The class at Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts is open to all ages and experience levels (beginner and advanced workshops). The regular workshops may be held on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday OR Friday including an additional day for lab time (see below). The workshops go for 6 weeks and payment for all 6 weeks is appreciated upfront at the box office or on Paypal. Please fill out the form below so I can schedule you into the next available workshop.
*During April we will be giving free introductory workshops for Reason 6 and Ableton Live open to the public on Mondays and Thursdays at our studio in the Mission District. Please sign up below before dropping by! Thank you.
Cost: 6 weeks/ 18hrs
$7 per class — *$49 (ages 20 and under)
$10 per class — *$60 (ages 20 and up)
*Cost includes 6 weeks of a 2-hour workshop (and electronic band rehearsal for those interested) and an additional day for 6 weeks to use lab, computers, and software, to review the topics of the week and work on whatever you like.
Location:
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
3rd floor — follow signs for “Digital Recording Studio”
Sign Up for the class in Boston or San Francisco here!
Bryan Taylor says:
aye i def got some savage lyrics that i can record… but wats the language restriction… like on the word shit?
Admin says:
Try to write about something other than clothes, hoes, drugs and money. The only language restriction is no swearing. All the best rappers can write amazing verses without swearing… Are you one of them?
Bryan Taylor says:
Ya.but everyone you talk to will say that. were only intrested in makeing good music ppl wanna hear.. thats exactly wat were about.. deep realtalk music.. an are those ten track the only selection..
Bryan Taylor says:
and how would i go about entering a class there if im canadian..? is there anything in canada like this.. is sounds like a great program..?
Admin says:
Yeah I know what your saying, but we just have to be careful because we dont want to offend any of our sponsors like Pepsi and Propellerhead Software who like to keep a “wholesome” image. They sponsored this contest, so its just the way things are…
Sorry but at the moment we aren’t in Canada. We are opening locations in San Francisco and New York City. Get the word out to your friends about us and maybe we’ll make it to Canada one day. Stay connect through Facebook with our updates. Thanks! Looking forward to hearing your stuff.
Josh says:
question , Who is Kendrick Lamar?
Admin says:
Hes a really good west coast rapper. Came out with a few mixtapes and they are all pretty good. His flow is crazy; he can adapt his style to sound like any rapper and very lyrical.
Check out this blog post.
http://beatshoplabs.com/2011/10/kendrick-lamar-growing-apart/
froz aka smokey bryant says:
just sayin.. crooked i is waaaayyyy nicer than kendrick lamar.. but kendrick is pretty good compared to the garbage that is out there nowadays.. so here the deal.. you want a 16 or a 32 about something other then the norm.. easy.. my question is.. when does this end and who votes on these? bkuz i see the due date but around when will winners be informed and also i wanna know who’s votings kuz if its a plays/fan voting thing i dont like that bkuz the masses dont understand the type of rap you even pushing with this contest.. but if its some people who is about hip hop that live and love this culture.. i’m in.. i just aint gonna try to have a fan contest where we gotta get plays n stuff like that.. if thats the case we can just go to our reverbnation pages n see who has the most plays ya know.. i want someone qualified to be judging these verses, win, lose or otherwise.. thanks for your time
froz aka smokey bryant says:
oh yeah one more thing.. who mixes n masters these joints? yall just accepting verses on top a beats without being mixed n mastered? jw kuz stuff like that sounds like garbage.. like i can mix n master my own i got a degree in it.. but jw..
Admin says:
We will be mixing the stems together at the end so eventually submitting the vocal track will be necessary to get the prizes.
froz aka smokey bryant says:
if by stems you are referring to the beat stem and the vocal stems.. i’m assuming you want me to mix all my vocals down to a stem and send you that accapella just to be placed onto the track.. if so this will be done for you tonight.. and in ya email..
or do you want this completely unmixed and to just send you guys the vocal tracks i layed in the wav files raw? and based on that.. where would you like that sent? bkuz wav files dont fit in emails generally.. less you want 4 different emails kuz i lay my vocals 4 times for a verse.. do you have a dropbox account? if not let me know how this can be sent..
froz aka smokey bryant says:
soo i’m sending the wav file of the mixed down vocal stem (accapella) and a fully mixed (reference track) of how my vocal’s should essentially sit into the beat.. bkuz you said you wanted stems.. if you want the vocals broken down further let me know kuz like i said before that is way to much to send thru email and if so i will invite you to a dropbox folder and i’ll send stuff that way.. but there will most likely be two emails because each wav file is going to max out the send capacity of yahoo. thanks again for the opportunity
Admin says:
Great, send away!
