To reach, teach, and feed creative souls
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100% Live
Always live, never recorded—real-time questions and creativity.
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Small Classes
Capped at 8 for true connection and collaboration.
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Creative Network
A growing community of producers, musicians, and artists.
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Every class is taught live by working musicians supplemented by weekly meetings. You ask questions, get real feedback, and make music alongside people who are in it with you.
What are you here to work on?
Test your knowledge — 2 minutes, and we'll get you to the right spot.
Beat Kitchen starts with Residency
Residency is your membership. It includes office hours, gyms, beat challenges, and a community of producers. Learn more →
Theory Gym
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We wrapped up this morning's gym session with a discussion of rhythmic displacement and interlocking parts — why having elements of an arrangement land *off* the downbeat creates space, feel, and texture that a locked-in, unison arrangement simply can't. We also spent time on microphone selection for vocals, making the case that the "best" mic on paper is not always the right mic for a given voice, and that your ears and instincts are the most reliable tools you have.
Instrument Gym
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We worked through a foundational lead guitar technique session, starting with an alternate picking finger warm-up across all six strings from fret 1 to fret 12 and back. From there we covered two pentatonic scale shapes — the G pentatonic (starting at the 5th fret, visualized as a backwards "G" curve) and the A pentatonic (starting at the 3rd fret, visualized as a little house or "A" shape) — practicing each five times with strict alternate picking, then testing muscle memory without looking, then exploring free improvisation within each shape using bends, tremolos, rhythmic variation, and note-skipping. We closed with a preview of the homework: linking the G and A shapes together across the fretboard as the foundation for building a full fretboard map.
Ear Training Gym
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We worked through a full ear training gym this morning covering timbre identification, effects recognition, classic drum machine sounds, and melodic interval training. Students listened to and identified three flavors of electric guitar (dry, amped, and amped with effects), steel-string vs. nylon-string acoustic guitar, reverb vs. delay, and four iconic drum machines — the TR-808, TR-909, LinnDrum, and Prince's LD variant. We closed with a pitch warm-up and interval identification exercise, then applied everything to a brief listening analysis of Herbie Hancock's *Headhunters*.
Office Hours
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We worked through the Logic Pro signal chain hierarchy — channel strip settings, plugin-level presets, and the lesser-used Performance patch format — clarifying when and why to save at each level. Covered the general philosophy of starting with a blank slate rather than loading full library presets, and discussed field recording as a creative practice including microphone options for capturing real-world ambience.
Production Gym
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David Bowie - Space oddity: Production, songwriting, and recording. We compared three different versions. The original and Demo from the late 60's, and the remade version from 1979.
Upcoming Courses
All classes are taught live on Discord classroom.
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DAW Core Skills
Mondays, Wednesdays · Apr 27, 2026 – Jul 6, 2026 · 6 PM Pacific | 9 PM Eastern | 2 AM UK
Workflow and navigation in your DAW of choice
Resident?$705 includes 3mo residencyEnroll Now →
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FL Studio
Mondays, Wednesdays · Apr 27, 2026 – Jul 6, 2026 · 6 PM Pacific | 9 PM Eastern | 2 AM UK
Get the training wheels off your DAW
Resident?$705 includes 3mo residencyEnroll Now →
