REQ: Studio.com Ambient Music Production: The Full Process for Making Cinematic Ambient Songs
Learn everything you need to compose, produce, and promote your ambient music. In this class, Kirk brings you into his studio and creates 2 brand new ambient tracks right in front of you, start to finish. Along the way he'll explain every process, technique, and tool he uses to finish tracks and get them heard.
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Kirk Smith
Prolific producer & composer known for his cinematic ambient music (We Dream of Eden). Millions of streams, 500k+ monthly listeners, and 100s of song placements on film & TV.
What you’ll learn
Creating beautifully unique atmospheres and lush soundscapes
Create melodies with freedom
The magic of the major pentatonic scale
Create your own instruments and develop your own "sound"
Building dynamic arrangements
Mixing and mastering
Finding curators and pitching to playlists
Building momentum for your music on Spotify
Creating artwork for your releases
Workflows and templates that serve creativity
Tracking vocals
Tracking guitar
Adding complexity to simple chord progressions
Bonus lessons for Logic users (2hrs)
Cinematic storytelling in your compositions
Finish tracks faster and with better quality
Class Overview
Learn all of Kirk's production & promotion secrets
In this class Kirk will show you how to develop beautifully unique atmospheres, and lush soundscapes.
He'll show the magic of the major pentatonic scale and how to create melodies with freedom. You’ll see the power of self sampling and sound design so you too can build your own library of sonic textures and instruments to create a sound that is uniquely you.
You’ll learn how to move quickly from inspiration to building out a dynamic arrangement by making templates that are customized to your taste and workflow. You can watch Kirk track vocals and guitars and he'll show you how to turn basic chord progressions into cinematic ambient compositions, perfect for pitching to film makers and music libraries.
He'll also teach you how to create your own artwork for your releases. And once your music is ready to be released to the world, he'll show you the strategies he uses to find curators, pitch to playlists, and build momentum for his music.