Author: Soundfly Team

  • Meet Our New Mentors: Osbourne, Gould, Ono, Rachmaninoff, Sporty Spice, and More

    Meet Our New Mentors: Osbourne, Gould, Ono, Rachmaninoff, Sporty Spice, and More

    With the addition of Soundfly’s new Headliners Club program to our list of mentored offerings, we’ve had to do a lot of recent hiring! One-on-one professional mentorship is our bread and butter, so we need to stand behind our Mentors and feel confident that each and every one is the right person for the job…

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  • What Is a Panograma and Why Is It Useful in Mixing?

    What Is a Panograma and Why Is It Useful in Mixing?

    Panogramas create a graphic visual representation of where all the elements are placed in your mix. They can help you spot any balance or dominance issues.

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  • Get Ur Phryg On! Demystifying Timbaland and Missy Elliott’s Famous Beat

    Get Ur Phryg On! Demystifying Timbaland and Missy Elliott’s Famous Beat

    Why is the beat to Missy Elliott’s “Get Ur Freak On” so infectious? Maybe it has something to do with the mysterious Phrygian scale mode it’s written in…

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  • Take the Winter Sound Challenge!

    Take the Winter Sound Challenge!

    It’s not easy to say goodbye to winter. While the joy of spring’s arrival does tend to make us antsy to hop into our shorts and t-shirts, there’s always that lingering feeling of longing for just one more day out in the snow, one more run on the slopes, and one more snowball fight… Well, winter doesn’t…

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  • How to Convey These 8 Emotions Using Chords and Harmony

    How to Convey These 8 Emotions Using Chords and Harmony

    We polled members of the Soundfly staff and mentor community to ask about their go-to chords and progressions for certain emotional outcomes. Check it out!

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  • New Genre Alert: TUWDSSHSWAI!

    New Genre Alert: TUWDSSHSWAI!

    By Nyle Emerson & Jeremy Young Here at Soundfly, we’re always looking for the next big thing — the next wave of popular music bubbling up to the surface from the underground. But every now and then, a new genre pops up that’s been right under our noses for years, it’s familiar and yet foreign,…

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  • Move Beyond Cliché Chord Patterns with ‘The Creative Power of Advanced Harmony’

    Move Beyond Cliché Chord Patterns with ‘The Creative Power of Advanced Harmony’

    New course announcement! Over the past few months, the most popular course on Soundfly has resoundingly been Ethan Hein’s Unlocking the Emotional Power of Chords. This 101-level harmonic theory course dives deep into the ways certain intervals and chord progressions tug at our heartstrings while others fall flat, providing the student with the newfound ability to…

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  • Soundfly’s 2017 Year-End Music Favorites: Albums, Songs, Articles, and More!

    Soundfly’s 2017 Year-End Music Favorites: Albums, Songs, Articles, and More!

    It’s getting a little ridiculous now. Too much great, new music is coming out every single week, and it’s tough to keep up. And since we here at Soundfly HQ can be found, most weeks, grooving out to the new, freshly composed, produced, and mixed sounds of our talented students alongside all the commercially released…

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  • How and Why You Should Use a Reference Track During Mixing

    How and Why You Should Use a Reference Track During Mixing

    + Welcome to Soundfly! We help curious musicians meet their goals with creative online courses. Whatever you want to learn, whenever you need to learn it. Subscribe now to start learning on the ’Fly. Arguably one of the most important skills in mixing audio is the ability to listen. Listening to what others have done with their songs specifically and being able…

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  • How to Read Music: Counting and Clapping

    How to Read Music: Counting and Clapping

    The above video appears in Soundfly’s free course, How to Read Music, which is a starter companion to our mentor-driven Mainstage course, Introduction to the Composer’s Craft, offering more in-depth instruction and resources around reading and writing music. To learn about all of our other Mainstage course offerings, head over to Soundfly.com. To recap the video, when you’re reading…

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Advanced Synths and Patch Design for Producers