Learn how to produce radio-ready songs from a pro.
I highly recommend Joe Gilder if you’re looking to learn home recording, mixing, and mastering by a real professional out of the Nashville area.
I first followed Joe’s friend, Graham Cochrane, at www.recordingrevolution.com and bought Graham’s studio recording course. It helped me tremendously and I even watched some of the content with the sound team at www.LifeShare.church to improve our live mixing, online audio mixing, and studio mixing. It proved very helpful!
Then about a year ago, Joe took over Recording Revolution and continued to offer his own recording course as well.
So far, I’ve used TrueVine Studios, my recording studio in my backyard, to do demos, record vocals for the two LifeShare Worship Albums that we’ve released, and for worship team rehearsals. We are raising up a team of leaders at LifeShare Church to write worship songs, produce, and engineer stellar worship albums.
The TrueVine Studios and LifeShare Worship vision in San Antonio, Texas is progressing along these days at an accelerated rate.
If you’d like to be a part of this growing vision, I highly encourage you to buy and watch this course. Learn everything you can about either writing worship songs, leading worship, becoming a worship musician, producing music, recording music, mixing music, or mastering music. All of these skills will be a huge asset if music is the calling and gift that the Lord has given you. There is plenty of opportunity at LifeShare Church and in the music industry for people skilled in these areas. You can surely make a career out of music if you diligently hone your craft and are anointed by God.
Colton Price is the producer that helped us record our first two LifeShare Worship Albums that me and my sister, Michelle Beck, led worship on. He’s originally from Grapevine, Texas but moved to Nashville about 5 years ago when he was about 30. He’s a drummer, acoustic guitarist, and pianist. He was a part of his church worship team, his dad was also a drummer, and his worship pastor was great at recording. He taught Colton about the recording process and built a state of the art recording studio there at 121 Community Church. I had the honor of recording the vocals for my song “Alive”, in that studio. I think I sang into about $15k worth of a microphone and preamp. I can actually hear the difference in my voice with richer highs, mids, and lows versus my other songs, even after mastering . It’s amazing the sound that great quality gear and knowledgeable professionals can capture.
And let me tell you, Colton Price is a superstar musician and producer. He turned all of my songs into the best version I had ever imagined. And how he handled me in the studio was something I had never experienced. He’s an encourager and a positive coach like none other. There’s an art to making an artist comfortable enough to express themselves at their best. I had to feel confident, not concerned about messing up in front of Colton, and have a sense he knew what he was doing and he did. Colton’s the best!
At one point, right before he produced Michelle Beck’s song “Rest”, the Lord gave me a prophetic word of encouragement for him. And would you believe, that a couple years later, Colton told me that the word had come to pass as he was producing music for some big names in the Christian music world of Nashville, like Phil Wickham.
So all this to say, learning music by doing is the only way to go. My hero and mentor, Dave Bell, introduced me to just about every aspect of writing, playing, singing, leading, and recording that you can imagine. If you want to join us on this journey of worship music discovery, spend time with me, Tom and Michelle Beck, Mike and Charis Vogel, Justin Vernon, Bobby Ponce and everyone on the LifeShare Worship Team. Then go home and buy online music lessons and online recording lessons, like this one, and master your musical craft. Then I believe at some point real soon, you’ll be making music right along with us and soon we’ll be following you. The best is yet to come…just go for it! (Ted Thevaos)
Ted Thevaos and Colton Price recording vocals for the song “Alive” at 121 Community Church in Grapevine, Texas.
