Category: Play

  • How to Make Your Live Show More Interesting

    How to Make Your Live Show More Interesting

    We spoke to NYC bands Pinc Louds and The Living Strange about how they’re able to create some of the most exciting, innovative live music performances ever!

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  • Can You Actually Make Electronic Folk Music?

    Can You Actually Make Electronic Folk Music?

    “Folktronica” is one hotly contested genre with people on both sides arguing over whether it’s even possible, let alone aesthetically pleasing, to create.

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  • 5 Pedals Ideal for Playing Blues Guitar

    5 Pedals Ideal for Playing Blues Guitar

    Looking to infuse your guitar playing with the whining, whimpering and screaming tones of your blues heroes? Here’s a tonal menagerie of pedals to help!

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  • How Music Can Relax the Autistic Mind

    How Music Can Relax the Autistic Mind

    A beautiful journey to find the keys to communicating with an autistic client, and helping him to relax in the most stressful moments.

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  • Our 8 Favorite High School Music Programs in the US Right Now

    Our 8 Favorite High School Music Programs in the US Right Now

    Music education has been known to increase test performance results for students in other areas, but these 8 schools take it much, much further than that!

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  • How Broadway Actors Find Their Key, Their Range, and Their Practice Routines

    How Broadway Actors Find Their Key, Their Range, and Their Practice Routines

    We spoke to a Broadway actor and a NYC vocal coach to get their best pro tips on how to improve at sight singing, identifying vocal range and audition prep.

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  • A Lesson Learned While Trying Not to Be a ‘Piano Diva’

    A Lesson Learned While Trying Not to Be a ‘Piano Diva’

    + 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. Perhaps it’s silly of me, but I actually work pretty hard to not be a “piano diva.” I have many reasons for this but in all honesty, my biggest…

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  • 5 Tips for Memorizing Musical Passages

    5 Tips for Memorizing Musical Passages

    + 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. Memorizing musical passages remains one of the tougher aspects of being a serious musician. It’s something listeners never think about when they see their favorite…

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  • 6 Bands Who Have Attempted to Cover Aphex Twin

    6 Bands Who Have Attempted to Cover Aphex Twin

    + 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. Richard D. James’ longstanding Aphex Twin project surfs the crest between experimental and groovy better than anyone else out there. He’s one of the world’s greatest…

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  • Kaki King Will ‘Never Go Back to a Pedalboard.’ Here’s Why

    Kaki King Will ‘Never Go Back to a Pedalboard.’ Here’s Why

    In the above video, featured in our free online course, Digital Pedalboards with Kaki King, our instructor, guitarist and composer Kaki King, shares her reasons for making the switch to a digital pedalboard, after years of touring around with a full rig of hardware. Here, she’s using Apple’s MainStage 3 software with a MIDI trigger pedal…

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