MUSC 4162 Advanced Audio Production
- Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New Media
- Department: Music
- Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 2; Lecture: 1; Lab: 1
- Repeatable: Yes.
- Prerequisites: MUSC 4700 Audio Production II
- Semesters Offered: Fall
- Semester Approved: Spring 2023
- Five-Year Review Semester: Summer 2029
- End Semester: Fall 2028
- Optimum Class Size: 10
- Maximum Class Size: 12
Course Description
This course continues a study of audio production through more advanced production techniques and projects further enhancing student’s skills as songwriters, producers, and audio engineers.
Justification
Students in the Production Track learn about Audio Fundamentals, Songwriting, Audio Production, Audio Recording, Mixing and Mastering; but they still need more experience producing projects to further develop those skills. This course covers advanced production techniques and gives students an opportunity to do projects that will exercise their production muscles and develop those skills needed to produce professional content.
Student Learning Outcomes
- Be knowledgeable of the history and role of producers in the Music Industry.
- Be knowledgeable of, and familiar with the roles of the various types of producers and remixers in the Music Industry.
- Be familiar with different production techniques used for various circumstances.
- Be able to use a Digital Audio Workstation to produce an instrumental track underneath an existing vocal track.
- Be able to use a Digital Audio Workstation to produce a song or instrumental piece “in the style of” a reference example.
- Be able to use a Digital Audio Workstation to re-produce and arrange a song from an existing multi-track project.
- Be able to use a Digital Audio Workstation to produce a professional sounding production of a song or musical work performed by an artist, group or band.
Course Content
This course provides students with more opportunities to develop audio and music production skills by studying various regional and genre specific production styles, covering techniques used across all forms of production, and completing projects in new ways. The projects are variable in order to cater to all backgrounds and musical tastes of students, but some projects will be presented to push students out of their comfort zones and into new and exotic styles and genres. • History of Production• Music Producer• Record Producer• Re-Mixer/DJ Producer• Producing for Songwriters• Producing for Bands• Vocal Production/Top Line• Music “in the style of” • Producing is Arranging • Production Techniques• Business of Producing
Key Performance Indicators: Student performance will be assessed through the participation in labs, completion of projects, and scores on examinations.Lab Participation 20 to 40%Projects 40 to 60%Examinations 20 to 40%Representative Text and/or Supplies: Moorefield, Virgil. The Producer as Composer: Shaping the Sounds of Popular Music.
The MIT Press. 2010.
ISBN-10: 0262514052
Owsinski, Bobby. The Music Producer’s Handbook. Hal Leonard, 2016 (Second Edition).
ISBN-10: 1495045226
Pedagogy Statement: Instructional Mediums: Lecture/Lab