            
Stylus College of Music & Sound Technology
60 8th Street, New Westminster
V3M 3P1 British Columbia Canada
Tel: 604.523.2969
Fax: 604.523.2970 |
Independent Music Producer Program
Program Length: 1 year
Tuition: $14,000 CDN
Total hours: 900+
Number of terms: 4 | 38 Courses plus projects
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 Certificate Program to educate, develop and train students to become successful as Independent Music Producers.
Areas Covered:
- 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
- Mastering techniques
- 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
This page provides a concise summary of the Independent Music Producer program.
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Program start dates:
September 29th, 2008
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