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hey there,
I am opening up my home studio in The West Village 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. It was our early success which helped launch my career. The band’s lead single, "Small Talk," won 95.5 WBRU’s “Hottest Single” competition, earning it airtime on the popular station (which has been named one of the best radio stations in the US by Billboard and Rolling Stone). After the song won airtime on the station, it then went on to become one of the most requested songs for eight consecutive weeks, peaking at the number-three slot. It broke 6 million streams on Spotify, and was placed in two E! Network television shows. 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.
For recording, production, songwriting, or teaching services, please contact me through this website's contact page. Looking forward to hearing from you,
Tucker