TEN WEEK INTENSIVE
Next Intensive Starts December 1st 2026
Limited Seats Available • Enrollment Open Now
There will be a break for the Holidays (Late December - Early January)
Unleash the rarest musical power, your own imagination.
The music you want to make is not hidden beyond another plugin, another piece of gear, or another video.
The music you want to make isn't hidden at all, it's just waiting for you to focus, to aim your energy, to dedicate yourself to the artistic spirit you have always had.
This takes discipline and an intentional use of your time and energy. It also requires a guide.
In this 10-week program you will advance into your next evolution of musician and I will be your guide.
What do we cover?
In weeks 1-4 we will focus on assimilating the musical concepts that are essential to modern music making in any style or genre. The goal of these weeks is to integrate these ideas into your music making through focused exercises and lessons.
Areas of study will include but are not limited to:
Diatonic Palettes
Major Scale • Natural Minor Scale • Roman Numeral System
Chromatic Colors
Minor Extended Chords (Dorian) • The Major#11 Sound (Lydian) • Lydian Dominant and Altered Dominant (Melodic Minor) • Tritone Substitution
Melody
• Approaching Bass Lines as Tenor Melodies • Approaching Top Lines as Soprano Melodies • Physics of Melody (Musical Parkour) • Treating melodies as characters in a musical story •
Drums
• The Three Tempo Zones (Wheel of Tempo) • The 4 Limb Paradigm (The Drum Kit) • The Community Paradigm (Percussion) •
Orchestration
• Examining how Acoustic Instruments, Synths and Drum Machines evoke specific feelings and associations and using this intentionally in our own music. (Musical Recipes) •
Will I make complete tracks?
In weeks 5-10 we will take the lessons from weeks 1-4 and apply them to musical storytelling. Treating our musical elements as characters in a screenplay we will create music in various forms.
Forms
• Tune (a repeating form that can be iterated on) • Composition (a musical idea that unfolds without relying on repetition as a main tool) • Improvisation (using instinct and spontaneity to write music) • Beats & Loops (how to take a short repeating idea and turn it into a longer musical experience) • & More •
When do we meet?
In weeks 1-4 we meet four days a week (Monday through Thursday) at 12 noon Pacific Time (20:00 UTC).
In weeks 5-10 we meet twice a week on Monday and Wednesday at 1:30 PM Pacific Time (21:30 UTC).
⋆ Next Intensive Starts December 1st
⋆ Limited Seats Available
⋆ Next Intensive Starts December 1st
⋆ Limited Seats Available
I have a lot more to tell you about this, and I imagine you have questions.
Fill out an application below and choose a Zoom call time slot.
We'll talk about your music, the program and hang out for a bit.
See you then!