Creating a Sound Foundation: Changing Mental Health in the Music Industry
Today’s Guest OpEd offers some advice and space to those in the music industry feeling external pressures of success weighing them down.
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How to Keep Your Music Projects Moving Forward (Successfully)
Using examples from software and business development, this OpEd shows musicians how to make sure your projects are always moving ahead.
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RJD2’s Journey From MPC to Studio, Student to Teacher
Borrowed from our friends at Reverb.com, this interview with producer RJD2 tracks his progress from student of the MPC to Soundfly teacher.
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Improve Your Rhythmic Feel With Pro Drummer and Beat Maker Joey Lefitz
We’ve added another brilliant multi-instrumentalist, producer, and educator to our Soundfly Mentor roster. Learn more about Joey Lefitz here.
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The Essential 2021 Holiday Gift Guide for Musicians
Looking for the perfect gift for the musician in your life? We’ve got you covered with the 2021 edition of our annual musician’s gift guide.
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Level Up Your Production Skills in Ableton Live With These 5 Mentors
Get 1-on-1 and tutorials, guidance, and feedback on your songwriting, production, and mixing work from a seasoned pro in Ableton Live.
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What Songs Defined an Experience For You?
In Ep. 41 of our show, saxophonist, songwriter, producer, and composer Jessi Lee joins us to chat about experience defining songs.
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3 Things Son Lux Does to Make Their Songs So Unique
We take apart Son Lux’s incredibly unique sound, and breakdown three main tools of expression composer Ryan Lott uses to achieve it.
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Props to Ghostly International — 9 Artists Pushing the Envelope of Electronica
To celebrate Soundfly’s forthcoming course release with Com Truise, we’ve profiled 9 Ghostly International artists making creative waves.
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Out Now: A New Course With Ryan Lott (of Son Lux) on Designing Custom Instruments
Soundfly’s foundation-shattering new online course with Ryan Lott (of Son Lux), Designing Sample-Based Instruments, is out NOW. Check it out!
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A Compendium of History’s Most Famous Hip-Hop Rhythms
Don’t miss this historical breakdown of hip-hop’s most famous breaks and drum rhythms, including the artists who created and sampled them.
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How to Spice Up a Mundane Melody With Jazz Chords
Looking at Nile Rodgers’ famous arrangements for David Bowie and Sister Sledge, let’s talk about how to turn pop into funk and so much more!
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5 Small Plugin Companies You Should Try This Year
These 5 plugin companies are building the most beautiful, wacky, exciting, and unpredictable audio tools we’ve ever seen. Check these out now.
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Learn Pretty Much Everything About Synths with Soundfly’s New Online Course
In Soundfly’s newest course, Advanced Synths & Patch Design, you’ll learn how to move beyond presets and create a wide array of scintillating synth sounds.
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5 Steps for Achieving Your New Years Goals in 2021
A new take on the familiar New Year oriented goals post, encouraging you to analyze the habits that prevent you from achieving them.
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Son Lux on Composing for Contrast at the Forefront
Son Lux is a trio of versatile musicians comprised of vocalist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, Ryan Lott, guitarist, Rafiq Bhatia, and drummer, Ian Chang. While all three make beautiful work on their own (Lott has scored films such as The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, Bhatia’s latest offering, Breaking English is coming in early April, and Chang’s 2017 EP, Spiritual Leader…
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4 Secrets from the World’s Best Improvisers That Will Make You a Better Musician
+ Wanna learn how to turn the intersections between jazz and modern hip-hop into creative gold? Soundfly’s new course with jazz pianist and beat producer, Kiefer, on keys, beats, and chord changes, comes out this October! Hop on our mailing list now. When most people hear the word improvisation, they immediately think of jazz, but limiting improvisation to the…
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History of the Reese Bass Synth Sound
Whether you know the name or not, you’ve heard this synth bass sound in a million different electronic songs. Here’s where it came from.
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Anatomy of a Song: Crafting an Electro-Pop Track from Start to Finish
+ Learning to record and mix at home? Check out Soundfly’s acclaimed online courses on mixing, production, beat making and more — Subscribe for access. By Julie Kathryn a.k.a. I AM SNOW ANGEL I’m an artist, songwriter and producer. I produce my own material, as well as tracks for other artists. This means I have the pleasure of shaping…
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How Jazz Is Secretly Rewriting Its Own Future in Camouflage
You may not have known this, but yesterday was International Jazz Day. Look around, and you’ll find a ton of jazz festivals happening right this moment worldwide — from Denton, Texas to Espoo, Finland, and not to mention New Orleans. On the surface, it might seem like jazz is doing just fine, chugging along and as…
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6 More Rising Artists on Soundfly Right Now
It’s only May, but we’re already pretty sure that 2017 is going to be our favorite year ever! This year, Soundfly has nearly doubled our repertoire of available courses and partnered with some of the world’s best instructors. But best of all, we’ve been continually inspired and excited by the work that student artists have shared with us.…
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Money Ain’t a Thang: 11 of the Most Expensive Albums Ever Produced
+ 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. Most of us record albums with budgetary constraints — that’s just our reality. Imagine waking up one day with unlimited resources at your fingertips. Here and now, there’s…
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Entrepreneurship in Music: Diggers Factory
Entrepreneurship in Music Series: 013 DIGGERS FACTORY Founder Alexis Castiel Diggers Factory is an online vinyl pre-order and production service built like a crowdfunding platform and with an international network of digital “crate-diggers” to back it up. Founder Alexis Castiel actually calls it “a community platform,” as it offers fans and professionals a chance to work…
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Album Histories Monthly: Blondie – ‘Parallel Lines’
Welcome back to our new series on Flypaper, Album Histories Monthly, which brings you the story of a single album each month, in the month that it was originally released. Last month, we covered New Order’s influential Substance 1987. This month: Blondie – Parallel Lines Release Date: September 23, 1978 “I remember how struck I was by Debbie and her presence…
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5 Secrets to Making Your Sub-Bass Notes Audible
+ 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. Whether you’re making pop, hip-hop, or EDM, chances are your music is going to include sub-bass. For those who aren’t familiar, sub-bass frequencies are low-pitched notes below approximately…
