RDS Music and Media is unveiling a set of academic programs tailor-made to artists and aspiring music business professionals that is designed as an alternative choice to the upper price colleges that supply restricted hands-on expertise, profession path, or job placement after commencement. The RDS Recording Arts Program can also be created for musicians and hobbyists seeking to increase their talents to report on their very own.
Based mostly out of the legendary Studio 4 Recording in Conshohocken, PA and licensed nationwide to excessive colleges, music colleges, and vocational facilities, the RDS Recording Arts Program was developed by Award-Profitable, 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 house to numerous hit information, shaped by Phil and Joe Nicolo (The Butcher Brothers), and is at the moment 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 reminiscent of 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 format 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 fanatics in manufacturing, recording, mixing, mastering and enterprise practices. Along with bettering technical expertise, the course places a deal with creating an environment friendly workflow within the studio, designing enterprise plans, constructing clientele, and studying how one 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 Growth (12 Weeks) – This course is for latest graduates within the Audio Recording Trade who need to set up a enterprise, develop their clientele, and begin actively working of their subject. Every scholar, upon finishing the course will achieve rapid 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, excluding doing dwell 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
- Net area identify, internet hosting and web site creation
- Social Media web page creation
- Creating knowledgeable EPK / Bio / resume
- Customized enterprise playing cards
- Making a marketing strategy on 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 3 studios to construct content material for a reel/EPK
- Advertising and marketing /enterprise improvement lectures to develop clientele
Periods are held two instances every week, two hours per personal lesson; 4 hours per dwell session with a consumer.
“These programs train every thing that the faculties that price $80k train, and most significantly, what these colleges DON’T train, which is how one can develop what you are promoting – and be sustainable within the business,” mentioned DiSilvestro. “They’re additionally designed for musicians who should study the fundamentals of recording to be aggressive within the business and solid a wider web for his or her revenue potential for session work, writing classes and publishing alternatives.”
To kick off the New 12 months 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 Road, Philadelphia PA 19144). The registration payment is $200.00 and all reservations have to be despatched to DiSilvestro through e mail previous to the category at rdsmusicandmedia@gmail.com.
About RDS Music and Media
RDS Music and Media was shaped in 2018 by DiSilvestro and has grown from a single room providing one-on-one classes, to offering collegiate degree packages in a number of places. The RDS Recording Arts Program course supplies, curriculum, and enterprise mannequin have additionally been licensed by excessive colleges and music colleges and are actually being provided as a turnkey bundle for academic organizations. Every bundle contains studio and gear design and set up, course supplies, syllabus licensing, and staffing for any music college or enterprise seeking to incorporate a Music Manufacturing and Trade 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 had been combined. His most latest 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-Profitable Producers Carvin Haggins and Ivan Barius. Moreover, DiSilvestro at the moment 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 Faculty of The Arts.
Studio 4 Recording is positioned 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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