Logic Course
An comprehensive Logic Pro/Logic Express course and introduction to making professional sounding music. You will cover all of the essential music production skills needed to create tracks in any genre. As well as being perfect for beginners, even more experienced Logic users will benefit too as you go over elements indepthly and correctly with one of our team of industry active professionals which include Apple certified instructors. We cover programming beats using the EXS24 and Ultrabeat, finding and tweaking the right sounds for your genre with channel strips, sampling, synthesis in ES1 & ES2, arranging and recording techniques. There’s even time to cover some of the new groundbreaking functions in this very latest version of Logic 9 such as Flex Time and Production Tools. This six week course takes place at the Arthaus in London and the price is £449. Check out the testimonials at the bottom of this page to see what recent learners thought. You may be surprised at some of the names on there!
Tom Belton, Larry Holcombe and Irfan Nathoo are our Logic specialists. Check them out on our Instructors page and Google.
All courses come with extensive notes put together by our expert course developers, and you also get an industry recognised certificate on successful completion.
The courses are designed for optimised learning so you take in the content in a day, recap in between sessions at home, and come back to us a week later for the next session of learning. This makes use of an educational practice called The Spacing Effect. Evening courses run two sessions per week for three hours each.
To enrol, call or send us an email telling us which course you would like to do when it runs and we’ll organise the rest. You can pay securely through Google Checkout if that suits you.
Week 1 – The Basics
- Setting up Logic and MIDI, overview of the interface
- Speeding up workflow and file management.
- Introducing the EXS 24 sampler and Ultrabeat
- How to program MIDI and make some beats
- All about quantise
- Using Apple Loops to add texture and groove
- Key command of the day: ‘L’ = loop
Week 2 – Making Your Own Unique Sounds
- Tour of EVP88, EVB3, EVD6 and Sculpture instruments
- Channel strips and making them your own
- An introduction to Synthesis in Logic’s ES1
- Tone generation and shaping
- Using MIDI controllers creatively – controlling your sound
- Beat making part 2
- Key command of the day: ‘command & K’ = controller assignment window
Week 3 – Sampling
- Where to get samples and the law
- Mapping drums, tuning and manipulation
- The new way of chopping up loops in Logic 9
- Getting samples into time with your song
- Using rex files and other formats
- Filtering and manipulating samples
- Key command of the day: ‘shift + e’ = convert audio regions to new sampler track
Week 4 – Sound Engineering Techniques and All About Audio
- Digital, analogue, sampling-rate and bit-rate explained
- Getting the Logic grid in time with your audio
- Audio editing in arrange and sample edit windows
- Recording techniques: vocals, guitars and common instruments.
- Compiling audio takes
- Microphones and introduction to EQ and dynamics (compression, gating, etc)
- Key command of the day: ‘control & *’ = record capture
Week 5 – Arranging, Music and Advanced Audio (click HERE for a taster video)
- Manipulating tempo and time stretching
- Advanced audio, manipulating tempo, time stretching, Flex Time and fades
