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Hip-Hop Production Course

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Duration
18 hours
Format
In-person in Barcelona or Live Online
Tuition
18 Hours | In-Person: €599 + €200 (€100 early bird) Registration Fee | 33% off Live Online
Hip-Hop Production Course
Learn how to record, write, collaborate, and produce Hip Hop! Styles include Boom Bap, East Coast, West Coast, Southern, and Trap. Explore and craft the skills to make your drums knock and your 808s rumble. Create and shape your own sound using different sampling techniques, and modern synthesis. Learn the skills needed unique to Hip Hop to record, mix and master records for commercial release. Students must know their way around their DAW and at least one working sample-based virtual instrument and one synth-based plugin. One of our DAW courses in Ableton, Logic or Pro Tools will get you up to scratch for this course. 3rd party weapons of choice are made by Native Instruments and Spectrasonics, but alternative 'freeware' can be downloaded legally.
In Barcelona the Hip-Hop Production Course runs as a small in-person class at our studio, taught in English by producers active in the city's electronic music scene, with the option to attend live online, using our specialist music collaboration software, Muse. Students join us from across Spain and the rest of Europe.
Exclusively delivered by Zack Johnson, who wrote and developed this course.
Beats & Pieces History of the 808, exploring sample-based 808s, and its origins. Learn to make designer 808s using synthesis
Programming drums and exploring creative ways to use rhythm patterns effectively
Design drums from scratch using synthesis
Custom drum kits
Exploring different compression techniques for drums and bass
Creative practices editing and modulating drum loops
In depth to FX on drums
Sampling Exploring sampling styles and techniques using sample-based instruments
Creating custom sound patches using various sound design concepts
In-depth look at FX in samples
In depth look at some of the more popular sample-based used in modern Hip Hop
Synthesis and Sound Design for Hip Hip In depth look at some of the more popular virtual instruments used in modern Hip Hop
Create sounds from scratch using synthesis
In-depth look into Waveforms, ADSR, Envelopes, and Filters
Explore additive and subtractive synthesis used in Hip Hop
Recording Vocals and Working with Artists How to write instrumentals with a vocalists in mind.
Learning to leave space in frequency and time for vocals
Practice working and recording with a professional rapper (TBA)
Tips and tricks from a professional rapper writing lyrics and melody
Pitch correction, FX, compression and EQ techniques working with vocals
Mixing & Mastering for Hip Hop Creative mixing & mastering techniques to achieve desired mix ready for commercial release unique to Hip Hop
Song structure and writing Hip Hop songs for different platforms, including radio, TV/film, and commercial stings
Creative strategies and practices for finishing songs
Business All about sample clearance
Collaborations
Discussions throughout course on marketing, branding and distribution of material
Different ways to monetize and release music
18 Hours | In-Person: €599 + €200 (€100 early bird) Registration Fee | 33% off Live Online
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Instructors

James Ting
James Ting
Matthew Engst
Matthew Engst
Vision Wong
Vision Wong
Jamaal Taylor
Jamaal Taylor

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Mixtape

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