Crying in the Club: Songs Within Songs and Intertextuality in Pop Music
A lengthy, in-depth look at the self-referential nature of pop music and what that means for legality and creativity in music.
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How the Art of Greek Dancing Builds Musical Muscle Memory
A brief exploration into several Greek dances, and how their rhythms and storytelling help us internalize music in an innate way.
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Announcing Our New Course With Com Truise: Mid-Fi Synthwave Slow-Motion Funk
We’re excited to announce Soundfly’s new online music course with retro-futuristic synthwave trailblazer, Com Truise, out today!
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Announcing Our New Course With Jlin: Rhythm, Variation, & Vulnerability
We’re excited to announce Soundfly’s new course with pioneering electronic dance music producer/composer, Jlin, on rhythmic creativity!
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What Are Your Favorite Songs by “One-Hit Wonders?”
In Ep. 34 of Themes and Variation, we dissect some of our favorite “one-hit wonders” with songwriter and Soundfly veteran, Lina Farah.
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How Every Musician Can Learn from Skrillex’s Onstage Mishaps
+ 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. Let me get this out of the way before I say anything else: This article is not trying to make fun of Skrillex. There are…
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11 Naija Pop Tracks that Capture the New Sound of West Africa’s “Afrobeats”
By Noah Cebuliak “Afrobeats” is pop music originating in West Africa, where currently, the scene is being driven primarily by artists from Nigeria and Ghana. In Nigeria, this music is infused with a culture of youthful excitement and resistance, as well as a sense of positive national pride — all of which can be summed…
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Sampling as Instrumentation: How Recorded Noise Found Its Way Into Music
+ Learn to create and arrange original, instrumental hip-hop music from sampling pioneer RJD2 himself in his new course on Soundfly, RJD2: From Samples to Songs. When we turn on the radio to any pop station, we hear sampling. When we utilize any MIDI instrument technology within our DAWs and hardware, we hear sampling. It’s everywhere, and it’s due…
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So You Think You Can Dance Buildup?
So, you think you know EDM. You’ve been listening to all the latest players in the electronic music world, and you think you know what they’re all about — the unique, infinitesimal nuances of sub-genre that distinguish one from another. What you may not know is that all of these artists in almost all forms of…