- Advance MIDI editing and hyper editing
- Arrangement tools, folders and global tracks
- Timesaving shortcuts and key commands
- All about environment, chord memorizer and arpeggiator
- Key command of the day: ‘alt & e’ = toggle event float
Week 6 – Automation, Vocals and Introduction to Mixing (click HERE for a taster video)
- Amp Designer and Pedal Board
- Fixing and tuning vocals
- Logic’s convolution plugins
- Automation in Logic
- All about busses, auxes and groups. When and why we use them
- Troubleshooting, optimisation, EQ and dynamics
- Key command of the day: ‘alt+command+drag plugin’ = copy plugin AND all of its settings
New Year Sundays 2012
| Date | Time |
| Sunday 8th January | 11am – 6pm |
| Sunday 15th January | 11am – 6pm |
| Sunday 22nd January | 11am – 6pm |
| Sunday 29th January | 11am – 6pm |
| Sunday 5th February | 11am – 6pm |
| Sunday 12th February | 11am – 6pm |
Early Spring Mondays 2012
| Date | Time |
| Monday 13th February | 11am – 6pm |
| Monday 20th February | 11am – 6pm |
| Monday 27th February | 11am – 6pm |
| Monday 5th March | 11am – 6pm |
| Monday 12th March | 11am – 6pm |
| Monday 19th March | 11am – 6pm |
Early Spring Sundays 2012
| Date | Time |
| Sunday 19th February | 11am – 6pm |
| Sunday 26th February | 11am – 6pm |
| Sunday 4th March | 11am – 6pm |
| Sunday 11th March | 11am – 6pm |
| Sunday 18th March | 11am – 6pm |
| Sunday 25th March | 11am – 6pm |
Late Spring Evenings 2012
| Date | Time |
| Monday 26th March | 6:45pm – 9:45pm |
| Tuesday 27th March | 6:45pm – 9:45pm |
| Monday 2nd April | 6:45pm – 9:45pm |
| Tuesday 3rd April | 6:45pm – 9:45pm |
| Monday 9th April | 6:45pm – 9:45pm |
| Tuesday 10th April | 6:45pm – 9:45pm |
| Monday 16th April | 6:45pm – 9:45pm |
| Tuesday 17th April | 6:45pm – 9:45pm |
| Monday 23rd April | 6:45pm – 9:45pm |
| Tuesday 24th April | 6:45pm – 9:45pm |
| Monday 30th April | 6:45pm – 9:45pm |
| Tuesday 1st May | 6:45pm – 9:45pm |
Late Spring Saturdays 2012
| Date | Time |
| Saturday 31st March | 11am – 6pm |
| Saturday 7th April | 11am – 6pm |
| Saturday 14th April | 11am – 6pm |
| Saturday 21st April | 11am – 6pm |
| Saturday 28th April | 11am – 6pm |
| Saturday 5th May | 11am – 6pm |
Early Summer Tuesdays 2012
| Date | Time |
| Tuesday 8th May | 11am – 6pm |
| Tuesday 15th May | 11am – 6pm |
| Tuesday 22nd May | 11am – 6pm |
| Tuesday 29th May | 11am – 6pm |
| Tuesday 5th June | 11am – 6pm |
| Tuesday 12th June | 11am – 6pm |
Midsummer 2012 Logic Evenings
| Date | Time |
| Monday 18th June | 6:45pm – 9:45pm |
| Wednesday 20th June | 6:45pm – 9:45pm |
| Monday 25th June | 6:45pm – 9:45pm |
| Wednesday 27th June | 6:45pm – 9:45pm |
| Monday 2nd July | 6:45pm – 9:45pm |
| Wednesday 4th July | 6:45pm – 9:45pm |
| Monday 9th July | 6:45pm – 9:45pm |
| Wednesday 11th July | 6:45pm – 9:45pm |
| Monday 16th July | 6:45pm – 9:45pm |
| Wednesday 18th July | 6:45pm – 9:45pm |
| Monday 23rd July | 6:45pm – 9:45pm |
| Wednesday 25th July | 6:45pm – 9:45pm |
Midsummer Saturdays 2012
| Date | Time |
| Saturday 23rd June | 11am – 6pm |
| Saturday 30th June | 11am – 6pm |
| Saturday 7th July | 11am – 6pm |
| Saturday 14th July | 11am – 6pm |
| Saturday 21st july | 11am – 6pm |
| Saturday 28th July | 11am – 6pm |
One Week Summer School:
July 30, 31, August 1, 2, 3, 4
All 11am – 6pm. Same course, same amount of hours, same price, but can be done in one week! Please see our summer school page for information on accommodation.
