Coaching: Music Production and Business
I teach music production and music business. For beginners, I will teach the fundamentals so you have a solid foundation and learn all the skills and concept necessary to help you be your best. For professionals, I will teach high-level skills and techniques, and can act as a producer, consultant and even accountability partner to unlock your potential and remove any roadblocks that have developed over the years.
Lessons can be via Zoom, Skype, FaceTime, or in person in Nashville, TN. All ages and skill levels are welcome.
Music Production
Learn how to engineer and deliver recordings of yourself, or produce, edit, mix and master professional-sounding, release-ready tracks on your own. We can cover techniques for working at home using minimal equipment (whatever you already have), or for working in a professional studio.
I can teach remotely over Zoom or in my studio in Nashville. Here are a few examples of what we could cover:
Production / General
• Pro Tools
• Logic Pro
• Ableton Live and Push
• Analog and Digital Audio Fundamentals
• EQ, Compression / Dynamics, and Effects
• Pop Vocal Production
• Working Collaboratively with an Artist or Producer over Zoom and Audiomovers Listento
• From Co-Writing to Demo to Master: How to
Creative Production
• Synthesis - Analog, Digital, Hybrid, and Modular
• Live Looping for Performers using Ableton Live, Logic Pro, and / or Max/MSP
• Sound Design
• Production Techniques for Pop Production: The Tricks Used to Get the Famous Sounds on Classic Records
Recording
• Microphone Techniques for Pop Production: Techniques Used to Get the Famous Sounds on Classic Records
• Microphone Techniques for Classical, with a Focus on Stereo and Immersive Microphone Techniques
• Microphone Techniques Folk: Stereo and Mono Techniques to Record a Band and Vocals in 1 Room
• Immersive Capture: Recording for Dolby Atmos or Sony 360
Mixing
• Mixing
• Mixing for Film
• Immersive Mixing: Mixing in Dolby Atmos
• Navigating the Mix Revision Process
Mastering
• Mastering in Stereo
• Mastering in Immersive Audio
• Mastering Your Own Music for Self-Release
Editing
• Editing / Comping for Pop or Classical
• Music Editing for Film
Studio Skills and Techniques
• Analog Consoles: Functional Use, Creative Use, Studio Integration and Maintenance
• Signal Flow In A Recording Studio, Including Analog Patch Bays
• Dante (This course results in your getting your Dante Certification)
• Etiquette and Culture for Working for the Studio
• Assistant Engineering: What’s Expected of an Assistant Engineer and How to Succeed
• Soldering for Equipment Repair, Cable Making, and Gear Building
Writing
• Programming / Beat Making
• How to Write and Produce A Pop, Country, or Hip Hop Track From Scratch to a Finished Master
• Co-Writing for Producers and Songwriters: The Nashville Co-Write
• Co-Writing for Producers: How to Co-Write and Produce with an Artist, or Other Songwriters or Producers
Nashville
• The Nashville Number System
• Engineering for Nashville Tracking Sessions
Music Business
Since 2009 I have owned and run a publishing company/record label called Good Child Music that releases and publishes a wide range of music, from classical to pop, to library content for film and TV. I can help with your publishing, recording agreements, and distribution questions. We can cover the fundamentals through professional-level concepts, addressing legal considerations and the specifics of licensing agreements, including case studies from my own experience in the industry. I can show you how to deliver your finished tracks to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, etc, publish your own music, or to develop a relationship with a label and / or publisher. I have worked in both pop and classical publishing. We can discuss the differences between the two and focus on the one that's most relevant to you.
About Me
As a producer / engineer, worked with artists such as twenty one pilots, Shania Twain, Vince Gill, Alison Krauss, Billy Strings, Molly Tuttle, David Lang, John Zorn, Zeena Parkins, Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth), So Percussion, yMusic, Shakira, Lin-Manuel Miranda, The Band Perry, Chris Thile, Lake Street Dive, Gil Scott-Heron / Jaime xx, Brittany Howard, Rag’n’Bone Man, My Brightest Diamond, and on film and TV projects, commercials, and podcasts.
I have a BM from the Eastman School of Music and a MM from the Yale School of Music.
I am excited to share my experience with those who want to learn and be their best.