Introduction to chord progressions, song forms, and harmonic techniques used in commercial music. Topics include modern chord notation and chord voicings.

Grade Basis: L
Credit hours: 2.0
Lecture hours: 1.0
Lab hours: 2.0

Introduction to the techniques of writing marketable songs including the writing of lyrics and melodies, setting lyrics to music, developing lyrical and musical “hooks,” analyzing the marketplace, and developing a production plan for a song demo.

Grade Basis: L
Credit hours: 3.0
Lecture hours: 2.0
Lab hours: 3.0

The tools, personnel and standard workflow of a recording studio. Topics include fundamentals of sound and overview of tracking, editing, and mixing audio.

Grade Basis: L
Credit hours: 3.0
Lecture hours: 2.0
Lab hours: 4.0

Application of the concepts and techniques presented in Audio Engineering I and II.

End-of-Course Outcomes:

1. Identify and troubleshoot
   procedural and/or technical problems which may arise in the
   audio studio; and
2. demonstrate the use of audio consoles,
   multi-track recorders, and signal processing.

Grade Basis: L
Credit hours: 2.0
Lab hours: 4.0

Corequisites

• MUSC 2327 – Audio Engineering II

Implementation of the recording process, microphones, audio console, multi-track recorder, and signal processing devices.

Grade Basis: L
Credit hours: 3.0
Lecture hours: 2.0
Lab hours: 4.0

Prerequisites

• MUSC 1327 – Audio Engineering I

Corequisites

• MUSC 2201 – Audio Engineering Practices