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hey there,
I am opening up my home studio in the Upper East Side for hands-on, one-on-one, music production lessons, with the goal of teaching in the way that I always wished I had been taught: I want to give students the "cheat codes" to start creating immediately, so that they can fall in love with the process of creating first, and then build up the skillsets that add depth and complexity second. You don't need to understand music theory (or even need to play an instrument) to begin to write as though you do. When you have already fallen in love with creating, the work of developing other crucial skills becomes fun rather than tedious.
My name is Tucker Jennings. I am a songwriter and producer whose career began in the alternative pop-rock band, Call Security. My band’s lead single, "Small Talk," broke 6 million streams on Spotify, was placed in two E! Network television shows, won WBRU’s “Hottest Single” competition, and then went on to be one of the most requested songs on the radio station for 8 consecutive weeks. With my band, I was fortunate enough to open for acts such as Passion Pit, We the Kings, Orianthi featuring Alice Cooper, Marian Hill, American Idol winner Phillip Phillips, and more. I then spent the next few years working as a producer with the Grammy-winning recording studio, Gramercy Records. Today, I write music for TV with the Howling Music sync agency, in addition to providing freelance production and songwriting services.
For students interested in sync licensing (writing music for TV), I offer a Sync Production Track where we work through real-world-style briefs and learn how to create music for TV, film, advertising, and sports media. The focus is educational: understanding the brief, analyzing references, building broadcast-friendly arrangements, creating edit points, preparing stems, and finishing polished tracks quickly. For advanced students, select projects may become true co-writes. Submission is selective and never guaranteed, but the goal is to give students a real-world understanding of how sync music is created, finished, organized, and pitched.
The typical lesson structure is a weekly, hour-long, hands-on session, at $150 a session, where we either work through targeted songwriting and production lessons, or work on your own specific music projects, including co-writing, recording, and producing your music. Longer or remote sessions may also be available. For recording, production, songwriting, or teaching services, please contact me through this website's contact page below, or at Tucker@tuckerjenningsproduction.com. Looking forward to hearing from you,
Tucker