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Garnish Music Production School, West Hollywood:
Ideally located on Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood CA, Garnish Music Production School is a commercial recording, programming and mixing facility, with award-winning instructors delivering cutting-edge 6-week music production Diploma courses for adults in small class sizes. We provide weekday, weekend, and evening study options, with 6 hours of training per week. From technical courses like Ableton Live and Pro Tools, to creative topics such as Songwriting, Mixing & Mastering, our programs are designed for people who just want to get straight to the point and produce quality music in their style, fast!

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Quality Music Production Education:


- Innovative Teaching Methods
Designed to fit in with your busy life, our courses are engineered for optimized learning and make use of an educational practice called the ‘spacing effect’. This involves exposure to the weekly contents of the fun but dense course, before using the time between sessions to practice and allow the information to settle. 

- Flexible Course Scheduling
We know that committing to a six-week course isn’t always easy, so if you can’t make a session we’ll do our best to arrange for you to catch up on a future cycle.

- Proven Track Record
We have shaken up music production education in the UK by delivering quality, but affordable courses in state-of-the art facilities and guiding people to achieving master quality results, no matter what style of music they make.

Why Study with Garnish?

- Learn to produce finished tracks, in your style, fast
- Grammy-winning instructors with record sales in the millions
- Weekday, weekend, and evening courses
- For complete novices to accomplished professionals
- Specialist electronic music DJ school
- There is no substitute for classroom interaction with your instructor and fellow learners

Intensive 6-week Music Production Diploma Courses:
Our music production diploma courses are generally run over a six-week period, with six teaching hours per week. If you attend one of our evening courses, there are two three-hour evening sessions per week, otherwise your weekly material will be covered in a single information-rich day. Courses include:

- Music Production (EMP)
- Electronic Sound Design Course (ESD)
- Mixing & Mastering
- Hit Songwriting 
- Logic Course
- Ableton Live Course
- Pro Tools 10
- DJ Training Course

If you are unable to complete the course over six weeks, we also run a number of condensed one-week courses.

Student Testimonials:

I would never have discovered all this by myself. A well structured course with quite simply brilliant instructors.”
- Shaun, Logic Course

“I attended a music production course at one of the other London DJ schools before doing a course at Garnish. There really is no comparison; the experience at Garnish was much better, and I learnt so much more.”
- Tristen, EMP and Mixing Courses

“Being a professional self-taught producer, it was valuable to revise some things I already knew, but must importantly, I learnt so many things I did not know about before. I would recommend Garnish to experienced professional producers who make electronic music. You will still learn loads!”
- Rui, ESD Course

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Address: 7600 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90046, USA
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Pro Tools:
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College of Extended Learning at San Francisco State University
Courses / Programs
Conveniently located at the corner of Market and Powell in downtown San Francisco, The College of Extended Learning at San Francisco State University provides a variety of music business and recording industry classes which are open to everyone. You can select any class that interests you, or follow our Music/Recording Industry academic certificate program. Our downtown campus is directly on the Powell Street BART and Muni lines, and close to affordable parking.

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Audio Institute of America
Courses / Programs
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Courses / Programs
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Bachelor of Music Degree Program:
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Master of Music Degree Program:
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-Contemporary Composition
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Ladera Music Academy, Los Angeles
Courses / Programs
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Keyboards Classes:
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Violin Classes:
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Drum Classes:
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​Vocal / Music Classes:
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The Colburn School, Los Angeles
Courses / Programs
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