AMP is designed to take you directly on a career path.

Working as an engineer or producer in the music industry is very reputation oriented. Often it is difficult for beginning engineers, even if they are accomplished, because if they aren't working then they aren't gaining a reputation and if the don't have a reputation then they aren't getting work. The advanced class is a direct answer to that problem.

During the class you will be seeking out what will be potential clients, bringing them into the studio, and doing single full production songs with them.

Through this process you will be learning how to find and inter act with potential clients, how to build client relationships, and a refinement of the music production skills you started in the beginning class.

In tandem to your production projects you will be attending a weekly music business lesson and a weekly composition lesson. The business lesson will cover everything from designing your own business card and website to understanding quickbooks, music law, and publishing. The compositions lesson combines traditional songwriting techniques with the use of the most current songwriting software. You will learn how to compose, arrange, and write charts on today's most powerful and exciting songwriting software.

There are very few students that make it all the way through the advanced class that don't already have a client or two. So, if you continue the path we start you on during the advanced class, you will have a solid client base in the coming years.

Courses within the Advanced Music Production program may not be taken individually. Upon completition of this program, students are awarded a certificate of completion and an audio reel of projects completed.

ADP - Advanced Projects

5 to 10 full production single songs with artists of your choice. Through the networking skills you will be learning in AMB you will be interacting with hundreds of potential music clients. Once you bring the artist to the studio, we will be working closely together to record, edit, mix and master each project to a professional standard.

AMB - Advanced Music Business
(for the Audio Engineer/Producer)

*You will make a production name, buy a domain, buy a dba, and get myspace and facebook accounts.
*Using adobe products, you will design and order business cards, design a website, and tailor a myspace and facebook page.
*You will learn basic accounting concepts, start a quick books file, and learn how to put together a professional looking invoice.
*You will learn how to register music productions and how to track their sales.
*You will learn music royalties, publishing, BMI, ASCAP, and basic music production contracts and law.
*You will learn online distribution and creative marketing concepts.
*You will make detail business models that will model everything from how much it will cost to how much you will have to make.

EMC - Electronic Music Composition

Course Outline:

Rhythm
* Time signatures * Swing * Rhythmic figures * Midi, Grid mode in Pro Tools * Quantizing * Redrum, Boom

Song Structure
* Jazz Standard: AABA, ABAC * Modern Pop/Rock: Verse/Chorus, Verse/PreChorus/Chorus, Bridge/Instrumental Interlude * Dynamics from section to section

Chord Structures
* Use of tension and release in chords (the V7-I) * I-V-IV (Relative Major and Minor) * Jazz/Classical harmony (Polychords, Altered dominants, etc.)

Melody
* Phrasing * Interaction between melody & harmony * Use of tension and release in melody (the leading tone)

Lyrics
* Storytelling * Role of verse * Role of chorus

Arranging
* Voice Leading * Pads * Counterpoint * Harmonization * Creating Stereo Image (thinking ahead for mix)

Learn all modules and general functionality in Reason

Learn advanced midi and chart writing in Pro Tools