Accelerator Essential Producer: Pro Tools Focus
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Learn how to shape sound with Pro Tools.
In this 5-class creative program, you’ll get comfortable navigating Pro Tools while exploring the basics of editing, mixing, and audio arrangement. This is a great entry point for anyone curious about recording tools, studio workflows, and how to experiment with sound in a professional-grade DAW — no studio experience required. The Essential Producer Program includes classes in Pro Tools Level 100 and 200, Sound Engineering, Songwriting and Arranging, and Sound for Visual Media.
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4 Pathway Groups • 10 Courses
Block 1
Pro Tools 101
No fixed duration
Pro Tools Fundamentals Level 1 of the User level certificate program.
Pro Tools 101 Overview and E-Book links
Sound Engineering Block 1
No fixed duration
Learn the fundamentals of signal flow, studio gear, analog and digital audio, the physics of sound, and how microphones work.
Syllabus
Module 1 - Introduction to Signal Flow, Studio Gear and our Studios
Module 2 - The Tom Dowd Story and Introduction to Digital Audio
Module 3 - Understanding Sound
Module 4 - The dB, Electronics and Gear
Module 5 - How Microphones Work
Songwriting and Arranging Block 1
No fixed duration
Learn rhythm, scales and modes, harmony, and melody by producing percussion and drums, bass, leads, and other instruments
Syllabus
Module 1 - Welcome to Producing & Arranging
Welcome to Producing & Arranging
Module 2 - Harmony, Melody, and Bass
Harmony, Melody, and Bass
Module 3 - Composing IS Producing/ Welcome to the Modes
Module 4 - Aeolian, Dorian, Mixolydian, and Phrygian
Module 5 - Mode Mixing in the "Four Corners"
Block 2
Pro Tools 110
No fixed duration
Pro Tools Fundamentals Level 2 for the User level certificate program.
Pro Tools 110 Overview and E-Book links
Sound Engineering Block 2
No fixed duration
Learn practical microphone techniques, audio processing with effects, setting up recording sessions, and practical techniques for recording different instruments.
Module 6 - Mics in Use
Module 7 - Processing Audio - EQ & Dynamics
Module 8 - Processing Audio - Time Based Effects, Saturation, Extras
Module 9 - Setting up and Running a Recording Session
Module 10 - Recording Vocals
Module 11 - Recording Guitar
Songwriting and Arranging Block 2
No fixed duration
Learn to finish songs with strategies for arranging them, and techniques to mix your music that complements your songwriting
Module 6 - Arranging your Track
Module 7 - Studying the forms of Arrangement
Module 8 - Strategies for Arranging (Song forms 2)
Module 9 - Mixing
Module 10 - Pre-Final Review
Module 11 - Listen to Masters and Discuss Final Projects
Block 3
Pro Tools 201
No fixed duration
Pro Tools Production Level 1 for the Operator level certificate program.
Pro Tools 201 Overview and E-Book Links
Sound For Visual Media Block 1
No fixed duration
Learn the history of sound and music in film, dialogue editing, foley, sound effects, and background sound techniques.
Syllabus
Module 01 - History of Sound & Music in Film
Module 02 - Audio Post Concepts
Module 03 – Editing Dialog and Recording Voiceover and ADR
Module 04 – Foley
Module 05 - Sound Effects
Module 06 - Backgrounds
Block 4
Pro Tools 210
No fixed duration
Pro Tools Production Level 2 for the Operator level certificate program.
Pro Tools 210M Overview and E-Book links
Sound For Visual Media Block 2
No fixed duration
Learn to create and edit musical scores to picture, create orchestral scoring templates, mixing and automation for picture, and how to export and deliver your projects.
Module 07 - Intro to Scoring/Editing Music to picture
Module 08 - Creating Scoring Template
Module 09 - Scoring to Picture
Module 10 - Mixing and Automation Concepts
Module 11 - Generating and Exporting Deliverables Surround Sound
Module 12 - Final Project Review
Pathway Complete!
All courses offered by Music City Accelerator are for avocational and personal enrichment purposes only. We do not offer degrees, diplomas, or certificates intended to qualify students for employment. No course or program is represented to lead to job placement, licensure, or occupational credentialing.