W O R K S H O P S
“I’m teaching everything I wish I had been taught.” - Rick Nichols, musician-producer-educator
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If you or your students have ever asked …
Can I produce a full-length album on a laptop?
How can my Apple computer be a fully mobile recording studio?
How can I produce my music while on the road?
How do those guys who produce and put out their own music do it?
How can my musical passion become my life?
How can I become unstoppable in what I do?
… this inspirational program was designed just for you.
PRESENTING . . .
Groove-Life
How Your Life Becomes Your Music,
and Your Music Becomes Your Life.
Lead by Musician, Producer, Educator
Rick Nichols
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Have you ever waited for the perfect time in your life to make it happen?
To take the leap, to go after your dream, to build your life’s work around your passion?
Well the waiting is over, because the time is now.
There has never been a better time to take your passion to the next level
than this very moment.
Where INSPIRATION meets EDUCATION.
Join world-musician, producer, educator, inspirational speaker and Harvard graduate,
Rick Nichols in an experience that is both inspiring and educational.
Part seminar, part demonstration, part musical performance,
GROOVE-LIFE weaves education and learning
into an exciting live music-driven presentation
that will engage the hearts and minds of your community
and unlock hungry dreams.
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For schools and community centers
where people want to unleash creative work
on a whole new level.
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A REAL ARTIST, A REAL JOURNEY.
Described as “Peter Gabriel meets Joseph Cambell”, Rick Nichols entwines his world-music-making with his energetic teaching, and forges a whole new approach to performance and education that is both inspiring and enlightening. With over 30 years of experience in music production and teaching, Rick’s work reflects a consistent commitment to inspiring and unleashing people’s creativity. You’ll travel with Rick on a real-life journey of producing albums, exploring the digital tools and instruments he uses, traveling 5,500 miles cross country in a bus he converted into a mobile recording studio, hearing stories of indigenous medicine-men he met along the way, and discovering how Rick’s unstoppable drive to create and to teach continues to propel his music and his life.
Photo by Jahmani Perry.
Program Features:
- Learn how Rick used an Apple Laptop to produce an entire double album on the road
- Take advantage of 21st century tools to produce and share your best work
- Take your creative work to the next level, in quantity and quality
- Maximize the tools you already have to improve your work
- Be more inspired and more productive
- Identify and overcome your fears
- Become unstoppable
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LIVE YOUR PASSION.
Designed for all ages, the SYNCOPIA program is both exhilarating and educational
as participants find themselves swept into an energy and way of creating
that makes “waiting for the dream” seem like a struggle of the past.
The SYNCOPIA Trip just has to be experienced to be believed.
Bookings range from single presentations and performances
to full-day or multi-day residencies.
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BONUS features for Music Students …
A Laptop and a Microphone.
Learn inside tricks from a pro who takes these tools to the next level.
• Learn how to produce a full-blown album on a laptop
• See how to make beats and create grooves quickly and easily
• Learn to capture spontaneous musical ideas when you’re not in my studio
• See what you can do with computer softwares like Pro Tools, Reason, and GarageBand
• Learn how to sample sounds from the real world and incorporate them into your music
• Learn how to quickly update your latest mixes on a personal website for people to hear and buy
• and much more …
PROGRAM FORMATS
Program-lengths can be customized to fit the needs of the community.
Single Workshop-Seminar
Evening Concert Performance
Full Day Workshop Residency
Multiple-day Residency with Students in Final Show
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“The key to education is inspiration,
which happens through access to real-world projects in action.
When the student is invited into the creative process
of an actual professional — a living breathing example
of someone living in the passion of their dream –
a doorway opens in their learning,
and educational progress quantum-leaps.”
- R. Nichols
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ALSO PRESENTING . . .
A Live World-Music Experience
unlike any you’ve experienced before …
S Y N C O P I A
An Interactive World-Music Experience
Book a concert-performance with your next GROOVE-LIFE program
and experience the amazing sonic and musical energy
of the cutting edge new band SYNCOPIA.
Click HERE to learn more …
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To inquire about your next SYNCOPIA experience,
send an email to: info@SYNCOPIA.org
or call (646) 577-2026.
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