Program Length: 1 year | Diploma program
Tuition: $17,000 CDN
Total hours: 900+
Number of terms: 4 | 38 Courses plus projects
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Program Description:
A producer can take on several roles from songwriting to recording (engineering), mixing, mastering, and even finding and signing artists with record companies. One can specialize in any or all of the above areas. A producer that specializes in all of the above areas is called an Independent Music Producer. In today's music industry, Independent Music Producers are among some of the highest ranked professionals. In fact, the music industry demands such level of vast knowledge and expertise due to competition and abundance of technology.
Stylus College of Music & Sound Technology is the only school in Canada that offers an intensive full time one year Diploma Program to educate, develop and train students to become successful as Independent Music Producers.
Program highlights
- Music theory & keyboard training
- Midi operations & sequencing
- Introduction to sound design, synthesis, and sampling
- Understanding the nature of sound & signal flow
- Critical listening from human perception of sound to the applications used for processing audio.
- Microphone construction & application
- Computer technology and its application in the studio
- Introduction to music technology in the studio environment
- Role of a music producer in the industry
- Music Business
- Microphone techniques
- Multi-track recording
- Songwriting
- Mixing techniques & audio processing
- Studio design & configuration
- Music production techniques
- Audio editing & effects processing
- The role of the music producer in the studio
- Recording & mixing with ProTools
- Surround sound configuration & mixing techniques
- Orchestration
- Music composition for film & television
- Band recording
- Music Remixing
- Theory of vocal arranging
- Signal processing using Reaktor
- Advanced digital sampling
- Film scoring
- Web development & internet media formats
- Studio Acoustics & construction
- Principles of using Melodyne for music production
The Curriculum
Students begin the program by using individual state-of-art audio recording workstations combined with theory classes to learn all the pre-production requirements that transform them into the first phase of becoming a music producer.
In the second term, the production phase, students use our studios to learn in detail, all aspects of writing, performing, recording, and producing musical projects.
In third and fourth term students learn more advanced music production techniques that cover areas such as remixing, Audio editing & effects processing, Surround sound configuration & mixing techniques, Orchestration, Music composition for film & television and more. Students complete their program by submitting fully produced musical projects assigned by instructors for their portfolio design.
Graduates
As a graduate of this program you are ready to take the role of a professional music producer who can independently write, perform, record, and deliver high quality musical projects. You are fully qualified to work in any studio environment and perform analog and digital recordings and collaborate with other industry professionals such as musicians, sound engineers, and studio managers. You can also prepare production schedules, determine recording rates, and promote your studio recordings.
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