Berkleemusic.com Course Kicking off...

Posted on Apr 10, 2009 01:10 am
Quincysan
http://www.unitedmusicians.info
Contributor Since: Nov 11, 2007

For those who are curious about online music production schools, I just started a ProTools 101 course at Berkleeonline.com and had some initial thoughts to share.

The curriculum is very straightforward and easily digestible. They use animations and video on almost every page of text to supplement the reading. My instructor seems to have his stuff together. Here's an excerpt from his bio:
"Mendelson's work has been featured in recordings by artists such as Rihanna, Nicole Scherzinger, Fergie, and Garbage, and he is a first-call mix-down engineer in the Boston area. Mendelson is an expert in digital sampling and has created more than 10 international best- selling sample products for Big Fish Audio and East/West Communications."

The benefit of this course that is most immediately tangible to me are my classmates. I'm in a class with a multi-instrumentalist 18 year old who is interning at Anthony Pinto's studio in Sao Paulo Brazil. His Dad is a musician/engineer at the same studio. Anthony Pinto is best known for his award winning work in the movie City of God. If you haven't seen this movie...do it, it's got all the good stuff. I'm also in with an Iranian guy named Arash. When I saw his profile I laughed at his hilariously clean cut look...but he literally wrote the Persion version of the Steinberg Nuendo book and his mom is a national celebrity in Iran by the name of Sima Bina. Youtube her, she can sing.

That's all for now...

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