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Record and release music that sounds like your favorite artists...all from home

Become a self-reliant artist by learning how to produce, mix, and promote your music independently

"I now feel like I understand the basics and am ready to start experimenting on my own :)"

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Production To Promotion

Learn how to produce, mix, and promote your music on your own with this curated YouTube course.

Quick storytime...


When I started producing my own music, I didn't know what I was doing.

I had GarageBand, a crappy microphone, and a vision for what I wanted my music to sound like.

Because I had no one to teach me, I spent a lot of time on YouTube.

Like, hours and hours.

But eventually, I learned how to produce music from home.

Then I would pay a professional to mix and master my self-produced music.

As you can guess, that cost a lot of money. In fact, it cost thousands of dollars per album.

I had to run crowdfunding campaigns just to finish and release my music.

But then in 2017, I realized something...

Why couldn't I just learn how to mix my own music?

I would have more control over the final sound, and I would save so much money!

So that's when I started learning how to mix music.

And I spent hundreds of hours searching for and watching the best videos on mixing.

But not just any videos. They had to make sense to me as a beginner.

And gradually, I learned how to mix music on my own.

Jump forward to today and my music has been on ABC, NBC, NPR, and I've garnered tens of thousands of streams.

My point is, you can learn to produce, mix, and release music that sounds like what you hear on Spotify and TV shows.

You can get your music to the point where you're proud of it.

And people will love listening to it.

But there's one big problem for you as a part-time musician...

You don't have the time to scour YouTube for all the videos that will teach you these things.

You may not have anyone to answer your specific questions about producing and mixing and promoting your music.

Plus, how will you know if you're taking the right steps in the right order?

You can't know for sure.

Not from the ocean of information that is the internet.

That's why I made PRODUCTION TO PROMOTION.

It's a curated collection of every single YouTube video you need if you want to become a totally self-reliant musician.

All of the videos I learned from, I put into this step-by-step course.

You’ll learn everything you need to know to record, release, and promote your music.

Music you're excited about, music that sounds really good.

Through this organized library of videos, you'll learn the skills that will serve you for years to come as an indie artist who produces your own music.

For every new song, you will have the formula to make it sound like what you hear in your head.

Instead of wasting hours of your life searching for the most helpful YouTube videos and trying to figure out in what order to do things...

You can use this course as a map.

And you can produce and release your music ASAP.

What you’ll learn...


You'll learn every single step of the process, from producing music to getting people to listen...

  • Get quality recordings from home using production techniques the pros use
  • Mix your songs to sound like your favorite artists
  • Distribute your music and get people to actually listen

What students are saying...


"I’ve been wanting to learn how to produce my own songs for years, but found this such an overwhelming task with all the info out there. I just didn’t know where to start! In this course, all the things you need to know to start producing your music are bundled in a very easy to follow, step by step way...I now feel like I understand the basics and am ready to start experimenting on my own :)"

Viola L.


"This course provided a really useful outline of all the steps from getting my songs recorded through to production, mixing, mastering and finally release and promotion. It's easy to get lost and overwhelmed in online 'rabbit holes' on any of these topics, so it was great to have a map to help guide me through."

Christine F.


"As a beginner, this course was incredibly insightful. It simplifies the steps to make and release a song really well. I followed this course while making a song and I got great results. This course taught me how to mix and distribute a song with ease. All the videos have been curated with a lot of care and come with notes from Caleb that you could refer to when you need a refresher/quick study."

Caleb J. Murphy

Jahnavi B.


"Caleb’s advice and suggestions are my favorite part of the course. everything he shares feels spot-on. Everything is easy to read and understand. I’ve found the range of sections (topics) incredibly helpful (I’ve learned a lot) – especially the sections on editing, mixing and mastering."

Suzanne

What you'll learn from this course...

  • Get to know the essential equipment and recording software
  • Learn how to comp takes, fix timing issues, and use autotune
  • Discover how to produce your songs to sound like your favorite artists
  • Get a high-level view of mixing
  • Dive into the basics of EQ, compression, reverb, and delay
  • Figure out how to get your song mastered
  • Understand distributors and what you need to do before you release your music
  • Learn how to grow your audience and get more people to listen

Get lifetime access to Production To Promotion

BASIC

       

PAY WHAT YOU CAN

 



All course content 

Exclusive, royalty-free sample pack

Access to the student-only Slack community

2 rounds of detailed feedback from Caleb

1 round of detailed mixing feedback from pro audio engineer John Behrens








PRO

       

$179 

 



All course content 

Exclusive, royalty-free sample pack

Access to the student-only Slack community

2 rounds of detailed feedback from Caleb

1 round of detailed mixing feedback from pro audio engineer John Behrens








Who are your guides for this course?

MAIN GUIDE & COURSE CREATOR: Caleb J. Murphy

Caleb J. Murphy

I'm a songwriter/producer with 12+ years as an active musician. I'm based in Austin, Tx.

 

My self-produced music has been on NBC, ABC, NPR, and in hundreds of indie film projects.

 

On top of starting and running Musician With A Day Job, I've written music advice content for Ari's Take, Digital Music News, Bandzoogle, and many other places.

 

I will be actively answering questions in the student-only Slack community. 

 

SECONDARY GUIDE: John Behrens

John Behrens

John has 10+ years as a professional audio engineer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He's based in Nashville, Tn.

 

He's worked with 100+ artists and writers and he has produced, played on, engineered, mixed and/or mastered hundreds of records.


Before I learned how to mix music on my own, he was my go-to mixing engineer. His advice has been invaluable to me. 

Only students who enroll in the Pro level get feedback from John.

What's a curated YouTube course?

Production To Promotion is a collection of the best YouTube videos on every single step of the process. I've done the digging, found the most helpful videos for beginners, and put them together in a step-by-step fashion in this course.  

What else do I get when I enroll?

Everyone who signs up for either level of the course gets access to an exclusive, royalty-free sample pack that I (Caleb) made.

Pro students also get access to the student-only Slack community, two rounds of detailed song feedback from me, and one round of mixing feedback from pro audio engineer John Behrens. 

Do I really get lifetime access?

You will have access to this course for as long as it is available, including any and all updates I make to the content. 

How do I get feedback on my song?

Only Pro students get song feedback: two rounds of feedback from me (Caleb) and one round of mixing feedback from pro audio engineer John Behrens.

Does it matter what DAW I use?

The techniques and methods in this course and the order in which you do them will work regardless of the DAW you use. Plus, there's a whole section on how to use your chosen DAW.

I don't have any recording equipment. Should I enroll in this course?

To produce pro-level music from home, you will need some basic equipment and software. If you don't have that, you'll need to be able to invest a couple hundred dollars in equipment and software. If you're not prepared to do that, maybe this course isn't for you right now.