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This BASIX tutorial is the second in a series focused on showing complete beginners how to write a simple song. This series will focus predominantly on the process of writing a song, rather ...
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This tutorial is the first in a series focused on showing complete beginners how to write a simple song. This series will focus predominantly on the process of writing a song, rather than th...
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In this quick tip, I’m going to show you a neat way of implementing a low/high pass filter using the Auto Filter device in Ableton Live. By that, I me...
One of my favourite composers is Cliff Martinez, an ex-drummer of Red Hot Chilli Peppers. He is working as a film composer right now, scoring most of Steven Sodenberg’s features. The on...
Freezing. Bouncing. Rendering tracks. Whatever you call it, it is a useful part of music production because it allows you to free up CPU power for more plugins and creates an audio file. Whil...
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Recently I have been putting together quite a few downtempo, trip hop style beats for various projects and I thought it might be useful for me to share the b...
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The pedal point is a common compositional device with a range of useful purposes. In this tutorial we’ll learn what a pedal point is and how it can be used for a variety of functions. ...
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Playing the same old chords on every song can get pretty tiring and can leave a music career stale in a heartbeat. If you play G – C – D on every song without trying to even embellish it...
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The Harmonized Major scale enables us to identify all the chords within a given key. Not only does this make it much quicker and easier to find the right chords when writing or playing mus...
In my experience with music software I’ve come to the conclusion that FL Studio (despite being disapproved by most of the music producers) is an excellent software for composing and arr...