A new-look online studio, expert tutorials, support for home learning, and more. We work with schools, community organisations and partners to ensure young people can take part in regular music-making activities.
Charanga’s VIP Studio Sessions has enabled UK secondary and international school students to make music for over seven years. This past winter was the busiest on record, and to celebrate the great music that was recorded
Over the past few weeks, the VIP Studio Sessions team has been running a musical advent calendar on social media, sharing every shortlisted track from our popular Lo-Fi Hip Hop competition. Today we’re excited to announce
Log in to VIP Studio Sessions and you’ll see that we’ve published new video resources in the platform’s Release and Promote section. They feature Aly Gillani, the UK/EU label rep for Bandcamp and A&R/Founder of First
Charanga has always been proud to play its part in helping to engage KS3 students with music. This year, we’ve had whole year groups producing beats, recording raps and honing their music creation skills at home
Inspire your KS3, GCSE and BTEC students, and all the young people you work with, to create, produce and release music.
VIP has been purpose-built to support the teaching of contemporary music genres. Giving you the means to deliver your music lesson content remotely, it's an excellent tool to encourage more KS3, BTEC and GCSE students and others to get into music.
The online recording studio also turns every ordinary PC/Mac into a music computer and young people can use it 24/7 anywhere they can get online.
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Yr 10 loved it! They’ve been going on about it for ages. They’ve all got computers and the internet and now they’ve got the tools to log in and create music at home.
Teacher, New Rickstones Academy
The workshops were great and the level of engagement and sense of achievement very high.
Head of Education, The St Aubyn Centre
We’ve never had such a high amount of engagement — they were buzzing.
Music teacher, Castleford Academy in Wakefield
VIP Studio Sessions gives you everything you need to create, produce and release your own music including an online recording studio.
Learn to produce beats in styles such as Hip Hop, House, Grime, Dubstep, and more.
You’ll start from the basics of how to load up your software all the way through to finishing a track, ready to play in a club or work with a vocalist.
Here you’ll learn how to write lyrics and come up with song ideas.
Progressing all the way through from developing concepts, to performing live and making sure you’re ready to get in the studio.
Learn how to produce finished music starting from the basics of what equipment you might need and how to set up, going all the way through to how to record vocalists & musicians, how to make your tracks sound great and to get them ready for the world to hear.
Find out how to release, promote and share your music and understand the music business. Learn the best ways to get your music heard, look at music in the modern world and get professional feedback and career advice about the music industry
See what VIP can do for you and the young people you work with.
There’s no obligation to subscribe afterwards and we don't take any payment details.
A powerful online music studio with recording, effects, virtual instruments and over 700 free loops and sounds.
Soundation is a revolutionary sequencer and audio recording programme that lives entirely online, in the cloud. It works on any computer with internet access (Mac or PC) and doesn’t require any hardware setup and there are no problems making the software run.
There’s so much you can do with this online recording studio:
VIP Studio Sessions was created by leading musician and producer, Max Wheeler.
Max is a musician/producer, consultant, author and youth music tutor, specialising in Rap, Urban & Electronic music, soundtracks, remixes and peer-to-peer education projects.
He has conducted over 200 workshops across the country teaching Rap, beatmaking, songwriting and production to everyone from young offenders to social workers and in primary schools, special needs projects and community groups. His work on lyric writing with young people is soon to be highlighted in a peer reviewed journal by academic Luke Dickens.
As a recording artist on Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood label, Max is one half of duo Anushka with over 750k plays on Soundcloud, an album and world tour in 2014 and Radio 1 plaudits from Annie Mac, Skream and others.
See what VIP can do for you and the young people you work with.
There’s no obligation to subscribe afterwards and we don't take any payment details.
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