Combined Academy Course

Brief on 'Combined Course'

• Learn the concepts of mixing techniques, through timing, understanding bars and beat matching
• Get to grips with all aspects of setting up your relevant equipment, such as, needles, cartridges, speakers, microphones & head-phones
• Learning the difference between belt drives and direct drives recording levels and EQs
• Covering different music genres by pitch control and tempos
• Rhyming techniques, styles and tempos
• Writing Techniques
• Song-writing structure
• Basic vocal training
• Hosting your show
• Microphone tips
• A day trip out for work-experience
• Covering all the Dos and Don'ts
• Originality, stage presence and confidence building
• Industry information (promoting yourself as an artist and an individual)

You will receive an in depth break-down of the eight weeks, two weeks prior commencing the course, upon receipt of completed enrolment form and stated requirements.

Brief on 'Learn to DJ' Course

• Learn the concepts of mixing techniques, through timing, understanding bars and beat matching
• Get to grips with all aspects of setting up your relevant equipment, such as, needles, cartridges, speakers, microphones and head-phones
• Learning the difference between belt drives and direct drives recording levels and EQs
• Intro mixing
• Holding and dropping your beat and mixing without touching
• Covering different music genres using pitch control and tempos
• Music you can or can't mix
• Finding your style, tune selection and recording your mix
• Different methods of promoting yourself as a DJ
• Scratching
• Cutting in and blending your mix
• Using and changing gains and em's
• Fading techniques
• Tricks on the decks!
• A day trip out for work-experience
• Covering all the Dos and Don'ts
• Originality, stage presence and confidence building

Brief on 'Learn How To MC' course

• Introduction to lyric writing and performance
• Get to grips with all aspects of setting up your microphone and levels
• Rhyming techniques
• Metaphors and Simile's
• Lyrical content and concepts
• Inspirational sources
• Song writing structures
• Hosting VS Spitting Lyrics
• Basic Vocal Training
• Microphone tips
• A day trip out for work-experience
• Covering the entire Dos and Don’ts
• Originality, stage presence and confidence building
• Industry information; promoting yourself as an artist and an individual

Workshops

We offer a full range of off-site workshops, we come to you with the equipment needed and provide 2-6 hour workshops per session depending on your requirements and needs.

RADIO PRESENTING

This project will work on developing idea's and expressing through learning radio presenting skills and techniques. It covers the following...

1. Researching radio shows commercial and underground
2. Bar counting & rhythm
3. Lyrical content
4. Mind Mapping
5. Recording Skills
6. Hosting
7. Breathing techniques and vocal delivery
8. Taster recording in studio (day-trip)
9. Finding, cueing and dropping the beat
10. Equipment set-ups
11. Pitch control
12. Creating interesting topics
13. Mixing, cutting and blending
14. Selecting your tracks
15. Different genres and styles of music
16. Track listings
17. Compiling your profile

LYRICAL WRITING

1. Basic descriptive lyrical writing
2. Story Writing and Mind-Mapping
3. Bar counting and rhythm
4. Song writing structure
5. Similie's and metaphors
6. Performance skills
7. Hosting
8. Breathing techniques and vocal delivery
9. Rehearsals
10. Taster recording in studio (day-trip)

DJ SKILLS

1. Finding, cueing and dropping the beat
2. Equipment set-ups
3. Pitch control
4. Reading your audience
5. Mixing, cutting and blending
6. Selecting your tracks
7. Hosting
8. Different genres and styles of music
9. Track listings
10. Compiling your profile

MUSIC PRODUCTION

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DJ & MC WORKSHOPS

This workshop is ideal for engaging all young people and creates a fun environment and also identifies talent. It covers the combination of both DJ & MC criteria.

ANTI-WEAPON PROJECTS

57 young people in 2007 died at the hands of a gun or a knife, this project has been created specifically to tackle this youth culture crisis!

At the British DJ & MC Academy we are devastated with the facts and figures that show how many young people are now using guns and knives as a standard practice. We are passionate about changing this, we want to help teach young people that they do not need protection with a weapon, we teach positive affirmations building healthier self-esteem with eliminates the need to feel protected.

The young people in London don't have many positive role models; they walk out onto the street, they turn on the TV and all they see is glamorised petty crime, knives and guns. Some of their older peers are in gangs and drug dealing to gain status, they feel they need to join these gangs for protection. This project will give them strength and courage to speak up against this so they no longer feel they need the protection by knowing and using the power of their own words and creating inner-strength.

These young people need to start rubbing shoulders with positive adults who can offer them a fresh injection of expression through creativity. In turn the young people will be able to open up, learn new skills and expand existing idea's. If this project is successful it will inspire these young people to speak out against gun and knife crimes and do similar positive activities when they grow older and help that younger generation. Our ethos is to pave the way for the future starting here and now when its desperately needed.


Advantages

At the British DJ & MC Academy our teaching methods are relative to the young people; we speak their language tackling serious issues in an informal setting. Helping young people to find their social standing, raise awareness of their environment, goal setting all through creative methods that are viewed as 'fun'.

Majority of the vulnerable young people only know how to express themselves through words and rhymes. Recently a young person was killed in Leyton stone over a grime lyric that he spoke on the radio. At The British DJ & MC Academy we teach the power of words and how to use them in positive way. Every young person wants to be a celebrity, we teach them the power in that status and how to use it correctly benefiting their communities.

All the tutors at The British DJ & MC Academy are established active underground artists who only work doing positive music and young people look up these artists, as artists gain respect through our knowledge and wisdom of the music industry and the challenges.

We help young people participate in activities they would not normally participate in because its a subject that is of interest. Music, drama, DJiing and dance, providing a space for young people to creatively express themselves learning through informal social education.


Who will benefit?

The young people will have something new and imaginative ways to help occupy their minds.

The community as a whole will benefit from a fresh injection of new creative ideas.. The young people will benefit by gaining new skills, sharing new ideas, activity working towards a positive outcome and working integration of different communities.

Parents or carers are determined to regain a sense of community spirit. The young people will also benefit via sharing and exchanging of news aimed at uplifting the spirits within the community. By co-coordinating a community performance created by the young people we will be taking a positive step in helping parents and carers achieve their aim, we will also benefit from this experience by sharing and creating new ideas with a new group.


How will we measure our success?

The project will be monitored using questionnaires handed to each individual involved in the workshops. Handing out questionnaires prior to the workshops to ensure the information received is what the young people really want to do. From there, we feel confident that we can achieve our aims, the questionnaires will be used as a tool during and after the workshops to check on our success and establish how we can achieve better projects for the future.

The young people and parents will also give verbal feedback which will be recorded and used as a guideline to show our mistakes (if any!) and achievements. This is important for us and will give us a clearer idea on how to constantly improve our workshops.

The audience reaction will indicate our success as well as uplifting the spirits of the young people and the community.

We will include a follow-up workshop six months after to talk the young people and to fill-out a final questionnaire, we may use individuals as case-studies.