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PRICING & RESIDENCY ANNUAL PLAN Learn more! $600/year • Weekly BKS instructor hosted Office Hours • Weekly Music Theory Gym • Access to all resident channels on our Discord • Incubators and Electives are $100 each • Participate in exclusive workshops MONTHLY PLAN Buy now! $79/month via Discord • Weekly BKS instructor hosted Office Hours • Weekly Music Theory Gym • Access to all resident channels on our Discord • Incubators and Electives are $100 ea ch • Participate in exclusive workshops Note when purchasing a class, you must maintain an active residency to access your class channel for the duration of the class. **Please purchase your monthly residency subscription directly from our Discord . We recommend doing this from your computer as Apple will add a significant surcharge when purchasing from your iOS device. More About Residency Access special pricing, weekly open lab sessions, music theory gym workouts. Our residents makeup our incubators where we workshop our music together. Our residents help determine upcoming schedules and even suggest new classes and incubators. request info Weekly Attended Office Hours Weekly open office hours where me mber/residents may convene, ask questions, collaborate with a qualified instructor present to facilitate. See our calendar for current office hours schedule as well as other residency events. All items in blue are free to residents. $100 Incubators & Jams! Stay active making music! Our s horter workshopping cohorts are only $100 to join ** ** You must maintain residency for their duration Music Theory Gym Free to active residents Musical analysis of the music you love Music Production Gym Free to active residents Forensic breakdowns of mixing and production techniques in your favorite songs Ear Training Gym Free to active residents Test your ears with friends and teachers Instrument Gym Free to active residents We get better when we practice together. Finger drumming, keyboard skills, vocal exercises and more... Weekly Beat Challenge Free to active residents No-judgement generative challenge. Make two song ideas a week. Anything counts. Review together. Exclusive BKS classes Enjoy low residency pricing on our range of music production curricula Exclusive workshops Weekly open hours where members may convene, ask questions, collaborate with a qualified instructor present to facilitate. More benefits... We are adding stuff all the time. Currently mem bers can access office hours, weekly attended lab (help) sessions, access to the full school community, song feedback, slack channels, as well as discounts with our partners. In the coming year, expect to see IN-PERSON events hosted in select cities, and available to members. Join Beat Kitchen for the classes, stay for the culture and community.

Scott Hampton teaches music production at Beat Kitchen. Find out more about them here. ⨞⨞ Back Scott Hampton New York, NY buttons and bows Scott Hampton, aka exaltron, is a versatile trumpeter, guitarist, music technologist, and composer whose career spans live performances, scoring, and music for major brands like Nestea and Petco. His work has appeared in feature films, TV shows on networks such as NBC, Bravo, and HGTV, and branding campaigns. Recently, he gained attention for the Rotobow, a motorized bow inspired by the hurdy-gurdy, set for a 2025 crowdfunding launch. Combining instruments, looping, and visuals, Scott has performed at iconic NYC venues like The Knitting Factory and toured nationally with acts like Moldover. In 2016, he built a mobile looping rig, featured in The Moving Stage. A passionate educator, he teaches Ableton, Logic Pro, and music production at institutions like NYU Steinhardt, inspiring the next wave of creators.

Mark Marshall teaches music production at Beat Kitchen. Find out more about them here. ⨞⨞ Back Mark Marshall New York City, NY sound for picture Brooklyn-based Mark Marshall has taken his years of experience and expertise -- a bootcamp spent touring as a guitarist and recording with notable musicians in many genres -- and has dedicated his creative output to composition projects that wield instruments, tape machines, samplers, and microphones in the same way an artist uses paint, charcoal and ink. For Marshall, composition is an experimental adventure. “Sound has to evoke emotion. So the creation of sound is very much about finding exactly how to conjure that emotion.” Mark Marshall’s obsessive interest in the creation of sound to properly express and shape emotion has taken his work to new heights. Marshall’s unique approach to composition, instrument choice, recording technique, and mixing options harkens back to his refusal to fit neatly in a box, coupled with his time-tested talent and experience on the road and in the studio.

