Tuesday, 30 January 2024, Bengaluru, India
Rival to MasterClass, Studio unveiled its first AI-powered online school for songwriters, producers, and musicians today. Students can learn from top artists in the business, write new songs, get feedback from like-minded peers, and use Studio’s AI coach, which provides deadlines and personalized schedules to help them stay on track.
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Today marks the formal opening of the waitlist. Studio has two price tiers: $199 monthly or $1,799 annually.
Thousands of unique lessons are offered by Studio’s Music School, which is taught by over 110 well-known teachers and performers, including, among others, Charlie Puth, Kygo, H.E.R., Idina Menzel, Pentatonix, Ryan Tedder (frontman of OneRepublic), Alexander 23, Tainy, Chelsea Cutler, Jonas Blue, Shane McAnally, and Louis Bell.
More than 100 topics are available, including genres like alternative, classical, country, EDM, folk, hip-hop, indie pop, lo-fi, metal, R&B, and more, as well as topics including vocal production, songwriting, music business, sound design, music theory, cover songs, and musical theater.
The online accelerator has an AI-powered coach that uses OpenAI’s GPT-4 to provide monthly customized curriculums according to a user’s interests, goals, learning preferences, and experience level. To ensure that students continue to make progress, the AI coach can tailor the curriculum to each student’s unique schedule and degree of dedication. For example, the coach can adjust the curriculum to accommodate a vacation. Pupils can enter the number of hours they wish to spend on their studies.
Following the assignment of personalized projects, students will graduate at the end of the month with at least one completed song ready for release.
Two proprietary frameworks besides GPT-4 drive the AI coach. Co-founder Max Deutsch tells TechCrunch that these frameworks solve “GPT-4’s main limitations out-of-the-box when it comes to educational design: long-term planning, pacing, sequencing, and effective personalization.” GPT-4 has particular difficulties regarding instructional design for creative professions like music, because there isn’t one “right answer” for every phase of the procedure.
The curriculum design team at Studio, thousands of hours of video lessons, and years’ worth of outcome-based student data are all incorporated into the frameworks to help identify which projects, courses, and peer matches work best for certain learner types.
“We can create extremely effective, well-paced, well-sequenced, and appropriately personalized curriculums for our students using GPT-4 in conjunction with these frameworks. We can also proactively and effectively update these plans as students advance to keep them motivated and on track,” Deutsch continued.
Lastly, an algorithm pairs students with a group of 20 peers based on the same interests, ensuring that they receive weekly input from individuals with similar subject matter expertise.
Studio’s Music School is intended for creatives who already know the fundamentals and wish to advance their abilities rather than for novices hoping to launch a career in the music industry. Although no equipment is needed to participate in the classes, Studio notes that most participants already own microphones and DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations) for recording music.
According to Deutsch, the online learning platform will open other AI-powered schools later this year, emphasizing different fields like design, writing, and filmmaking.
Studio was established in 2017 to serve the creative community and close a gap in innovative education where topics like music, performing arts, and baking are frequently disregarded. Over a million students have taken classes from the company.
To date, Studio has raised $60 million from a large number of investors, including Human Capital, Forerunner Ventures, Greenoaks Capital, Floodgate, Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo, Joe Gebbia, co-founder of Airbnb, Jeff Weiner, chairman of LinkedIn, Mike Krieger, co-founder of Instagram, Katrina Lake, founder of StitchFix, Jeremy Stoppelman, founder of Yelp, Scott Cook, founder of Intuit, Spencer Rascoff, and more.
(Information Source: Techcrunch.com)
