Digital Sound Recording CLASS
Where Music is the Key to My Soul!
Are you a Singer or Music Artist? Do you already make beats? Dance? Have you ever deejayed or played your playlist at an event? Are you a writer of Spoken Word Poetry or Lyrics? Do you rap, or write spoken word? Do you play Corridos or cover music of some of your favorite bands? Do you want to learn to record bands or run the sound board? Do you already use FL Studio or GarageBand or BandLab? Do you already have your music out on Soundcloud or Spotify? Do you want to learn how to play an instrument but never got the chance? Do you want to be a Voice Actor or Sports Announcer or create Sound FX for Film or Games?
If you answered yes to any of these, sign up for Digital Sound Recording.
Students in Digital Sound Recording will learn the basics of computer music production and recording. Students will learn how to create and operate a digital audio workstation creating their own sounds, sampling, and using MIDI devices. Students will learn the science of sound, signal flow, bussing, and FX in analog & digital mixing as well as how to record live instruments, use of microphones and when to use them, and how to produce and setup a live show.
Students will learn to manage and produce a studio session, work with different audio file types, editing and sound engineering, the difference between notes, chords & connections; how to run a live digital audio session; how to track, edit and mix their own music; the reasons for creating music or sound-bytes for different purposes; and the music business, law and how to market and promote your sound in the real world use.
In this course, students gain valuable hands-on practice for recording engineering, mixing and mastering, songwriting, live show production, gigging, contracts, copyright, and the laws & promotion required for success in the Music Business. Students from this particular program build on the knowledge of previous students into student-selected career pursuits as they explore Project Lifecycle and Project Management skill-building applicable to all workforce fields.
Daily Assignments
Syllabus | Studio Expectations & Class Rules | Beginner Projects | Advanced Student Topics1st Days Assignments
- Signup for Soundcloud w/ personal email & follow hansensclasses
- Take the First Days New Student Survey
- Create Bandlab account. Signin w/ your google or create with your personal. This works on a chromebook so you can produce anywhere you can get internet access. There's also an app.
- Begin your first 8-bar sampling project, including the following parts, below.
- all 8 bars across the timeline (up to bar 9)
- Must include at least 4 different tracks
- Use samples from Bandlab, bottom right. It will quantize for you, so all the tempos match up.
- Then add additional one-shots to accentuate some aspects of the rhythm (ie. high hat, bass drop, zap, cymbal crash etc)
- Signup for Remind for this class with code - use this if you have any grade ?s
- Lookup the new topic for this year's AMES FX, Scoring & Game Audio Sound CONTEST
SONGWRITING CONTEST: STARTS in MARCH, DUE EARLY MAY
AMES Sound Competition for Game Audio & Soundtracking,
This will be the first year of the competition. I helped write the rubrics and will collab with the other experts to complete them. Some of the judges are from my connections at EA games, Steam, and a couple of local companies. We will be competing against some of the students in my friend’s School of Rock class from Capital HS (I think) from Oly. COMPETITION DETAILS
Music Scoring Rubrics ROUGH CUT:Peer Collaboration of Tools to help you in songwriting
SONGS TO GET YOU STARTED Singing from the young ladies in our class
CURRENT INTERNSHIPS:
DJ, mixing and mastering, beat production and selling beats, corridors and rock groups, running live sound for events, etc
EVENT PRODUCTION: Bumbeshoot internships, Kiro 7 News article
MASTERING: Education Suspended is restructuring for 2025
RADIO, PR & Marketing:
- C89.5 Summer Internship, a LHS 2024 grad did this
- KEXP 90.3: Youth Radio, Audioasis Youth Initiative, 90. Teen DJs, get playtime on KidHops,
- KEXP 90.3 Internships:
- Design + Marketing,
- 16yrs and older PAID Internships 15 hrs/wkly, 6 mos, apps due mid FEB
- adult Internships for historically under-invited and under-represented communities with hands-on experience.