Hip-Hop Production Course

Hip-Hop Production Course

Learn how to record, write, collaborate, and produce Hip Hop! Styles include Boom Bap, East Coast, West Coast, Southern, and Trap. Explore and craft the skills to make your drums knock and your 808s rumble. Create and shape your own sound using different sampling techniques, and modern synthesis. Learn the skills needed unique to Hip Hop to record, mix and master records for commercial release. Students must know their way around their DAW and at least one working sample-based virtual instrument and one synth-based plugin. One of our DAW courses in Ableton, Logic or Pro Tools will get you up to scratch for this course. 3rd party weapons of choice are made by Native Instruments and Spectrasonics, but alternative 'freeware' can be downloaded legally.

Exclusively delivered by Zack Johnson, who wrote and developed this course.

Beats & Pieces History of the 808, exploring sample-based 808s, and its origins. Learn to make designer 808s using synthesis

Programming drums and exploring creative ways to use rhythm patterns effectively

Design drums from scratch using synthesis

Custom drum kits

Exploring different compression techniques for drums and bass

Creative practices editing and modulating drum loops

In depth to FX on drums

Sampling Exploring sampling styles and techniques using sample-based instruments

Creating custom sound patches using various sound design concepts

In-depth look at FX in samples

In depth look at some of the more popular sample-based used in modern Hip Hop

Synthesis and Sound Design for Hip Hip In depth look at some of the more popular virtual instruments used in modern Hip Hop

Create sounds from scratch using synthesis

In-depth look into Waveforms, ADSR, Envelopes, and Filters

Explore additive and subtractive synthesis used in Hip Hop

Recording Vocals and Working with Artists How to write instrumentals with a vocalists in mind.

Learning to leave space in frequency and time for vocals

Practice working and recording with a professional rapper (TBA)

Tips and tricks from a professional rapper writing lyrics and melody

Pitch correction, FX, compression and EQ techniques working with vocals

Mixing & Mastering for Hip Hop Creative mixing & mastering techniques to achieve desired mix ready for commercial release unique to Hip Hop

Song structure and writing Hip Hop songs for different platforms, including radio, TV/film, and commercial stings

Creative strategies and practices for finishing songs

Business All about sample clearance

Collaborations

Discussions throughout course on marketing, branding and distribution of material

Different ways to monetize and release music

18 Hours | In-Person: €599 + €200 (€100 early bird) Registration Fee | 33% off Live Online

Lisbon's course runs in small groups at our studio, taught by working producers, with live-online attendance for students elsewhere in Portugal, using our specialist music collaboration software, Muse. The city's fast-growing electronic scene makes it a good place to learn this. Discover qualities that distinguish us, here.