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There has been a bit of discussion in the comments recently about the best way to learn music. How did you learn?
Each Tuesday we open our mic to readers and lurkers alike to come out of the woodwork and tell us your thoughts and opinion, your experiences and mistakes, what you love and what you hate. We want to hear from you, and here’s your chance.
Recently I have been using Record and Reason (combined) as my main production platform. I’m finding it to be a great environment to work in. Obviously I have a few gripes, but Record is still in its very early stages.
If you’re part of a band, then this book is perfect. To enter, all you’ve gotta do is comment! One random commenter will be chosen as winner. Too easy.
As a rocker at heart, I was never much interested in music theory. I picked it up as a matter of requirement throughout my education in bits and dribbles, though it seemed at the end of the day all I could do was read notes off a staff—a musical technology that’s not even really used in my genre.
When you’re working with loops, particularly drum loops, to form the rhythmic basis of a composition, you often find yourself wishing you could do more to customize the track. Logic Pro 9 has a few tools that allow us to work with audio as if it were MIDI–such as the flex time features–but what about turning the audio into a MIDI-controlled sampler instrument track?
Ghosted Snares are quite common in drumming, and although you can’t quite hear them clearly in a complete mix, they add a lot to the feel of the song. Whether you’re looking to add something extra to an already funky groove, or if you’re building a pattern from scratch, this tutorial’s got you covered.
At Audiotuts+ we irregularly put up a reader track for workshopping and critique (find out how to submit a track). This is how it works: you upload your song, and every week or so we’ll publish one here and step away from the podium. The floor is yours to talk about the track and how the artist can fix problems in and improve upon the mix and the song.
Judging by the comments on last month’s “Piano for Dummies” competition, a lot of you are learning to play keys – or at least that was your New Year’s resolution. Here are 10 Youtube videos that will give you a jump start.
This is the third tutorial in a series focused on showing complete beginners how to write a simple song. This series will focus predominantly on the process of writing a song, rather than the specific software and hardware techniques, skills and applications you might need in the recording, mixing, and mastering of that song.
In this week’s Audio Plus content, Björgvin Benediktsson teaches you five techniques for enhancing vocals. While the screenshots for this tutorial are taken in Logic Pro, the content is not Logic-centric and is equally useful and valuable in any software that deals with sequenced music.
To learn more about what you get as part of Audio Plus, read this. To take a peek inside this tutorial, hit the jump!
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