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The Dreaded Mixdown Pt. 1
When talking shop with many budding artists and music producers, often one of the biggest pain points you’ll hear them complain about is getting a good mixdown. While fancy gear and plugins…
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Alter your environment, alter your music
Our environment and physiology can influence many interactions in our lives. Amazingly, it can even have an effect on the way our music sounds.
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Quick-Start Arrangement
The arrangement stage of writing music can be frustrating, especially for beginners. Here is a quick start tip to get you out of that 8 bar loop ASAP! For many electronic music…
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Your Taste vs. Your Art
Being an artist is not for the faint of heart for a number of reasons. One of the first (and largest) barriers you encounter is the huge gap between what you want…
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Habits
This week’s 5 hour tune is kind of a nod to my earlier days of house music fandom. A simple, steady groove with a focus on building and releasing tension.
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Meditation
My music making tip for this week goes outside of anything actually having to do with the music itself. There are several habits that I established in the last year or so…
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The 5 hour challenge – Week 2
2 weeks, 2 tracks, so far so good! One of the big reasons I started up this challenge was because I had hit a lull in my studio output. I went out…
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The 5 hour challenge – Week 1
As part of an effort to get more efficient with my studio time and increase my ouput (and quality), I’ve decided to challenge myself to creating a tune in under 5 hours…
