NEW CITY’s creative development consulting department was formed to give professional assistance in a focused manner to clients desiring to enter into, or currently in the music industry.

The division is geared towards assisting everyone from independent artists to bands, songwriters, producers, and other various talents in the music and entertainment industry interested in achieving realistic, self-sustaining, long-term success via our guidance and resources.

Our mission is to assist our clients in attaining the highest level of development in their crafts, in efforts to aid them in achieving long-term success.

For talent that is starting out, we offer essential advice and services to get you started in the right direction. For those that are further along in their careers, we can provide branding, marketing, and publicity to help you strengthen, expand and capitalize on your existing fan base.

Our development team consists of vocal producers/trainers, singer/songwriters, music producers, sound engineers, management/development specialist, and branding/marketing experts. We collectively possess over 40 years of entertainment experience and are qualified to consult clients in the creative development of their independent music careers.

All creative Development Services for a solo artist, groups, and bands entail the following and is priced as follows:

• Songwriting Development Services:
  • We instruct clients on the technical methods of structuring a song, and understanding of counting musical bars
  • We instruct clients on finding their niche song writing style, and how to write for other genres outside of  that style
  • We instruct clients on how to marry lyrics, write catchy hooks, and craft melodies
  • We instruct clients on technics to practice in order to develop their ear for music
  • We assist in pre-production development of songs

• $50 per hour (at a minimum of 3 hours, and includes studio rental time)
• $ 550 for a Block time session (at a maximum of 8 hours, includes studio rental time)
• Studio recording technique development services:
  • We provide lessons in Vocal pitch and tone, consistency, and performance
  • We teach microphone positioning techniques
  • We teach memory techniques
• $50 per hour (at minimum 3 hours, includes studio rental time)
• $500 for a block time session (at a maximum of 8 hours, includes studio rental time)
• Stage Presence and Performance Development Services:
  • We instruct our clients on the fine art of commanding and mastering stage- presence. We work with them in a rehearsal stage setting to aid our them in developing a polished stage performance fitting of their artist image

• $50 an hour ( at a minimum of 4 hours, studio cost not included)

• Vocal production:
  • From start to finish, we assess where a vocalist is functioning, where they want to be, and work with them on developing the tools to get them there. We address maintenance issues like breathing work and diaphragm support, warming up and cooling down, pitch and tonal work, all the way up to tour prep, pre-production for recording, vocal production while recording, and even rehabilitation for damaged voices:

• $50 per hour (at minimum 3 hours, includes studio rental time)
• $450 for a block time session (at a minimum of 7 hours, includes studio rental time)

We also can provide customized project package deals containing the above development services.

• A 10% administrative fee shall be added to the total cost of all Business services provided.