5 Keys to Success in Digital Music Promotion
The digital promotion landscape in music is changing fast and more competitive than ever, here’s some tips to helping you cut through and find success.
The digital promotion landscape in music is changing fast and more competitive than ever, here’s some tips to helping you cut through and find success.
Another exclusive video lesson from Soundfly’s Intro to Scoring for Film & TV course, this one on the creative composing power of leitmotif.
Underscore and sound design can serve a variety of different purposes in film and TV, here are a plethora of scene music function examples.
In honor of our brand new course, Ep. 54 of Themes and Variation finds Carter, Mahea, and Ian discussing “Songs That Lived Beyond the Film.”
Soundfly’s foundation-shattering new online course with Ryan Lott (of Son Lux), Designing Sample-Based Instruments, is out NOW. Check it out!
In this edition of Student Spotlight, we dive deep into the nature-inspired synth and field recording work of Alexis Walter Blaess.
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In the latest edition of Student Spotlight, we hear from hybrid songwriter and photographer Isla Vidal about her new single and its message.
In today’s very special edition of Student Spotlight, a songwriter, producer, and educator seeking to help kids memorize through music.
As Paul Simon said farewell to performing music in September in his childhood home of Queens, NY, we revisit the ups and downs of the songwriter’s career.
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Almost 20 years later, Thomas Newman’s score to “American Beauty” still enchants us with its refreshing approach and seductive sonics. Here’s why.
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If you’re anything like us, you’ve watched Rob Cantor’s absurdly operatic tale of Shia Labeouf’s cannibalism and ultimate defeat 100 times by now. Clearly, there’s so much that makes this video just next level — from the aerial ribbon dancers to the actor himself appearing at the end like a half crazed serial killer pondering…
Happy Friday! We here at Soundfly HQ spend an inordinate amount of time on the internet reading and listening and generally consuming far too much music media. And it’s awesome! So we wanted to start sharing our weeks with you. Presenting Off Notes: a weekly round-up of all the musical goodies the rest of the…
For a brief few years in college, I got to treat music as a full-time job, devoting 40+ hours a week to musical improvement. I lived ten minutes from the practice rooms and had very few responsibilities, so I could practice as much as sleep and school would allow. Now that I’m a full-fledged grown-up…
I love jazz. I love playing jazz, listening to jazz, shedding jazz, and talking with other people who love jazz, about jazz. I recently released, with my group the PLS.trio, a new modern jazz record in the style of greats such as Pat Metheny and Esbjorn Svensson. According to a review by All About Jazz, our music takes…
+ 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. By Jack McCarthy The art of songwriting is a noble one. The task of storytelling through music, whether fictional or inspired by events in one’s life, is…
This holiday season, there’s probably a handful of Golden Ticket gift items on our wish lists, like the incredible Nord Electro 5 Keyboard, or Native Instruments’ new Komplete 10 pack, or Artiphon’s recently introduced Instrument 1, which unless we’ve been very, very good boys and girls, we might not get. So here are a few more great…