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Explore videos by our beatmakers, producers, and instructors. Get to know our people and about our courses. VIDEOS AND MEDIA Hear from our beat makers, producers, and instructors. Learn about our people and our programs. Music Production Overview We are putting together a class. It's limited to eight people. You'll start in Ableton Live... or Logic Pro. Your choice. It doesn't matter where you are. We are going to teach you on your own screen. Live. It doesn't matter who you are. If you are creative, there is a seat for you at our table. Welcome to Beat Kitchen a message from the founder Beat Kitchen was created to be a place where creatives go to play with their food. We teach music production, live, in small classes. We don't give you a recipe; we teach you the foundation so that you can go out on your own and cook. This is your school, it's not ours. It's about you learning the skills so that you can do what you want to do, and it's about you staying connected with the things that make you feel creative and inspired. So why 'Beat Kitchen'? Well, it's not exactly a school — it's not exactly a residency. A kitchen is someplace special. Pretty much every home has one. It's a place where you can go and make a mess. You roll up your sleeves, you get your hands dirty, you iterate until you come away with something amazing. We'll be introducing you to some of our instructors here and our programs. We hope you'll check it out and please get in touch if you'd like to be a part. Thanks! Ableton Live: Core Skill Ableton Certified Trainer, Charles Noel Greetings! I'm Charles Noel. I am a certified Ableton trainer and specialist. I like to play around with things like this Push. Ableton is my tool of choice in all of my music endeavors that involve recording inside the box. You may know me as Archetype, a techno producer from 90s. I'm a bit old school as you can see in the background. Throughout my travels around the world, not only was I a long-term DJ and producer, but i've also been a teacher and mentor in all that time as well — spreading the lovely gospel of Ableton and good music in general. See you around! Synthesist's Masterclass Intro by Marshall Moran Hi. I'm Marshall Moran. I'm a synthesist, composer, sound-designer, producer, and an educator, now teaching at Beat Kitchen. At Beat Kitchen we keep the class sizes small and we don't pre-record any classes because we really want to take time to answer the questions that you might have. It's an exploratory space that functions kind of like a lab for your ideas. The people that teach here are really excited to do it, and they're really passionate about what they do — myself included. It makes it a really enjoyable place to learn about something, but also really enjoyable place to teach about something because we have this constant dialogue going and we're kind of always learning from each other. One way that you can learn from me is you can take a course in advanced synthesis where we go beyond basic subtractive and move out into the world of wavetable and granular synthesis and all sorts of advanced digital sampling. We talk about different types of physical modeling and get into some really cool stuff like analog frequency modulation and conceptual things like vector synthesis. So if that's something that you think you'll be interested in — if you like bleeps and bloops and you want to be able to program your own sounds easily so that you don't have to rely on presets from any any other keyboard or anything specific and you can just walk into any studio and get the sound that you want — yeah this is definitely the class for you. I would totally recommend it if you want to be able to make your own kick drum sounds and bass sounds — this is the class for you. If you want to learn about how to enhance your acoustic drum sounds this is also kind of the class for you. So I hope I see you there and welcome to Beat Kitchen! Songwriting Masterclass Intro by Mary Jennings Hi. I'm Mary Jennings and I am a musician, a songwriter, a piano player, and a teacher! I have been playing music and writing songs for over 20 years now and have toured and recorded and produced like ten albums now. I've worked with a lot of different artists and co-written. I've had songs placed in tv and film I've really enjoyed it and I still do it all the time. Why do I want to teach? Because I want to create a community and I want people to know that no matter what stage you're in with music — maybe you've been playing music for a while, maybe you just like music and never touched an instrument — you can be a musician. I think that as George Elliot was quoted saying, "it's never too late to be what you might have been", and if you just woke up one day and decided, "You know what? I want to be a musician!", I want to help you get to that. If that's just writing songs, if that's playing songs, if it's just for yourself, for therapy, if it's because you want to go do an open mic, or if it's because you think you want to be the next mega star, I want to help you achieve that. For me, there have been so many mentors and teachers along the way that have really changed my life and have made a huge impact to me, and it would mean a lot to me to be able to do the same thing for somebody else. That's why I want to teach. Electronic Musician Kitchen Intro by Alex Poselski Hi. I'm Alex. I'm an electronic music producer and an instructor here at Beat Kitchen. Electronic music is a vast world. If you were to ask somebody to imagine an electronic music track, they wouldn't really be able to point to any specific sound. It's unexpected. It's vast. What really separates electronic music from all other music is... the electronics. And in this world of technology that we have, there's just so much that you can do. There's limitless possibilities. In the audio world, I think of it as sculptor. You are able to sculpt audio waveforms exactly as you want them to be at exact moments in time so that they're replicated exactly every single time. This is something that hasn't been possible before in music, so it's a very interesting field to