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Recent Resident Gyms
- WEEKLY-BEAT-CHALLENGE: We reviewed submitted beats from several community members this morning, focusing on harmonic choices in minor-key compositions. Along the way, we got into a substantive discussion about how minor scales work in practice — why treating "minor" as a single binary category is limiting, and how chord function and tonal center are more useful frames than scale labels. We also covered inharmonicity as an acoustic phenomenon, talked through DAW workflow for free-tempo recording, and discussed the value of quantity-over-quality as a creative practice.
- OFFICE HOURS: we talked about drum machines, listened to some student songs and discussed sound treatment
- PRODUCTION-GYM: We shared a production breakdown of The Doors "People Are Strange'. We talked about instrumentation, arrangement, structure, and production techniques- panning- close miking- even the choice of musicians and how that can change a recording. We also spent some time contrasting the Echo and The Bunnymen cover of the same song, to see how 1967 sounded agains 1988! We noted production and structural changes, as well as changes to the arrangement and parts.
- INSTRUMENT-GYM: Single strokes, double strokes, paradiddles and sung vs straight feels.
- OFFICE HOURS: we talked about re-creating songs as a production exercise, some mixing ideas and mixing tips, and communicating with others in the music business.
- EAR-TRAINING-GYM: We explored ear training through deep listening to a single contemporary R&B track, using it as a lens for examining background vocals as independent instruments, arrangement and layering strategy, mix placement and reverb use, vocal delivery and articulation, and song form. The session was open dialogue throughout — students brought their own observations and we used them to go deeper into production craft, melody writing over static harmony, and how a song's emotional arc can be built through stacking and restraint rather than harmonic movement.
- OFFICE HOURS: So many audio questions today. alot about recording and mixing with busses
- OFFICE HOURS: We welcomed a new resident, Hind, who shared a compelling a cappella vocal work-in-progress featuring layered harmonies and an unconventional phrase structure (alternating bars of three, four, and five). The session became a wide-ranging conversation about developing a production ear — listening deeply to music you love, building shared vocabulary with collaborators, and honoring the raw energy of first ideas. We also touched on the unique perspective drummers bring to production, and how to communicate effectively with musicians when your vocabulary is still developing.
- OFFICE HOURS: We spent this afternoon's office hours digging into shoegaze guitar production — specifically how to build dense, washy reverb textures without washing out the mix — alongside a chord progression puzzle a student is working through. Covered the Abbey Road reverb bussing technique, compressor attack as a front-to-back placement tool, layering multiple reverb buses with different characters, and the Temperance reverb plugin's pitch-aware reverb capabilities. Also touched on AI vocal/instrument generation tools (Ace Studio, Cantai) and notation workflow in the context of large-scale music publishing.
- OFFICE HOURS: Worked through a range of student questions during open office hours, covering song transcription and chord analysis (using "Let" by Pine Grove as a live example), arrangement strategy for building and sustaining interest over time, the physics of consonance and dissonance, the harmonic series, equal temperament vs. just intonation, and the phenomenon of inharmonicity in piano strings. Also explored found sound and percussion identification, the relationship between rhythm and harmony across the frequency spectrum, and a demonstration of barometric data sonified as audio.
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- Instrument Gym: Kallie Marie
  Apr. 29, 8am (PT) | 11am (ET) | 4pm (UK)
- Weekly Beat Challenge: Nathan
  Apr. 29, 6pm (PT) | 9pm (ET) | 2am (UK)
- Office Hours: Ben Krueger
  Apr. 29, 8pm (PT) | 11pm (ET) | 4am (UK)
- Theory Gym: Nathan
  Apr. 30, 5am (PT) | 8am (ET) | 1pm (UK)
- Office Hours: Jam Phelps
  Apr. 30, 2pm (PT) | 5pm (ET) | 10pm (UK)
- Office Hours: Nathan
  Apr. 30, 5pm (PT) | 8pm (ET) | 1am (UK)
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- Apr 19, 2026 Theory: Musician Basics
- Apr 22, 2026 Mixing: Effects, Synths & Tools
- Apr 27, 2026 DAW Core Skills
- Apr 27, 2026 FL Studio
- May 23, 2026 Logic Pro 1-Day Intensive
- Jun 10, 2026 Hardware & Recording Primer
- Jul 8, 2026 Hardware & Recording Primer
- Jul 12, 2026 DAW Core Skills
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