Program Overview

 MI's Independent Artist Program provides the technical knowledge and professional skills you need to survive as an independent recording and performing artist in today’s music world. Experienced instructors guide you through the complete creative process from songwriting, arranging, recording and production to marketing and promotion. Use your personal laptop audio workstation to record and mix live vocals, instruments, samples and loops into finished tracks, then showcase them on your self-designed website. Whether you are a singer, DJ, producer, rapper or instrumentalist, MI prepares you to take control of your future.

All programs include:

Personal Digital Studio
Train directly on your laptop audio workstation as you learn to sequence, sample, record, edit and mix – the world is your studio!

Original Recording Production
An experienced Project Advisor guides you as you write, arrange, record, produce and mix your final recording project.

Musical and Creative Development
Learn techniques for evaluating and improving your songwriting, arrangements, and recordings in workshop-style classes.

Independent Artist Career Skills
Learn how to manage your own career as an independent artist and assemble a complete industry-standard press kit to help you publicize your live shows and CDs.

Independent Artist Program required courses include:

Independent Artist Project
Recording Techniques I/II
Apple Logic I/II
The Business
Your Career Plan
Visual Media I/II

Elective courses include:

Private Lesson
Song Analysis
Songwriting Techniques I/II
Artist Development I/II
Music Internship
Synthesis and Sampling I/II


MI is an authorized Apple training center for Logic audio software. Logic is one of the industry’s most popular programs for digital audio production, editing and sequencing, used by major production companies, post-production facilities, studios, arrangers and composers. Students who complete classes in Logic as part of the Audio Engineering, Independent Artist, or Keyboard Program and pass a Logic certification exam receive a certificate from Apple and are listed on Apple’s website as authorized Logic experts.

Certificate

Artist Certificate (two quarters, 30 credit units)
Intensive, hands-on training in the complete songwriting, recording, production, promotion and distribution cycle, preparing you for a career as an independent music artist.

Degree Emphasis

Associate of Arts – Combined Emphasis (six quarters, 90 credit units)
Combines the 30-unit Independent Artist curriculum with 60 units of performance-based instrument training on bass, guitar, keyboard technology, drums, or voice.

 

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