Major, minor and extended chords on the keyboard and piano: Music Theory Practice part 2 - Extended chords: Just some more music theory rules. You will need to have some music theory knowledge or you could always book workshop 4 of my Logic 9 Music Production...
Music theory practice, chord progressions, keys and scales: A music production college I worked at in London a while back asked me to teach a Music Theory and Music Composition course with chord progressions, keys & scales. I know my way around a fretboard of a...
We have another free open evening on Thursday April 24th with SubPac and Ableton. Free refreshments supplied as always by London Fields Brewery. Bring your music player so you can check out music of your choice on a SubPac! Also in attendance will be #gmpstaff if you...
Can you learn how to become a songwriter? Songwriting is a gift, there is no doubt about that, and some of the most successful writers in the world never had songwriting lessons at all, but then they probably wrote hundreds of unsuccessful songs without...
Hi all, A chap I used to work alongside at Roundhouse Studios in the 90s is now a top pop writer/producer. He's looking for talented young producers to mentor and be part of his team. Below is a letter from someone in his office who...
Hi everyone, this is for all you songwriting aficionados who are tired of getting tidbits of information from Amazon and Youtube and want to know how the pros go about honing their craft. If songwriting doesn't matter to you much, then you will probably not enjoy the...
Sampling Frequencies & Bit Rates: 96 v 44.1Khz & 24 v 16bit by Stephen Powell I had a conversation recently with a guy who described himself as a “glitch-dubstep-lo-fi composer” He went on to describe a couple of his tracks which turned out to be pretty...
Logic pro 9 Environment Chord Memorizer: Musical tips: One object I have in my music production environment click and ports layer is the Chord Memorizer, which can be a great music trick for DJ's with limited musical skills. The Chord Memorizer can be a useful music...
Mixing Music with Creative FX | Mixing Desk by Mr Steve Powell The signal chain is something always at work whether you’re in the studio, playing around with beats on the computer at home or playing a synthesiser live at a gig. If you are purely...
- Al Riley My first multitrack workstation was my 4-track Portastudio (not a DAW, an AAW I suppose?), which gave me the novel luxury of changing the volume and panning different instruments after recording them! I could even use insert effects (a guitar pedal) and...