Create Music on Your Own Terms

Explore a variety of courses designed to guide you through every step to create your dream musical project - from the initial inspiration through release.

Pre-production: Preparing a completed song to be recorded and released

Learn Pre-production

Imagine you have a finished piece of music—what version do you envision recording? Which genre best captures the essence of your song? Starting with a stripped-down acoustic performance (a coffee shop-style rendition), we’ll explore three demo versions to refine your original piece.

The first demo will be a minimalist acoustic version, followed by an electronic arrangement, and finally a full-band interpretation. Afterward, we’ll analyze all three versions to shape a final production-ready track.

This approach emphasizes the process and strategies behind creating multiple renditions, ultimately combining elements from each to craft a cohesive and inspired final product. The goal is to assess what each version brings to the table and how they can collectively inform a dynamic, hybrid final version.

Covering:

  • How to organize your sessions

  • Creative flow

  • Genre exploration

Come to the course with:

  • A completed tune you want to workshop

  • Lyrics and melody

  • Chords and song structure

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Harvesting Your Fave Initial Idea and Finishing It

One From the Vault

Let’s say you have an old musical idea that you want to finish. Perhaps you have a melody or a lyrical phrase that keeps haunting you and longs to be brought to fruition. Perhaps there is a rhythm that your inner beat boxer can’t stop beat boxing. Let’s finish it. Let’s harness your creative energy and focus to complete the structure, the melody and lyrics. Using your favorite DAW as a sketchbook, let’s take the music that showed up during an inspired moment, get out of the way and walk again with a completed piece and first demo.

Covering:

  • Creative Development: Techniques to expand and refine your initial musical ideas, including melody, lyrics, and rhythm.

  • Song Structure & Arrangement: Guidance on organizing your song into a cohesive and impactful structure.

  • DAW as a Sketchbook: Practical tips for using your digital audio workstation to experiment, iterate, and build your track.

  • Finishing & Demo Creation: Strategies to overcome creative blocks, polish your work, and produce a first demo ready for sharing or further development.

Come with:

  • The unfinished musical idea you want to finish most

  • An expectation to embrace the unexpected

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Creating Something From Nothing

starting place: tempo, one instrument giving yourself an initial starting point. Building off of that initial idea, utilizing loops, layering and muting - sculpting as you go.

Let’s decide where to begin: on piano or synth? guitar? drums? what comes next? spoken word? a mantra?

ending place: arriving at a demo recording we can review, enjoy and utilize for next steps

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Clear the mind, enjoy the silence, embrace your blank slate and begin a new song or musical composition