Calidon says:
It can be 32 bars for sure?
Admin says:
Yeah definitely. Go for the 32!
Brandon Jones says:
That’s not difficult, rapping without cursing should be easy to do, as well as the money, hoes, clothes, etc. I feel as though people have lost the true meaning of hip-hop and see it only for profitable gain and fame. I’ll be entering and at least trying to help things.
Admin says:
Word Brandon, thanks for understanding and good luck!
Brandon Jones says:
Thank you.
Brandon Jones says:
I want to use Lies, but there’s not even 32 bars on it. Should I just do the 16?
Admin says:
I just uploaded an extended version!
Brandon Jones says:
I already used a different one, and it fit much better too, but whoever made LIES, shouts to you. If I could submit twice I would!
Admin says:
You can submit as many times as you want!
SHEMUEL says:
DOES THIS HAVE TO BE SEND IN 11/26/11 OR BEFORE THAT DATE?
Admin says:
No, you can send it in anytime between now and then… You can also submit as many tracks as you want… So if you spit like 10 tracks, you’ll be more likely to win…
froz aka smokey bryant says:
just wanna say i fully support this and i see how yall take younger kids and be teaching them this.. seriously i’ve always said soon as i get just a lil right financially (lots of bills and investments right now).. that i want to have a thing where i can teach kids song writing, mixing, mastering, etc.. like this is a lil different but so good for the youth.. gotta show them there’s different things out there then what they see on tv every day.. ya know
froz aka smokey bryant says:
also everyone’s beats are really hot.. but i think i’m jumpin on “One” by jazz.. beat made me start rapping immediately.. love it keep it up
froz aka smokey bryant says:
was wondering if you can confirm if you got my entry.. just dont want to find out it was never received or anything.. thanks.. email it was sent from jaredsanborn@yahoo.com
thanks for your time
Admin says:
Yeah we gotta em, This is hottt!!
froz aka smokey bryant says:
thanks.. glad to hear you like it.. stay up n keep doin what you guys doin over there.. much respect for gettin music to the youth as young as possible.. they need it
Exercise says:
Great! thanks for the share!
Arron
Calidon says:
Hey , im jus wondering if I should attatch a written bio to the email im sending with my entry for the contest?
Admin says:
Sure, it will be good to know a bit about you!
Calidon says:
okay i submitted my entry, hope you like it! let me know if it went through please and thankyou
Admin says:
Havent recieved it yet. Did you send it to beatshoplabs@gmail.com
Calidon says:
ya thats where i sent it i can send it again?
Calidon says:
I have sent it again let me know plase if u get it this time…
froz aka smokey bryant says:
was wondering how we would know whats going on with this contest? i know its over but who won? and where can we see who won?
The Beats Makers Software Guy says:
Great post. Technology has come so far. It\\\’s amazing that anyone with the right beats makers software can create pumping beats and music right on their own computer.
It really makes it possible for anyone to become a music mixer or DJ.
Elliot Young says:
This class also covers things besides Hip-hop and rap, correct? I’m very interested in making house and dance music. I understand you guys work off reason which is great, because I’m quite familiar with reason, I was just wondering if there was a specific curriculum or something.
Admin says:
Yeah, we work with Reason 6… you should probably be in our more advanced class for people already familiar with music production. A lot of the techniques you learn about hip hop/rap will apply to making house and dance music… Synthesizer and drum programming are the same for any genre that use those instruments. You can apply it to whatever music genre you want but more specifically those two genres because they are merging and mixing.