Pop Music Production Course | Nashville
You know how to use a DAW, you are a songwriter and you believe that you have a musical talent. The only thing that you are not sure of is how to put all these things together and create a good-quality demo to impress. If this is ringing any bells, then our Pop Music Production course would be great for you. Packed with a wide range of modern production tips, advice and techniques, we are sure that you won’t find a course like this anywhere else. You will learn how to convert your unique song idea into a successful record, gaining the knowledge, skills, and experience you must have to complete your own high-quality commercial (urban, rock, pop, up-tempo and commercial dance) backing track. You’ll learn how to make master quality beats, how to arrange strings, bass-lines as vocals.
Beats & Pieces
- Beat building foundation tips. What to do first.
- All about tempo
- Rules for popular genres – ballads, pop, rock, folk, singer/songwriter, urban, uptempo and commercial dance
- Which sounds to choose and building up your own library
- Percussion
- All about shuffle, groove and quantize
- Using loops subtly to fill space, and when not to use loops
- Getting your elements to work as one
- Beefing up your beats to make them sound professional
Chords & Keys
- Beginners or recap on chord programming
- Tried and tested progressions
- Keep it simple if you want to be cool
- Musical shortcuts – transpose and chord memorizers
- How progressions differ in genres – ballads, pop, rock, folk, singer/songwriter urban, uptempo and commercial dance
- Tension and release
- Outro choruses key changes
Bass-lines & Guitars
- Following root and interval tips
- Alternative tuning and open strings
- Which bass sounds to use and programming up your own from scratch
- Bass guidelines for ballads, pop, rock, folk, singer/songwriter, urban, uptempo and differences in commercial dance subgenres – House, Trance, Dubstep and Garage
- Programming typical acoustic and electric guitar parts
- Convincing voicing in guitar parts
Choosing the Right Instruments & Sounds
- Creating your palette of sounds
- Filling the frequency spectrum
- Getting the right instruments for your genre
- Bending the rules to stand out from the crowd
- Timing and quantize in your instruments to fit your drums
- Placing and shaping your sounds in your mix using filters and panning
Instrumentation & String Arranging
- Programming parts that would work if they were live instruments
- Call and response
- All about string arranging and string lines
- Using pre-programmed MIDI files and MIDI scripts
- Piano rhodes and pads
- Instrument hooks
- Getting all your parts to work as one
Vocals & Arranging
- Lead vocal tracking tips
- Background vocals – roots, harmonies, bringing out your chorus and adding dynamics to your arrangement with vocals
- Arranging for ballads, pop (includes commercial dance), rock, folk, singer/songwriter, urban and uptempo
- Tips on writing bridge
- Using production as an alternative to music to create light and shade in your arrangement
- How to start and how to end your songs (intros and outros)
- Dealing with uncomfortable chord changes with production
Check out the student feedback from our longer Songwriting Producer Program
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