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Course Overview

MI’s Independent Artist Program provides the technical knowledge and professional skills you need to survive as an independent recording and performing artist.

MI’s Independent Artist Program provides the technical knowledge and professional skills you need to survive as an independent recording and performing artist in today’s music world. Experienced instructors guide you through the complete creative process from songwriting, arranging, recording and production to marketing and promotion.

Use your personal laptop audio workstation to record and mix live vocals, instruments, samples and loops into finished tracks, then showcase them on your self-designed website. Whether you are a singer, DJ, producer, rapper or instrumentalist, MI prepares you to take control of your future.

Instrumentalists, singers, songwriters, rappers, DJs and producers learn the entire process of creating their own project—from writing and recording to marketing, publicity, website design and final release. This program is designed to equip musicians with the various skills needed to independently write, record, and market their original material.

 

CAREERS

In addition to the many general music-related classes and electives offered at MI, the Independent Artist Program provides grads with the essential knowledge and skills that lead to such career options as:

  • ARTIST / PERFORMER
  • PRODUCER / DJ
  • SONGWRITER / COMPOSER
  • ARTIST MANAGER
  • BUSINESS EXECUTIVE
  • GRAPHIC DESIGNER

WHAT WILL I LEARN?

  • Trains students in the full spectrum of contemporary career needs, with core classes including Recording Techniques, Logic Pro X, Songwriting, Entertainment Business, Musicianship, Marketing and Visual Media.
  • Designed to equip creative individuals with the skills required to write, produce and market their original music.
  • Enjoy unlimited, one-on-one, Project Advising sessions in our professional recording studios. Project Advisors work with students weekly to help them apply the knowledge and skills learned throughout the program to their projects. These advisors are experts in many areas, including songwriting, music production, audio recording, entertainment business, music theory, and graphic design.
  • Project Advisors work with students weekly to help them apply the knowledge and skills learned throughout the program to their projects. These advisors are experts in many areas, including songwriting, music production, audio recording, and graphic design.
  • Studio Time: Students can book up to 3 studio slots per week, 1 of which can be an overnight session (a total of 12 hours per week). If a studio slot has not been booked, students can also do a walk-in session. There is no limit to the number of times you can walk into a session each week.
  • Work in one of our 4 professional recording studios, or directly on your laptop audio workstation as you learn to sequence, sample, record, edit and mix — the world is your studio.

Entry Requirement 

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:

All eligibility, application, registration, placement and orientation requirements for the four-quarter/60 credit-unit Certificate in Performance are identical to those described for the Associate of Arts Degree in Performance.

APPLICATION PROCESS: CERTIFICATE

Send all of the following items together by mail along with any additional items required by the program to which you are applying (see below):

• Completed application form. • $100.00 USD application fee.

• High school diploma or proof of G.E.D. equivalent froman accredited institution (please provide an official English translation if the original is not in English).

Students who have withdrawn or been terminated from an Associate of Arts Degree Program and are seeking to transfer to a Performance Certificate Program within the same instrument major must contact the Student Records office for instructions. For information on transferring to a different instrument major, contact the Admissions Office.

Note: See the Notice Concerning Transferability of Credits and Credentials Earned at Musicians Institute under Additional Information.

Fees

PROGRAM FEES: $377

PER QUARTER: $8175

TOTAL CREDITS: 60

PER CREDIT: $545

TOTAL COST: $32700


This information was accurate on : 27/04/2021
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