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Joe Goddard (Hot Chip)
Turn basic ideas into release-ready records
About the course
Hot Chip’s studio wizard Joe Goddard shows you how you can start a simple demo and flesh it out into a release-ready hit. You’ll learn Joe’s processes for sketching out the first parts of a track before he takes it to the studio to show you how he uses analogue gear and a healthy dose of experimentation to further develop the tune and mix it down.
What you’ll learn
Learn exactly what it takes to make music like Joe Goddard – from laying down the first ideas to building it out into a full track. Joe uses Cubase and an enviable collection of synths but, as he shows, you can make music with whatever you’ve got.
Get ready to turn your demos into hits as you learn:
- How analogue equipment can give your tunes a unique flavour and how you can get that sound without the fancy gear
- Building an effective demo
- How to develop and arrange your ideas into a full track
- Integrating hardware equipment
- Techniques for transforming demos into release-ready songs
- Joe’s advice for musicians looking to collaborate and work with other artists.
Who’s this course for
Suitable for Beginner experience levels.
This is a great course for those who want to learn how to make effective demos and harness the power of inspiration in the studio. This course is designed to help you develop your production skills, stay inspired and learn songwriting techniques from a seasoned professional in the music industry.
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Your teacher
Joe Goddard (Hot Chip)
Joe Goddard, member of Hot Chip and the 2 Bears, songwriter, producer, DJ, remixer and co-founder of the Greco-Roman label. Like Four Tet, Caribou and Jamie xx, Joe combines a thirst for experimentation, an instinctive understanding of the dancefloor and a love of left-of-centre pop music.
During the 1990s, Joe attended Elliott School in Putney, where he met his Hot Chip bandmate Alexis Taylor and his long-time friend Kieran Hebden. As a teenager, he progressed from indie and hip hop to drum’n’bass to house and garage, always thrilled by those moments when underground music infiltrated the charts.
As well as working on seven Hot Chip albums and two with Raf Rundell as The 2 Bears, Joe has remixed the likes of Kraftwerk, New Order, Disclosure, Dirty Projectors, the Chemical Brothers, Wiley and Jessie Ware, produced tracks for Franz Ferdinand, Bernard Sumner, Little Boots, Dels and Mashrou Leila and released a string of solo singles. Gabriel, his haunting 2011 hit with singer Valentina, was his first big success beyond Hot Chip. “It made me feel that I was capable of doing things outside the band,” he says. This led to “Taking Over” and his first solo album proper on Domino “Electric Lines”. A keen collaborator, he has released tracks with Michael Mayer, Tuff City Kids, Eats Everything, Mathew Dear, Mixhell and Hayden Thorpe from Wild Beasts in recent years and has some nice projects currently in the lab alongside his follow up solo album.