A 3-week production program where students learn the real skills behind music and walk away with a finished track on Spotify and Apple Music.
Bertz Beats Academy is a hands-on music production program that runs over three weekend sessions. Students build real beats from scratch using iPads, MIDI controllers, and the same tools working producers use today. No experience needed. No instruments required.
The goal is not just to finish a track in class. It is to leave with skills that actually stick. Every student who completes the program walks away with a finished, professionally distributed song on Spotify and Apple Music under their own artist name.
We teach the fundamentals every professional producer knows: rhythm, melody, arrangement, and mixing. We just don't limit the tools. Students learn the craft first, then use everything available to make something great.
Rhythm, melody, arrangement, structure. The fundamentals every genre shares, taught through making not theory worksheets.
Mixing, EQ, compression, effects. Why certain choices hit and others don't. The difference between a rough idea and a finished track.
GarageBand, MIDI controllers, loops, and the professional finishing tools producers actually use. Tools in service of the craft, not replacements for it.
Distribution, cover art, streaming platforms. Every student leaves knowing how to release music independently so they can keep going after BBA.
Each session builds directly on the last. One session per week, two hours each, weekends only. By the end you have real skills and a real track on Spotify.
A hip-hop producer and a licensed public school educator, married, and in the same room every session.
The structure behind the creativity. With 7 years in public schools she knows how students actually learn and how to make it stick without feeling like homework. When parents ask what their student will actually walk away knowing, she is the reason the answer is real.
Over a decade working with industry-standard tools across hip-hop production, mixing, and sound design. He brings real production experience into every session, not theory from a textbook but the exact process used to make music that gets released and heard.
No gear to buy. No apps to download. Students walk in and start creating.
Your own iPad, loaded and ready. Same software used by real producers and free on every iPhone and iPad after class.
A personal keyboard and pad controller at every seat. Real instrument, real feel.
Real speakers so you can hear if your mix actually sounds right, not just on headphones.
Individual headphones so every student can focus on their own sound while they work.
Projects save week to week. The final export is yours with no strings and no contracts.
Everything taught here works on any device, any DAW, forever. The tools change but the fundamentals don't.
This is what students walk away with. Real tracks, on Spotify, under their own names. Hit play.
The Spotify release is not a gimmick. It is the proof. Every student who completes the program gets their finished track released on Spotify and Apple Music. Their name. Their song. Their cover art. No contracts and the music is always theirs.
Track finished, mixed, mastered. They leave with the file that same day.
We post the cohort tracklist with names, titles, and release date. Real pre-release energy.
You get a text with the link. Your student searches their name on Spotify. That moment is unforgettable.
Every cohort adds to the Bertz Beats Academy catalog. A permanent record of every young producer who came through.
No contracts. No ownership claims. No exclusivity. The release is the graduation gift, proof they built something real. We also teach every student how to release music independently so they can keep going long after the academy is over.
Intentionally small groups so every student gets real attention. Spotify and Apple Music release included for every student who completes the program.
3 weekends. Real skills. Real music. A track on Spotify.
Email us to reserve a spot or ask anything at all.