RDS Music and Media is unveiling a set of instructional programs tailor-made to artists and aspiring music trade professionals that is designed as an alternative choice to the upper value faculties that provide restricted hands-on expertise, profession route, or job placement after commencement. The RDS Recording Arts Program can be created for musicians and hobbyists seeking to develop 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-Successful, Billboard-Charting Producer and Engineer Ron DiSilvestro (The Lifeless 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 dwelling to numerous hit information, fashioned by Phil and Joe Nicolo (The Butcher Brothers), and is presently co-owned and operated by one of the crucial in-demand Indy Producers William Yip. The previous location of Ruffhouse Information, the studio has been credited with artists corresponding 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 modifying in Professional Instruments, studio structure and procedures, in-depth gear demonstrations, recording methods, and an introduction to modifying 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 bettering technical abilities, the course places a deal with creating an environment friendly workflow within the studio, designing enterprise plans, constructing clientele, and studying how you can survive as an impartial engineer in a highly-competitive subject. Classes are one time every week, one and half to 2 hours per week.
- Profession Improvement (12 Weeks) – This course is for current graduates within the Audio Recording Business who need to set up a enterprise, develop their clientele, and begin actively working of their subject. Every scholar, upon finishing the course will acquire fast employment alternatives with RDS Music and Media and all of its studios and possess the talent set and marketing strategy to work as a contract skilled in any studio. These classes are taught on a one-on-one foundation, except for doing stay classes. All through the 12-weeks, college students will obtain instruction and on the next:
- Session and enterprise mannequin planning / structuring based mostly on every particular person
- Forming of enterprise / creating an LLC
- Internet area identify, internet hosting and web site creation
- Social Media web page creation
- Creating knowledgeable EPK / Bio / resume
- Personalised enterprise playing cards
- Making a marketing strategy in your new firm
- Palms-on coaching in three totally different studios, together with the famend Studio 4 Recording
- Working precise classes in a number of genres of music and clientele in three totally different studios
- Entry to a few studios to construct content material for a reel/EPK
- Advertising /enterprise growth lectures to develop clientele
Classes are held two instances every week, two hours per personal lesson; 4 hours per stay session with a shopper.
“These programs train the whole lot that the colleges that value $80k train, and most significantly, what these faculties DON’T train, which is how you can develop your corporation – and be sustainable within the trade,” mentioned DiSilvestro. “They’re additionally designed for musicians who should be taught the fundamentals of recording to be aggressive within the trade 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 should be despatched to DiSilvestro by way of e-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 areas. The RDS Recording Arts Program course supplies, curriculum, and enterprise mannequin have additionally been licensed by excessive faculties and music faculties and at the moment are being provided as a turnkey package deal for instructional organizations. Every package deal contains studio and gear design and set up, course supplies, syllabus licensing, and staffing for any music faculty or enterprise seeking to incorporate a Music Manufacturing and Business Program.
Along with the RDS Recording Arts Program, DiSilvestro produces, information 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 combined. His most current work options two Billboard placements with a #2 album on the Bluegrass Charts and a #15 single on the Sizzling Singles Charts. He has additionally combined, mastered and session drummed on a number of tasks for Multi-Platinum Grammy-Successful Producers Carvin Haggins and Ivan Barius. Moreover, DiSilvestro presently serves as an adjunct professor for the SRT program at Montgomery County Group 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, e-mail Ron DiSilvestro at rdsmusicandmedia@gmail.com.
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