Gregg Fine : macProVideo.com

Gregg Fine, founder and principal composer of Hidden Tiger Music, is an award-winning guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and veteran composer of music for advertising.

Gregg Fine

A native of South Florida, Gregg soaked up the influence of the Miami music scene as a youth and quickly progressed from devout music lover to professional jazz guitarist. In college, Gregg studied with Charlie Haden, Pat Metheny, Roscoe Mitchell, and Leo Smith while at the University of Miami and CalArts. He eventually landed in New York City where he worked with Jazz titans like Jim Hall, George Garzone, Richie Beirach, and Arnie Lawrence.

Gregg got a call from the management of Calypso legend Harry Belafonte and worked with Harry over the course of the next five years. Together with a highly experienced and multi-cultural band, Gregg and Harry traveled extensively throughout the United States, Canada, the Caribbean Islands, and Europe.

Upon his return to the BIg Apple, Gregg decided to focus on recording work and founded Onda Productions with two partners, where he became Head of Music Production. The company created commercials for many of the major advertising agencies in Manhattan including JWT, Ogilvy and Mather, DDB, BBDO, Deutsch, Grey, and Chiat Day. They produced original music for brands such as Old Navy, Pantene, Puma, Ford, Honda, Covergirl, Cotton Inc., Joe Boxer, and Mennen. As their business grew they extended their creative reach to compose for video games, fashion shows, films, records, and websites.

Gregg left Onda to create his own commercial music production company, Hidden Tiger Music. He currently creates spots for Mercedes, Lipton, YSL, Nescafe, McDonalds, Ford, and many others, often working in collaboration with many of New York’s most prestigious music houses.

Gregg's music can also be heard on television shows, major motion pictures, and websites including Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations, Masters of Reception, Zoolander, Rick, Accepted, MTV's Gamekillers and "Jones New York.” Gregg is the composer of the theme for 'The Chew', seen nationally on ABC, 5 days a week. You can follow Gregg's current work at hiddentigermusic.com

Courses by Gregg Fine

Reviews

Neil Gilmartin wrote on March 26, 2022

I actually completed this course - and Guitar Production 202 - to get a better understanding of using Logic's Pedalboard. It's great and has helped me a lot in gaining a better understanding of how to use Pedalboard in conjunction with Amp Designer. I love all of Gregg's courses, and this was no exception.
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Neil Gilmartin wrote on March 26, 2022

I actually completed this course - and Guitar Production 201 - to get a better understanding of using Logic's Pedalboard. It's great and has helped me a lot in gaining a better understanding of how to use Pedalboard in conjunction with Amp Designer. I love all of Gregg's courses, and this was no exception.
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Neil Gilmartin wrote on January 23, 2022

Be prepared to put in the time with this one. As with all Gregg's courses, he brings theory to life and puts you in the driving seat regularly enough to keep you engaged throughout. You definitely need to space out your practice though, because there's a lot to absorb and your ears are going to get tired! Some great tips on how to distinguish between similar chord types (my personal favorite being focusing in on where the perfect fourth interval is with triad intervals). Thanks for another great course. Come back to macprovideo, Gregg :-)
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Neil Gilmartin wrote on January 18, 2022

Such a great course. Straight to the point, beautifully presented, easy to understand, and fun. I didn't feel like I was studying so much as just enjoying myself. And you learn so much in such an efficient easy way. Greg is fantastic at bringing music theory alive. This course gives you a lot of avenues to explore for creating more interesting / surprising chord progressions while also helping you understand why they work.
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Neil Gilmartin wrote on January 18, 2022

This isn't a course I planned on doing. Not a bass guitar player and not interested in becoming one, and yet I absolutely loved it. First, I've avoided learning how to read the bass clef for far too long. This course allows you to learn it gradually and in a fun way. There's also great practice on a variety of 16th-note syncopated rhythms and how to read them on the staff. Great insights into funk, blues and jazz too, insights which go beyond the bass. Greg brings fun to theory. It's really impressive how he manages to do it. Lots of colorful pictures definitely helps!
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Neil Gilmartin wrote on January 4, 2022

Fantastic fun! I really enjoyed doing this course. In fact, I've been going through all of Gregg's series on music theory. Even though much of it is already familiar, it's fantastic review - and there are some pretty basic things that somehow had passed me by before. Gregg's style is extremely engaging and he keeps things, on the whole, at an easy-to-get level. I think it must be difficult to make music theory fun, but Gregg has pulled it off, in my opinion. Regarding this course in particular, I think if you don't already have a solid familiarity with modes you might find some of this a bit of a slog. I already know the (major) modes well so those exercises were quite do-able but I completely get some of the complaints that the jump in difficulty level is too steep. There could have been more elaboration / examples on what distinguishes the modes. The stuff on melodic minor modes was really fantastic. I wasn't familiar with Dorian b2 or Locrian #2, for example, and I found the way they were introduced really efficient. (Again though, this is arguably because I already have an understanding of modes more generally). Thanks very much, Gregg. These courses have clearly been put together with a genuine love of the topic, and that makes them all the more enjoyable to participate in. Can't wait to get started on the Jazz Theory ones :-)
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Jason Sioco wrote on December 22, 2021

This is a comprehensive and easy to understand course about chord progressions. It's organized in a neatly arranged order and clears out the clutter of random information out there on the internet and in music education circles. I studied harmony both in college and university and I never heard the concept of chord progressions explained in such a simple way. This course definitely filled some of my knowledge gaps with chord progressions and stuff that were once all over the place and random. I found this course by accident and I'm glad I found it! I will have plenty of stuff to memorize during the Christmas holidays!
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Just Erick wrote on April 20, 2021

Although this course is "old", it's still great! I think Gregg should make an update to this course as there's a lot of value in it. That was the case for me. Primary reason I got the membership. Then I discovered much more and I found a new home for learning. I can't wait to put my understanding in practice. Gregg, If you read this, thanks for putting as much detail on this series as you did. I appreciate it.
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Harry Grant wrote on January 3, 2021

Unique idea but for non coder is it worth the slog to the end result? Lots of tedium. Being now I am the first kid on my block to make synthesiser sounds on my own browser keyboard only and lame ones at that. I use Logic and Dreamweaver and cant pretend to be unique in that. I 'd prefer to distinguish my self from my fellow hellhounds, bless them, down at the digital crossroads.. I want to design a cool unique customizable music player for my singer songwriter site and other cool visual and musical tie ins too possibly. Make a course about that perhaps and let me copy paste the initial codes too. The course is well presented & articulate and no complaints otherwise. cheers HarryGrant.io (pre-dev)
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EarsRAwesome wrote on December 21, 2020

This course was stellar all around. Great voice and ways of explaining. Thanks!
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