How and Why to Keep a Listening Journal (and a Template to Get You Started)
Music education is much more than online videos and practicing scales, here’s how to actively engage with music by simply listening.
In this edition of Student Spotlight, we finally catch up with a longtime Soundfly member on his intensely dramatic, theatrical pop sound.
One of the biggest pop songs of all time, and the most “boy bandiest” of boy band hits, “I Want It That Way” features some savy theory…
Making chords from the scale you’re in is fine, but borrowing notes and bringing them in from other scales and modes, now that’s fun!
This Guest OpEd covers some lesser known yet essential pieces of advice for collaborating in a digital songwriting environment.
In the latest edition of Student Spotlight, we help fill out the story of the secretive yet prolific EDM producer, Neebu.
In this short lesson from our beginner-level New Songwriter’s Workshop course, we share some tips to get you brainstorming if you’re stuck.
In this edition of Soundfly Basics, we run down the usefulness and potential applications of utilizing tension in your chord progressions.
What a music theory book at age 13 taught me about how to look at chords, chord progressions and the emotions they’re capable of manifesting.
Modern songwriters, producers and artists are reinventing the way jazz idioms and foundations are applied in modern pop. Let’s break it down!