The Cool Tool Music School Summer Workshops
Now that summer is just around the corner, everybody looks forward to relaxing...but also seeks out something fun to do without committing all your vacation time. Enter the Cool Tool Music School and our 2014 Summer Workshops! With focus on two very creative and hands on music subjects; Songwriting and Music Technology, this could be the summer that defines your career, prepares you for college or simply delivers a really great time. No matter what your goals, it will be the best thing you can do for your music!
We are running blocks of 2 week workshops:
- 2 Blocks in June: June 16-27th
- 2 Blocks in July: July 7-18th
- 2 Blocks in August: August 4-15th
Click here to see our complete calendar. Also check here for our Visiting Artist Series and "Hit The Deck" concerts on our huge deck with built in stage! As part of the workshops, you're all invited!
We meet on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays with the 9AM-Noon session being one subject and the 2PM-5PM session being the other. We will mix up the subjects and times from one month to the next, but each workshop is packed full of hands on, real world training and discovery of Songwriting and Music Technology...and the learning DOES NOT STOP after the class. Structured on-line studies and projects keep the fun and creativity going when you get home. Involve your whole family in some of the music-filled exercises we offer on-line in addition to the workshop times. Designed for all levels of musicianship, there is something to learn for everyone. Join us this summer for a short time...that delivers long-term results!
Reserve Your Spot Today...Space is Very Limited
Because of the amount of one-on-one instruction, use of our facilities equipment and the final projects, space is very, very limited in this summer's workshops!
2014 Summer Workshop Registration FormRegister now to save a "seat at the table" for you, your son or daughter....even a friend and get in on one of the best time your music has had...ever! Click below and and in 5 minutes you'll be registered for the Cool Tool Music School's awesome Summer Workshop!
2014 Summer Workshop Registration Form
- Register and pay for your son or daughter
- Register and pay for yourself
- Sponsor a student selected by TCTMS Staff
Songwriting Workshop
There are two sayings we like to use when it comes to songwriting:
- The most creative end of the pencil is the eraser
- The first note you ever played on your instrument and the first song you write, both have one thing in common: You must practice to get really good!
Songwriting is a moment of blazing creativity and then honing it into a work of art. Like any craftsman, a songwriter needs to have a well-stocked "toolbox" to work the raw creativity into a great song! Conceived and taught by Berklee College of Music Faculty, Tom Frazee (Senior Curriculum Developer for the Berklee Songwriting Major) and Nancy Roche, Columbine Records staff singer and lyricist, this workshop gives you the tools to take any song and develop it in many different styles.
The fundamentals are:
- Lyric structure, cadence and rhyme
- Song Form
- Melody development
- Harmony (chords)
- All Styles
- The Great Songwriters: Analysis of Their Most Popular Works .
Music Technology: Using Your Computer to Make Music
Every single note of music you have heard over the last 25 years has one thing in common: At some point, it spent some time in a computer! From composing to recording to editing to mastering...even delivery via web-streaming, the computer has made the making & hearing of music accessable to everyone.
Learn the basics of using your computer in all aspects of making, mastering and delivery of your music. Admagination Studios (the facility where the workshops will be taught) has been a cutting edge production studio in the Treasure Valley since 1992. Director Tom Frazee has been involved in the use of computers in music since the first Commodore 64 in 1983. He also beta tests software for well-known companies like: Cakewalk, M-Audio, Waves, Sony Creative Software, KAB, NI, AVS and teaches on both PC and MAC.
The workshop focuses on:
- MIDI (Music Instrument Digital Interface)
- Digital Audio
- Virtual Instruments (Sounds from Software)
- Plug in Effects
- Loop Composing
- Mixing and getting your music on the web.
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Setting up your home computer or laptop to make music
Read more: Music Technology: Using Your Computer to Make Music
The Cool Tool Music School...a Small Part of a Very Big Thing!
Faculty, Facility and Music...Lots of Music!
Is this for you? Can you really reach new levels with your music? With us and hard work, you CAN! Our faculty has taught at some of the finest contemporary music schools in the world and bring to these workshops proven learning processes. Many of Co-founder Tom Frazee's students have gone on to win top industry awards: Grammy's, Oscar's, Emmy's, Downbeat Jazz Awards to name a few.
You will be learning and working in our state-of-the-art production studio. The very same facility that has produced all the examples below as well as hundreds of projects for advertising & show clients. Plus with an on-line multi-media classroom and production bays, everyone gets a chance to get their hands "dirty" on profession equipment. Here's some examples of real students as well as our staff spanning a huge diversity of styles, all composed, tracked and produced right here.
Everything you hear on these demos was produced straight from our primary production computer and sung live by student or staff vocalists. Click here for bio's and resumes of co-founders Tom Frazee & Nancy Roche (pictured to the left) and testimonials from former students
Click Here to Listen to Lots of Demos / Faculty, Facility and Music...Lots of Music!
