Big New Releases From Point Blank Students
Heres an update from a few of Point Blank’s former students and what they’ve been getting up to since completing their courses. First up, Jon Reynolds’ Landed Records‘ label is whipping up a massive storm in the deep house scene with a number of huge tracks, including their latest release; Zumo’s ‘Dutch Dub‘ EP which … Read more
Aki Bergen Remix Competition
The deadline for our exclusive remix competition with Tim Sheridan’s label VeryVeryWrongIndeed has now finished. Thanks for all those who sent in your remixes… we have passed them on to Tim for final judging. Remember there is a £5 concession for VVWI at Light Box this Friday for any student or staff of Point Blank. … Read more
Enzyme Black – ME2U
Being self sufficient in todays music industry has many percs. As well as the positive aspects of being able to cut out all of the middle men and all the other boring, admin related stuff, you find yourself in the nice position of being able to steer the label’s vision wherever you want. Deep and … Read more
How to make Dubstep Free Tutorial Series
Watch 5 videos exclusive to youtube in the ‘How to Make Dubstep’ series. They are a sample of the 80+ videos that Point Blank students have access to on the 4 week Dubstep Pro Producer Course taught in Ableton Live. Please subscribe to the Point Blank youtube channel to make sure you don’t miss the … Read more
Introducing the Point Blank Forum
The forum has long been a vital feature of the learning process for music production students at Point Blank Online; A place where they can interact with their fellow students, share their latest tracks and probe their tutors for any extra nuggets of knowledge not covered in the course material. Until now however the only … Read more
What Genre Next?
Since launching them in 2009, we have been overwhelmed by the popularity of the Pro Producer courses at Point Blank Online. The genres have spanned from Minimal Tech, Deep and Soulful House, Trance, Electro House, and most recently Dubstep and Hip Hop. Developed with the more experienced producer in mind, they are perfect for anyone … Read more
Learn to Produce Deep & Soulful House
With what we know to be a proven track record Point Blank Music School has been training DJs, music producers, songwriters and sound engineers for over 15 years. The school has been voted “Best Music Production & DJ School” for six consecutive years by readers of DJ Magazine and we have previously posted on the … Read more
Minimal Tech Podcast
Point Blank Music School have been training DJs, music producers, songwriters and sound engineers for over 15 years, they have won awards for thier efforts and as a result the work their students produce is consistently of a very high calibre. When studying a course at Point Blank student’s work culminates in the submission of … Read more
How To Make Dubstep…
After Drum n Bass, Garage, and Grime had flittered in and out of fashion in the underground London dance music scene in the late 1990s/early 2000s a fledgling sound with an emphasis on heavy low end frequencies, reverberating snares and half step percussion at around 140bpm began to gather pace amongst a small community of … Read more
How To Make Hip Hop: ‘Beat Analysis’
Just a quick update to the earlier post about Point Blank Music School’s latest addition to the curriculum, the Hip Hop Course, we’ve managed to get hold of an exclusive video taster from one of the lessons! So we now know that the course will feature a section entitled ‘Beat Analysis’ which will consist of … Read more
