Ben Blaauw

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I've been a professional touring and recording musician for over 50 years in all kinds of pop and rock music. Bandcoach at the Rotterdam Music School SKVR for 25 years teaching guitar, singing, bass, drums and keyboard.

About

I’ve been a professional touring and recording musician for over 50 years in all kinds of pop and rock music. Bandcoach at the Rotterdam Music School SKVR for 25 years teaching guitar, singing, bass, drums and keyboard. Produced and engineered several albums in different styles. Started studying and working as a voice-over recently and already had some nice gigs.

Languages

  • DutchFluent
  • EnglishAdvanced
  • GermanBeginner

Industry experience

  • Education
  • Media & Entertainment
  • Other

Projects · 6

For this song and the album I wrote, composed, arranged, recorded, produced, engineered all songs and played most of the guitar parts. I also made the clip for this song, using a live registration by a German film-maker and some Photoshop AI images. And, of course, my creativity.

  • Arranger
  • Creative Producer
  • Lyricist
  • +2

Commercial Movie for a young, Rotterdam based employment agency. I did the voice over and timed it to the existing subtitles. Also did the audio production though we had to use stock music for budget reasons.

  • Audio Engineer
  • Audio Mixer
  • Mastering Engineer
  • +1

An advertorial for video creator Rob Overgaauw. I did a voice over to existing subtitles. composed and recorded original music and did the complete audio mix and mastering.

  • Audio Engineer
  • Audio Mixer
  • Mastering Engineer
  • +2

An album that I wrote to a demand from the Japanese market for complex prog-rock. As the band was not complete at the time I composed all songs, played all guitars and basguitars and made the drum-arrangements. Keyboards were later added by Robby Valentine and the mix and production was done by Sascha Paeth. This album also has a cover of the song “Eloise” by Barry Rian.

  • Arranger
  • Bassist
  • Guitarist
  • +2

An album by our duo on which we recorded some of our country related songs. Mr. Easy Money and myself had equal shares in composing, writing, singing and playing all instruments except for the fiddle. All recording and mixing work was also done by the two of us, learning as we went along.

  • Arranger
  • Audio Engineer
  • Audio Mixer
  • +7

Education

Band coach · Rotterdam Conservatory1992 – 1994

A specialized study for becoming a band-coach. Admission requierements were to already master your main instrument and the study involved things like didactics, classical and modern music history, notation, theory, recording techniques and playing the other common instruments in popmusic.

Certificate Voice-over · Stemacteren.nl2023

A serious course in the different fields of voice-over for many different fields, such as commercials, leaders, listening books and more.

Certifications and awards· 5

Voice Over2024
Band coach1994 – 2024
Guitarist1974 – 2024
Composer2024

Testimonials · 5.0 from 3 reviews

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