Berklee Online Launches Master Track Video Series With Behind-The-Scenes Stories About Prince, Lou Reed, And Notorious B.I.G. From Master’s Degree Teachers

Berklee Online is releasing a series of animated videos to celebrate the unique opportunity that students in its brand new Master’s Program will have—to learn directly from some of the top minds in the music industry. Each two-minute video features a different teacher from the program, sharing a behind-the-scenes story over animated imagery that reenacts the narrative.
In the first video released with Susan Rogers, she tells the tale of her days working with Prince. Rogers fondly recounts her time spent recording with Prince in Minneapolis in the 1980s, divulging details about his creative process and super-human ability to maximize every second of the day. She worked as Prince’s staff engineer from 1983-1987 and will be teaching the Psychoacoustics in Music Production graduate course for Berklee Online.



The next three videos feature Sean Slade (who will be teaching Culminating Experience in Music Production 1 and 2) recounting an experience where recording Lou Reed turned explosive (literally!); Prince Charles Alexander (Commercial Vocal Production) reminiscing about how it wasn’t until he recorded the Notorious B.I.G. that he learned to appreciate hip-hop; and E. Michael Harrington (Music Business Law) sharing how he helped bring the Civil Rights-era anthem, “We Shall Overcome” into the public domain. More information on the teachers and program can be found here.

Berklee Online will spread out the release of these videos over the next few months as the application deadline approaches for the two master’s degree programs—a Master of Music in Music Production and Master of Arts in Music Business. This video series not only shares compelling stories but also shines a spotlight on these Berklee teachers who have made great contributions to the music industry. Their talent, experience, and knowledge is priceless and is now accessible to post-graduate students accepted into Berklee Online’s master’s degree programs.

Widely recognized among the top music schools in the world, Berklee College of Music in Boston launched Berklee Online in 2002 as an online option for attending their illustrious classes. Over the past 15 years, the online school has grown to offer award-winning music courses, certificate programs, and bachelor’s degree programs. They recently began accepting applications for their first online Master’s Degree programs. Berklee Online is the world’s largest online music school, teaching more than 11,000 students a year through their online degree and non-degree programs.
“This is a chance for students to spend a year doing everything they love and hone their knowledge and skills to advance their career in the music industry,” says Berklee Vice President of Online Education Carin Nuernberg." Students will learn from world-renowned faculty in an interactive, collaborative course environment while forging connections with a network of talented industry professionals from around the globe. We couldn’t be more excited for students to apply and for the program to launch.”

The Master’s Degree program will continue with Berklee Online’s cost-effective, high-quality breadth of offerings, and will give students the chance to earn their degree for a total cost of $33,695 (tuition and fees included), which is roughly 20 percent less than the cost of an in-person degree. Students interested in learning more can head to Berklee Online’s website here.

Singer-Songwriter RJ Comer Releases One Last Kiss

Musician offered second chance at lifelong dream with debut album

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — June 15, 2018 – When RJ Comer dropped out of music school thirty years ago, he thought that was the end of his dream – but music wasn’t done with him just yet. Three decades later, his dream of becoming a full-time musician was not only re-ignited, but became his reality. He’s releasing his debut solo album One Last Kiss today, and it is available everywhere.

Multi-instrumentalist Shawn Byrne produced One Last Kiss, and fluidly combines various themes ranging from somber moments to happy love songs. The album features contributions from Grammy-winning guitarist Randy Kohrs (Jim Lauderdale, Dolly Parton, Dierks Bentley), fiddler Daniel Foulks (Parker Millsap) and cellist Brian Sutherland. The album moves from joyful moments like “Under a Lover’s Moon,” an upbeat love song co-written with Comer’s wife Deborah, to darker moments like the bluesy title track. “All Over Again” is for those who work hard day in and day out with a smile on their face, putting in long hours for the sake of their families, and humorous tinges weave throughout “Desert Mama” and “Bad Day in Paradise.”

When music school didn’t work out, Comer’s path took a grim turn: years of violence, poverty, addiction, fractured relationships and suicide attempts followed. After a come-to-Jesus weekend in a Mississippi jail, he straightened his life out, worked his way through law school and became a lawyer. Along the way, Comer kept coming back to music, starting a band for fun on the side – one that was eventually signed. He took the opening and stormed back into music. Though One Last Kiss is his debut full-length album as a solo artist, it’s his sixth release since returning to music, including two band LPs and two solo EPs.

Offering insights of a man who transcended hardships few people escape, the songs on One Last Kiss deftly straddle the line between traditional and contemporary Americana and blues. With a ragged edge to his baritone voice, One Last Kiss shows the emotional and experiential range of a man who once only knew how to fight or flee — who slowly learned to live and prosper, and eventually learned to love.

Leaving his former life in Los Angeles behind, Comer now resides in the Tennessee woods with his wife of 23 years and tours throughout the US and Canada. He has played official showcases at SXSW, Canadian Music Week and various songwriter’s festivals.

Isotonik Studios: Follow SCENE FIVE for Ableton Live 10

RELEASE: OUT NOW  

PRICE: £19.99 Exc VAT

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Over the last few months since the announcement of Live 10 we've been focused on releases from member of the Isotonik Collective with landmarks such as PrEditor 2, Ebosuite and ClyphX Pro.
Now though is the time to look back over our past successes and bring them up to the new standards of Live 10. We'll be working methodically through some of our back catalogue to test and update where necessary.
We've started the journey beginning with the products in our most popular pack the Modular Series!
The most subscribed to element of the Modular Series is by far our Follow SCENE device which on a variety of trigger events will perform a selection of Follow actions to trigger chosen scenes.
We've recorded a series of videos explaining in detail the concept of the device, the Trigger Types and Follow Action options along with controlling the device with the Push, MIDI & Clip Envelopes.


Updated Features:

• Tighter integration with Push, in particular contextual display of parameters based on the choice of Trigger Type or Follow Action
• Even easier to use with MIDI Mapping, each individual action is now available in the main device GUI
• Define the next Follow Action Scene by Name rather than calculating it's number
• Color scheme linked to your chosen Live Theme
• Four next Scene options can be written to a clip name, these are then displayed on the Push screen to keep your eyes away from the computer!

We'll be releasing updates for the other variants of Follow (Clip & Arrange) and Smart in the coming weeks, these will all be free updates for current subscribers and notifications will be sent when they are available to download.

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