“Songwriting and performing has always been my thing but i’ve always been interested in the more technical side. A friend told me about Garnish School and their instructors so I booked their Logic course. It was just brilliant, Paul Waller was my instructor and an industry name I already knew! The course was paced perfectly and I don’t think i’ve ever learnt so much in six weeks before. I’m finally very comfortable with Logic now and am making music on my own on planes travelling to gigs!” Robert Owens – Logic
“I would never have discovered all this by myself. A well structured course with quite simply brilliant instructors.” Shaun Holmes – Logic
“The reason I took the course is because I wanted to get more in-depth with different types of synthesis, electronic sound design and programming beats. I’ve been working on music the whole time on the courses here and at home, putting the tricks and methods i’ve learnt into practice. I’ve found that the way I approach things now is different to how I did before. I find now I work in a kind of optimised way, not only saving so much time when I work on music by getting what I want quickly. I now just know what to do to improve a song with production. There’s so much more scope now, so many more options than I had before I did the EMP course in particular. Great tutors with experience, good teaching techniques, and well structured lessons. I wouldn’t change anything on both courses and next I am going to take your mixing course.” Stefan Olsdal - Logic and EMP. Read interview
“It’s a great course if you want comprehensive, informative, invaluable knowledge of Logic. It illustrates areas of Logic where you may have never encountered or thought about.” Renu Hossain – Logic
“I’d recommend this course because of the spacing of the classes allows learning to “sink in”. The knowledge of the instructors is brilliant, plus it makes a big difference that the instructors are all in the industry.” Natasha James – Logic
“I thought the courses were pretty much perfect!” Adam Ficek - Logic and EMP. Read interview
“They have multiple tutors on the courses who work in different areas of the business so you get different perspectives. In just six weeks you are able to fully understand and work the programme with great tips from industry people who really know their stuff. It’s brilliant!” Jenny O’Malley – Logic and Ableton
“I always had to rely on others help to get reasonable sounding demos for my songs. Now after doing the Logic music production course, I am making great sounding demos all by myself from not knowing anything before really. The tuition was brilliant. I highly recommend this course” Lauren Rogers – Logic
“I did the Logic and the EMP course. It was everything I hoped for and more. I’m not interested in long academic courses and this was exactly the shot in the arm my music production skills needed. I researched courses for a long time before finding Garnish and there’s nothing else out there like it. I’ll be doing the mixing course next after a break to put into practice all what i’ve learnt so far” Russ Jay – Logic and EMP
“All the tutors are massively helpful. really full of knowledge. Garnish made me feel really welcome, great place to learn about music.” Howard Robinson – Logic
“Anyone interested in Logic needs to do this course. It’s a concise ice breaker to the environment taught by passionate industry pros that bring that extra extra special something of real life insight to the Logic workflow, as well as the industry.” JJ Barrett – Logic
“Wide spectrum of knowledge and expertise in modern music trick-nology. Industry recognised instructors that talk the talk and can walk the walk. Don’t think twice book a course with the G.S.O.S!” Nick Burns – Logic and Mixing
“It was highly enjoyable and exceeded expectations and brought my attention to a lot of aspects of music not just solely Logic which was a bonus.” Keon Ghaharian – Logic
“I can’t believe how much I learnt in just six weeks. I didn’t even know how to make a beat in Logic before and now I’m making decent sounding Dubstep tracks in Logic. I can’t wait for EDM (now EMP) when I can get some more time off work!” Robert Marshall – Logic
“Thanks so much for your course, it has opened my mind to Logic and what it can do!!!
My production has stepped up 200% since finishing the course and I am also feeling more confident about music n production in general” Simon Gordon – Logic
“I found the beginners Logic course really inspiring and completely relevant to what I am trying to achieve. In such a small time I have progressed immensely and now can have solutions for what I had been struggling with for so long. I’ve even leant how to record vocals properly too! Online tutorial videos were just bewildering and I wish I had done this course years ago. Next up is EDM (now EMP) and I can’t wait!” Sam Ball – Logic and EMP
“I feel like i have come out of the course with a lot more knowledge than i thought i would!” Robbie Linstead – Logic
“Teachers are friendly and know whats up in terms of what you need to learn out of a class. Also the structure in terms of progression and segmenting the courses over 6 weeks helps to retain info.” Arsoy Mustafa – Logic and EMP