EDUCATION

I offer private, one on one, custom tailored online web camera based, Professional Mixing & Mastering, Pro tools, Audio and Video Streaming, Guitar and Bass lessons, from the comfort of your home, or anywhere else you might be.
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I can help and provide significant value to people with abilities ranging from complete beginners to more advanced who want to improve their technique, prepare for a music school audition, or intermediate players who need help learning more difficult parts.Please click Book Now and then select the lessons and hours you would like to take with me.
I will get back at you Asap.Looking forward to it !
Hakim.

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Audio & Video Streaming Lessons

Learn how to Broadcast the Audio and Video of your Mac or PC.

- Stream the audio of your Daw ( pro tools , logic audio , ableton...)
- How to setup OBS
- Setup your camera or webcam for streaming
- Record Videos for Youtube. Sync Audio and Video
- Optimize your setup for the best Quality

Mixing & Mastering Lessons

Intended to help engineers (and artists who self-produce) create better mixes. Common mixing issues I can help with are:

- lead vocal clarity
- getting drums to sound bigger
- separation of instruments and parts in the mix
- overall mix clarity
- workflow: suggestions to help improve layout or routing
- EQing guitars and bass
- parallel compression (why, when, and how)
- basics of gain staging and setting up for a better mix from the start
- Choosing when to use different effects in the mix
- Mastering

Bass Lessons

Fundamentals and Advanced Techniques to play electric Bass.
Topics include:
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- Choosing a bass
- Right-hand and left-hand basics
- Slap and pop & Tapping
- Moving around the neck
- Breaking down a lick
- Playing in time
- Locking with the bass drum
- Playing in different styles
- How to groove
- Play the funk
- Changing strings & Tuning
- Practice techniques & Moving around the neck

Guitar Lessons

Learn how to play guitar at your own pace.
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- Getting to know your tools
- Tuning
- Strumming
- Reading music
- Playing chords
- Flatpicking and fingerpicking
- Music theory
- Switching chords
- Understanding musical expression, phrasing, and dynamics
- Flatpicking arpeggios
- Tuning with harmonics
- Creating a monster funk groove
- Blurring the line between rhythm and lead

Pro Tools Lessons

Get up and running with Pro Tools. Topics include:

- Pro Tools menus, windows, and basic controls
- Creating a session and a click track
- Recording audio
- Importing audio and video
- Recording, viewing, and editing MIDI data
- Selecting and navigating within tracks
- Adding markers
- Editing clips
- Creating fade effects
- Mixing tracks and adding automation
- Considerations for bouncing audio

Advanced Techniques:
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- Customizing I/O settings & Using sends and returns
- Managing session data
- Importing media files
- Recording multiple takes & Recording in layers
- Working with virtual instruments and plugins
- Troubleshooting & Editing MIDI
- Warping sound with Elastic Audio
- Quantizing options
- Editing with fades
- Creating clip loops
- Exporting clips
- Grouping tracks
- Creating final media