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Hip Hop Kitchen

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Hip Hop Served Up Here

In this course learn how to create unique beats for your tracks. Instructors will cover basic structure, sound design, and mixing techniques for producing artist-ready beats. Having a collection of personally crafted beats gives any artist a powerful toolbox useful in a variety of situations

Key Topics

Hip Hop served up here.

Kitchens are where beat-makers get their hands dirty. It’s where creatives go to play with their food.

In this course learn how to create unique beats for your tracks. Instructors will cover basic structure, sound design, and mixing techniques for producing artist-ready beats. Having a collection of personally crafted beats gives any artist a powerful toolbox useful in a variety of situations.

Key Topics:

Looping
Sequencing
Mixing Electronic Instruments
Hooks
Designing Drums
Vocal FX
Sample Organization and Maintenance
Hardware Samplers
Pre-Mixing Beats For Studio Sessions

What Students Say

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I’ve been a student at Nathan’s audio engineering school - Beat Kitchen, for seven months, and the experience has been invaluable. Coming back to music after years focused on family and business, I wanted a learning environment that was

—Lotus

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Man’s really passionate about teaching music went in with literally 0 knowledge of music and came out with a lot still got a lot to learn but definitely recommend them

—Spyder

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Great resource! Super friendly! I’ll continue to check out Beat Kitchen offerings.

—Sam

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Recently took a couple of classes - Effects, Synthesis and Mixing primer and the Beat Building Jam. Both classes were really good. Ended up learning a lot of basics of how sound design and shaping works in the first one and a bunch of

—Hardik

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Took a lesson over music theory and learned a lot in a short amount of time! Amazing teacher and lots of great information!

—J4de

Course Level: Kitchens

Extras

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Recent Resident Gyms
- OFFICE HOURS: we talked about sound treatment and snares
- OFFICE HOURS: We chatted about creating songs with objects and just chatted
- OFFICE HOURS: Music Industry- balancing different workflows, and income sources. How AI is impacting film music. Music platforms and streaming vs artist direct to fan and creating community.
- OFFICE HOURS: Discussed an element in Alee's song, some ideas for follow up, and ways to experiment over the break.
- OFFICE HOURS: David's new song Listening/Critiquing The importance of following your gut The points of diminishing returns
- OFFICE HOURS: We briefly talked about patch bays, and touring strategies for regional tour of PCNW.
- OFFICE HOURS: Vocal tuning with Melodyne and Autotune. Covering basics and using a verse of her song for the example. Showing a few of the basic pitch functions and comparing the vocal in context of the music with Melodyne, Autotune and no vocal tuning.
- OFFICE HOURS: We covered ways to approach using reference tracks for our productions. sometimes reference tracks are for guidance on overall vibe, and sometimes they're for more granular production areas. But we talked about how to navigate that within the context of our own creativity.
- OFFICE HOURS: we had a mostly quiet working session together - Alee worked on her chords for a new song, and we caught up a tiny bit.
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Upcoming Resident Events
- Office Hours: w/ Nathan Rosenberg
  Jan. 04: 1pm (PT) | 4pm (ET) | 9pm (UK)
- Office Hours: w/ Nathan Rosenberg
  Jan. 04: 5pm (PT) | 8pm (ET) | 1am (UK)
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