Apache Junction, AZ Music Recording Lessons

As a musician I have spent a lot of time in the studio ran my own recording studio when I was younger and still do and have many recording opportunities for students but also can show them how to record themselves or work in the studio environment and be confident as well as learn technical intricacies of mixing and recording

I can teach you the finer points of digital recording. You will learn to set up your own system to record your own backing tracks. You can unleash your ideas using ProTools, Logic, or the recording software of your choice.

Music production and sound design grades 5-12 and adult.

Hi there and thanks for visiting! I have been playing guitar, singing, writing and producing music for the greater part of my life. My endeavor is to guide you to an understanding of one or many of these facets and give you the tools you need to become your own teacher as you continue down this path.

Below is a brief synopsis about the lessons I teach:

Guitar/Songwriting:
There will be very little music theory. I never needed much of it to write my own music, other than a few basic theories to get around successfully, so it’s not something we’ll spend a whole lot of time on. I have organized and constructed a course book to keep things lively and moving along efficiently. I call it NOTEbOOK. It’s also great refresher material to revisit in the future.

I teach basic guitar with accented professional appeal and rhythmic structure. My intention is to guide you to create your own original music using straightforward techniques. My goal, once we part ways, is for you to leave ...

I teach Multi-track recording and production classes using Reason, Protools, Logic, Sound Forge SAWStudio and several other DAWs. Also experienced in Analog recording techniques. If you desire to learn to record and grow very quickly then I am the perfect teacher for this and my prices are a small fraction of what it costs to go to school for this... but you will learn more in every session with me then you would in any college! Students often come to me AFTER they graduate from music schools to get real world hands-on training.

The art of mic placement and room sound is essential in getting a solid recording. That combined with a solid understanding of how certain frequencies are expressed by different instruments and how to capture the space of the music will expand your abilities in recording.

I've been recording my music for as long as I can remember. We'll take a look at some tips and tricks to get you're demos sounding great!

With technology getting better and cheaper at the same time, you can use a computer or an Ipad and create good recordings, but how? In this class we are going to talk about the principles of good recording techniques.

We will go over mike placement, how to set up a home studio so you dont have reflections in your sound, how to use a pop filter. We will talk about how to prepare to send your music to a mixing engineer and much more!

There are three events that have influenced me significantly and shaped who I am as an artist. During four summers between 2011-2016 I, along with ten other artists, was funded for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week for 2 months by the Kopavogur and Reykjavik City Council to compose music and to perform in Iceland. I played in unconventional locations; swimming pools, fashion shows, hospitals, sidewalks and collaborated with dancers, actors, visual artists, pop musicians and filmmakers. Out of this work came a set of 13 etudes for solo guitar, a 35min pop/rock album with visual videos for each track, a scored short film, a full length techno album titled ‘Techno 1’ and various other compositions.
Another big influence was studying film scoring with Richard Sussman for two years during my studies at Manhattan School of Music. This period of time got me familiar working in a studio and I learned in detail how to work in DAW’s, especially Digital Performer. We looked primarily at virtual ...