Unintentionally Spooky, Creepy and Just Plain Weird Music Videos (Not for Halloween)
We know it’s Halloween, but we got kind of sick of ghosts, ghouls, and zombies, so here’s a list of videos that are creepy in other ways.
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“Productive Failure:” Why Early Floundering Leads to Better Learning
Does opting for short-term help from a teacher equate less long-term comprehension and problem-solving? Productive failure might hold a clue.
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How Does Cory Arcangel’s Cat Video Mashup of Schoenberg’s Atonal Opus 11 Stack up Against the Original?
The New York and Stavanger, Norway-based contemporary artist Cory Arcangel is widely known and respected for his use of hacked technology such as video games and software to produce thought-provoking, beautiful artwork across a range of media. His largely absurdist oeuvre explores technology from a number of theoretical angles and offers commentary on cultures that…
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How to Open Yourself up to Musical Collaborations
Solo artists, songwriters, and composers, you may be nervous to, but here’s how to open yourself up to new collaborative frontiers.
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What to Do When Your Bass Player (Or, Like, Anyone Else) Quits
+ 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. In the world of live bands, bass players and drummers have a lot of negotiating power. They’re in demand, and they know it. Nearly every genre of…
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Nothing Compares 2 Prince: The Songs That Blew Our Minds
Prince is gone. Honestly, I’m still tongue-tied. As is the case for most musicians I know, Prince has been an unwavering pillar of my musical life. Maybe the only one, in fact. For my wedding, all my friends recorded themselves singing “Purple Rain,” which my sister- and brother-in-law mashed up with the real song and…
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Mischievous Mistletoe: 7 Offbeat Holiday Songs to Shake Up Your Pandemic Blues
Need to shake up your Christmas caroling this year? Here’s 7 of our favorite weird and wacky holiday songs that are truly unique!
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High Fives: The Soundfly Staff Chooses Our Top 5 Favorite Articles From 2020
Join us as we reflect on some of the best blog content that we published on the blog this year. It’s been kind of a wacky one.
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Where Did All the Chords Go?
A sampling of single- and multi-chord progression songs between the 1980s and 2010s reveals a disheartening trend. How to fix it?
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How Brian Losch Creates Big, Immersive Mixes of Orchestral Film Music
Here’s how pro audio engineer Brian Losch achieves a big, immersive sound mixing cinematic, orchestral film score music.
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The Top 5 Flypaper Articles From August 2021
Summer plans got in the way of your music learning regiment? We got you covered. Here are the Top 5 read articles on Flypaper this month.
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Songs in the Key of… Sweater Weather! (A Playlist)
With the seasons changing, we wanted to put together a collaborative playlist to welcome in the autumn, and cozy up in some musical sweaters.
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Do We Really Sound as Terrible as We Think We Do on Stage?
Is there a self-evaluation bias when it comes to performing or is there really a difference between how our voice sounds to us and to others?
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Basketball Is Trending Away From “Positions” — Here’s What That Has to Do With Music
What does it mean to be “positionless” in basketball? And what does that have to do with succeeding in the music industry? Let’s find out!
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Why Musicians Should Learn to Think Like a Chicken Farmer
Probably one of the strangest mental leaps we’ve made here on Flypaper to date, but Caleb Murphy makes a solid argument here. Do you agree?
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Student Spotlight: Alison Barrett on the Best Christmas Video You’ve Ever Seen
In this holiday edition of Student Spotlight, we chat with Alison Barrett, the brains and voice behind the year’s greatest Christmas tune…
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How Erik Ian Walker Is Creating the Music of a Changing Climate
Read our interview with composer and arranger, Erik Ian Walker, which explores his data-driven environmental composition, “Climate.”
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What NOT to Do When Mixing Your Own Music
Engineers and producers: do you make any of these thirteen common mistakes when mixing your own music? We bet you do.
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5 Lessons On: Originality
Soundfly’s new monthly newsletter, “5 Lessons On…” comes to Flypaper. Check out these thematically curated lessons to direct your learning.
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Advice for a New Piano Teacher
Starting out teaching new students? Here are some pitfalls to avoid and strategies to implement (for the benefits of the student).
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How Kendrick Lamar Achieves Mainstream Appeal with a Complex, Innovative Approach
+ Learn the nuances of producing beats, arranging tracks, and creative sampling, drawing on the rich history and influence of hip-hop in Soundfly’s acclaimed online course, The Art of Hip-Hop Production. One of Kendrick Lamar’s greatest benedictions as an artist is his ability to connect, which, on the surface, seems strange, because his stories are so…
