Piano lessons:
Both complete beginners or piano players with some experience:
If you would like piano lessons, are either a professional musician or a total piano beginner, I offer private sessions at reasonable rates:
- Tel. 078900 95198
- Email: dannykuperberg@aol.com
Recording studio taster sessions, musical arrangement and songwriting lessons:
Both complete beginners or semi-professional/professional musicians:
I also teach:
- Synthesiser patch programming
- Music production software
- Live-streaming audio/video for social media (predominantly for YouTube) channels. Clients learn the technicalities of how to build their own creative and professional online presence, either through livestreaming or recording for later posting to their channel. The industry standard OBS (Open Broadcast Studio) is taught with guided examples and demonstration.
I use a well equipped keyboard-based recording studio in Camden Town, North London:
Studio hardware and synths:
Moog Subsequent 25 analog synth
Roland Gaia virtual analog synth
Akai MPC One pad-based drum machine, very important for hip hop/dance music productions.
Roland RD-2000: this keyboard is the very top of the range Stage piano / orchestral suite of patches and wooden-weighted master keybed , with full 88-note wooden weighted keyboard.
Oktava, AKG and Shure dynamic and condenser mics.
Pioneer DJ PLX-500 direct drive turntable for sampling and/or vinyl audio-sourcing.
Mixing facilities:
Tascam DP 32 track digital hardware desk
Wharfedale Pro SL-824 USB console for live-streaming and recording.
Music software for DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations)
I am fluent using all of the key sequencers used in the industry. I can teach:
- Pro Tools
- Logic Audio Pro
- Ableton Live
- MPC Beats.
- All of the above is triggered and hardware-mapped to an M-Audio Oxygen Pro-61 master keyboard and pad-based live MIDI controller. Workflow and creativity are enhanced without using mouse because all normal sequencing function can be tasked to the Oxygen. This enables a ‘DAW-less’ setup. One would thus only need to use a mouse at the final stages of mixing and mastering – and even then, there are alternatives for using a mouse, such as mixing and mastering on-the-fly.
OBS (Open Broadcast Studio):
Increasingly online live-streaming across social media platforms is becoming a key aspect of the life of a professional musician. To help clients and students understand the processes here, I teach using a Wharfedale Pro SL-824 mixer together with OBS (Open Broadcast Studio) software. This enables professional live-streaming across the socials, gaming and video recording for YouTube posting.
If you are a complete beginner, studio novice or professional musician wanting to improve your creative audio as well as keyboard skills – or are just curious to see how music and technology are now so intricately bound up in this exciting creative environment, contact me below for sessions, again at reasonable rates:
- Tel. 078900 95198
- Email: dannykuperberg@aol.com
Mission statement:
Danny Kuperberg is the antidote to music industry corporate, saccharine and sanitised music by numbers. Its become a race to the bottom both in terms of standardised music production techniques as well as exploitative music videos.
There was a time when music meant everything. Not anymore.
Danny is for paying your dues, gigging hard and, crucially, enjoying it. Not ‘living the (phantom) dream.’
Whether surrounded by famous names everyone would’ve heard of at recording studios like Spaceward, gigging and arranging gigs in Camden, North London with the most important compères, managers and promoters like Zaid Joseph and Dublin Castle’s Bugbear Promotions, lecturing in Audio Production, fundraising for big music events – or just plain piano teaching, Danny has been there and done that.
Who is responsible for today’s young talent or tomorrow’s exciting new talent?
A taste of this can be found on the ‘Gigs, news & Blog’ page.
Not just me, but so so many creative people are in it for the music. And not the hype.