Songwriting: top down bottom up
It’s only fair that I tell you what I mean when I say bottom up or top down songwriting.
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It's Just Like Writing a Song
(water splashing) - Teaching songwriting is a little like teaching someone how to ride a bike.
naming chords step two
Chord ID part 2. With the chord in its root position, most chords are going to sit solidly within these two pillars of a perfect fifth. This is a …
Mission: better talkback
Stand by, this is going to be take three and rolling.
naming chords a three step series
If you’re starting to make your own music, there will come a time when you find yourself scratching your head looking at a bunch of notes and asking …
naming chords step one
Three steps to identifying a chord.
falling up
It’s okay to fall down.
Picardy Third
If you ever played a pretty chord progression in a minor key and then just switched to a major at the end, you probably just played a pickerty third.
making sense of numbers in music production
It doesn’t matter what your jam is, even if you’re in a math rock, what moves you isn’t numbers, it’s music.
Third Tools Shortcuts: Logic Pro X
If your workflow is inefficient, nothing you learn in your DAW has much impact.
32 bit float
Logic Pro’s recent update adds support for 32-bit floating audio files.
Feedback: things they don't teach you in recording school
Important stuff they should teach you at recording school, but don’t.
