RDS Music and Media is unveiling a collection of instructional 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 route, or job placement after commencement. The RDS Recording Arts Program can also be created for musicians and hobbyists seeking to develop their skills to report on their very own.
Primarily based 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-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 periods occurring on the studio, which is dwelling to numerous hit data, fashioned by Phil and Joe Nicolo (The Butcher Brothers), and is at present co-owned and operated by some of the in-demand Indy Producers William Yip. The previous location of Ruffhouse Information, the studio has been credited with artists reminiscent of Billy Joel, Anthrax, Bob Dylan, Lauren Hill, Dishwalla, The Police, and lots of extra.
The RDS Recording Arts Program consists of:
- 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 occasions per 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 expertise, the course places a deal with creating an environment friendly workflow within the studio, designing enterprise plans, constructing clientele, and studying tips on how to survive as an unbiased engineer in a highly-competitive discipline. Classes are one time per week, one and half to 2 hours per week.
- Profession Improvement (12 Weeks) – This course is for current graduates within the Audio Recording Trade who wish to set up a enterprise, develop their clientele, and begin actively working of their discipline. Every pupil, 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 for doing dwell periods. 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
- Personalised enterprise playing cards
- Making a marketing strategy in your new firm
- Fingers-on coaching in three totally different studios, together with the famend Studio 4 Recording
- Working precise periods 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 /enterprise improvement lectures to develop clientele
Classes are held two occasions per week, two hours per personal lesson; 4 hours per dwell session with a consumer.
“These programs educate every little thing that the colleges that price $80k educate, and most significantly, what these colleges DON’T educate, which is tips on how to develop your online business – 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 forged a wider web for his or her revenue potential for session work, writing periods 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 Road, Philadelphia PA 19144). The registration payment is $200.00 and all reservations should 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 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 supplied as a turnkey package deal for instructional organizations. Every package deal consists of 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 Trade 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 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 blended, mastered and session drummed on a number of initiatives for Multi-Platinum Grammy-Successful Producers Carvin Haggins and Ivan Barius. Moreover, DiSilvestro at present serves as an adjunct professor for the SRT program at Montgomery County Neighborhood Faculty 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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