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Modern Nashville Music Production: Create Radio-Ready Hit Country Songs
Learn exactly how #1 songs are produced in Nashville — alongside Dave Cohen, the award-winning Nashville producer with over 100 #1 songs and 22 billion streams. In this class, Dave takes you into his studio and teaches you his entire production process from start to finish. Follow along as he transforms a simple worktape into a finished, pitchable demo, and then works with real session players to transform the demo into a radio-ready production.
Taught by Dave Cohen
4x ACM-winning producer, songwriter, and session player behind 100+ #1 songs with over 22 billion streams. Has worked with Morgan Wallen, HARDY, Jake Owen, Chris Lane, & more!
What you’ll learn
Learn Dave's start to finish production techniques for radio ready hit songs
Dave's complete Pro Tools writing/production template
Developing musical hooks on all instruments
Creating musical transitions for maximum impact between sections
Watch how Dave programs a demo with all in-the-box plugin instruments (drums, bass, acoustic/electric guitars etc)
Comp/edit/tune vocals using Melodyne
Create harmonies using Melodyne
Mix a demo for pitch purposes
Learn how to communicate with session players to replace programmed instruments with real performances
Learn to edit/comp musician performances (drums, bass, guitars etc) into polished parts that are radio ready
Dave's go-to sounds plugins, samples, synths and FX
Preparing session for mixing/mastering
Class Overview
Learn exactly how #1 songs are produced in Nashville
Dave Cohen is a 4x ACM winning musician songwriter and producer with over 100 #1 songs. He's worked with Morgan Wallen, Jake Owen and HARDY on songs with more than 22 Billion streams.
In this class, Dave brings you into his studio and teaches you his entire hit song production process from start to finish. You'll follow along with Dave as he turns a songwriting worktape into a pitchable demo; then, replaces the demo instruments with real musicians; and finally, preps the session for mixing and finalizes all the production bells and whistles.
Along the way, Dave explains everything that he's doing and thinking in detail in real time. His thought process, techniques, templates, the exact tools he's using, and a lot more. This is the most comprehensive look into the process and brain of a Nashville producer.
By the end of the class you’ll know everything you need to know to produce radio-ready country songs of you own. You'll develop a complete Nashville production toolkit that will serve you for the rest of your creative life.