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Making your songwriting easier, faster and more intuitive. By learning how chords work.
Create songs by understanding which chords work best together.

The Songwriting Series ‘Understanding Chords’ will give you an understanding of how music is structured. It is a guide to how contemporary music is formed in a way that makes songwriting easier, faster and more intuitive.

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Exclusively on Creator Arcade, Marshmello walks you through his unique creative approach as he teaches you how to create his smash hits Alone and Summer step by step. This bundle includes over 8+ hours of exclusive content as well as curated samples, presets, stems and more.

Whether the lyrics in a hip-hop track are hilarious or biting, they're in the spotlight. So, it's crucial that your tracks sound clean and professional. With the right techniques, you can make your hip-hop vocals sound like a million bucks, even if you don't have pricey recording equipment at your disposal.

In this quick Up and Running course, author J. Scott Giaquinta covers another of Native Instruments KOMPLETE components, ABSYNTH. ABYSYNTH is a powerful synthesizer that allows for almost unlimited combinations of oscillators, modulations controls, and filters—leading to some truly unique sounds. Here J. Scott G. gives a brief overview of ABSYNTH's features and main sound making components, including its modules, oscillators, filters, modulation controls, effects, and automation. Then he puts its features and sound-making abilities to work, so you can see how ABSYNTH fits into a real musician's workflow.

Make yourself heard. Start making music with Logic Pro X. Author and Logic Pro insider Dot Bustelo walks through every facet of basic drum programming and beat making in Logic Pro, including choosing the right drum kit for the beat, recording, arranging, and quantizing. She shows off Drummer, the intelligent drum feature, for creating beats automatically. She then moves into Ultrabeat, Logic's built-in drum machine, and shows how to step sequence, design your own sounds, use your own samples, and create glitchy effects with the instrument. Then Dot dives deeper into making beats. She demonstrates how to make your own Apple Loops, time-stretch, quantize, and regroove audio as well as how to best add swing to your beats, fatten your sounds with drum replacement, and slice your samples. She then focuses on techniques specific to electronic music, including warping a beat with Space Designer and making DJ turntable effects with speed fades, and some retro groove tricks, including creating a human drummer feel with the Transform Editor and editing gate time. Dot wraps up the course by looking at a few more of the new beat making features in Logic Pro X, including the Arpeggiator and other MIDI plugins.

Develop a good position, sound control and avoid injuries.

Any pianist should develop a good piano technique, sometimes we focus in playing our favorite pieces and we start struggling with technique issues and sometimes we even start strugling with tension and injuries.

Avid Media Composer 8 Essential Training is a start-to-finish, project-based course designed to get you up to speed on every aspect of Avid Media Composer. Staff author Ashley Kennedy begins with a fast-track chapter that breaks down the entire editing process into eight steps—great as an overview for new editors, and a good crash course in Media Composer for editors migrating from other platforms. She then focuses on getting you comfortable with each stage of the editing process—from preparation and organization to editing and refining, to audio and effects, to media management and output. Each post-production technique is explained thoroughly and concisely, using real-world examples from a documentary-style promo project. Dive in and learn how to take your projects from concept to creation.

Explore the noise reduction and audio restoration possibilities—for both music and post production—in iZotope RX 4 and RX 4 Advanced. Author Scott Hirsch covers all of the best and latest features of RX 4, demonstrating techniques for fixing audio problems in a variety of situations. He'll show how to reduce noise, connect with a DAW such as Pro Tools or Logic Pro, and use advanced features such as EQ Match, Ambience Match, and the utility modules for resampling, retiming, and pitching audio.

In this quick Up and Running course, author/producer J. Scott Giaquinta demonstrates the power of MASSIVE, Native Instrument's popular and flexible soft synth. He provides an overview of the main sound-making components, including MASSIVE's filters, modulation controls, effects, macro knobs, envelopes and LFOs, and Performer and Stepper functions.

Are you interested in Music Production, Songwriting and Making Music on your computer? Well the Reverb Effect is one of the most essential for Music Production, whether you want a punchy and focused sound, or a big, wide and lush production.

Do you want to create better music? Compose catchy, polished, foot tapping songs that feel great? Join the MUSIC PRODUCER MASTERCLASS (Recognized by FL Studio as a training center)

This week Sonic Academy proudly welcomes back Techno grand master Kirk Degiorgio for a new course in How To Make Dark Room Techno.

This 11-part video course takes you on an inspiring journey giving you new ideas and techniques for creating original sounds and effects using delay.

If you think that delay is a pretty straight forward effect – think again! From a refresher on the basics through to really imaginative ways to apply delay using serial delay effects, spot delay and even resampling delay. This course is sure to change the way you approach delay as a sound design tool.

VPS Avenger Masterclass – Every feature and function explained

Discover the depth and power of Avenger and put these features to work for you. Led by veteran instructor, Echo Sound Works , this is a comprehensive course that goes well beyond any manual with practical tips and tricks that will plant Avenger into your regular production workflow.

In this interview, prolific author and music producer Bobby Owsinski talks to iconic audio- and music-industry personalities: the outliers, forward thinkers, and rule breakers. This installment features revered recording engineer Al Schmitt.

Al has won more GRAMMYs than any other music producer/engineer in history (23 so far), but got his start wrapping cables at the age of 8 in the first indie studio in New York City. And since then, he's recorded everyone from Ray Charles and Paul McCartney to Steely Dan and Diana Krall. In this interview, Bobby and Al chat about Al's career, influences, and inspirations.