Beats & Urban Music Production (BUMP) is a program dedicated to teaching the production techniques unique to the Hip Hop and Urban Music genres. We are proud to introduce the latest member of the Nimbus family Chin Injeti, a Grammy-winning producer and songwriter who co-created the BUMP program. Chin has worked on music for the likes of Drake, 50 Cent, David Banner, Clipse, and Esthero, and collaborated with some of hip hop’s biggest producers such as DJ Khalil, 88 Keys, and Organized Noize.

 

Recording:

• Cables, Patch Bays, Decibels, Wave Theory, Equalization,
• Miking techniques:drums, bass, electric guitars, vocals, keyboards, re-miking and re-amping
• Metering and Recording levels
• Autotune, Dynamic Processing, Effects processing, Sound Replacement
• Music Theory, MIDI Theory, Digital Theory
• Comping and Editing
• Mixing and Mastering

 

Hip Hop Production:

• Origins and Culture of the Hip Hop
• Basic Sampling Concepts
• Hip-hop as a business strategy
• Hip Hop Production
• DAW, Samplers, Turntables, Soft Synths, Plugins
• Studio Recording Techniques
• Pre-pro to Mastering
• Growing Your Sound Bank
• Going from “In The Box” to “Traditional” Rooms.
• Students complete a “Real World” Scenario of a Urban Recording Project from beginning to end which forms their final project and demo real