Garnish Music School Reviews
Music school reviews from past students:
“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
“I attended a music production course at one of the main London DJ schools before doing the mixing course at Garnish. There really is no comparison. If you want to learn to DJ, go to a DJ school. If you want to learn music production, go to Garnish!” Tristen Gleed – Mixing
“I came into the Ableton course a bit worried as i had never used the program before, but was quickly put at ease by the friendly atmosphere. Our instructor Irfan was great, really enthusiastic and patient, he was happy to go over things again until you got to grips with it and his knowledge and skills were inspiring. I have never been one for learning from a book or online tuition, and the hands on approach of the course was perfect, having Irfan there to help if you have any queries or even the other guys in the class were always happy to help each other out when they could. I left the course feeling confident about making my own tracks on Ableton and also djing on Ableton.” Stuart Galloway – Ableton
“I thought the courses were pretty much perfect!” Adam Ficek - Logic and EMP. Read interview
“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
“A nice relaxed working environment and detailed, in-depth working practices. I really got a lot from this course and answered a lot of questions I had about sound engineering processes in Pro Tools, especially as i come from a creative background.“ Paul Tilley – Mixing and Pro Tools
“Doing the mixing course is easily the best thing could’ve done to quickly take my mixing skills to where I wanted them to be. Now I understand all about layering, how to find a place for everything, how and when to use compression to make my records sound so much bigger. Knowing how to mix properly has even effected how I make a record in the earlier stages. I can now master my mixes myself for playing out and only use a mastering engineer now when i’m not paying!” Toby Tobias – Mixing
“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
“The course was brilliant, the small class size ensured we received individual attention. Alex was very knowledgeable, encouraging and reassuring so the nerves I had before the course disappeared. The content we covered was amazing, I wouldn’t have thought of the stuff we covered in a million years. It made the course fee well worth it 10 times over!” Monica Holcombe – Songwriting
“Dave Garnish was our in-house producer/writer at Universal for a number of years, and the quality of his work was always outstanding. He’s smart, with an extensive knowlege of different types of music” Mike McCormack – MD Universal Music UK
“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 found the Ableton course highly enjoyable and informative. I went from knowing nothing about Ableton to putting together live sets and even my own tracks. The instructors were brilliant, and it was great to have two from completely different backgrounds. The class sizes are small so it’s almost like having a personal tutor in the sessions. It’s easy to ask questions or recap if you miss something. I would most definitely recommend this course to anyone who’s serious about getting to grips with Ableton and producing music.” Beat a Maxx – Ableton
“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
“Great content, really useful techniques that I think have saved me years of frustration on trying to figure out why my songs were “just not there”. Love the tools you gave us on melodic rhythm to provide contrast and build, and then release into the chorus learnt a lot about what makes a hit commercial song and what I can do to make my songs better” Allan Cuevas – Songwriting
“I found the course to have excellent content well delivered by great tutors. Everyone is happy to answer any questions you have no matter how silly they seem which is great when learning new material.” Mike Mackeeg – EMP
“As a songwriter/producer I relied heavily on engineers for recording and mixing if I wanted to get my tracks sounding like masters. I always wanted to do more myself but struggled to learn anything watching an engineer zip around Logic or Pro Tools at 1000 mph! Then I found Garnish School of Sound and did their Mixing and Mastering course. It was exactly what I needed, we covered everything I was unsure of in the past from using buses properly, EQ, audio compression and using specialist mastering plugins. Everything was explained and demonstrated in a way I understood. I never thought i’d ever be able get such great sounding tracks doing everything myself.” Ben Cullum – Mixing
“I attended at mixing class at Alchemea college before I went on this one. Garnish’s mixing course had better practical learning whereas Alchemea is maybe too much theory not enough practical. Great course, great value, a must for all producers looking to raise their game.” Steve Morant – Mixing
“The course was excellent. It’s like being handed a deluxe toolbox for songwriting that you will use forever. I have learnt so much about how to write quality and catchy songs. I know my songwriting practice will be changed for the better since I have done this course!” Christa Wright – Songwriting
“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
“You’re getting taught by teacher’s how have been in the industry for a very long time and have worked with some amazing people. They are not only showing you how to work the virtual synthesisers, but also giving you tips and amazing advice.” Crysta Healy - EMP and Mixing
“Exposure to enthusiastic tutors and other students. Much better than just online training. Incredible 6 weeks of next level music production with enthusiastic and knowledgeable tutors…what more could you want?” Nick Garbutt – EMP
Ive been DJing for years now and realise that the only way to progress these days is to produce my own releasable music. As a beginner, I tried out some private tuition from a bloke I found on Gumtree. I wasn’t getting much out of it at all and I even started to question myself. I did the Ableton diploma course at Garnish after a friend recommended it. The course is brilliant, our instructor Irfan was amazing, his enthusiasm when teaching is something else. Also very comforting knowing that he had released a new dance album I was already well aware of. A great mix of people on the course, and per hour, only a third of the price of the private tutor I had in the first place! I’ve just finished my first track, it’s such a wicked feeling 
I can’t recommend the course enough!
