RDS Music and Media is unveiling a set of academic programs tailor-made to artists and aspiring music trade professionals that is designed as a substitute for 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 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-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, shaped by Phil and Joe Nicolo (The Butcher Brothers), and is at present co-owned and operated by one of the vital in-demand Indy Producers William Yip. The previous location of Ruffhouse Data, the studio has been credited with artists corresponding to Billy Joel, Anthrax, Bob Dylan, Lauren Hill, Dishwalla, The Police, and lots 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 methods, and an introduction to enhancing and mixing in Professional Instruments. Classes are two instances 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 survive as an unbiased engineer in a highly-competitive area. Classes are one time per week, one and half to 2 hours per week.
- Profession Improvement (12 Weeks) – This course is for latest graduates within the Audio Recording Business who need to set up a enterprise, develop their clientele, and begin actively working of their area. Every pupil, upon finishing the course will achieve speedy 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, apart from doing dwell periods. 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
- Customized enterprise playing cards
- Making a marketing strategy to 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 growth lectures to develop clientele
Classes are held two instances per week, two hours per non-public lesson; 4 hours per dwell session with a consumer.
“These programs train the whole lot that the faculties that price $80k train, and most significantly, what these colleges DON’T train, which is develop your small business – 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 forged a wider internet for his or her earnings 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 have to 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 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 areas. 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 bundle for academic organizations. Every bundle contains studio and tools design and set up, course supplies, syllabus licensing, and staffing for any music college or enterprise seeking 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 combo room the place numerous chart-topping hits have been combined. 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 combined, 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 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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