Music Production

Through the months of September and November, Abbey Road Institute students were embedded in two of the premier events on Australia’s music industry calendar. Our first group of interns were placed with Specific Music’s ‘50 Songs in 5 Days’  in partnership with APRA AMCOS and Studios 301. 50 Songs in 5 Days is an intensive songwriting […]

Which Chord Next? A Simple Approach to Chord Progressions. By Paul Edwards Planning to get a diploma in music soon? Are you checking out audio production courses and music production courses in Melbourne now? Several articles such as this one have been prepared to refresh your knowledge in music. Read on to familiarise yourself with […]

This Month. Abbey Road Institute’s David Weaver takes a look at how sound and music for gaming applications has evolved for the planet’s biggest media releases…   The Interactive Games and Entertainment Association released 2017’s figures on video game consumption in Australia – $3.23 billion, up nine percent from 2016. Sporting similar trajectories are Esports […]

Born and bred in Melbourne, David Weaver’s musical career began early when he first discovered the love of composition as a clarinet player. Expanding his instrumentation to include double bass, violin, saxophone and eventually piano, David soon began exploring a more diverse range of genres and styles. From art music through electro-pop and even punk, […]

student success Abbey Road Institute Melbourne was thrilled with the news that recent graduate, Charlotte Rochecouste, has just secured an intern role at Studios 301 as assistant engineer to  Simon Cohen (Justin Bieber, Jessica Mauboy, Illy, Will.I.Am). Beginning her musical career as a vocalist at the age of 11, Charlotte’s repertoire expanded to classical instrumentation by way of the oboe and […]

Welcome to part II of our favourites from the team at Universal Audio.   We will follow the same process as the previous post. As we discussed, UA has a huge range of plugins, this though will be the last post, for now, regarding UA. I highly recommend taking your time and looking through Universal […]

Welcome to part I of our favourites from the team at Universal Audio.   As you may be aware, at Abbey Road Institute we have access to a huge list of plugins. This can be quite intimidating at first, so we thought putting together a list of plugins every couple of weeks for you to […]

Jaime Fuentes Jaime Fuentes is busy in the studio today working on a drum track for his latest single to be released in early 2018. Jaime began his production journey in March 2017 when he became a full time student at the Melbourne campus.  While learning the engineering, music production and business aspects of the […]

October 2017 will be remembered as the first time students from Abbey Road Melbourne travelled to London for a graduation ceremony at the iconic Abbey Road Studios.   Our students were buzzing with excitement as they entered the hallowed halls of Abbey Road Studios.  To be able to spend the morning touring one of the […]

Well, once again we’ve come to the end of Expo and WOW, what an absolute fantastic 4 days! Over 30,000 career seekers have been through the door over the last 4 days and I’m pretty sure we met most of them! What a fantastic forum to hear everyones stories and have conversations about their passions […]