GROUP MUSIC LESSONS:
(Instruments, voice, song-writing, stagecraft, composing, arranging, theory and audio-music production technology) We are featuring our 'Assistant Audio-Recordist course' this year with the primary goal of grooming a music and technically-minded enthusiast into a well developed assistant to the digital audio/sound recordist. This is a serious course for people who would want
to start their own home studios, work as assistants in existing recording studios, or simply for the sheer thrill of learning a new and exciting craft. This 16 class course (32 work hours -maybe once a week or depending on the group-class convenience) will see the student experiment and learn basics of routing a recording studio,patching,Cabling,Micking for specific instruments, Ambient micking, Sterophonic micking,Pop-Filters, microphone, mixer,pre-amp,hardware Fx.safe-handling. Phantom-_power,D.I boxes,soundcard interfaces,wordclocks,patchbays, a.c temperature controls in studio, audio/midi software recording DAWs,primary setting up for a take, recording and basic editing, mixing in Sonar(soon introducing Protools,Logic,Cubase,Nuendo,etc) , utilising, Noise,gates, Compressors, Expanders, Dynamic Exciters, Reverbs, Delays and other important filters like Parametric and Graphic Equalizers, Gaining a fairly good knowledge of Frequency controls, Audio-clip and midi-clips cut,copy,paste,nudge,slide, autotune, automation, plus knowledge of musicscore reading and writing in Sibelius, arranging/sequencing music-tracks in midi in arranger software, basic chords/scales/arpegii, understanding Chord-charts, song-form and popular song formats, also compositional basics and lyrics writing, and operation on midi_usb keyboard motherboards, incorporating vst and synths into projects, audio/mp3 and other popular format mixdown and encoding after introduction to mastering ready-made templates. All this and more will be possible with a dedicated approach to this fascinating art in the 2 hour group class and daily 3 hour individual practice homework. Dates and details will be announced soon.Not forgetting the Dj and Rj and Vj, we have included a dose of Fruity-loops (Reason,Rebirth will be added soon)and Podcasting, Uploading YOUR OWN TUNES,SPOKEN-WORD,AUDIO FILES to free-hosting servers on the WWW (Disclaimer:although we conduct an internal examination after the total duration of the course and give a report and a course completion certificate, we like to state that this is a serious course but to be considered at the level of a HOBBY course and not meant to replace a highly professional sound-engineering course, nevertheless, the knowledge and experience obtained through this hobby recording course will be immensely beneficial to the student for his/own confidence and musical/technical development. We are happy to be of service to the music industry!There is a good chance that this hobby course may land you a job in this field in many of the Studios around!
