Music

Make the thing that's in your head.

On our free music programmes you'll learn music production on Logic Pro and FL Studio: how drum patterns actually work, how to build chords and melodies, how a song is structured, and how to take a track from an idea to something finished. If you're an artist rather than a producer, our artist development programme covers songwriting, vocal arrangement, breathing and vocal technique, performing live, and how to handle an interview without freezing. You'll also learn the part nobody teaches you, the business behind the music. Branding, releasing, royalties, and how not to sign something you shouldn't. You get studio time, industry-standard equipment, and mentors who are working in music right now.

Music

Production

Learn music production on the same software the records you listen to were made on. You'll get the science behind it: how drum patterns actually work, how to build chords and melodies that sit together, and how a track is structured from the first eight bars to the last. By the end you won't be making loops, you'll be finishing songs.

Songwriting

Learn how to write a song that goes somewhere inc, structure, hooks, verses that build, and how to say something real without saying too much. We cover topline and vocal arrangement, writing to a beat, and the editing part nobody talks about: knowing which of your lines to cut. You'll write, record and hear it back, then do it again better.

Instruments

Pick up an instrument and learn to actually play it, whether you've never touched one or you've been teaching yourself off YouTube for years. Keys, guitar, bass and drums; enough to write with, record with, and play with other people. Understanding an instrument changes how you produce; you stop guessing which chord comes next and start knowing.

Become a YxngStar

A YxngStar is what we call a young person who's part of Sirlute, not a student on a course, but someone in the community for good. Sign up once and you get free access to our studios and equipment, a place on our programmes across music, fashion, multimedia and game design, and a mentor who knows your name and what you're working towards. You'll get a personal development plan tailored to you and at least 12 months of support after any programme ends, so you always know what's next.

Plenty of our YxngStars have gone from turning up to a first session to leading them; volunteers become young leaders, young leaders become paid staff. It costs nothing, and it doesn't expire.

Bring Sirlute to your young people.

We deliver commissioned programmes for schools, colleges, pupil referral units, youth offending teams, local authorities and voluntary sector organisations across London. You know which young people need it. We design and deliver the programme at our studios in East London or in partnership with your setting.

Our programmes are mapped to the Gatsby Benchmarks for good career guidance, so what we deliver counts towards your own careers provision rather than sitting alongside it.

Get in touch for pricing.