Your first month inside the Dojo is on me. Full access, no catch. If it’s not for you, walk away. I only ask that you show up.
Card at signup. Nothing gets charged until day 31. Cancel anytime, one click.
Your bookmarks folder has 847 YouTube tutorials. You’ve watched maybe 30. None of them connected.
You make music alone. You send tracks to one friend who half-listens. Nobody’s really checking your work.
You had a good week in January. It’s April now. Your last finished track was three months ago.
You know you’re better than a beginner. But every course and every sample pack still treats you like one, and you still feel stuck.
That’s what the Dojo is for.
The Dojo is the community I built around the mission to launch 1,000 music careers.
The Weekly Download is the library. 400+ classes covering sound design, arrangement, philosophy, history, interviews, every topic you could ask for. Every episode ships with ill.Gates’ session file. Open it, teleport into his DAW, get your hands dirty.
Live feedback every week. You show up, you get notes, you keep moving.
This is the home base I wish I’d had coming up.
The same “5 Phases” workflow ill.Gates taught Apashe, Mr. Bill, Eprom, G Jones, and Illenium. Phase 3 alone is worth signing up for. It’s a huge, immediate advantage over 90% of your competition.
ill.Gates went from nothing to beating full-time professional mastering engineers, and he’ll teach you to do the same. His “Dry Mixing” system is so simple and effective you’ll be shocked by the results right away.
ill.Gates’ classic technique that took over the world. Taught in nearly every music production program. It started with samplers and has now expanded to wavetables that come stock with Serum. He’s in the manual.
ill.Gates learned to code so he could build an app that automates all the boring sample prep tasks that kill your sessions. His app, 128s, does a day of prep work in under a minute. It’s insane.
Did you know ill.Gates is also the creator of the famous “Mudpies” resampling technique? His classic workflow is now a staple of production education systems worldwide.
Clarify and communicate what makes you and your music truly special.
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Your free month gives you the entire Dojo. After day 31, it’s $49/mo. Same access, no reshuffling.
20 years · 60+M streams · 275 tracks · 1,000+ shows
My name is ill.Gates and I’m like the opposite of a Gatekeeper. Unlocking and sharing musical secrets is what I do.
I’ve racked up 58 million plays on over 300 songs, including collaborations with the winners of 10 Grammys, and made music for Star Wars and GTA5. My past students and collaborators include Apashe, G Jones, Illenium, Mr. Bill, Beats Antique, Eprom, Pretty Lights, Daily Bread, and Dr Fresch. Grammy nominee Damian Taylor (producer of Bjork, The Prodigy, The Killers, and Arcade Fire) even used my Moog sub multisamples on all his Grammy-nominated albums.
I’ve been DJing since I was 13. Performing is what I do. What I’ve always done. What I will never stop doing. Music runs through my veins. It’s what fuels me. 1,000+ shows on 5 continents, still slayin’ it on the daily.
I also teach. Built the world’s first Ableton DJ Templates in 2006. Invented ‘Mudpies’ in 2008. Built ‘128s’ in 2010. Founded Producer Dojo in 2016 with one mission: launch 1,000 music careers. 300+ consecutive weeks of live classes since. No breaks. No vacations. Guest lectures at Berklee College of Music, NYU, the Ableton Education Summit, and Ableton’s ‘One Thing’. Over 1,000 producers trained. My 128s-style wavetables ship with Serum 2, the world’s most popular synth.
I spent 20 years designing the Dojo to be the most engaging, most effective, and most efficient home base for producers. The place I wish I’d had coming up.
I’ve worked with the best of the best, and I saw where the rest went astray. I studied both failure and success, tested method after method, and built this community in collaboration with real musicians just like you.
Now it’s your turn.
“The Weekly Download video library that ill.Gates has been building for years… revolutionize the way I approach sound selection, composition, arrangement and engineering. I learned how to organize my sounds, prepare my tools and separate my time to maximize my efficiency.”— Trap Jesus
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Card at signup. Nothing charged until day 31. $49/mo after.
Same access as the free trial. Pay month to month.
Renews annually. After year one, rolls to $125/mo. Same benefits, monthly billing.
Show up. Watch the classes. Do the assignments. If 30 days in, the Dojo isn’t delivering what I promised, email support and get every dollar back. No phone calls. No hassle. No weird cancellation hoops.
And the first month is free anyway. Cancel before day 31 and you’re never charged.
The only risk is staying stuck.
Show up. Try it. If it’s not your thing, cancel before day 31. You’re never charged. You keep what you downloaded. We stay friends.
P.S. The Dojo is what I wish I’d had when I was coming up. No gatekeeping. No “someday.” The first month is free because I want you to see for yourself.
See you in the Dojo.
