Vipul Gargya had a problem most bedroom producers never have to deal with. He was a surgical resident in New York City, working 100-hour weeks, sometimes pulling 30-hour shifts straight through. The window for making music was whatever was left after all of that.
He also had zero formal training. No music theory, no background, no mentor. Just an idol: Eric Prydz. The producer whose records had made him feel something so specific he decided he wanted to learn how to do the same thing.
Two years in, he was progressing, but inefficiently. Watching YouTube tutorials that contradicted each other. Guessing at what the rules actually were. Knowing his tracks weren’t ready but not knowing exactly why.
The gap between loving a sound and being able to make one is enormous. Most people in Vipul’s situation quit, because the math doesn’t work out. You cannot beat a 100-hour work week with 20 random YouTube videos and expect to come out the other side sounding like Pryda.
Flowaver crossed that gap in months.
The Starting Point
Before the Masterclass, Flowaver had been producing for about two years. He started on Auxy, the free iPhone app, because the first time he opened a real DAW it felt like looking at a new alphabet he could see but not read. Eventually he moved to Logic Pro X and started figuring things out on his own.
The problem wasn’t effort. It was efficiency.
He was learning, but he was learning the hard way: piecing together advice from strangers, guessing at best practices, never sure which rules actually mattered. For someone who had exactly zero spare hours in the week, that kind of unstructured learning was brutal.
What he needed was simple in theory. Someone who had already solved the problem, ready to hand him the rules pros actually use, so he could stop guessing and start building.
The Breakthrough
Two things inside the Masterclass changed Vipul’s trajectory.
First: he finally knew the rules.
For a self-taught producer with no theory background, that is not a small thing. Vipul describes his learning style as needing to understand how something works so he can optimize it, and sometimes break it, for himself. The Masterclass gave him the framework underneath everything.
Not tips. The actual logic pros use to build mixes, arrangements, and sound design from the ground up. Once he had the framework, he could take it and run it through his own filter instead of collaging together random advice.
Second: he found his people.
The Masterclass put him in a room with other producers chasing the same type of sound he was chasing. Progressive house. Emotional, melodic, Pryda-adjacent. That community ended up mattering as much as the curriculum. He found a small group of trusted ears, producers whose feedback actually moved his tracks forward instead of sending him in circles.
Related tool: Start to Finish with Jaytech: Produce a chart-topping progressive house track from blank session to master, step-by-step with Jaytech.
One of those connections was Pete Cuppernull from Anden, an instructor who happened to make very similar music. After the Masterclass finished, Vipul and Pete kept working together, and Pete handed him even more genre-specific knowledge that a general course could never cover.
That combination, a real framework plus a real community, is what compressed years of trial and error into months.
The Eric Prydz Moment
Here is where Vipul’s story becomes one of the most improbable in the Masterclass alumni archive.
During lockdown in 2020, Flowaver had a hunch. With no shows happening, the biggest artists in electronic music were suddenly home, bored, and actually checking their demos. He took his shot and sent tracks to Cristoph, who loved them and featured two of them on his mix show Consequence of Society. That small buzz caught the attention of Pryda fans online.
Then came 3 AM on a Monday.
Normally Vipul would have been asleep, bracing for another shift. Quarantine meant he was up making music instead. Right before he went to bed, his phone alerted him: Eric Prydz tweeted a message. Prydz is the only artist Vipul has notifications on for, so he checked. Prydz was offering to FaceTime fans. Vipul tweeted his number.
So did hundreds of other people.
For some reason Prydz called him. Vipul mentioned that Cristoph had just played two of his tracks. The conversation unfolded from there. Hours later, Prydz tweeted Flowaver’s music to the world.
His idol, the reason he started making music in the first place, publicly co-signed his work. And in the replies, Cristoph casually backed it up: “Was telling him this the other day mate.”
None of that happens without a track that could actually hold its own on a Pryda fan’s playlist. That is the part that the Masterclass built.
The Results
The concrete outcomes from Flowaver’s first chapter as an artist:
- First ever release tweeted by Eric Prydz, the artist who inspired him to start producing
- Two tracks featured on Cristoph’s Consequence of Society mix show
- Direct mentorship from Pete Cuppernull (Anden) after the Masterclass ended
- A signature progressive house sound built from scratch with zero prior musical training
- All of it achieved while working 100-hour weeks as a surgical resident
The number that matters most is the intangible one. Vipul went from a self-taught hobbyist guessing his way through Logic Pro X to a producer whose debut release held up next to the music that made him fall in love with the genre.
That is not luck. That is a framework applied to real work.
The Gap Nobody Talks About
If you only take one thing from Flowaver’s story, take this: your constraints are not the reason your music is stuck.
Vipul had worse constraints than almost any producer reading this. A medical residency with 30-hour shifts. No theory background.
No formal training. No scene. No spare time. And still, once he stopped guessing and got a real framework, his first finished track made it in front of his idol.
The bottleneck was never hours. It was direction.
Most producers waste years learning inefficiently because the internet is full of conflicting advice from people at every level of the craft. The shortcut is not more tutorials. It is getting the rules from people who have already reached a professional level, then running them through your own taste.
That is the gap Vipul closed. And that is the gap sitting in front of everyone who is tired of grinding without traction.
Listen to Flowaver
In His Own Words
We asked Flowaver a few questions about his experience.
What made you sign up for the Hyperbits Masterclass?
At that time I was two years into producing and making progress, but inefficiently. I learn by knowing the rules so I can optimize them for myself and sometimes break them. I have absolutely zero formal musical training. The Masterclass was an opportunity for me to learn the rules from people who have reached a professional level.
It also had great reviews, and I liked Serik’s vibe. So many people in sales can be pushy, but I appreciated his honesty and no-nonsense approach.
What is one production tip you can share that you cannot just find on YouTube?
YouTube has a lot of technical tips, so I will share a not-so-technical one. When you sit down to write, do not fight your energy. Maybe you are feeling really happy, maybe you are feeling a little low. Listen to that and see if you can flow it into your music, instead of a preconceived notion of “today I am going to write XYZ type of song.” Try it, it may surprise you.
If someone was unsure about pursuing music as an artist, what would you say?
I want people to know that anything is possible if you believe and dream. I learned music as a surgical resident working 100-hour weeks, sometimes 30 hours straight. My music comes from my heart. I make music that takes me to a higher place, and if you understand it, you understand me. Anything is possible.
Flowaver built his signature progressive house sound inside the Hyperbits Masterclass. If you are a producer trying to close the gap between where your music is and where your favorite artists live, it is the same program and the same framework that got him there.
Want producers who release music listening to yours? That’s what Hyperbits mentorship is built around.
