Bounce Version as a File
As you iterate through versions of a work in progress, bounce each version as a file so you can compare mixes without reopening sessions.
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The Best Mixes
The best mixes are crafted by the top mix engineers, but that’s not why they’re the best mixes.
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Compression and Character
Raise your hand if you have trouble hearing compression.
Spooky: Major Minor Halloween
John Carpenter's Halloween theme — 70% of you identified it as minor. But there's no third in the structure. Music theory isn't about a right or wrong …
Meme: this is what people worry about music theory
Go. Oh, guys. It’s not coming off. What do you mean it’s not-
Chord of Interest
Apparently, I have a lot to say about this chord progression.
Interval Inversions
If you ever notice that six steps up the scale this is a major sixth but if we invert it this becomes part of a minor chord.
Arrange Like a Mix Engineer
When you’re arranging you have to think a lot like a mix engineer because every instrument is going to speak differently in every register So the …
You Can Do This
This may be one of the most useful chord progressions you can learn, and it’s deceptively easy, because if you can do this, then you can do this, and …
Porgy
I’m going to play an F in every chord of the opening of "I Love Zupor" I’m playing an F and the droning pedal tone of the tonic note is going to …
Just tell your stories
Just tell your stories.
Voice leading game inversions
Getting comfortable with keyboard chords means getting comfortable with inversions.
Put This Under Your Fingertips
Here’s another chord progression you should put under your fingers.
