POP ROCK ARRANGING & PRODUCTION 1 music You'll be given exercises to

You'll be given exercises to practice and tricks to unshackle from the piano roll so your music may become more human more impactful and more profitable

Chords say a lot about the style and era of music too

This oft-requested class explores the "essence" of the sounds from composers like James Horner Alan Silvestri Thomas Newman Jerry Goldsmith and others

Because of the influence his work has had on me personally this is perhaps my favorite class yet

With its strong improvisational core (“realtime composing”) and its extensive vocabulary of unique dissonances and consonances it’s like a supercharger for our compositional engines

POP ROCK ARRANGING & PRODUCTION 1 music You'll be given exercises toIn this series, we're going to go in depth into arranging, developing and producing pop rock songs as we analyze tracks from my 80's style Christmas album "A Totally Awesome Radical Christmas." We'll look at advanced re harmonization and modulation techniques, developing sections and breakdowns, instrumentation, recording and, finally, an analysis of the final stems created by legendary mixing engineer Tom Lord Alge.