Getting Your Music Heard: Tips on Marketing Yourself
Getting Your Music Heard You know your aims, you’ve found your niche, and you really have your own style going on. The music is recorded, mixed and mastered… but just how do you get it out there? As an up and coming artist, working without the backing of major label money, it is essential to … Read more
New Student Releases March
As ever here at Point Blank, we love boasting about the achievements that our students have gone on to do. This time, the good news comes from Eddie Averell, a young minimal tech producer from Glasgow who since Point Blank has gone on to have much success producing and releasing his unique brand of hypnotic, … Read more
Dance Midi Samples Competition
Once again Dance Midi Samples have teamed up with Point Blank. Expanding on their already successful series of tutorial videos, they are now coming together to start a new and exclusive production and compositonal competition. Dance Midi Samples are giving away a selection of their unique Midi instrumental packages and are challenging young talented producers … Read more
Round-up of Last Month’s Serato Releases
Last month Serato released a selection of brand new pro DJ devices that are pushing the skills of the selector to the limits. With two new controllers and an interface, the guys at Serato, Pioneer, Rane and Numark have been very busy recently. The new products are the; Rane SL 4 for Scratch Live, … Read more
New DJ Tech: Pioneer’s Nexus
DJ giants Pioneer are set to unveil their latest development in technology over the next few days. To get eveyones hype-o-meters working overload, Pioneer have released a teaser trailer, with a demonstration from James Zabiela. What the new product actually does seems, as of yet to be something of a mystery (…even to Zabiela), but … Read more
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
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
