All the components, everything we want to do in terms of creating music, already exist.
I listened to great records and said, 'I want to sound like that how do I do it?' We don't have to reinvent the wheel. In many ways, that's exactly how I learned when I was a kid. So we'll do analysis of current music-not just listening, but recreating. "In my classes I'm trying to look at what music has become, so I'm actually studying the billboard charts, the current music this week, and asking, 'Why does it sound like that and what are the connections to everything that has gone before? Do you hear any jazz in this record? Do you hear any blues?' It might be a challenge for an uneducated ear to perceive why that newest thing is connected to everything that came before. You never know when one of them might be the one that opens the door." If you're going to take advantage of this educational process, you need to investigate as many of those tangents as possible.
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So I want to teach my students how to survive in the music business and put them in as many realistic situations as possible. I've managed, I've done tour support, I've done live sound. I'm a former recording artist, a producer, an engineer. "I want to create, in my classroom, an environment that closely mirrors my experience in the real world. Alexander was an early innovator of wind synthesis and a part of the "punk-funk" generation that incorporated many of the devices that would propel rap music to the forefront of the American music scene. From the early to mid 80s, he produced, wrote, and recorded on Virgin Records with his group, Prince Charles and the City Beat Band. He teaches advanced production and mixing at Berklee. He holds an adjunct instructor position at New York University's Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music, has taught audio technology at the Institute of Audio Research, and is a frequent lecturer at the City College of New York in Manhattan. Alexander has garnered more than 40 Platinum and Gold certifications from the RIAA and has multiple Grammy Awards and nominations. Diddy, the Notorious B.I.G., Usher, Boyz II Men, Brandy, Babyface, Sting, Aretha Franklin, Usher, Brian McKnight, and others. Prince Charles Alexander is a sought-after recording and mixing engineer whose clients include Mary J.
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