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We are a live, collaborative music school for artists, producers, and creatives who want hands-on classes, real feedback, and a community that shows up.

To reach, teach, and feed creative souls

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    Always live, never recorded—real-time questions and creativity.

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    Capped at 8 for true connection and collaboration.

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    A growing community of studios, artists, and disciplines.

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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.

Music Theory, chords, songwriting, harmony, ear training › Production DAW, recording, mixing, workflow, engineering › Both Working on both technical and creative skills ›

Beat Kitchen starts with Residency

Residency is your membership. It includes office hours, gyms, beat challenges, and a community of producers. Learn more →

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Nathan Rosenberg
Office Hours Nathan Rosenberg
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Covered a wide-ranging office hours session this afternoon that touched on server navigation, class placement guidance, music theory pedagogy, and live song feedback. Worked through a student's original song in detail — addressing chord naming, enharmonic spelling, and how a single unresolved voicing choice was affecting the feel of a key moment. Also spent time orienting newer members to how the school's platform works and discussing how to get the most out of available classes and formats.

Scott Hampton
Production Gym Scott Hampton
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We did a deep-dive breakdown of "Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)" by Talking Heads, from the 1980 album *Remain in Light*, using Logic Pro's AI stem splitter to pull apart the drums, bass, and "other" elements. The session traced the song's Afrobeat DNA through Fela Kuti and James Brown, examined how the album was recorded (live jamming in the Caribbean, vocals overdubbed separately at Sigma Sound Studios in New York), and used the track as a jumping-off point for discussions about genre, rhythmic feel, copyright, and the creative value of loose, imprecise playing.

Kallie
Office Hours Kallie
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We talked about how some things work on Dischord, to help Christian get his bearings being new here. We talked about what kinds of things are covered in office hours, and instrument gyms.

Jon Mattox
Ear Training Gym Jon Mattox
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Bass - the importance of the right notes, different rhythms, and the different timbres that you can get from the instrument - and how they all can influence how it works with the song.

Ben Krueger
Production Gym Ben Krueger
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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.

Cinnamontal
Office Hours Cinnamontal
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We talked about producing for other artists and some of the steps required to practice doing so, artist residencies, and going from thinking to doing.

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Nathan
Weekly Beat Challenge Nathan · Mon Apr 13 · 7am (PT) | 10am (ET) | 3pm (UK)
Nathan
Office Hours Nathan · Mon Apr 13 · 9am (PT) | 12pm (ET) | 5pm (UK)
Jon Mattox
Production Gym Jon Mattox · Mon Apr 13 · 9pm (PT) | 12am (ET) | 5am (UK)
Scott Hampton
Instrument Gym Scott Hampton · Tue Apr 14 · 7am (PT) | 10am (ET) | 3pm (UK)

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