Category: Discover

  • 6 Memorable Musical Variations on The Star-Spangled Banner

    6 Memorable Musical Variations on The Star-Spangled Banner

    Here at Soundfly, we encourage everyone to work towards finding their own musical voice, and improvise on top of anything. But did you know, in many states you could be fined, or even arrested, for embellishing on the national anthem? To celebrate the Fourth of July, and America’s tradition of going against the rules, here…

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  • Bill Clinton’s The Pres Blows and the Hilarious Response to a Legendary Record

    Bill Clinton’s The Pres Blows and the Hilarious Response to a Legendary Record

    + 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. In 1994, a mysteriously unauthorized 18-minute bootleg live recording of Bill Clinton playing the saxophone at a Prague jazz club ends up on a CD and gets…

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  • Off Notes: How to Learn Everything Online

    Off Notes: How to Learn Everything Online

    In honor of the launch of our BRAND NEW COURSES this week, the theme for our weekly internet round up is… instructional videos! Have you ever wanted to learn how to build a DJ studio out of IKEA furniture? Or how to film a vinyl record in an electron microscope? Then you’ve come to the right place! Watch on…

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  • Laura Moody: “I’m terrified… which is why I’m doing it”

    Laura Moody: “I’m terrified… which is why I’m doing it”

    Laura Moody is a wildly alternative cellist, singer, and performer based in London. As a member of the genre-defying string ensemble, the Elysian Quartet, and a performer for Hot Chip, The xx, Aphex Twin, and more, she has toured extensively, performing the works of both classical and contemporary music in the great halls of Europe…

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  • Off Notes: Musical Facelifts

    Off Notes: Musical Facelifts

    Welcome back! It’s been a few weeks since our last internet round up, because — as you may have noticed — we’ve been hard at work giving both Soundfly and Flypaper quite the makeover! And the redesign has inspired our theme for the week: finding new in the old. Below we’ve got all kinds of innovations and…

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  • Apple Music — The Best Worst Thing to Happen to Music

    Apple Music — The Best Worst Thing to Happen to Music

    If you’re a music lover, creator, and/or nerd like me, you’re probably hearing a lot of mixed and somewhat befuddled reviews of Apple’s new aggregated music service, Apple Music, announced at their WWDC keynote on Monday. It was exciting to watch unfold — Apple had revolutionized the business once, and we hoped, in this era of…

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  • William Ryan Fritch’s Unusual Path to Film Scoring

    William Ryan Fritch’s Unusual Path to Film Scoring

    William Ryan Fritch is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter who has been making music for film and releasing records professionally for about 7 years. I only came across his music recently but was immediately taken aback by his wide range of sounds and compositional tactics, that despite their different origins, all feel distinctly and familiarly…

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  • 4 Enormous Instruments Taking Music to New Lows

    4 Enormous Instruments Taking Music to New Lows

    Here at Soundfly HQ we love instrument innovation. We’ve hit PVC pipes with flip flops and tuned the spokes of a bicycle wheel, all in the name of creativity. So of course we take notice when we find musicians going the extra mile to get just the right tone out of their instrument. In this case, musicians are innovating to great…

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  • Off Notes: 9 Ways to Find Your Sound

    Off Notes: 9 Ways to Find Your Sound

    Here at Soundfly, we’re all about helping people find their voice through music. So much so that our tag line is “Find Your Sound.” This week, we found evidence of people finding their sound all over the internet. From the silly, to the the serious, to the scandalous (Zac Efron personally* stole our slogan to promote his…

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  • Off Notes: Willow Smith, a Nose Whistle, and More!

    Off Notes: Willow Smith, a Nose Whistle, and More!

    It’s with a heavy heart that we said goodbye this week to the King of Blues. The internet abounds today with touching tributes. Here at Soundfly HQ we’ve had “Thrill is Gone,” “Hummingbird,” and “Three O’Clock Blues” playing all day. But, the show must go on. And as usual, the internet never fails to provide thought-provoking commentary, bizarre videos, and…

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