Ryan

Hi, I’m Ryan.

Lessons can be centred around Ableton Live or Logic Pro and can be tailored towards the genre that you want to learn/create. My expertise lies in sound design (synthesis), sampling, creating your own drum and percussion tracks, music theory, composition, mixing, basic mastering, audio effects and arrangement. I can either teach you from your own home studio or you can come for lessons at my studio, the equipment I have in my studio is as follows:

Hardware

• 27 inch iMac
• Ableton Push
• UAD Universal Audio Apollo 8
• Korg Minilogue
• Moog Minitaur
• Mbase 11 Kick Drum Generator
• Novation MIDI Keyboard

Digital Plugins

• Universal Audio Plugins
• Spectrasonics (Trilian, Omnisphere and Keyscape)
• Soundtoys
• Reaktor (Native Instruments)
• Fabfilter
• Waves
• Diva by Uhe
• Arturia Plugins


I will record each lesson through a screen grab using QuickTime to ensure that you have your own personalised music production course, this means you can re-watch the lessons at home. I will also set you your own targets and goals to make sure you progress with every lesson. I have a rich bank of audio samples to share with you that I have recorded and created over the last ten years.

Availability: I`m available on evenings from 6 pm and weekends.

Willing to travel: 5 miles

Experience: My passion for electronic music sparked after I began visiting nightclubs as an avid listener and then spinning records in nightclubs around Leeds in my teenage years. Following on from this I became fascinated with creating my own music and started producing a wide range of genres. From the age of sixteen I have regularly played at clubs and venues throughout my hometown of Leeds; my passion then led me to expand beyond the confinements of Leeds as I earned gigs throughout the UK and Europe.

My experience within this industry is plentiful; I release music both digitally and on vinyl for electronic music labels located in Berlin, London and Paris. I have a first-class honours degree in music technology (BSc), two years’ experience as a college lecturer teaching music technology and production at The Manchester College, a PGCE in Lifelong Learning and five years’ experience tutoring music production privately both at a music studio in Leeds (Crossfader) and from my home studio. Many of my students have gone on to be awarded nationally known qualifications (including BTEC level 1, 2 & 3) and some are now working as DJs and producers within the music industry.