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Wondering how to make your BEST MUSIC
and succeed in today's hyper-competitive industry?

Taught by Byron Fry

Composer / arranger / orchestrator / producer
for multiple #1-hit songwriters, Grammy-winning artists and multi-platinum producers

Byron's work can be heard on

Byron's work can be heard on

Wondering how to make your BEST MUSIC
and succeed in today's hyper-competitive industry?

Taught by Byron Fry

Composer / arranger / orchestrator / producer
for multiple #1-hit songwriters, Grammy-winning artists and multi-platinum producers
The Arranger's Toolbox is an incredibly powerful
WRITING, ARRANGING & PRODUCTION course
that supercharges the musical process,

for all levels of understanding.

WHETHER YOU ARE A:

- Producer,
- Orchestrator,
- Beatmaker,
- Film / TV / Game Composer,
- Self-Produced Indie,

- Songwriter,
- Instrumentalist,
- Touring Band,
- Audio Engineer, or
- Hobbyist...

You deserve to have the same proven, universal tools used by all legendary hitmakers, from Beethoven to George Martin to Quincy to Dr. Dre.

Powerful enough to elevate
the highly educated.


Simple enough that your dog
could understand it.

Powerful enough to elevate
the highly trained.

Simple enough
for your dog to understand.
The Arranger's Toolbox is an incredibly powerful
WRITING, ARRANGING & PRODUCTION course
that supercharges the musical process,

for all levels of understanding.

WHETHER YOU ARE A:

- Producer,
- Orchestrator,
- Beatmaker,
- Film / TV / Game Composer,
- Self-Produced Indie,

- Songwriter,
- Instrumentalist,
- Touring Band,
- Audio Engineer, or
- Hobbyist...

You deserve to have the same proven, universal tools used by all legendary hitmakers, from Beethoven to George Martin to Quincy to Dr. Dre.

Powerful enough

to elevate the highly educated.

Simple enough

for your dog to understand.

Powerful enough to elevate
the highly trained.

Simple enough that your dog
could understand it.

If you ever struggle with:

- Coming up with great ideas,


- The sheer number of hours involved in production,


- Knowing how to take your music from start to finish,


- Unlocking the full potential of rhythm,


- Getting what's in your head to come out of the monitors,

  or


- Feeling overwhelmed by all the competition,
- coming up with great ideas,

- the sheer number of hours involved in production,

- knowing how to take your music from start to finish,

- unlocking the full potential of rhythm,

- getting what's in your head to come out of the monitors,

  or

- feeling overwhelmed by all the competition,
THIS COURSE WAS CREATED FOR YOU.

 - No matter what kind of music you make...

 - Whether you have a doctorate degree
or are relatively untrained...

This course organizes and ignites your creative workflow, by giving you the crucial nuts and bolts of award-winning music.

This is a much rarer skill set than engineering and tech-related things---you can learn that anywhere, but you can't find this toolbox being taught this way anywhere else.
That's why this course doesn't focus on technology: The best engineering can't fix writing & arranging that isn't as good as it needs to be today.
And best of all:

Less than 1% of musical creatives today
HAVE THESE SKILLS.

Grammy-winning artists
work with top-level
arranger / producers
to bring their songs to life.
Making them into chart-toppers doesn't just happen.

It isn't luck.

These skills are absolutely vital for any project.
And in this course, they're powerfully organized and easy to learn.

The Massive, Missing Toolbox

"Good enough" isn't.
Not today.
Your music has to be UNDENIABLE.

This course gives you the proven, sure-fire methods behind the world's best, most successful music.

And thanks to this major breakthrough in the way that it's taught...
...you don't even have to know how to read music
in order to learn and use these powerful tools,
and gain all the benefits they bring.
100,000 songs get released every day.
Your music is getting lost at sea.

The good news is that there's a way for you to stand out:

Most music makers study songwriting, composing, engineering, production, lyric writing, etc...

But less than 1% of music makers have studied ARRANGING.
Arranging is to music
what architecture is to building.

The Arranger's Toolbox gives you the ARCHITECT'S MINDSET (and bag of tricks)
for your composing, arranging & production.
It's impossible to state how powerful this actually is.
It's like seeing your musical terrain from an airplane,
instead of being down on the ground.

On the union pricing schedule,
AFM local 47 (Los Angeles) gives no price for it; they simply say that
"ARRANGING IS A VERY RARE AND VALUABLE SKILL SET."

It makes NO SENSE for such vital musical skills to be SO RARE...

so we found a way to break down the walls by replacing the convoluted, archaic language with the easily understood plain-speak used among musicians today.

