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All DAWs Crash

Every DAW crashes. Every computer crashes. In fact, if you were using tape, your Capistan motor would run out at some point. When you sign on to do music production,…

Find the Break

I arrived in New York in the late 90s.

Set Aside Five Minutes

Set aside five minutes today to do something that you love.

Upward Compression: ear training gym

Today was ear training gym.

ADSR

When musicians talk about the sustain of an instrument, The sustain, listen to it.

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Too Subtle?

It’s all too easy to fall into a trap of thinking your favorite engineers hear everything in brilliant color while you hear everything in black and white.

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Scales and Targets

If you’re thinking about and grappling with scales, I would encourage you instead to think about targets.

Keyboard MVP

The most valuable piano voicing you can learn — a 6/4 inversion straight out of Miles Davis that exerts maximum force for minimum energy.

should i care about polychords

Should I care about poly chords?

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If You Can't Read Music

If you don’t read music, you deserve to know you can understand and talk about music theory without knowing how to read.

Happy Chords: Sad Chords

Do you ever get confused about major or minor chords?

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Keyboard Skills Elective

This is the simplest of riffs, but if you put it under your fingers on a little teeny tiny keyboard, it will be more useful than you can possibly imagine.