[MUSIC] Welcome to the Music Production Capstone Course. I think you've met us all before, I'm Stephen Webber from the Art of Music Production. >> I'm Loudon Stearns from the Introduction to Music Production. >> And I'm Chrissy Tignor Fisher from Intro to Pro Tools. >> So over the next four weeks, we're going to be leading you through a Capstone Project. We won't be necessarily teaching you anything new but we're going to reflect on what you've already learned and share some of our philosophies on the process. >> Week 1 we're going to be concentrating on pre-production. >> Week 2, we'll be looking at setting up sessions and tracking your real instruments and your MIDI stuff. >> Week 3 we'll be talking about editing and putting together the best performance from your recordings. And during week 4, we're going to talk about mixing and getting a great performance and great overall sound for your projects. >> We might want to talk just for a moment about how to approach this course. I think we're all in agreement that it's a very good idea to watch the videos very early in the week. So you have time to kind of plan the rest of the week in terms of the production, right? >> Right, well this isn't this typical course maybe, it's like we're just setting the scene. And then you're going off and doing the work, right? So it's not step by step videos, do this, do this, do that. >> Right. >> Yeah. >> And there needs to be some time for you to reach out, perhaps to other people, musicians, things like that, plan your sessions all that kind of stuff. And we should also maybe touch on documenting, documenting your work as you go along. Chrissy, how do you tend to do that? >> So, I tend to take a lot of photos and videos to show what I'm doing in terms of setting up microphones or working with other musicians. I also really like to keep organized with different versions of my work just to kind of backtrack and make sure that I'm never without a previous version of one of my projects. >> Yeah, yeah, I always tell my students that the Save As command is probably the most valuable thing you could do so you can always go back. Always go back, how about you Loudon? >> Well, I do a lot of I think what we all do, I'm taking a lot of photos and I take notes in a journal all the time. >> Right. >> And I think also just for this course, every week we're going to be reflecting on what we've done that week. >> Right. >> And so if you're taking good notes, if you're in the computer you can copy paste or if you had it in a journal, you can just put that right into the course. So I think just being effective going through the course, really good documentation will just help this experience. >> Yeah, documentation is essential and I would even note, I would also just interject here, that saving your work in multiple places, at least three places, a hard drive crash is not an excuse. >> [LAUGH] >> Because you need to have, things need to live in at least three places or they don't exist. That's my philosophy, so anyway, I think this is going to be exciting. It's going to be really fun I think for students to put into practice to the things that they have learned from all three of our courses and bring them all together and create something that they're going to be proud of. >> Looking forward to it.
