REQ: Studio.com Writing & Producing Atmospheric Alt Indie Songs: The Complete Process
Learn everything you need to write & produce alt indie songs that get on top-flight Spotify playlists. In this class, award-winning songwriter & producer BANFI takes you into his studio and teaches you his complete creative process. Follow along as he writes & produces 3 brand new ideas from scratch, right in front of you, then turns one of these ideas into a finished song, explaining everything he's doing and thinking along the way.
Taught by
UK based singer-songwriter & producer, known for his swirling, upbeat instrumentation and distinctive vocal style in the indie music scene. Winner of 2022 Production Music Award.
What you’ll learn
Banfi's unique, self-sufficient approach to songwriting, recording and production.
The Magpie Method — a failsafe path for inspiration & starting songs.
Composing with emotive chord voicings on guitar and piano.
Writing authentic lyrics — how to create a lyric practice routine and hone your style.
Crafting melodic, unexpected vocal phrases and hooks.
Recording & producing professional-quality vocals.
The easy way to create drums using samples, loops and recording.
Analogue and software synthesizers — creating a patch from scratch and working effectively with libraries.
Composing rock-solid, rhythmically infectious bass lines.
Using harmonies & background vocals to add development.
How to structure a song, using melody to guide your overall arrangement.
Essential production techniques — EQ, compression, saturation, de-essing, side-chain compression, depth & space.
Advanced production techniques — the stereo spectrum, reverse reverbs, tape emulation, harmonic distortion and more.
Class Overview
Become a self-sufficient creator of playlist-ready songs
What holds a lot of musicians back is this belief that they need to rely on other people to bring their ideas to life — while novelists and painters get the luxury of bringing a singular, one-minded vision into the world, we wrongly assume that a songwriter needs other people, like session musicians, producers and mix-engineers. But that's not true anymore.
Banfi is an award-winning songwriter & producer based in the UK. He creates atmospheric, alternative indie songs in a self-contained process. Songs that get placements on Spotify playlists like New Music Friday UK, The Other List, and alexrainbirdMusic. In this class, Banfi will teach you his entire creative process. You'll follow along as he writes & produces a brand new song from start to finish, right in front of you.
Using his 'magpie' method, he'll begin by creating 3 distinct starting-points. The first idea begins on guitar, the second on piano, and the third on a synthesizer. He'll then turn one of these ideas into a brand new, finished song. Along the way, he'll explain everything that he's doing — his entire thought process, all his recording & production techniques, and the exact plugins and samples he's using.
By learning from Banfi, you can become a self-sufficient creator, capable of completing every step in the songwriting & production process to a high level