Foundation Scotland backs Scotland’s budding DJ talent by awarding SKapade Education £3,350 in funding! More information and sign up can be found here: https://www.skapadestudios.com/learntodj Following a grant from Foundation Scotland’s Response, Recovery & Resilience Fund, SKapade Education is able to provide a range of online music education to young people throughout lockdown. Before the current restrictions, the award-winning SKapade Education team were regularly working

by Malc Barry 1. Hi Beth, how are you? Great to be speaking with you today! Tell us a bit more about yourself, the music you play, inspirations, best gigs so far and how you got into DJing? Hi guys! Thanks for having me, I’m doing really well thanks, considering the circumstances! My name is Beth Mawer, which is also my artist name. I am 24 years old and I'm originally from a wee place called Lanark, roughly 40 minutes from Glasgow and still living here. I first found my pass

SKapade Studios is officially the only Pioneer DJ accredited DJ school in Scotland. As Scotland’s only studio with full Pioneer DJ accreditation, and one of only four in the whole of the U.K, we wanted to dive into some of the things this means for us as a studio. We’ve been long admirers of Pioneer DJ, and from the moment we started at SKapade, it has always been our aim to work with industry leaders. It has taken a lot of hard work and dedication to reach this point, but th

There is a big jump from laying down your ideas in the DAW to the finished track. Most producers undergo many hours of processing and polishing before they feel comfortable publishing the song. This can lead to ear fatigue and poor judgement because you are so used to the elements that they cannot be mixed properly. This article outlines some of the steps employed by producers around the world to ensure they output the quality they need. Arrange The Structure One big mistake

Major? Minor? whats the best for writing a really good melody? here at SKapade, we give you some of our top tips for getting people’s hands in the air. Putting together a main melody for your track can be one of the hardest parts of songwriting. While sometimes it comes naturally, other times, you’ll end up spending hours agonising over it. The most important thing to bear in mind is how the melody works other key parts of the track that it’ll play along with, particularly th

Kerri Chandler is embarking on an project and we’re excited to see the results…. Kerri seems to be all over social media at the moment with his remix of Paul Mcartney’s classic, Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five causing a stir online and even Mcartney himself taking the time to share it. He’s also embarking on a project to find out his fan’s most important and seminal house tracks. In a recent Facebook post he stated: ‘Hello everyone! I’m working on a very special project and

In light of their recent meeting with the first minister Nicola Sturgeon, SKapade are now launching an education platform of their own. SK Studios owners, Stephen Kirkwood and Steven Galloni, today met with Scottish First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, at The Prince’s Trust – where the pair are launching short courses based around the music and events industry, designed to give young people the confidence to go out and seek out their dreams and passions. The Dumbarton-based team