work in. It's almost a mixture of science and art. I think electronic music needs more people in it and more people experimenting and more people exploring. I'm hoping that you'll join me in that exploration of the field. Logic Pro: Core Skills Intro by Nathan Rosenberg Hello. Today I'd like to talk about Logic. Like all of our DAW labs, the Logic class opens the door to a whole world of music production. It's a really important class. Our goal is to get you up and running as quickly as possible so that you can start learning things like mixing, sound design, and beat making. But this class isn't exactly about that. Your DAW, and in this case Logic, is going to be your everyday tool — the one that you interact with constantly as you explore the craft of music production — so it's essential that you not only know it inside and out, but that you're comfortable enough to know what you can and can't do. It's like you need to have this feeling — like even if you don't know exactly how to do something, you need to know that you can do it and that it can be done, and then we want you to have a pretty good idea of how to go about doing it. You can't always know every single thing about every platform, so we want you to be able to intuit a lot of this stuff. So much of what we do in these classes is about workflow because that's going to really open up the door to everything that comes after. I'm Nathan. I'm the the founder of the company and you'll see me all over this this website, i'm sure. But this is a class that I'm also probably likely to teach fairly often. I've been using Logic for over 20 years. I know it really, really well. I love all of the DAWs that we teach, but Logic is close to my heart. It's really second nature to me. There are a few things I really like about it. First of all, it's really, really flexible. It doesn't really matter if i want to sketch out a song idea or record a live band, or if I want to create some crazy sound design, Logic handles all those tasks. It also allows me to customize my workflow however I want. I really really appreciate that. The second thing is that it comes with an astonishing amount of stuff. It's got really good content: whether it's effects and instruments or loops and and samples. I'm not saying you're never ever going to want to look outside or you're not going to want something fancier some day — maybe something more special, but my my personal feeling is that right out of the box, if you can't make a really really smoking track that's ready for prime time — and if you can't do that in whatever style you want to do it in — don't blame your tool. Logic comes with enough stuff that you should be able to do it. So either way we can help you with that. That's what this course is about (as you continue on), but the place you start is in understanding the workflow and capabilities of, in this case, Logic, and that's what you'll learn in my class. FL Studio: Core Skills Intro by Alex Poselski Hi, I'm Alex. I'm an FL Studio instructor here at Beat Kitchen. In your career as a music producer, there will be one tool which you go back to daily, and that is your digital audio workstation or DAW. FL Studio is one of the primary DAWs that people use in the music production world. Despite its humble beginnings, FL Studio has grown over the years — and especially recently — to become toe to toe with major DAWs which were considered more professional (such as Ableton or Logic). One of the primary strengths of FL Studio is its songwriting and arrangement workflow. It's less restrictive than other DAWs tend to be. It's more like having a sketch pad to jot ideas down quickly. Now, the purpose of this course is to make you fluent in FL Studio so that you're not fighting with it in order to get those ideas down. Ideally, at the end of the course, you won't need to look into the manual unless you're doing something complex or niche. Mastering a DAW is an exciting step in your journey as a music producer. I hope to see you there. Guess what! You already KNOW music theory! Intro by Nathan Rosenberg You're here to learn about music theory and you're waiting for me to use words like locrian and neapolitan sixth. I've got some good news for you. You already know music theory! Because music theory is just the names for the things that sound right and wrong to you anyway. Like if i were to sing 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' and i went "mary had a little laaamb..." and you said that sounded terrible (which it did), music theory would just be the name for why. So the bad news is that music theory is not going to be your get out of jail free card. This is not a tool that's going to write your next hit song for you, but what it will do is allow you to hear things more clearly and to identify patterns. And those patterns might be things like your favorite song on the radio or the thing you're humming while you're walking down the street — and that actually might be your next hit song. So it is a very very powerful tool. What it isn't is a set of rules that i'm gonna make you follow. You're already following them! It would be like grammar. If I didn't know how to read or write it wouldn't mean I didn't know how to speak. I could still express myself and string sentences together with nouns and verbs and make myself understood even if i didn't know which ones were the nouns and which ones were the verbs . So this is more about creating a dialogue we can use to express ourselves and describe the things we're hearing. Now my approach might be a little unorthodox in this. I mean I'm certainly a musician and a music theory geek, but I come at this as a producer and an engineer, so my understanding of theory is also couched in my my understanding of acoustics, the harmonic series, and getting my ideas into my recording platform as quickly as possible. So that's what we're after here. I'm hoping that in the coming classes we can explore what some of these words are and maybe we can even talk about the Neapolitan sixth... which is a first inversion of a flat two chord... but whatever. Let's dig into that one another time. Until then i'll see you around!

