Music connects us all. The art of creating, sharing, and performing it is a powerful tool to transform and reflect our human experience. Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design is here to turn your passion for music into an inspiring and sustainable career, where you’re not just learning techniques to create music, you’re also learning why that music matters and becomes meaningful to listeners. If you are looking for a comprehensive audio engineering degree program with the flexibility of online learning, this bachelor’s in music production could be the perfect fit for you.
The Online Music Production BFA Program is designed to help you build a strong, relevant portfolio that demonstrates your mastery of musical knowledge, technical skills, and business principles. A portfolio that allows you to leverage your creativity and skill set towards the exciting future you envision!
At RMCAD, we cultivate artists, not industry technicians. Cultural awareness and critical thinking is integral to this music production bachelor’s degree online program. Our goal is to open ears to a much broader diversity of styles, global music, and underground experimentation. Through this experiential and engaging music production degree online program, we foster students who don’t just use their tools, but actively grow and develop them.
The Liberal Arts curriculum is an exciting part of every student’s academic and creative journey at RMCAD. These courses provide the opportunity for students to engage with complex questions and ideas to develop critical thinking skills, a global consciousness, and awareness of art historical foundations that are essential for their intellectual, creative, and personal growth.
RMCAD’s Online Music Production BFA Program incorporates the diverse technical, cultural and creative elements of today’s music industry, and weaves them together to provide students with the skill sets they need to reshape tomorrow’s music and multimedia production industries. The virtual curriculum teaches students about music theory, composition, audio engineering, aural humanities, and music business.
RMCAD’s Music Production BFA Program features a STEAM-oriented (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics) approach that is future-focused and empowers distance learning students with the knowledge, technical skills and cultural perspectives necessary to pursue long-lasting careers across the spectrum of the music and multimedia industries. The e-learning curriculum also prioritizes the study and development of musical creativity, while simultaneously focusing on teaching the practical business skills, ethics and emerging technologies required to navigate a constantly evolving industry. To help students grow even further, RMCAD’s Rocky Mountain Sound Lab is available and serves as a studio for students to get hands-on experiences with today’s music production technology and equipment.
Students in RMCAD’s accredited Online Music Production BFA Program will be charged a one-time mandatory equipment fee of $2,400.00 in their first academic year. Below is the provided equipment that you’ll keep after graduation.
Music studio equipment includes:
Music software includes:
Graduates of RMCAD’s Online Music Production Program have the opportunity to pursue some of the following exciting careers.
Listen carefully to your favorite songs, and you will notice not only impressive vocals or instrumentals, but also, the balance between these sounds. This would not be possible without strategic mixing and mastering. By fully
Music theory offers a set of conventions and concepts that help describe how we hear and make sense of music, particularly within the Euro-Classical (Western) tradition. Rather than serving as the foundation of every musical
As an aspiring music producer, you love making unique rhythms and melodies — and now, you’re ready to take this musical experimentation to the next level. If you’re serious about creating compelling and high-quality music,
Few things inspire humanity more than music. RMCAD’s Music Production instructors are deeply committed musical professionals, dedicated to sharing their passion and industry expertise to help you achieve your dreams and find your unique voice as an artist.
Join us as we explore new horizons, new technologies and exciting new trends in the music industry.
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