How to EQ an Acoustic vs. Electric Guitar
If you find yourself dealing with different guitar signals, here’s a primer on how to EQ acoustics versus electrics in your mix.
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Acoustic Versions of Your Electronic Songs Are Rad. Here’s Why…
More than just a marketing gimmick, recording new acoustic versions of your songs can be an enlightening, enjoyable experience on a few levels!
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Tips for Playing the Guitar Without Looking at the Fretboard
Looking to build confidence and muscle memory when playing the guitar? Look no further! These practice tips will help you gain dexterity and fluidity fast.
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5 Ways to Mic an Acoustic Guitar
Taken from our email newsletter, this article suggests five quick options for miking an acoustic guitar for great tone flexibility.
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Kaki King Will ‘Never Go Back to a Pedalboard.’ Here’s Why
In the above video, featured in our free online course, Digital Pedalboards with Kaki King, our instructor, guitarist and composer Kaki King, shares her reasons for making the switch to a digital pedalboard, after years of touring around with a full rig of hardware. Here, she’s using Apple’s MainStage 3 software with a MIDI trigger pedal…
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Allegro! Exploring the Legacy and Technique of the Great Django Reinhardt
+ 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. A fire roars with life on a cool summer night somewhere in the north of France, possibly even just over the Belgian border. Music drifts into the night…
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Now It’s Our Turn to Say ‘Adiós’
Just two months after releasing his 64th studio album entitled Adiós, it’s the world who now has to bid farewell to Glen Campbell. A true titan of the fast-changing music industry, Campbell, who passed away on August 8, 2017, was a bonafide crossover sensation who released over 70 albums over the span of his career, appeared on…
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Motivation: What I Learned from Writing a Song a Day for 120 Days
For the past 120 days, I composed and recorded an original, studio-quality song, every day. Now, everything I am about to say is only credible if you believe the songs are great. Listen to a few of them so you have an idea of what was made. Thus, the primary focus of this article is to…
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The 9 Most Common Mistakes Musicians Make When Learning to Play Electric Guitar
By Natalie Wilson As a guitar teacher, I see a lot of common mistakes in my beginner students. While it’s okay to have lofty goals and aspirations, all too often, beginner students get discouraged early on by not being able to achieve the tone, smoothness, and power of famous guitarists like Jimi Hendrix and Eric…
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5 Essential Alternate Tunings for Acoustic Guitar
Go beyond your standard stable of chords and explore a whole new world of alternate tunings to make your songs stand out.
