Learn Music Industry Spanish in a Miami Studio

About this episode

Diego is a Dominican producer with a studio in Miami. A young artist walks in to record her very first single — nervous, a notebook of lyrics in hand — and Diego walks her through the entire session: la pista and where dembow comes from, grabar la voz and la letra, la mezcla and masterizar, then the business nobody prepares you for — la maqueta, el sencillo, la disquera, las regalías, and el contrato. Plus his Dominican slang: qué lo que, bacano, dale. Maria opens and closes. Every scene plays out in Spanish and English side by side, so you pick it up the way you would in the booth.

The full illustrated comic, study guide, transcript, audio & vocab are in the pack.