Beatmaking starts here. Learn the art and craft of producing your own music. Part school, part residency. Feed your creative soul! Colections FUNDAMENTALS 'Fundamentals ' are the 'curriculum classes' built to support you in incubators (or on your own). We usually recommend you have a recording platform (a DAW) that you can navigate in our programs. You can choose one from the CORE SKILLS collection. You can always go back and learn another. Before you venture into the depths of mixing, we think you should familiarize yourself with the tools engineers use to shape sound. Things like compression, filters, signal flow, and basic mixing as well as microphones, speakers, cables and hardware can be learned in PRIME SKILLS classes like Effects Synthesis & Mixing Primer, etc. All Producer Collections Core Skills COLLECTION CHOOSE A DAW Ableton Live Logic Pro FL Studio Pro Tools learn more... Primary Skills COLLECTION FX, Synth, Mixing Basics Hardware & Recording Digital Marketplace learn more... Masterclass COLLECTION Advanced Mixing Synthesist Masterclass Mastering Songwriting learn more... Kitchen COLLECTION Great Vocals Instrument Programming Hip Hop Film Scoring Electronic Music Orchestral Libraries learn more...

Big orchestras programmed here: Kitchens are where beat-makers get their hands dirty. It's where creatives go to play with their food. Orchestral Kitchen Cheesy strings end here... Get the most out of your orchestral sounds. The fact is that the best orchestral production doesn't start with great sounds. Great sounds won't help poor programming. We are here to teach you the skills you need to make your brass sections splat, your percussion thunder, and your strings produce goosebumps. Key Topics: Articulation Arrangement Sections Mixing Considerations Analysis Course Length: 20 hours in total Course Meets: Live in select cities In-person Studio Sessions: yes Studio Session Locations: TBD Office & Lab Hours Available: Yes (with membership) NEXT SCHEDULED START DATE: Enroll now!

