Transcription is the process of listening to a piece of music and notating it down note for note. Whether you notate it down in traditional sheet music, tablature, or your own style of notation, notating…
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A Music Producer’s Guide to Music Theory: An Introduction to Key Signatures and the Circle of Fifths
In music, key signatures describe what sharp and flat notes are in a piece of music. By using a key signature, we don’t need to notate a sharp or flat when each one pops up.…
If not for time signatures, music would go on forever like a sentence with no punctuation. As well as notes and beats, we use time signatures to organise and measure the music we write. Time…
Music theory is scary for many budding musicians. At the end of the day, music theory presents music for what it truly is, and that’s mathematics. Music compositions use symbols to represent different things that…
Most artists, and some of your favourite artists, have a full-time job. And it’s not their music. Making the time and finding the energy to make music is challenging when… well, when you’re just living.…
We can truly reshape any sound using granular synths. You think you know a sound… until it’s thrown into a granular sampler. Both granular synth hardware and granular softsynths give us the power to reimagine…
When working through monitors, our listening environment has a dramatic effect on the quality of our mix decisions, and therefore our final mixdown. If you’re here, you probably haven‘t installed acoustic treatment in your home…
Music mastering is the last step of the song creation process. The mastering process consists of adding several treatments to your mixdown to correct problematic frequencies and enhance the musicality of your song. With the…
So, it’s time for you to make the leap from wired to wireless headphones. Or, maybe you’re an experienced General in this field and need the help of an advisor to plan the best route…
We’ve explored how to become a record producer before, but we focused largely on the skills you need. Now we’re going to focus on the communication routes you should focus on. Communication routes that lead…
