In a word, BRILLIANT
I’m a self taught musician, sound engineer and record producer. Most notably I toured with Duran Duran and recorded seven of their albums. I “retired” and opened a music shop in Glastonbury, UK. We are temporarily closed because my wife is ill. In turn it’s meant I’ve had more time to focus on my own music and I was getting frustrated by my total lack of knowledge around music theory. I use autotune and derivatives on my own voice and it’s never been quite right so I’ve been learning to sing. I have three separate Apps which aim to identify the musical key of a song. What’s supposed to happen is once the software knows the key you are in you send it to autotune and it fixes it. No such luck. It’s frustrating as hell to sit for hours trying to understand relationships between chords and notes only to find trying to get things “in key” changes the feel of the song and no matter what you do your voice sounds worse for it. So I joined as a member and signed up for the Musician Basics Elective. I had six very thorough two hour lessons and it’s really helped me fill in the blanks and find the missing puzzle pieces. I now know how to work out what key music is in without resorting to inaccurate software that’s designed to help non-musicians botch together a DJ set or for simple songs and singers who want to be Cher (the producer used a Digitech pedal by the way .. not auto-tune ;/) I also learned music is often in more than one key .. how to move between musical keys and crucially I learned about TARGET. Beat Kitchen has totally changed the way I think about music. Even if you know music theory, I highly recommend it. The school’s approach is liberating and it’s fun. Lessons are well thought out, run on Zoom and are managed using Slack. Extremely good value when you consider I still have 45 weeks of membership and can attend all sorts of free labs to get help with mixing, recording, songwriting or take my favourite songs to the lab and have them analysed and explained. In a word, brilliant.