Ditch the Rules. Embrace the Crazy. Make Great Art.

What You’ll Learn:

Each lesson blends insight, practical exercises, and Niles’ signature wit to guide you through your creative awakening. Course highlights include:

• Why You Create – Define your artistic purpose and complete a powerful exercise: List 10 reasons why YOU want to create.
• Spontaneous Creativity – Learn exercises from Richard’s 50+ years in music, helping you access instinctive self-expression.
• Finding Your Voice – Embrace your “crazy” ideas, draw from your influences, and forge a unique artistic identity.
• The Art of Practice – Turn routine into ritual. Learn how practice becomes the key to artistic freedom.
• Connecting with Others – Find and grow your audience, tell your story, and give more than just your art.
• Love as Creative Fuel – Let passion, empathy, and curiosity drive your artistic expression.
• Overcoming Obstacles – Reframe challenges as fuel for creativity. Grow through rejection and doubt.

Originality isn’t optional—it’s essential. This course helps you embrace what makes your creativity unique.

Richard Niles has worked with legends like Paul McCartney, James Brown, Cher, Ray Charles, Tears for Fears, and Pet Shop Boys. But this course isn’t about celebrity—it’s about you.

With insights drawn from decades at the forefront of music, media, and creativity, Richard distills everything into an accessible, inspiring format that helps unlock your true potential.

You won’t just learn techniques—you’ll build a mindset that supports curiosity, confidence, and creative freedom for the rest of your life.

No knowledge of music theory or written notation is necessary.

This course is broken down into easy to digest chunks which will appeal to all levels of musician and producer, with in-depth analysis of a number of massive hits as well as a complete set of notes and pupil exercises to develop and take your skills to the next level.

The 10 One-hour videos:

• Introduction and Overview
• How to write an Introduction
• The Verse
• The Chorus
• Other Song Elements (Pre-choruses, Bridges, Outros)
• Instrumental sections
• Extended and Unusual Forms
• Re-arranging Pt. 1 (“Cover” Versions)
• Re-Arranging Pt. 2 (Richard Niles “Cover” Versions)
• Conclusion and Bonus producer interviews

Create music that is more accessible to your target audience

Dr. Niles guides you through everything you need to learn – from how to create a catchy intro, how to build the structure and dynamics of a song, and how to keep your listeners interested. The artists Richard Niles has worked with reads like a who’s who of popular music: Paul McCartney, Cher, Tina Turner, Pet Shop Boys, Tears for Fears, Grace Jones, Mariah Carey, Leo Sayer, Kylie Minogue, Westlife, Barry Manilow, Swing Out Sister, Pat Metheny, Bob James, Randy Brecker, Ray Charles, James Brown, Joe Cocker, Deniece Williams…

A complete end-to-end course from a modern mix master

Over the course of 14 videos (Including introduction and bonus material) you will witness Sara Carter take a rough mix from an established and accomplished band and craft it into a dynamic, aggressive, and sonically rich mix with every detail laid bare in granular detail. Oh, and be warned, the song is pretty catchy – you are going to end up with an ear worm…we make no apologies for this…

The 14 videos cover:

• Introduction and approach to mixing
• Mixing drums, both live and programmed
• Fixing common drum track issues and increasing excitement and movement
• Mixing bass guitars to add warmth and grit
• Balancing guitar tracks and thickening tone
• Getting the right balance between drums, bass, and guitars
• Mix bus compression and reference mixes
• Lead vocals, dealing with unwanted noise, vocal alignment
• Backing vocals and parallel compression
• Reference mixes, checks and balances, automation, and critical listening
• Printing the mix and final touches

Punk has always been about DIY…and amazing production

From the earliest innovators of punk to modern hardcore bands there has been one common thread in the greatest recordings – great production. Sara Carter guides you through the complete production process of a track and in 5 hours takes it from garage demo to release-ready.  From how to layout your session, setting up routing, using bus tracks for consistency, all the way to adding final touches and creating realistic ambience, this course has it all.
Whether you use Pro Tools, Logic, Garageband, Ableton, Cubase, Studio One, or Reaper the techniques demonstrated here will serve you well forever.

Achieve Stellar Parts: Comping

When recording, we are looking to capture a vibe that expresses what we feel in this particular moment. That also means that not every take will be perfect – and that’s absolutely fine!

By using Reaper’s powerful comping capabilities, you’ll be able to sort out the occasional messy fill or roll, and combine the best parts of several takes into one stellar-sounding performance.

Worried about having to slice up and move around 8 or 12 drumtracks, one at a time?

With Reaper, that’s not a problem at all!

Myk teaches you how to comp your entire performance effortlessly and in one go. – Without running the risk of misplacing any of your regions!

