Recording Lab Fall 2026: Track and Mix a Band
Recording Labs: Track and Mix a Band!
In this hands-on lab, you'll record a song performed by a band from start to finish: setting up mics, getting sounds, and capturing the performance, then running overdubs and editing the takes into a mix-ready session. From there, we'll get into mixing (gain staging, EQ, compression, and effects) and how they work together to serve the song. Each participant will create their own mix of the track and get feedback. Whether you want to understand what actually happens in a session or get better at recording your own music, it's a great way to build real experience alongside other musicians.
The lab meets for five Sundays, 11am–1:30pm, from November 15 through December 20 (no lab November 29), with mastering engineer Matthew Agoglia, whose credits include Emmylou Harris, James Taylor, and Divine Fits.
Jagged Little Pill Rock Camp
Jagged Little Pill (Alanis Morissette 1995)
Rock Band Boot Camp
Meets Jan 6 - March 10 2027
w/Aubrey Haddard
Join this Camp! We'll learn this entire album and then go out and perform it!
Jagged Little Pill is the third studio album by Canadian-American singer Alanis Morissette, released by Maverick on June 13, 1995. Recorded in Hollywood at Westlake with production by Glen Ballard, it was Morissette's first album to be released worldwide.
A definitive alternative rock album that takes influence from post-grunge, hip-hop and pop rock. Ballard introduced a pop sensibility to Morissette's angst, leading the album to clean up at the 38th Grammy Awards, receiving nine Grammy Award nominations, and winning five, including Album of the Year. This made Morisette the youngest artist to win the award at the time.
Instructor Aubrey Haddard
Meets Wednesday nights
For 10 Weeks
Jan 6 to March 10
7-9:30pm
Beacon Music Factory
Beginning Fiddle Workshop
We will learn some tunes and see how they are built from simple phrases, chords and scales.
Songwriting Class Fall 2026 (10 weeks)
Each week, we’ll meet and you'll be treated to song examples to consider, song structures to puzzle over, a few new ways of looking at songs you already know and love and then, most importantly, you will be given a multi-layered songwriting assignment.
