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Production teaching & tutorials
MUSIC
PRODUCTION TUTORIALS
I am now
providing music lessons for beginners to advanced levels.
Lessons can
be either on-sight at my studio or I can travel to home/business locations.
All lessons will be videotaped by student
or me and available to each student
Lessons will be as follows:
1. Beginners intro to guitar
·
Teaching guitar set-up
i.e. tuning, intonation, neck adjustment
·
Learning how to care for
your instrument
·
Learning all chords,
notes and strumming without having to read “sheet music”
·
Teaching full songs
(easy to difficult)
·
Learn to play by “ear”
as well as understanding all notes and what they represent
·
Learning to develop an
“ear” for all types of songs
·
Personal email
correspondence available after each lesson for any questions
2.
Advanced Techniques
·
Learning solo phrases
(“licks”)
·
Learning styles, Blues,
Rock, Country, etc.
·
Understanding grooves
and patterns while playing songs
·
Learning string bending
techniques
·
Learning all types of
tunings, using a capo
·
Learning fingerpicking, playing bass lines and melody lines all at
once
·
Learning slide guitar
technique and playing open tunings
·
Learning guitar
“harmonies” and how/when to use them
·
Learning number charts,
what they represent and how to read/create them
·
Understanding tempos and
what notes represent; quarter-note half-note, etc.
·
Learning what each note of
each chord represents i.e. 1-3-5, etc.
·
Understanding “triads”
or “tri-tones” of all chords
·
Learning theory and what
chords are used in songs to create different moods
·
Learning scales for
practicing and finger exercises
3.
Building a home studio/recording
·
Understanding Hard Disk
Recording
·
Understanding Analogue
Recording (tape)
·
Understanding
·
Building a home studio
with a minimum budget
·
Understanding all
recording software
·
Learning how to use
“plug-ins”
·
Learning how to edit
& correction of music tracks
·
Learning Multi-track
Recording completely
·
Learn how to tweak your
PC to work best with your recording software
·
Mastering you final
recordings
·
Making you own CD
4.
Songwriting
·
Learning how to write
music and lyrics
·
Learning how to phrase
all words correctly
·
Learning how to sing
other artists songs
·
Learning how to sing and
play your own music
5. Vocals/singing/arranging
·
Learning lead vocals and
all of its importance
·
Learning all types of
vocal harmonies
·
Learn how to sing and/or
arrange harmonies for other background vocalists
·
Learn how to create and
arrange keyboard parts for songs
·
Learn how to create and
arrange/apply horn parts for songs
·
Learn how to write solos
and “signature” parts for your songs
6. Video
·
How to record video for
music or movies, etc.
·
How to edit video
·
How to edit music tracks
and apply /sync to video
·
How to use multiple
camera shoots to make the final video master
·
How to record music
separately- “Live” or “Studio” and apply to video
·
How to make titles , add
photos and credits, etc.
·
How to finalize or
“encode” video for DVD, myspace, youtube
or copy to tape for high quality master
All of these lessons will supply students
not only with education in the arts but will also give them a greater knowledge
of usage of the computer which they will use throughout the rest of their
lives. Understandings backing up files,
naming files, creating personal databases are crucial to how we live today and
in our future. Anyone can take these
lessons, learn them and with little effort become a teacher.
MY RATES
$30. PER HALF-HOUR or any increment
thereof
If I drive
to student’s location and distance is 10-20 miles there will
be an
extra $20 charge added to lesson
$10. FOR
ANY PRINTED SHEETS I SUPPLY such as hand/finger
charts for
all chords
$10. FOR
BLANK VIDEOTAPES OR MEDIA I SUPPLY TO STUDENT
Call or
email:
714-746-7521
Updated 8/2/2010