And we've used the most direct ways available to get the lessons across:
The Arranger's Toolbox is delivered with

PLAIN
LANGUAGE,

EXAMPLE
SOUNDBYTES,

MIDI
SCROLL
GRAPHICS
and

STANDARD
NOTATION.

Our mission here is
to put these tools into your hands
in a way that is

 - WELL-ORGANIZED,

 - CLEAR AND DIRECT,

 - FAST AND AFFORDABLE, and

 - ACCORDING TO THEIR FUNCTION---so you know
how, when and why to use each tool.

The whole beauty of The Arranger's Toolbox is that you can learn the vast majority of it even if you don't know much theory.

So the course doesn't teach you much theory.
The tools are delivered in a way that enables you to use them immediately, via whatever way you presently make music!

In 10 modules and over 75 lessons,
you learn the functional nuts and bolts of every element of
award-winning writing, arranging and production:

Module ONE:

CONTEXT
and the Who, Why and What filter

4 lessons

Module TWO:

MELODY (Queen of the Omniverse)
and Thematic Development

4 (big) lessons

Modules THREE and FOUR:

RHYTHM (King of the Omniverse)
and Clave---a VERY powerful skill set

23+ lessons

Module FIVE:

BASS
How & How Not to Write, Arrange and Produce it

10 lessons

Module SIX:

LINEAR BACKGROUND ELEMENTS
"Vertical and Horizontal Axis" Thinking

7 lessons

Module SEVEN:

RHYTHMIC BACKGROUND PARTS
and De-cluttering your Music

10 lessons

Modules EIGHT and NINE:

HARMONIZING YOUR MELODY AND
BACKGROUND PARTS
According to Genre and Demographic

22+ lessons

Module TEN:

APPLYING YOUR TOOLS and
MANAGING YOUR ENTRANCES
Clarifying What you're Creating before you Start

7 lessons

Those are just the things that are easy to list.
A full run-down of the lessons is at the bottom of this page.

You'll get MANY OTHER TOOLS too, from

 - Adapting Your Songs to radically different genres, instrumentations,
time signatures and grooves---a great skill not only for writing, but also
vital for remixes & remakes of your music, for different markets---to

 - Tips about the Industry, and getting the attention of
music supervisors...as well as

 - Special Bonuses, like private Q&A sessions with
music supervisors, multi-platinum producers & #1-hit songwriters
(available EXCLUSIVELY to Arranger's Toolbox students)...and

 - LIVE ONLINE COACHING / Q&A SESSIONS with Byron, every 2 weeks!
30-day, 100% money-back guarantee. If you take the full course and don't see any improvement, you'll get a full refund, no questions asked.
Byron has decades of experience working for #1-hit songwriters, grammy-winning artists, multi-platinum producers, and scoring for film and TV.
The lessons he's learned from his successes and mistakes are PRICELESS.
Taking this course will save you years, maybe even decades.
He's taught these tools,
techniques and tricks to hundreds of people, from conservatories, colleges and music trade schools...
...to high schools, privately, and as Contract Artist for the State of California.
He's refined it down to a fine science.

Now, thanks to the powerful new delivery method used in The Arranger's Toolbox course...
EVERY musical creative
can level up their craft
with these tools.
In a world where everyone and their dog has a DAW, but
so few have the training that enables and elevates creative expression, this is a huge game-changer.
The Arranger's Toolbox empowers everyone
---from street musicians to experienced professionals---
to take their music to the next level.

IT ADAPTS TO YOUR WAY OF DOING THINGS

The way The Arranger's Toolbox is taught makes it easy to learn
and apply the tools, via whatever way you presently create music.
Whether you're jamming organically, editing loops, playing live,
writing & producing your next song, or scoring an orchestral movement or TV / film / game cue...

You'll easily learn and use these sure-fire methods for building your productions from beginning to middle to end, with new purpose-driven clarity.

The invisible 800-pound tool box 
that nobody knows about

The moment you stepped onto your musical road,
you entered the world’s most competitive art and industry.

There are 1.6 MILLION people
creating and releasing music today...
BUT:

Although many have studied the common aspects
(songwriting, composing, orchestration, lyrics, engineering, etc)...

statistically, almost NO ONE has studied arranging.

Few schools even teach it, and no one teaches it this accessibly.

Of those 1.6 million musical creatives
releasing music today...
less than 1% actually have these skills.

Imagine if 99% of the world’s meteorologists didn’t know about wind: it’s a lot like that.
THIS.
IS.
INSANE.

THIS IS WHY KNOWING THESE TOOLS
LITERALLY MAKES COMPETITION YOUR FRIEND.

