UMT:BEATS is a free 12 week music production and DJ skills course bringing you up to a professional standard.

There are 12 spaces on each course for aspiring DJs and producers.  Courses will run throughout 2009/2012 with the next available course starting on August 3rd.

 

UMT:BEATS is led by our expert tutor Mark Lowry (Shindig)

Spaces for UMT:BEATS are extremely limited and interested young people will be selected using a set of criteria designed to satisfy funding requirements.

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What takes place in UMT: BEATS?

UMT:BEATS runs the Arts Award which is a national qualification that supports young people to develop as artists; young people can achieve Arts Awards at levels 1, 2 and 3 on the national qualifications framework.

UMT:BEATS will have two different strands:-

UMT:BEATS

UMT:BEATS Advanced

With UMT:BEATS, young people will focus on developing original composition using music technology and software – the young people learn about editing, sequencing, sampling and recording vocals. They each create and record their own tracks and are also responsible for producing their own club-event at the end of each course.

Specific production skills the young people will develop include:-

Musical and production skills: Beat-matching / Beat juggling / Turntablism / CD mixing / FX, editing, sequencing and sampling / Recording Vocals / Music Production skills / Performance skills / Digital Technology

UMT:BEATS Advanced is a higher level of support for producers who have already amassed a certain level of experience; very limited spaces will be made available for this producer development scheme and participants will be supported towards track release and carving a profile as a professional working producer.

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Equipment Available:

After an extensive equipment upgrade UMT now offers young people the chance to use top line performance and production equipment including Pioneer CDJ400's, DJM400 mixers, Traktor Scratch Pro Digital DVS System.

On the production side we have all systems running Cubase 5 with a host of top plugins, running through professional ADAM Monitoring.

UMT participants will also become eligible for education prices from Digital Village.

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Who are we looking for?

Young producers and DJs aged 16-24

Where will it take place?

Newcastle Arts Centre

What time does the course take place?

Every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon from 4-8pm

How to enrol?

Contact us now:

Bob Allan
Generator
bob@generator.org.uk
0191 255 4468