PRICING INFO

Organizations: Starting at $150 /per workshop

Individuals: Private Lessons starting at $95 per 1 hour Songwriting & Recording lesson. Packages available. Private Lessons to take place at our Hudson Valley Afterschool Program Location

Music Production Costs (includes editing, mixing, mastering engineer services) Starting at $250 per song

AVAILABLE FORMATS

• 5 Week Residency to Full Year Programming

• ESY (Extended School Year)

• After School Programs

• Private Lessons

AVAILABLE PROGRAMS

A great producer is someone who combines top level technical expertise with true artistic vision and care.

A producer doesn’t just push buttons and make things work. They provide insight and breathe life into a musical creation. This program is all about getting at the soul of the producer. In the current state of the music industry every artist has to be a producer in addition to the many other hats they wear. In Music Production students will gain an understanding of the importance of being a jack of all trades, but will also get into the nitty gritty of what happens behind the studio desk.

Like Songwriting and Recording we bring a mobile Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) to transform your space into a fully functioning recording studio. Whether it is working with preamps and setting up microphones or discussing mixing concepts and editing tools, our teaching artists demonstrate and curate best practices when creating a recording. Students will learn the basics of signal flow, mic placement, creating and layering tracks, editing and mixing techniques. Industry standard software programs will be utilized such as Pro Tools, Logic X and Ableton Live. Many times this program runs in conjunction with Songwriting & Recording Music, but can also operate as a standalone program.

At the heart of every piece of music is the beat. The beat is the driving force that creates motion in the music we feel & hear.

A beat can make us want to dance or calm ourselves. The beat is often the first building block of a piece of music and has just as much to do with how a song makes us feel as the melody or harmony.

In Beat Lab students will learn the basics of rhythm and meter using body percussion, their voice and drums to learn different ways to create and think about the aspects of a beat before taking these concepts to the computer desk. Once on in front of the DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) students will explore how to work with samples and sequence them into their own beats using Ableton Live and/or Reason. From there other sonic possibilities will be explored and many times will lead to incorporating bass lines, spoken word, rap and singing over these beats. By the end of the session students will leave with a compilation album of the music they’ve made in Beat Lab and will have a chance to showcase their creations with friends and family. Motion leads to emotion in music and this program is all about making that connection.