RDS Music and Media is unveiling a collection of academic programs tailor-made to artists and aspiring music business professionals that is designed as an alternative choice to the upper price faculties that provide restricted hands-on expertise, profession course, or job placement after commencement. The RDS Recording Arts Program can also be created for musicians and hobbyists trying to broaden their talents to file on their very own.
Primarily based out of the legendary Studio 4 Recording in Conshohocken, PA and licensed nationwide to excessive faculties, music faculties, and vocational facilities, the RDS Recording Arts Program was developed by Award-Profitable, Billboard-Charting Producer and Engineer Ron DiSilvestro (The Useless Milkmen, PHISH’s Jon Fishman, The Roots’ Leonard “Hub” Hubbard, the “Godfather of Jazz Fusion” Larry Coryell, Parliament Funkadelic’s Bernie Worrell, Jon McLaughlin, Common Music’s Jack Grey, Atlantic’s Zero 936, The Smithereens that includes Marshall Crenshaw, Manhattan Switch’s Janis Seigel, and extra).
On the Studio 4 Recording location, the scholars, whose ages vary from 15 to grownup, have the distinctive alternative to work with music classes occurring on the studio, which is house to numerous hit data, fashioned by Phil and Joe Nicolo (The Butcher Brothers), and is presently co-owned and operated by probably the most in-demand Indy Producers William Yip. The previous location of Ruffhouse Data, the studio has been credited with artists equivalent to Billy Joel, Anthrax, Bob Dylan, Lauren Hill, Dishwalla, The Police, and plenty of extra.
The RDS Recording Arts Program contains:
- Introduction to Recording and Manufacturing (Six Weeks) – A preparatory course for the RDS Recording Arts Program, this class teaches Professional Instruments performance, recording and enhancing in Professional Instruments, studio structure and procedures, in-depth gear demonstrations, recording strategies, and an introduction to enhancing and mixing in Professional Instruments. Classes are two instances every week, two hours per lesson.
- Music and Media Recording Arts Academy (12 Weeks) – This course is designed to instruct and empower reasonably skilled, digital audio fans in manufacturing, recording, mixing, mastering and enterprise practices. Along with enhancing technical abilities, the course places a give attention to creating an environment friendly workflow within the studio, designing enterprise plans, constructing clientele, and studying easy methods to survive as an unbiased engineer in a highly-competitive subject. Classes are one time every week, one and half to 2 hours per week.
- Profession Growth (12 Weeks) – This course is for latest graduates within the Audio Recording Business who want to set up a enterprise, develop their clientele, and begin actively working of their subject. Every scholar, upon finishing the course will acquire quick employment alternatives with RDS Music and Media and all of its studios and possess the ability set and marketing strategy to work as a contract skilled in any studio. These classes are taught on a one-on-one foundation, except doing stay classes. All through the 12-weeks, college students will obtain instruction and on the next:
- Session and enterprise mannequin planning / structuring primarily based on every particular person
- Forming of enterprise / creating an LLC
- Net area identify, internet hosting and web site creation
- Social Media web page creation
- Creating an expert EPK / Bio / resume
- Personalised enterprise playing cards
- Making a marketing strategy in your new firm
- Arms-on coaching in three completely different studios, together with the famend Studio 4 Recording
- Working precise classes in a number of genres of music and clientele in three completely different studios
- Entry to 3 studios to construct content material for a reel/EPK
- Advertising and marketing /enterprise growth lectures to develop clientele
Classes are held two instances every week, two hours per non-public lesson; 4 hours per stay session with a consumer.
“These programs train every thing that the colleges that price $80k train, and most significantly, what these faculties DON’T train, which is easy methods to develop what you are promoting – and be sustainable within the business,” mentioned DiSilvestro. “They’re additionally designed for musicians who should be taught the fundamentals of recording to be aggressive within the business and solid a wider web for his or her earnings potential for session work, writing classes and publishing alternatives.”
To kick off the New Yr and the RDS Recording Arts Program, DiSilvestro is internet hosting a Recording and Manufacturing Workshop on February 8 from 11 AM to six PM at Retro Metropolis Studios (6120 Greene Avenue, Philadelphia PA 19144). The registration payment is $200.00 and all reservations have to be despatched to DiSilvestro through electronic mail previous to the category at rdsmusicandmedia@gmail.com.
About RDS Music and Media
RDS Music and Media was fashioned in 2018 by DiSilvestro and has grown from a single room providing one-on-one classes, to offering collegiate stage applications in a number of places. The RDS Recording Arts Program course supplies, curriculum, and enterprise mannequin have additionally been licensed by excessive faculties and music faculties and are actually being provided as a turnkey package deal for academic organizations. Every package deal contains studio and gear design and set up, course supplies, syllabus licensing, and staffing for any music faculty or enterprise trying to incorporate a Music Manufacturing and Business Program.
Along with the RDS Recording Arts Program, DiSilvestro produces, data and mixes nationwide, regional, and label artists inside Studio 4 Recording’s Studio B, the combination room the place numerous chart-topping hits have been blended. His most latest work options two Billboard placements with a #2 album on the Bluegrass Charts and a #15 single on the Scorching Singles Charts. He has additionally blended, mastered and session drummed on a number of tasks for Multi-Platinum Grammy-Profitable Producers Carvin Haggins and Ivan Barius. Moreover, DiSilvestro presently serves as an adjunct professor for the SRT program at Montgomery County Neighborhood School and is this system director for the Digital Audio Class at Cab Calloway College of The Arts.
Studio 4 Recording is situated at 129 Fayette St, Conshohocken, PA 19428.
For extra details about the RDS Recording Arts Program, electronic mail Ron DiSilvestro at rdsmusicandmedia@gmail.com.
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