Melvo Baptiste – Ableton 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
“The professionalism and tutoring styles from both Dave and Larry are second to none. Not only did we cover everything on the list, but any questions about other musical topics were covered and answered from the guys. A huge library of knowledge available! Never have I been on a more informative course tutored by guys as experienced as Dave and Larry. If you’re serious about musical production and getting your tracks the quality they deserve, any of their courses should be at the top of your ‘to do’ list!” Pete Waidson – Mixing
“Great wealth of Knowledge and expertise passed on from teachers who are actively working in dance music. A great course that has empowered me to enhance my music and finish quality dance tracks.” Hayden Noel – EMP
“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
As a Singer/Songwriter, I really was self-taught when it came to mixing, and although over the years I have worked out how to do a lot of things, getting a good mixdown always seemed to be where I was lacking. Trying to get your head around things like compression and EQing when you’ve not had any formal training is hard. Now I have done this course I can now mix my own tracks which i’m loving! Thanks a lot Dave, you’re a Legend! x AiNA - Mixing (Singer/Songwriter and Camden community music production teacher)
“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
“It is the perfect course for mixing, everyone should do this course before starting to mix seriously. Knowledge really is POWER!!!” J Anthony Packett – Mixing
“Overall, I’ve found the majority of information provided by the course to be of practical value to someone with an intermediate level of skill and knowledge of electronic music production. I also thought the teachers had a good level and range of knowledge, communicated well and were all very approachable.” Well known DJ who’d prefer we didn’t publish his name – EMP
“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 already knew Logic so the EDM (now EMP) course was perfect for me to really get to grips with sound design. Highly recommend this course for any aspiring electronic music producer.” Acid Steve – EMP
“The most worth while 6 days off work I have ever taken!” Tom Connell – EMP
I’d been reading manuals, learning the tricks from books, magazines, youtube reviews and much more. All of which are great, but the (Mixing) course I did with Dave took all this and put it into context, whilst making it real and usable straight away. The courses cover all angles of production in multiple DAW formats – a really in depth powerhouse of knowledge that only the traditional sound engineers would share amongst themselves is now at my fingertips…. On top of that, this (mixing) course helped me take all the best and most powerful tricks I picked up while studying myself to a whole new level of awesome! Top notch! – Heady Stepper – EMP and Mixing
“I feel like i have come out of the course with a lot more knowledge than i thought i would!” Robbie Linstead – Logic
“I did the EDM (now EMP) sound design course. If you thought Ultrabeat was just a drum machine or Sculpture was only good for simulating live instruments, think again! So many tips and tricks I wouldn’t have found in any manuals, books or tutorial videos.
When we get a gap in our schedule, I am going to do the Mixing and Mastering course.” Quintin Schlebusch Live Tech Rebelz - EDM (now EMP)
“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