Youth
Freeport Productions offers a range of specialist practical training in the core skills of music industry production and business, delivered by professionals working in the industry. Half and full day courses at an introductory and intermediate level, for groups of up to 10 people, can be mixed and matched to create a varied programme on request.
Please email us on quote@freeportproductions.com and one of our team will call you back.
Audio Production / Studio Management
Jay Enticknap
Composer and producer Jay Enticknap provides a detailed and practical introduction to Logic 9 software, setting up to record, composing instrumentals, recording vocals, working with artists in a studio and mixing.
Groups learn through creating a song from scratch themselves under Jay’s guidance.
Music Business / Digital Music Marketing
Harry Leckstein
Label owner and founder of the Urban Collective youth music project Harry Leckstein breaks down the landscape of the current music industry and how to operate successfully within it.
An essential toolkit for any aspiring artist, manager and producer, the course uses real world examples to make its points and provides extensive handouts and essential further reading.
Vocals
Michaela Betts
Michaela Betts is an experienced and versatile vocal coach, pianist, session singer and songwriter who has taught an impressive roster of professional singers many of whom are currently performing in West End, TV and touring productions of Wicked, Hairspray, Britannia High, We Will Rock You, Flash Dance, Dirty Dancing, Little Shop of Horrors, A Little Night Music, The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Mama Mia!
Michaela provides an inclusive and fun introduction to vocal warm up, stance, breathing technique, projection, pronunciation, solo performance and harmony development. Group classes work on a song together and share lead, harmony and support parts.
MC Technique / Songwriting
Lykez
19 Year old Lykez is a phenomenal breakthrough artist for her age. Her debut album "Lykez, Camera, Action!" has already caught the attention of US Hip Hop label Phase One, she has supported Method Man / Redman on tour and played live to audiences at Glastonbury, T in the Park and Hip Hop Kemp in the Czech Republic.
Her practical, studio-based workshops allow groups of up to 8 people to learn the craft of pop and urban songwriting by doing it for themselves under her professional guidance.
Songwriting / Slam Poetry
Yap
Lead singer songwriter of acclaimed rap metal band One Minute Silence and the polemic Pink Punk, Yap has sold more than a quarter of a million albums world wide and toured with Rage Against The Machine, Tool and Slipknot.
His inspirational and practical writing classes allow anyone to pick up a pen and paper and create. Through stimulating and original short writing exercises Yap focuses on stream of consciousness, word triggers, improvisation, emotion and underlying meaning.
Drama and Performance
Diane Meyer
Diane Meyer is co-founder of The Pondering Goddess Theatre Group, a community-based organisation that provides performance art workshops for disadvantaged children and young adults. She has also been the acting and performance coach for Urban Collective projects since 2007.
Diane’s hugely enjoyable courses provide a practical introduction to vocal and body warm up prior to performance, articulation, stance, projection, improvisation, character development, dialogue, emotion, delivery, staging, casting, blocking and both comic and tragic timing.
