Hip-Hop Production Course
- →History of the 808, exploring sample-based 808s, and its origins. Learn to make designer 808s using synthesis
- →Programming drums and exploring creative ways to use rhythm patterns effectively
- →Design drums from scratch using synthesis
- →Custom drum kits
- →Exploring different compression techniques for drums and bass
- →Creative practices editing and modulating drum loops
- →In depth to FX on drums
- →Exploring sampling styles and techniques using sample-based instruments
- →Creating custom sound patches using various sound design concepts
- →In-depth look at FX in samples
- →In depth look at some of the more popular sample-based used in modern Hip Hop
- →In depth look at some of the more popular virtual instruments used in modern Hip Hop
- →Create sounds from scratch using synthesis
- →In-depth look into Waveforms, ADSR, Envelopes, and Filters
- →Explore additive and subtractive synthesis used in Hip Hop
- →How to write instrumentals with a vocalists in mind.
- →Learning to leave space in frequency and time for vocals
- →Practice working and recording with a professional rapper (TBA)
- →Tips and tricks from a professional rapper writing lyrics and melody
- →Pitch correction, FX, compression and EQ techniques working with vocals
- →Creative mixing & mastering techniques to achieve desired mix ready for commercial release unique to Hip Hop
- →Song structure and writing Hip Hop songs for different platforms, including radio, TV/film, and commercial stings
- →Creative strategies and practices for finishing songs
- →All about sample clearance
- →Collaborations
- →Discussions throughout course on marketing, branding and distribution of material
- →Different ways to monetize and release music
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Before you enrol.
The Hip-Hop Production Course runs 18 hours. Tuition at Garnish Seattle: 18 Hours - In-Person: $599 + $100 Registration Fee.
Yes - you should know your way around your DAW. Take one of our DAW classes first if you are not there yet.
Designer 808s and custom drum kits of your own, drums that hit, and beats recorded, mixed and mastered - not left in the project folder.
Yes. The Hip-Hop Production Course can be taught one-to-one, in person in Seattle or online, built around your own projects - ask admissions about private instruction.
Yes. The Hip-Hop Production Course runs in person at Garnish Seattle and live online in the same sessions, using our music collaboration software, Muse - you join whichever suits you.
Boom Bap, Lo-Fi, East Coast, West Coast, Southern and trap - and the history of the 808 behind all of them.
18 Hours | In-Person: $599 + $100 Registration Fee
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