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Member and faculty donated scholarships are meant to shape the future of our craft. If you can't pay for Beat Kitchen, we still want you to apply. Scholarships Our mission is to shape the next wave of creative music-makers to reflect and preserve the values, passions, and skills that we hold dear. We understand there are systematic imbalances in the industry and we want to offer our community and our experience to everyone who would benefit by being a part of it. What this means is that even if you are unable to pay for our program, we still really want you to apply. As a team, we routinely donate into our scholarship pool and we make an attempt to open scholarship seats regularly in our labs. If you are interested in a scholarship seat in one of Beat Kitchen's music production programs, please tell us about yourself and which course you are interested in taking. Please take a moment to reflect upon our pricing, the length of the course and then how much you are reasonably able to pay. Our long-term goal is to be able to offer one or two subsidized seats in each lab (once we have enough students enrolled that we can do so). Tuition can be a particular barrier to students who are Black, Indigenous, racialized, gendered, disabled, Queer, trans, underrepresented, oppressed and minoritized. We want these voices in our community and we tend to direct scholarship hours to such individuals, but anyone for whom tuition is a barrier is encouraged to apply and 'pay what you can'. We also urge our existing community to consider donating time or money to help us make this dream a reality. Our scholarship program is self-funded with time that our community has lovingly donated. It is also subsidized by our generous partners and even by some of our students! We also ask that students who are able to do so consider donating (time or money) to redistribute wealth, skills, and our collective talents. Please reach out if you would like to learn how you can help! Working together, we can realize a dream — shaping an impactful, imaginative, transformative artistic future based on principles of creativity, empathy, and justice — for ourselves and for those in need! PLEASE CONSIDERING HELPING US SPONSOR A SCHOLAR Please consider helping us maintain our scholarship program. Beat Kitchen does not endorse manufacturers but we are openly grateful to those who help us share music and the craft of production with others. Scholarship Merch! Support a Beat Kitchen Scholar by purchasing our stylishly obnoxious t-shirt using the link below: FUND SCHOLARSHIP WITH THIS TEE! Support a Scholarship Help support our mission to reach, teach, & feed creative souls. It costs $600 to place a resident in our program for a year. Residents are eligible to enroll in classes (these have additional fees but some are as low as $100). Residents also enjoy about 14 hours a week of face-to-face mentorship, workshops, and activities. This campaign will also fund our 'pay-what-you-can' program which allows residents to join our classes at a price point they can afford. We favor anyone who is a positive, creative candidate for our community, particularly those from disadvantaged or marginalized communities, and for whom our prices are out of reach. Frequency One time One time Monthly Monthly Amount $5 $5 $10 $10 $20 $20 $50 $50 $100 $100 $600 $600 Other Other 0/100 Comment (optional) Donate Scholarship Application First Name Last Name Email Phone Scholarships come in two types: SPONSERED MEMBERSHIP Awarded yearly, sponsored memberships subsidize the full cost of membership. Membership puts discounted classes, lab hours, and our popular incubators and electives within reach of those who couldn't otherwise afford them. With a sponsored membership you are included in the head-count to determine if a class will run or not. PAY WHAT YOU CAN In some cases, we may find open seats in a class that is running but not full. For these, we may look to existing pay-what-you-can requests. Please acquaint yourself with our pricing and make a good faith proposal for what you can afford. With a pay-whay-you-can request, you are not considered in the headcount to determine if a class will run. SPONSOR A SCHOLAR Please consider helping us maintain our scholarship program. Beat Kitchen does not endorse manufacturers but we are openly grateful to those who help us share music and the craft of production with others. Membeship Type: * Sponsered Membership Pay-what-you-can I want to sponser a BKS scholar! What course(s) are you interested in? How much are you able to pay? Where are you located? Pronoun Tell us about yourself! Submit Thanks for submitting!

Film scores served here: Kitchens are where beat-makers get their hands dirty. It's where creatives go to play with their food. Soundtrack Kitchen Film scores served up here... Learn the tools used by film composers to efficiently complete soundtracks. Your instructors will demonstrate how to use music to convey emotion and compliment on-screen action. This course will cover popular software, midi controllers, live recording, and other tools for producing a film score. Key Topics: Instrumentation Controllers Sample Libraries/Players Notation Software Delivery Considerations Mix Considerations Themes Course Length: 20 hours in total Course Meets: Live in select cities In-person Studio Sessions: yes Studio Session Locations: TBD Office & Lab Hours Available: Yes (with membership) NEXT SCHEDULED START DATE: Enroll now!

Hip hop served here: Kitchens are where beat-makers get their hands dirty. It's where creatives go to play with their food. Hip Hop Kitchen Hip Hop served up here. Kitchens are where beat-makers get their hands dirty. It's where creatives go to play with their food. In this course learn how to create unique beats for your tracks. Instructors will cover basic structure, sound design, and mixing techniques for producing artist-ready beats. Having a collection of personally crafted beats gives any artist a powerful toolbox useful in a variety of situations. Key Topics: Looping Sequencing Mixing Electronic Instruments Hooks Designing Drums Vocal FX Sample Organization and Maintenance Hardware Samplers Pre-Mixing Beats For Studio Sessions Course Length: 12 hours in total Course Meets: Live Remote Meeting over Zoom In-person Studio Sessions: TBD Studio Session Locations: TBD Office & Lab Hours Available: Yes (with membership) NEXT SCHEDULED START DATE: Enroll now!

Mary Jennings teaches music production at Beat Kitchen. Find out more about them here. ⨞⨞ Back Mary Jennings Nashville, TN song-smith Mary Jennings has been a songwriter for over 20 years. She has 6 full albums under her belt, has music in TV shows such as Dance Moms, WWE Wrestlemania, and The Jim Jeffries Show, and has done extensive touring across the U.S. both headlining and opening for Mike Doughty, Ryan Cabrera, Teddy Geiger, Jeffrey Gaines, Rachel Yamagata, and Rachael Sage. www.maryjennings.com