The Arranger’s Toolbox solves the most common problems

Do you resonate with any of these?

1 - OUTA TIME

Problem:
Writing and producing music takes too long. There's just never enough time in the day, week, month.
Maybe you feel like you don’t have enough time in your life to make the music you really want to make.

Or maybe you’re a professional who races deadlines.
Solution:
Taking this course accelerates your workflow with tools that free you from the timesuck of indecision, and keep you on track.
You work faster and more directly...

so you have more time to create the music you really want to.
2 - START YOUR ENGINES

Problem:
You sometimes don't know where to start, how to finish or what’s in between.
That blank scorepage (or DAW screen) can be intimidating. Not knowing how to begin can make you feel lost.

Or maybe you begin, but get lost in the middle, and give up on what could've been your best song.
Solution:
One of the most powerful tools in the toolbox narrows down the multiverse of musical possibilities by defining the characteristics of the music that's needed---before you even begin.

Another tool enables you to map out your part entrances for the whole piece.

This allows you to work with the confidence of knowing what each part needs to be.

No second-guessing, no wandering around looking for the right kind of idea.
3 - DRAWING A BLANK

Problem:
You just can't find a good idea...or worse, you suffer from writer's block.
Maybe, like many of us, one of the things you love most about creating music is that it can be such a beautiful, mystical process.

But that can also make things opaque and eerie…like groping through a mysterious fog bank looking for ideas.

And when you're stuck and spiraling down into writer's block, it feels like you're broken down on the roadside,
as cars speed past you.
If you feel this way, you’re in very good company, and lots of it.

We get you.

Solution:
The Arranger’s Toolbox puts you back in control of your creative processes with several very effective tricks and tools, to keep you moving in the right direction.

No more stalled productions, no more being broken down on the roadside.
4 - THE LEARNING CURVEBALL

Problem:
The way music is taught is murky and confusing. Even if you're highly trained, you may feel like you don't understand all you should.
If you feel this way, you’re in lots of very good,
very talented company.

Almost everywhere you go, music is taught via archaic terms and systems that hide the simplicity of music's building blocks.

You may feel like you’ll have to just go it on your instincts, or worse, go to youtube---the most polluted information pool in human history.
Solution:
One of the greatest beauties of the Arranger’s Toolbox—and why it’s so revolutionary—is the plain, nuts-and-bolts way that it's taught.

And if you DO have a high degree of formal training,
it organizes your knowledge in a very potent way,
so you can harness the true potential of what you already know.

According to some students,
it’s like having your educational hard drive de-fragged and upgraded.

HOW IT WORKS

 - You get immediate, lifelong access to the course’s ten video modules (streamable on any device) and all accompanying materials.

 - It lives in a secure, private online database, where you can go through the 8 hours of video and 75+ lessons at your own pace, as many times as you want.

 - And you’re grandfathered in for any future iterations of the course, as well as any materials that get added.

The course is a comprehensive system of skills and tools
that can transform your music and your career.

So if you want to:
      - Get rid of writer's block,

      - Save time and money by accelerating your workflow,

      - Gain skills that make the difference between failure and success,

      - Have a clear, purpose-driven creative workflow,

      - Make competition your friend, and

      - Organize your knowledge into a powerful system...

...then you owe this to yourself and to your music.
Okay?

So, how much is all this worth?

Far more than you'll pay, to say the least.

What it can do for you over the course of your entire career is impossible to say, since everyone’s different.

But we can look at what’s in it, and estimate
what it would cost to get these tools.

…and just to be safe, we’ll attach the lowest price you’d ever come across for learning these things from a source this proven and qualified.

Here's the breakdown:

• Module 1 & The Who, Why and What Filter
value of lessons: $350+

• The Melody Module
value of lessons: $375+

• The Two Rhythm Modules
value of lessons: $750+

• Bass, the Lost Art
value of lessons: $500+

• Linear Background Elements
value of lessons: $500+

• Rhythmic Background Parts
value of lessons: $500+

• Harmonizing Melody and Background Parts
value of lessons: $775+

• Module Ten and The Envelope
value of lessons: $500+

Just to inject a little reality here...
those numbers are far below what you'd pay to get these skills from a source this qualified,
anywhere else.
Plus the perks:
 - Exclusive, private Q&A sessions
with music supervisors, platinum producers and hit songwriters
Value: $1000+

 - Years of trial and error, costly mistakes and
time and money saved as you benefit from the decades it took Byron to learn what does and doesn't work
Value: $3000? $100,000? Priceless?
It's impossible to say.
Let's just go with an absurdly low estimate:
$750+

 - Talking smack about Byron with the others inside the Private Facebook Student Group
Value: Priceless

That adds up to

Don't worry---we know musicians aren't made out of money.
So---TEMPORARILY---
we're blowing this course out at a 93% DISCOUNT,
because we want to put The Arranger's Toolbox
into the hands of as many creatives as possible.

