how it works

One-to-one tutorials are one of the most popular aspects of our courses. You can choose from a wide range of teaching staff – Grammy-winning producers, AAA games composers and sound designers, award-winning composers. It's an amazing opportunity to get personal mentorship from world-class professionals, focused entirely around your work and what you need to do to hit that professional standard.

Every week there are live webinars on a vast range of topics, and you’re not only limited to webinars from your course. So indulge your curiosity – you never know what you’re going to discover. Can’t make the webinar live? Don’t worry, all our webinars are recorded so you can check it out at a time to suit you. Because of our flexible schedules, students on the same course can quickly get out of sync with each other. Whether you are able to catch a webinar or not, it won’t get in the way of you completing your next assignment.

Your course includes a wealth of exclusive video tutorials – an incredible resource that brings you the wisdom and insights of dozens of world class professionals. A module might contain anything from a few hours to dozens of hours of video content. They might be show-how videos implementing sound design in middleware, over the shoulder scoring or mixing demonstrations, interviews and discussions and much more.

Our courses will have you working on projects taken right from the industry you're training for. You might be asked to write and produce a song from scratch, write music to picture, create and implement sound design for part of a game – all tasks that a creative professional would be asked to do as part of their working life. Many of your assignment projects are commissioned from real-world professional projects, or built in-house, so you can hone your skills in the same environment as a working composer or audio professional.

You may be asked to provide written commentaries alongside your work, but we focus on practical training and skills as much as possible. Don’t worry. Most of our students have been out of education for many years or are not familiar with academic writing. That’s why we have a dedicated team of academic teaching staff to help you get up to speed.

We divide our students into teams of roughly 30 students, all of whom have a dedicated Team Leader. Your Team Leader is your point of contact who can help with all kinds of questions to do with your course, and will hold regular drop-in sessions to answer any questions you have. You will also become acquainted with fellow students in your team, so you have access to a small network of students to discuss your work and studies.