Welcome to Garrett Kato's

SONGWRITING AND PRODUCTION
MASTERCLASS

I am so excited to share with you the music philosophies and techniques I've acquired over the years as an artist and a platinum-award selling producer.

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Topic-specific masterclasses presented by Garrett Kato

19 modules delivered straight to your inbox, so you can learn at your own pace

Aspiring song-writers and independent artists, from beginner to intermediate

Interact with Garrett Kato throughout your studies via the private Facebook group

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Part One - a more philosophical look at songwriting methods and techniques that can help you write faster and more confidently. It's based on my learnings from time I've spent both writing and producing songs, seeing what often works and what doesn't.

Part Two - a more technical look at music production. There are endless ways to mix and produce a song, but it's often knowing what to use at the right time when the magic really happens. I'll take you through all the tricks and methods I've found useful over the years of producing and mixing, including delving into more complex processing and fx's.

Course Outline

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Basic Structure & Concepts

Finding methods to create more effective lyrics, melodies, and emotional communication in your song for the listener.

Originality of Failure

Coming to grips with the anxiety and expectations of releasing and recording music and how to overcome them.

Creative Spaces

Finding a private creative space to work in can be challenging but is essential to the success of every writer.

Logic (DAW)

This will give you the basic concepts to work confidently on both logic and garage band.

Rhythm & Tempo

Finding the importance of tempo and rhythm in your song and exploring new possibilities and textures to your sound.

Live Performance vs Studio Performance

Creating basic survival skills for both sides of the art. While these both share similarities they are worlds apart in perfecting the craft.

Guitar Mic Set Up

Getting your acoustic guitar sound dialled to perfection. This module takes you through the proper microphone placement and techniques and using polar patterns to your advantage to create the best acoustic guitar sounds. Level up your acoustic guitar tone with this new module.

Gain Structure

This is a simple and easy yet vital part of production how to get clean tones and performances with proper mic techniques and placement.

This tool is basically a volume control for frequencies, but also so much more. We'll dive into the best tactics for getting your songs to sound balanced and even.

Compressors

Compression is the most subtle, but most effective part of mixing and tracking. It can bring a song to life and is the key component in almost all of the best recordings in the world.

This is a basic understanding of some of the most popular fx plugins to create new and interesting sounds for your songs.

Bussing

This will be a crash course in bussing signals inside your mix. At first, this may sound confusing, but once utilized it can be one of the most powerful tools in production.

GARRETT KATO SONGWRITING AND PRODUCTION MASTERCLASS
Price$95.00

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