• Writing Melody: Examination of the most commercially successful songs
• Turning "fruitful errors" into a great song
• Improving your writing skills with every song
• Getting discovered and opening your own doors

• Choosing The Right Song: Overall length and commercial viability; Identifying and exploiting the musical hook
• Instrumentation & Arranging: Picking the right sounds; Vocals/backgrounds; Maximizing the melodic content, while maintaining a full musical arrangement
• The Recording Process: Minimize track use; Track organization; Distortion/Over Modulation; File allocation and organization
• Mixing: Vocals are the key; Balancing the arrangement; Effects; Sampling rates/bit depth; Exporting a final mix; Final formats
• Mastering: Dos and Don'ts; Bit depth/sampling rate (16 bit vs. 24 bit vs. 32 bit); A/B-ing mixes

Mel Glazer has co-written with some of the best and brightest talents in the music industry, including Etta James, Robert Plant and Elvis Presley. He has collaborated with talents including Carole King, Sammy Fain, Aaron Schroeder, Arthur Siegal, Bernie Baum and others. His most recent chart maker (#16) was THE MAGIC IS THERE by Daniel O'Donnell on Ritz Records UK, 1999. His most recent release was SPEEDWAY by Static-X on MCA Records, May 2002. Currently, Mel teaches songwriting at Nassau Community college. His works are represented in all the major media including movies, television, off-Broadway and the cabaret circuit.

"I found Mel's insights in the crafting and promoting of songs to be indispensable. Mel goes beyond the basics and gets into what really makes today's hits a hit." - Bill Ryan, President, Cyber-Songs, Inc.

CHRIS PATI

Chris Pati is a 25 year record-business veteran who has produced, engineered, composed, and performed on projects that have been released by nearly every major label. He is renowned for his prolific songwriting and prodigious multi-instrumentalism. His most recent successes are with Hawaiian artist Darrell Labrado, who won #1 Single of 2003 at the Hawaiian Music Awards and made history by being the only artist in Hawaii to have two singles chart on both the Hot 100 and Dance single Charts. Chris also finds time to release his own Blues albums (one of which ranked #15 on the Billboard Blues Chart).

"Chris was a guy I knew from high school who was a real inspiration to me... he could play every instrument and burn. I remember he played me a track he had done the night before where he'd played everything and it blew me away. That probably was the first day I thought that I should be an engineer." -Dave Way, Mixer/Producer/Engineer (Christina Aguilera, Foo Fighters, TLC, Spice Girls, Michael Jackson)