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Beat Kitchen is a music production school that meets live on Discord in small groups. Our residents are producers, artists, and musicians distributed across the world — and the full program is available to anyone with a computer, a DAW, and the drive to get better.

We also show up in person when we can. We have hosted beat making workshops, production intensives, and studio sessions in several cities and we are always looking to do more.

Current Locations

Seattle, WA — Home base. Nathan and several instructors are here.
New York City, NY — Building our NYC community with in-person plans coming.
Union City, NJ — Right across the river from Manhattan.
Los Angeles, CA — Recording Studio Arts and live workshops in the works.

Interested in bringing Beat Kitchen to your city? Whether you have a recording studio, a venue, or a crew of producers who want to learn together — get in touch.

Beat Kitchen At-A-Glance

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Recent Resident Gyms
- EAR-TRAINING-GYM: An ear training session built around a deceptively simple but challenging exercise: generating random chord progressions and attempting to conceptualize how they sound — including identifying a likely key — before playing them. Using an online chord generator tool (shared via the Discord chat), the session explored multiple progressions, each presenting its own puzzle around key identification and harmonic context.
- OFFICE HOURS: Drum tips
- EAR-TRAINING-GYM: We listened and studied pitch and the use of auto tune vs natural performances
- OFFICE HOURS: Helped Nadine troubleshoot her live synth sync issues, midi concepts, and music production
- OFFICE HOURS: We discussed some of Varun's work in progress, and listened to his songs, as well as discussed arrangement choices, lyrics. Alee mentioned mastering and we briefly discussed mastering and the video that will go with her song she's been working on.
- PRODUCTION-GYM: We talked about Smashing Pumpkins 1993 track, Cherub Rock. Analysis of mix, arrangement, production choices, and contextual production process to current production methods. We also discussed the importance and impact of pre-production on this track and on students own projects and processes.
- PRODUCTION-GYM: David Bowie's Space Oddity (1969)- Production, use of stereo, arrangement, structure, and how the production, mix, and arrangement supported the storytelling. How did the mix create and support feelings of alienation/isolation. How did the use of stereo- change the song, and how would it be if it was mixed today?
- PRODUCTION-GYM: Breakdown of Killing Me Softly, genesis of the song, songwriting controversy, recording process, use of reverb, notable session players and importance of collaboration
- OFFICE HOURS: Doing automation, Arpeggiators in Logic, having the energy to make music after work, songwriters circles and writers rounds, releasing music, Varun’s song, mixing and automation, how to do automation in Pro Tools, songwriting retreats
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Upcoming Resident Events
- Instrument Gym: Scott Hampton
  Feb. 24, 7am (PT) | 10am (ET) | 3pm (UK)
- Office Hours: Cato Zane
  Feb. 24, 10am (PT) | 1pm (ET) | 6pm (UK)
- Instrument Gym: Kallie
  Feb. 24, 5pm (PT) | 8pm (ET) | 1am (UK)
- Instrument Gym: Jon Mattox
  Feb. 25, 8am (PT) | 11am (ET) | 4pm (UK)
- Weekly 'Beat' Review: Nathan
  Feb. 25, 7pm (PT) | 10pm (ET) | 3am (UK)
- Office Hours: Ben Krueger
  Feb. 25, 8pm (PT) | 11pm (ET) | 4am (UK)
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Upcoming Courses
- Feb 28, 2026 Logic Pro 1-Day Intensive
- Mar 2, 2026 DAW Core Skills
- Apr 02, 2026 Comprehensive Program
- Apr 2, 2026 DAW Core Skills
- Apr 18, 2026 Harmony 1-Day Intensive
- Apr 19, 2026 Musician Basics Elective
- Apr 22, 2026 Effects, Synth, & Mixing Primer
- May 7, 2026 Hardware & Recording Primer
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