turn things up. That makes it louder, not better. And the next tutorial shows another kick chain, but never how it fits in a full track.
Most of the time the kick isn’t the real problem. It’s not knowing what each step does, and how the kick fits with everything else.
The real problem
A kick chain without the explanation. A preset without the thinking. One technique without the rest of the track. You end up with lots of information and no idea how it fits together.
Follow the lesson and hear what each step changes.
See the routing, processing and settings instead of copying a blurry plugin window.
The 9+ hour build connects kicks, screeches, vocals, arrangement and mix.
Use it before you move on. Watching at double speed is not a production method.
I tell you what works, what doesn’t and what I’d change next.
Lesson → FL Studio files → complete track → your music → feedback
What changes
Hear what each stage changes before you add another EQ, clipper or distortion.
Keep the tok, punch and tail strong next to screeches, vocals and effects.
The full build shows why a choice early in the project changes the final mix.
Follow arrangement, transitions, mixing and mastering all the way to a finished track.
Use them as a starting point, then change them because you know why they sound the way they do.
Inside the course
Learn the mixer, piano roll, playlist, routing and workflow first, so the heavier sound design makes sense later.
Watch one track go from the first idea to the final master, and see how each decision connects.
Build useful sounds and understand the synth, instead of scrolling through presets and hoping.
Control the tok, punch, tail, distortion and final level across Uptempo, Hardcore and Frenchcore.
Build aggressive sounds that support the track without covering up the kick.
Balance the full track, keep the kick powerful and make a final version that still works outside your studio.
17 focused kick lessons
Learn each style, hear what every step changes and make the result fit your own track.
Use them as starting points, then learn how to change them and why they sound the way they do.
The goal is to understand the sound well enough that you don’t depend on presets.
10 chapters · more than nine hours
A kick tutorial can sound impressive while the rest of the project is conveniently silent. This build shows what happens when everything has to work together.
See the track grow from the first idea to the master: sound choices, arrangement, transitions, mixing and final corrections.
The exact ten chapter titles are available in the course dashboard.
See it before you buy
Register for free and look around the same dashboard students use.
No carefully edited three-minute preview that avoids showing the course.

Included for 12 months
A lesson shows how I fixed my project. Feedback shows what’s happening in yours.
Bring the weak kick, the screech that takes over, the section that won’t move or the master that sounds completely different in the car.
I’ll tell you:
You also hear feedback on other producers’ tracks, so you start recognizing the same problems in your own music.
Is this for you?
One payment. Clear access.
The program teaches you to finish the track. The Forge is where the release plan, the artwork and the links live once a track is ready.
After the first year, Pro Membership is optional at €19.99/month and keeps the community and bi-weekly feedback sessions going. If you don’t continue, The Forge Pro, the community and the feedback sessions end. Your course, project files and presets stay yours.
What the memberships include →
Your teacher
I’m Steven. I’ve produced Hardstyle, Hardcore and Uptempo for more than 20 years, released over 50 tracks, made two albums and played more than 200 shows in over 20 countries, including Defqon.1.
I know what it’s like to spend hours on a kick, add more processing and somehow end up further from the sound you wanted.
This program teaches what to listen for, why a change works and how every part fits inside the complete track. Then I listen to your music and help you use the same thinking.
20+ years producing · 50+ releases · 2 albums · Millions of streams · 200+ shows
1,094 producers in the community · 1,450+ students trained




Choose how you learn
Same categories, side by side. Compare the order, the files and how feedback reaches you.
Before you start
Yes. The first 20 lessons cover the mixer, piano roll, playlist, routing and basic workflow. Start at lesson one and follow the order.
No. Skip what you know. Most of the program is kick design, sound design, mixing and a complete 9+ hour track build.
Yes. The lessons and teaching files are made for FL Studio. Many ideas transfer to other DAWs, but I only recommend joining if you use FL Studio.
Some sound-design lessons and the 112 included kick presets use Serum 2. The rest of the production process is still useful without those files.
No. The program includes stock-plugin-only kick training. Some lessons use Serum 2 or other third-party tools.
Go at your own pace. Access is for life, so there’s no deadline. Bi-weekly feedback runs for 12 months, so that’s the year to send me your music.
All 86 lessons, FL Studio teaching files, 112 Serum 2 kick presets, teaching presets, future updates and lifetime bonuses.
Pro Membership becomes optional at €19.99/month and keeps the bi-weekly feedback sessions going. Without it, The Forge Pro, the community and the feedback sessions end. Your program and teaching files stay yours. See the memberships.
If the program is genuinely different from this page, email within 14 days. We refund the payment and remove access. Full terms apply.
Email within seven days to switch between Hardstyle, Uptempo & Hardcore and Music Theory for the same purchase amount. This is a program swap.
You can. The paid program adds one complete order, FL Studio files, the 9+ hour build and bi-weekly feedback on your music.
Choose this one for Uptempo, Hardcore and Frenchcore. Choose Hardstyle for Hardstyle and Rawstyle melodies, leads, screeches and kicks.
You pay once and you own it. The lessons, the FL Studio projects and the presets stay yours for life, and nothing renews. The price also covers a full year of bi-weekly feedback on your own tracks, which is the part that actually moves you forward. If you would rather spread it, Klarna splits it into 3 × €99.99.
Yes. Klarna splits the program into 3 × €99.99, interest-free, in eligible EU countries. You get the same program and the same access. The Klarna option sits on this page and again at the checkout.
You don’t need it in week one. Week one is lessons and feedback. The Forge is there for the moment a track is finished and you want to release it, with the release plan, the artwork and the links in one place. It is included for 12 months either way.
Yes. Tell me what you make, which DAW you use and where you’re stuck.
Or send me a WhatsApp: +1 (949) 228-0329
Your next studio session
Finish the Uptempo or Hardcore track you started.
Follow the lessons. Open the FL Studio files. Watch the complete 9+ hour build and use every part in your own music. Then send it to bi-weekly feedback.
86 lessons · 31+ hours · 17 kick lessons · 112 Serum 2 kick presets
Bi-weekly feedback and Pro Membership (The Forge Pro + community) included for 12 months
€299.99
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