How to Improvise: Improve Your Solos Using YouTube
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How to Improvise: Improve Your Solos Using YouTube
Whether you’re learning to play bass, mastering the guitar or any other type of instrument, one of the best skills any musician can develop is the ability to improvise solos at the drop of a hat. But, let’s face it – getting comfortable with improvising is like anything else, it takes a lot of…
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How to Write a Song: Why Writing IS Rewriting
How to write a song? Well, songwriting is one part creativity, one part craftsmanship. When you turn an idea into a song, the feeling is such a rush. Isn’t it enjoyable to sing it over and over again, to savor the feeling of creativity? Even though it feels great, we encourage you to think…
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How to Create a Song from a Chord Progression
How to create a song from a chord progression? If you’re like me, you have a few original chord progressions that just won’t leave you alone! When I sit down at my instrument, my ear gravitates towards these chords and puts them together in a certain way. While it feels good to jam on…
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How to Write Lyrics On Top of a Melody
How to write lyrics when all you have is just a good melody? As vocalists and/or instrumentalists, we each have melodic tendencies that naturally flow through us. Harnessing these creative ideas for songwriting may feel effortless – however, for many, writing song lyrics for those melodies is out of our comfort zone. While language…
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5 Reasons Why You Should Be Co-Writing Your Songs
Should you be co-writing your songs? Co-writing can be a great resource to any songwriter who is trying to up their game and penetrate their local music scene or the music business at large. Plus, it’s a fun and rewarding experience. Let’s take a look at 5 reasons why you should be co-writing songs:…
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How to Write A Melody For Your Song
You wrote beautiful lyrics but now wandering how to write a melody? Often, the story and message of a song are the most challenging to cultivate. Once you have the lyrical core of your song, the melody and music can be a vessel for meaning. Here are 4 great tips on how to write…
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3 Song Production Tricks To Help You Sell Your Songs
So you’ve written a song that has that special something? While a great song is timeless at its core, we live in a musical culture that requires us to place our amazing writing into a package that is appealing to the current trends. The ultimate question is – How to sell a song? Your…
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How To Expand Your Musical Vocabulary
Do you ever feel limited when improvising or songwriting? One of the most effective ways to break the barriers is to expand your musical vocabulary! The best soloists and most original composers weren’t born with all of their ideas. They learned them! Music is a language. In mastering any language, the more words you…
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7 Proven Tips to Take Your Audio Mixing Skills to the Next Level
Audio mixing is a job that can be so rewarding at times – and so frustrating at other times. I believe that the most difficult time in the journey to mixing mastery is the period between the moment you realize that your mixes just don’t meet up and the moment your mixes start sounding…
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