Family, class is back tonight. 5 PM PT at kosine.co/class. I'm bringing the whole Chicago week back with pictures. The Obama Presidential Center, the Soul Train Awards, our own room Thursday night, and Rose Pearl out on Friday. My guest is Chris Hodges. We're talking about what changes when a producer steps out front as the artist, and what an artist needs for support. Then the year in review and what 2027 looks like. Bring a question. Free room. Kosine

FAMILY! CLASS IS TONIGHT. 5 PM PACIFIC / 8 PM EASTERN. kosine.co/class Tonight we're getting into some things I believe every creative, entrepreneur, and independent thinker needs to understand. PART 1: Meet My Staff I'm opening up the system I've spent the last 10 months building and actually using inside Kosine Enterprises. 22 named seats. One subscription. 10 months of real receipts, broken down in percentages. I'm not teaching you something I read about. I'm showing you something we actually operate with every day. We test it on ourselves first. PART 2: From the Marching 100 to the Classroom Two special guests tonight who have known me since I was 18 years old. Cory Jones, fellow Marching 100 alum who runs the band room at Nova High School in Florida. Kerby Pierre, my FAMU brother who made the call that opened the door for my music catalog to reach that same band room. No budget yet. No date yet. Just relationships, vision, and people willing to make a call. Sometimes you have to dream out loud before the opportunity even exists. PART 3: Three Protocols You Can Run From Your Phone Fire at Will. The Cap Detector. Hustle Off the Field. We're breaking down all three, including how these principles helped create the Apple opportunity. YOUR HOMEWORK Make three phone calls this week. No pitch. No favor. No ask. Just genuinely connect with somebody. Your network is your net worth, but only if you actually nurture the relationships. Be in your seat before I start. 5 PM Pacific. 8 PM Eastern. kosine.co/class The intern never graduates. - Kosine

We're on right now. Jump in: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89536201687?pwd=7bvHU6yqjfcvXBBajJDTERsas0LSRc.1 Monday I took one of the best piano lessons of my life. Tonight you get it: a chord is a sandwich, there are no wrong notes, and we build Twinkle Twinkle Little Star into something you'd put on a record. Free room, come as you are.

Family, class is tonight at 5 PM Pacific. I'm reading first. JOIN AT 5: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89536201687?pwd=7bvHU6yqjfcvXBBajJDTERsas0LSRc.1 Ten days in Chicago. I taught in the building where I was a professor at 23. I played my horn to a sold room in Hyde Park and to first graders at my old grade school. I sat with the city about 2027. I did eight songs at Garcia's and a man from the Mayor's office told me he cried. Tonight I'm giving you the seven lessons that week taught me, one room at a time, with the photos and video from the trip. First time we've done that. Then we build drums and BPM for production month. Bring last week's homework, you're reading first. Be in your seat before I start reading. Kosine

Family, class is TONIGHT at 5 PM Pacific. kosine.co/class. Pull up. LINK: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89536201687?pwd=7bvHU6yqjfcvXBBajJDTERsas0LSRc.1 No lecture until I hear you. Tonight opens with three questions and I write down every answer: what did you come here to get, how do you want to grow as a creative in the next 90 days, and what is the one thing you would pay for if I built it right. Regulars first, first-timers second, DJs welcome. Your answers are the curriculum for October. Then I show you what this room is, what is on kosine.co right now, and what is coming: Gourmet Ratchet merch, beat packs from twenty years of the vault, a self-paced course, the book in February. You vote. The one you would buy first ships first. Then we produce like a DJ. A DJ never plays one song; a DJ thinks in pairs. Four questions I ask about every record I make, and the first one is the most important: what is the BPM? Then: what would I blend it with that already exists, what makes this song special, and what is the intro? Live demo on the record I cut from my kitchen table last week, then a DJ in the room picks a song and we do it again. Homework goes up after class: one song, four answers, a thirty-second blend for next Tuesday. October is production month. 5 PM. Be there before I start. The intern never graduates. LINK: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89536201687?pwd=7bvHU6yqjfcvXBBajJDTERsas0LSRc.1 Dr. Kosine