Category: Soundfly Announcements

  • Why We’re Rolling Out Online Courses with a Human Touch

    Why We’re Rolling Out Online Courses with a Human Touch

    We’re obsessed with uncovering better ways to teach and learn. Everyone in the Soundfly office takes on weekly writing challenges to push ourselves to learn more musically. We read books about practicing and how people learn. We talk to psychologists and neuroscientists about the process of learning. And we’re constantly looking to invent new approaches, both online and off, to help people…

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  • How to Play Alternate Tunings on the Guitar: A New Free Series

    How to Play Alternate Tunings on the Guitar: A New Free Series

    We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our latest free course series, “Alternate Tunings for the Creative Guitarist”! The first installment, new this week, explores the nearly endless creative possibilities of the Open D tuning. If you’ve ever played a guitar, you’re probably familiar with standard tuning. The six strings of the instrument are commonly tuned…

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  • Announcing Our New West Side Story Course with Carnegie Hall

    Announcing Our New West Side Story Course with Carnegie Hall

    A few months ago, we heard that the good people over at Carnegie Hall would be celebrating their 125th anniversary this year with a very special project. The idea is to unite all of New York City around one theme — the song “Somewhere” from the timeless musical West Side Story. As big musical nerds, especially concerning 1950s hybrid musical/opera/gang-ballets,…

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  • We’re Seeking Creative Videographers and Video Editors

    We’re Seeking Creative Videographers and Video Editors

    Soundfly is currently looking for an enthusiastic, creative videographer and/or video editor to join our Brooklyn, NY-based team, helping us craft the most interesting and engaging online music lessons on the web. Overview We create kick-ass resources for musicians — tutorials, interviews, challenges and other videos that either instruct or challenge musicians to get better.…

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  • A Farewell to the Band I Built

    A Farewell to the Band I Built

    All bands come to an end. Tiger Speak’s bandleader shares everything he’s learned and what he’ll carry on with him into his next project.

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  • Let’s Make Every Band a #BetterBand

    Let’s Make Every Band a #BetterBand

    Running a band can often make you feel like the first person who’s ever tried to blaze a trail through the messy mystery that is the music industry. How anyone manages to walk the line between disorganized “creatives” and the monolithic corporate structures to make it big — or even just get a decent cut of…

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  • Learn How to Build a Better Band This Thursday in NYC

    Learn How to Build a Better Band This Thursday in NYC

    This coming Thursday, it’s all about the band at Black Bear Bar in Williamsburg. There will be amazing music, interesting conversation, and top-notch networking, all focusing on navigating the ins and outs of running an amazing band in today’s music landscape. We’ll have an hour of conversation on DIY band management followed by music from The Brighton Beat,…

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  • Launching Today: 3 New Music Courses!

    Launching Today: 3 New Music Courses!

    Drumroll please! Today we’re launching a new round of course offerings, including our first ever Premium-level content. And — as you may have noticed — our whole site has an entirely new look and feel. We can’t wait for you to peek around and tell us what you think! The free courses you know and love…

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  • DIY Touring Course Now on YouTube!

    DIY Touring Course Now on YouTube!

    All 17 episodes of Soundfly’s “Touring on a Shoestring” course are now available on YouTube! Check out the full playlist here. With Soundfly courses on YouTube, you can easily share single videos, embed them in your own blog, or binge watch the whole series in a single sitting! And you can skip forward through the…

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  • Check Out Our New Creative Music Courses

    Check Out Our New Creative Music Courses

    These days, it seems like anywhere you turn you encounter prophecies of doom about the state of modern music. Label execs with money on their minds see shrinking sales and panic. Tastmakers see hit factories churning out the same songs again and again and decry the end of creative expression. But from our vantage point, we…

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