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Turn Up the Volume
Enroll in music production lessons online through Interlochen—the world’s best arts institution.
Interested in learning to mix and produce music professionally and share your songs with others? Music producers—who strive to create the most effective and impactful version of a song—frequently employ creative strategies to enhance the overall sound of instruments or vocals. Interlochen offers year-round music production lessons, courses, and certificate programs online for beginners or students trying to break into the music industry, giving young students the chance to explore their combined passion for music, technology, and production.
Learn Production Step by Step
Music production lessons at Interlochen provide students with a strong technical and artistic foundation, introducing beginners to key aspects of recording and production and supporting more advanced students in exploring current practices and innovations in music technology.
Interlochen’s music production lessons can expose you to the current industry tools, showing you how to enhance your tracks with quantization, audio or MIDI loops, panning, EQ, and reverb. Whether you are interested in ProTools, Logic, Cubase, or another industry-standard software, our faculty can help you navigate your preferred digital audition workstation (DAW).
The online music production lessons are also packed with instruction about how to record music at home, how to set appropriate microphone levels, record enable, and monitor a rough mix in a session.
Deliver a Polished, Great-Sounding Final Product
Interlochen Online courses let you complete an entire project from start to finish over four weeks with expert feedback. This class will include approximately five hours of learning each week, letting you work your studies around your life schedule. You’ll apply what you have learned each week—whether that’s how to use a new plug-in or how to balance your levels—to your tracks. Your instructors will listen to your work and provide critical personalized feedback on how to improve the quality and clarity of your mixes.
Every week, you’ll meet with an instructor and fellow classmates online to discuss content from the curriculum together. Our teachers work to accommodate students’ schedules to find an online class meeting time that can allow everyone to be online together. Video recordings of the lessons are uploaded for later viewing as well if you miss the class. The class segments include detailed instruction, guidance from a skilled instructor, and interactive learning with teacher and fellow students in real time.
Project work, outside of the scheduled class time, gives you valuable, hands-on practice and can be completed whenever it fits your schedule during the week. In just four weeks, you’ll have a finished project—a multi-track, mixed recording that showcases all of your newly acquired music production techniques.
Dive into audio with a music production certificate
Our online music production and songwriting fundamentals certificate programs provide an opportunity to earn an Interlochen credential and enroll in three courses at a discount. Teens and adults are using these certificates to help stand out on résumés, college applications, and their LinkedIn profiles. For teenagers, this is also an engaging way to earn high school credit if they successfully complete their studies. The certificate programs are accredited by the Independent Schools Association of the Central States (ISACS), the same body that accredits Interlochen Arts Academy.
What You Need to Succeed
Each student enrolled in music production lessons, courses, or a certificate program will need a computer with DAW-compatibility, an internet connection, audio interface, wired headphones, and a microphone. More details are available on each program page.
Enroll Today
Sign up for an online music production program and walk away with practical skills for sharing recorded music, artistic inspiration for a potential career, and friendships with your online classmates.
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