Modern Pop Music Production & Recording
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Modern Pop Music Production & Recording Breakdown
36 Hours | $1099 + $100 Registration
Use the ‘CONNECT’ button below to request schedule information for our classes. One of our placement experts will follow up within a business day. For one-to-one lessons, see Modern Pop Music Production & Recording Private Instruction, and connect with a specialist on that page.
Seattle students take the Modern Pop Music Production & Recording in a small group at our studio, or live online in the same session with the same instructor, using our specialist music collaboration software, Muse. The city has a deep electronic and independent music scene, and our teachers are part of it.
Introduction and Understanding Modern pop music production
- →Introduction to the course
- →Introducing yourselves to the students
- →What is production?
- →The 7 elements of music: Rhythm, Melody, Harmony, Timbre,
- →Dynamics, Texture & Form
Examining Pop Song Structures
- →Breaking down the song structure of some modern hits
- →Learn about verse, pre chorus, chorus, mid 8 and their variations
- →Study how current Pop songs progress through a composition
- →Your weekly task
Examining the work and impact of top producers
- →Examining 4 hit producers work
- →The use of dynamic song arrangements/production
- →How to build tension and create memorable moments
- →Arrangements for maximum impact
- →Your weekly task
Examining Current Hits
- →How shorter songs are the current trend
- →De-constructing several current hits
- →Song structure and the chord structure of a hit
- →Your weekly task
Mastering Vocals
- →Why establishing the vocal melody is essential early on
- →Vocals: Recording & getting a performance and then comping
- →Vocal tuning and timing – essential today – what software used
- →Why automation is so important for vocals
- →Your weekly task
Drums & Percussion
- →The importance of rhythm in Pop
- →The rise of the 808 – for drums AND basslines
- →Drum patterns and percussion elements
- →Weekly task brief
Electronic Sounds and Synths
- →The role of electronic elements in modern pop
- →Use of Synthesizers and sound design for Pop tracks
- →Experimentation with electronic sounds and sampling
- →Your weekly task
Examining common production techniques
- →Augmenting samples with real players
- →Replacing soft synths with real synths/drum machines
- →Thrift shop alternatives to expensive vintage synths
- →Production gimmicks and tricks
- →Your weekly task
Music Production Software, Plugins and Top Tips
- →Must have software used in Pop.
- →Basic recording, editing, and mixing techniques
- →How to use production tools to refine a song
- →Your weekly task
In our students' words.
“Lots of one on one, great break down, wonderful teacher. Awesome staff..I cant wait to take a production course to advance what I have learned in this class. Very positive, super supportive. I'm so happy I decided to cont. with my education..201 made everything gel in my brain from the first class especially when I started playing out. It all made sense.”
Bee Cregar
Instructors
Before you enrol.
A DAW you can work in and a way to record - the course covers modern pop production and recording the way records are actually made, from the session up.
Pete Gleadall, live online.
The Modern Pop Music Production & Recording course runs 36 hours. Tuition at Garnish Seattle: 36 Hours - $1099 + $100 Registration.
Yes. The Modern Pop Music Production & Recording course can be taught one-to-one, in person in Seattle or online, built around your own projects - ask admissions about private instruction.
Yes - live online, with weekly sessions and playback of your work.
36 Hours | $1099 + $100 Registration
Ready when you are.
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