By utilizing playlists and grouping.

Streamline Your Workflow

Let’s face it: Drum editing is not the most fun aspect of music production

All the more reason to adopt a highly efficient workflow, which allows you to move quickly, and implement the musical features you’re looking for without having to worry about the technical side.

This course is packed full of techniques that’ll tremendously speed up your workflow, and allow you to stay in your creative zone.

Learn how utilize scripts, hotkeys, customization, as well as semi-automatic editing and become a true editing Ninja!

Learn How To Produce An R&B Song From Scratch

As Willie stated beautifully in this course: ‘It’s all about the song. Everything we’re creating has to serve, amplify and accentuate the song. If it doesn’t, it’s got to go.’

Watch him take a rough song idea, recorded on a phone (with no click!), time-align it to make it useable in the session, and build a full-fledged production around it:

From coming up with a rough song structure, to programming a beat, 808s, synth and string parts, to recording live cellos and vocals. 

This section perfectly reflects the workflow of a modern producer. And since it’s a current video, you’ll even receive some tips on how to conduct live and in-person sessions safely.

Learn how to create a production that complements the artist’s voice, builds over time, and captures your audience so they simply can’t turn away.

The Secret To Successful Vocal Sessions

Vocal sessions are one of the most important, yet one most fragile ventures in the entire recording process.

It’s crucial to understand the vision of the artist, and make them feel comfortable to get the best performances.

Watch how Willie interacts with Jeanette Berry during a 1+ hour recording session, while they figure out a captivating vocal arrangement including BGVs, Stacks and Choir parts.

In addition, you’ll get an in-depth look at Willie’s recording chains and learn how to set up an headphone mix that inspires artists to sing their hearts out.

The Final Polish: Mixing

In this final chapter, Willie lets you sit in on his favourite part of the production process.

The mixing session, where all the pieces of the puzzle come together as a whole!

Discover how to:

• Create professional and captivating vocal sound 
• Achieve a massive low-end that cuts through on small speakers
• Make all instruments sit well together and form a 3D soundstage 
• Utilize VCAs, Groups & Busses for an efficient and seamless workflow
• Help the song open up during choruses and make them feel larger than life
• Use multi-stage compression to add excitement without killing the dynamics
• Alter your panning to get a better sound on headphones
• Use automation to feature intriguing details of the production and capture your listener’s attention
• Use Masterbus processing to add the final glue and polish to your mix

WANT EVEN MORE HIPHOP? 

Get your hands on the best HipHop mixing and production courses available at an incredibly low price. For a limited time you can get the Ultimate HipHop Bundle for 71% OFF.

This bundle includes 9 courses from World Class Engineers, over 35 hours of in-depth tutorials, and 10 sets of multitracks that you can download and use to follow along with the SAME MOVES that your mentors are making.

Producing, Editing, and Mixing R&B with Willie Green is included in this bundle!

I Finally Felt Confident Using Logic Pro

Since graduating from University I have worked in a range of studios around London (from multi-million pound studios to small independent studios), learned from some of the best professionals (who worked with bands like Queen and Motörhead), built several studios and worked with some amazing artists.

That’s a picture of me in my studio. It has always been my dream to work with inspiring artists around the world from my own professional home studio, and now that’s my reality.

Most importantly, I have been using Logic Pro throughout my entire career. I have spent thousands of hours and countless days on the search for better techniques and methods for producing great music inside Logic.

I spend my days working with artists around the world as a freelance mix engineer from my own home studio. I also teach thousands of people about recording and mixing at home.

Introducing: Music + Audio production in Logic Pro X – The Complete Guide

To make sure people like you never have to go through the same struggle that I did, I have created a comprehensive course on using Logic Pro X for music and audio production.

By the end of this course, you will be able to use every feature of Logic Pro X with confidence. This will allow you to quickly and easily write, edit, mix and produce great music that sounds professional, polished and impressive.

Plus, you get direct access to me for personalized advice. I can answer absolutely any questions you have.

The Complete Guide To Logic Pro X

For a fraction of the cost of Logic Pro X, you could take this course and avoid all of the wasted time and frustration that comes with figuring it out on your own.

If you are willing to invest in the software, it’s a no-brainer to spend a bit more on developing your own skills and knowledge.

This great piece of software is used by professional musicians and engineers around the world. It’s simple user interface makes it an absolute joy to use. It’s the easiest DAW to learn, yet it is also one of the most powerful.

Not only will you learn about composing music in Logic Pro, but you will also learn about recording, editing, mixing and mastering audio. Every single step of the audio production process is covered and can be performed within the software.

After covering the absolute basics of digital audio production and sound recording, we’ll dive deeper into each topic.