In 2021, around the time I was finishing some of the first Studio.com courses I had taken, I joined Song Chasers, an online songwriting and music community created by Full Circle Music in Nashville, Tennessee. Song Chasers was founded and led by Seth Mosley, a Grammy-winning songwriter and music producer who also serves as the…
My MasterClass Experience On May 7, 2021, while New York City was still dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns, I enrolled in MasterClass for a one-year membership. With so much of life still disrupted at the time, I spent a significant amount of that period exploring the many courses available on the platform. I…
My education through Monthly, now known as Studio, became an important part of how I approached songwriting and music production. The courses were not simply about learning songwriting techniques or production techniques separately. A major part of the experience was learning how to write and produce a song at the same time, developing the composition…
Early Music Production Education During the early 2000s, Greg Kocis developed much of his practical knowledge of music production, recording, mixing, sampling, and sound design through music technology magazines and the sample libraries that accompanied them. Among the most influential publications during this period were Future Music, Computer Music, and Music Tech. These magazines became…