Here's what you'll actually pay if you act now:

That's it. That's all you'll pay.
LESS THAN 7 DOLLARS PER LESSON.
No hidden charges, no recurring payments.
Just the one-time payment---93% less than the actual value.

And just for perspective,

keep in mind that even the full value of $6,000 is only 10%, at most,
of what you'll spend on the professional production of just one album.

If you hire a qualified arranger / producer such as Byron,
you'll spend more than that on just a couple of songs.

Seriously: just the lessons on Clave, taken alone, are worth more than you're spending on the whole course.

And you'll have these skills for life.

The Guarantee

There is no way we can guarantee you any specific level of success in making better music. That's just too subjective, and everyone's different.

But here's what we can tell you:

The Arranger's Toolbox gets music creators of all types and levels great results, and if you learn these tools
and follow the processes, you'll get great results too.

...so we're backing this up with a
30-DAY RISK-FREE, 100% money-back guarantee:

If you take the full course and don't see improvement, just email support@arrangerstoolbox.com for a full, immediate refund,
no questions asked.

Just to recap,

Here's what you'll get:

  • Full, unlimited lifetime access to the entire course, streamed whenever you want, at your own pace, including any updates & future versions
  • ​75+ lessons, in ten modules, totaling eight hours of video
  • ​Accompanying sound files and downloadable PDFs from module lessons
  • ​LIVE ONLINE COACHING / Q&A SESSIONS with Byron every two weeks, available only to ATB students
 - Full, unlimited lifetime access to the entire course, streamed whenever you want, at your own pace, including any updates & future versions

 - 75+ lessons, in ten modules, totaling eight hours of video

​ - Accompanying sound files and downloadable PDFs from module lessons

 - ​LIVE ONLINE COACHING / Q&A SESSIONS with Byron every two weeks, available only to ATB students

PLUS the BONUSES:

  • The Who, Why and What Filter - so you can systematically define exactly what you're about to write, arrange and produce
  • ​The Envelope - makes creating your sketch, applying your tools, and managing your entrances easy...and it accelerates your creative workflow, keeping you on track in the big picture as you concentrate on the tiniest details
  • ​16 Tips for Web-Based Production - a guide for people on both ends of an internet-based production pipeline, so you can provide and/or receive the best tracks possible
- The Who, Why and What Filter - so you can systematically define exactly what you're about to write, arrange and produce

- ​The Envelope - makes creating your sketch, applying your tools, and managing your entrances easy...and it accelerates your creative workflow, keeping you on track in the big picture as you concentrate on the tiniest details.

​- 16 Tips for Web-Based Production - a guide for people on both ends of an internet-based production pipeline, so you can provide and/or receive the best tracks possible

And...

Live Q&A sessions with

  • Multi-Platinum Producers
  • ​Multiple #1-Hit Songwriters
  • Music Supervisors
EXCLUSIVELY FOR ARRANGER'S TOOLBOX STUDENTS

Live Q&A sessions with

- Multi-Platinum Producers

​- Multiple #1-Hit Songwriters

- Music Supervisors
EXCLUSIVELY FOR ARRANGER'S TOOLBOX STUDENTS

And...

Access to the private Arranger's Toolbox Student Group on FB,
where you can:

  • Give and get feedback
  • ​Share your progress
  • Ask and answer questions
  • ​Get ongoing tips and advice from Byron
  • ​Interact and network with others

Access to the private Arranger's Toolbox Student Group on Facebook, where you can:

- Give and get feedback
- ​Share your progress
- Ask Byron questions
​- Interact and network with others

Meet Byron

Endorsements and Sponsors
Byron is a Los Angeles-based composer, arranger, orchestrator, producer, studio musician and educator.

Trained in composing & arranging by Dick Grove, Sammy Nestico and a few other legends, his credits span work in every genre with numerous #1-hit and grammy-winning artists and multi-platinum producers, over 2 dozen hours of footage scored for film and TV, arranging and playing on too many records to count, and touring through dozens of countries.

His work appears on labels like EMI, Egress/Warner, Motown, Pausa, IVK Records and many others.

Film and TV credits include Disney, Fox, Discovery, Paramount, CBS, NBC, Warner, ABC, etc.

Byron attributes ALL of his success to The Arranger's Toolbox.

WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING:

DETAILED COURSE BREAKDOWN:


MODULE 0:  START HERE

Things you'll need to know to take this course

  • Important context & logistics
  • ​Prerequisites
  • Bi-weekly Q&A and private student group
  • ​Regarding genres
  • ​How examples & accompanying materials will work
  • ​Course run-down


MODULE 1: 

Context

  • Composing, Arranging, Producing: where they overlap and where they don't
  • Mission statement of an arrangement
  • Different types of changes to music, and their different impacts
  • ​Your first tool:  "The Who, Why and What filter"



MODULE 2:

Melody - Queen of the Omniverse

  • Distilling your melody down to its essence
  • Developing your theme
  • Strong beats and weak beats
  • ​Pushes and Pulls

MODULE 3:

Rhythm - King of the Omniverse (part I)

  • Context of rhythm as the "strong force" of music
  • Counting rhythm
  • Identifying a beat
  • ​Note values & time signatures
  • Classifying a groove
  • ​Communicating about rhythm
  • ​More about strong & weak beats
  • ​More about pushes & pulls

MODULE 4:

Rhythm - King of the Omniverse (part II)

  • Downbeats and upbeats, viewed from different "altitudes"
  • 12 LESSONS on how to write, arrange & produce with Clave
  • Applying various claves & time signatures to a song
  • ​What time signatures have in common, when viewed from a distance

MODULE 5:

Bass - How & How Not to Write, Arrange & Produce it

  • Different types and categories of Basses
  • How to write a great bass part
  • Rhythmic aspects of writing strong bass lines
  • ​How and when to phrase with the kick drum
  • ​Pushes and your bass part
  • ​Adding power to a push
  • ​Melodic & harmonic aspects of bass lines
  • ​Root motion
  • ​How & how not to write charts for bass
  • ​Tips about low-end balance in your mixes


MODULE 6:

Linear Background Elements

  • Introduction to "vertical axis & horizontal axis" thinking
  • Common tones
  • Pedal tones
  • ​Thumb lines
  • ​Doubled thumb lines
  • ​Obligatos
  • ​Counter-melody

MODULE 7:

Rhythmic Background Parts

  • Pads
  • Top voice-leading
  • Ostinatos
  • ​Sparsity vs. Clutter
  • ​De-cluttering your parts and production
  • ​Implied harmony
  • ​Separating problem intervals
  • ​Concise writing
  • ​Contrasting your parts by sonic texture
  • ​Contrasting your parts by what they do

MODULE 8:

Harmonizing Melody & Background Parts (part I)

2-part harmony:

  • Duets
  • Harmony of melody vs. counter-melody
  • ​Diatonic coupling
  • ​Distance vs. Proximity
  • ​Contrary motion
  • ​Parallel 2-part harmony
  • ​"French horn-style" harmony
  • ​Pedal tones in 2-part harmony
  • ​Implying harmony with 2 parts

MODULE 9:

Harmonizing Melody & Background Parts (part II)

3-part harmony:

  • Pedals
  • Triads - types, inversions, open & closed
  • Stable chordal shapes
  • ​Clusters - when & when not to use 'em

4-part harmony:

  • The "train horn" dominant & how to fix it
  • How to build and use a tri-tone substitution
  • The so-called "diminished"
  • ​Using diminished for chromatic passing chords
  • ​Stabilizing a diminished voicing
  • ​"Overall complexity rule"
  • ​Doubling notes
  • ​Using interior motion on long chords
  • ​Revisiting implied harmony & de-cluttering


MODULE 10:

Applying Your Tools & Managing Your Entrances

  • Free Areas
  • The Envelope
  • Un-painting yourself from a corner
  • ​Passion vs. Perfection
  • ​Reinforcement, review & highlights
  • ​A few perspectives & tips on audio engineering
  • ​Final reminders & wrap up
Frequently Asked Questions
How long do I have access to the course?
     You have full, unlimited, lifetime access, including all future updates, iterations, etc.
What if I take the course and don't like the results?
          If you complete the course within 30 days and don't see improvement in your creative workflow and productions, just send us an email and you'll get a full, immediate refund.
How long is the course?
     The ten modules comprise about 8 hours of video in total. Most people go through it more than once, so that they get the tools fully on board. And your membership is permanent, so you can go into any module and brush up on it, any time you want.
I don't know any music theory at all. Will this course help me?
     Absolutely! That's the whole point of our new teaching method. That said, it's best if you have at least a beginning level. If you're familiar with your basic triads (Major, minor, diminished, Augmented), and know your intervals between notes, you're good to go for understanding 95% of what's in the course.
Is this a one-time payment, or monthly membership?
     Just the one-time payment! No recurring payments, no hidden charges, no hassle.