Playing the Field: 3 Essential Tips for Navigating the Music Industry Like a Pro
It’s overwhelming to worry about your reputation, your network, your standing, and your goals. Here are some tips for how these things can work for you.
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5 Ways to Help Your Music Get Discovered in the New Digital Age
+ What are you working on? Share your musical goals with us and we’ll hook you up with a Soundfly Mentor to help you reach them! Recently our friends over at The Outline published a great piece called, “Finding New Music in the Algorithm Age.” The article collects input from six experts and industry veterans, people who work…
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4 Important Things to Keep in Mind Before Prepping Your Song for Mixing
Last week, during Soundfly’s Office Hours #4, I sat down with Grammy-nominated audio engineer and instructor of our acclaimed online course, Faders Up: Advanced Mix Techniques, Kenta Yonesaka, and producer/songwriter Josh Conway out of Los Angeles to discuss the most crucial steps to take to properly prepare a track for a mix engineer, and common missteps to…
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How to Think and Act Like a Successful Music Entrepreneur
To me, successful entrepreneurs all share 7 qualities that have helped them rise above their own self-doubt, or inability, and thrive. Let’s explore!
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6 Useful Models for Organizing Your Setlists
+ 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. How much time does your band spend arguing over setlists, or who gets to write them? Back up… how much time do you even spend…
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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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Student Spotlight, Volume 8: Listen to New Works by Student Artists
This latest Mainstage session proved to me once and for all that, yes, we can have it all: beautiful weather and outdoor summer fun and making progress and advancing in our music careers. Once again, it’s time for some of our top tracks by student artists from the last session! All of the following tracks came out…
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The Expanding Triplet, and How to Internalize Time with Practice
+ 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. When Malcolm Gladwell famously professed that 10,000 hours of dedicated practice is what it takes to achieve mastery in any field (increasing the anxiety levels of musicians…
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7 Essential Tips for Home Producing Your Vocals
Home produce vocals that are mix-ready earlier in the process. Here are 7 pieces of advice plus a bonus tip for how you can get there in no time.
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Why Keeping Mistakes on Your Album Can Work in Your Favor
Musicians fear the mistake. Whether it’s on stage or in studio, we’re afraid of being defined by them, but they can also turn a good song into a great one!
