For striving producers, it's time to take it up a notch with our Logic Producer Program, with songwriters in mind. Say goodbye to Garage Band and learn to produce professional grade songs worthy of being played on the radio, and not have to give away publishing on your song in exchange for production help.
This 120-hour course focuses on hands-on learning and practical mentoring to achieve real results. Work towards your Garnish certificate, while producing your own release-worthy music by the end of this six-level music production course.
Dive into the extraordinarily comprehensive Logic Pro DAW, and explore the fantastic add-ons. We will show you how to utilize the tools included effectively and efficiently so you can begin to produce quality music in your chosen genre.
Mentoring sessions are strategically placed, leaving time to work on your own projects, and ensuring assimilation of class content, all to guide you towards the production of your very own masterpiece.
Our class sizes are capped at only eight students, to provide a relaxed setting in a like-minded environment, and maximize the potential of each project. Learning to produce hit-quality tracks should be fun, not frustrating!
Thanks to our exclusive licensing partnerships, we have assembled a range of specialized assets: synthesizers, effects, and samples for Garnish Academy students. These instruments and sounds allow us to teach producers, side by side, using the same sets of expanded resources. Our constantly evolving license-partners and content producers add thousands of dollars to the value of our Producer programs. Many of these products are yours to keep. Others are free to use while you learn and are then eligible for exclusive upgrades at a fraction of their regular price.
We have our very own boutique sample label Lazerdisk Sound. Garnish students get all of our packs (mostly written and produced by Garnish instructors) for free, and an exclusive pack just for Garnish students not sold on the site! It’s recorded individual keys from Mark Ronson’s Mellotron M4000D, which our label chief Zack Johnson meticulously recorded in Mark’s studio in Hollywood. Thank you Zack and Mark!
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Did you know that YouTube traffic makes up nearly a ⅕ of ALL internet traffic? Similarly, quite a bit of that is music consumption. It’s also common for labels to upload an audio tracks as video for YouTube,
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You’ve completed your recordings and now it’s time to put them all together. If you ask any experienced mixing engineer, they will tell you that they have a system they use every time they want to mix a project.
Whether you’re a budding producer, DJ or a brand new indie artist -- most of the time the focus is purely on the music, and that’s about it. However, soon enough, you’ll realize that there’s much more involved in just putting on music.
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