How to Arrange a Cover Song for Your Instrument
New to performing cover versions of songs? Here are some starter tips for arranging a cover in your preferred instrument and style!
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How a Pipe Organ Makes Sound
In this highly detailed explainer, you’ll learn how air passes through the perfectly shaped tubes in a pipe organ to create tuned tones.
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Ryan Lott: Creating an Instrument Using Vocal Samples (Video)
In this new video from Ryan Lott’s Soundfly course, we see him creatively transform vocal samples from a collaborator into a playable synth.
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How to Record Your Instrument Directly Into Your DAW
Here, we detail how and why to record your instrument directly into your DAW, and the advantages and disadvantages with this technique.
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5 of the Most Unusual “Instruments” Used in Musical Scores
From natural sounds to mechanical devices, many unusual things have been incorporated into musical scores by daring composers. Here are 5.
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Ryan Lott: In Sample Design, Less Is More (Video)
In this new video lesson from Ryan Lott’s course, he explains and exemplifies how to build complex samples from simple, captured sonic ideas.
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A Brief Introduction to Samplers
In this lesson from Ryan’s course, he introduces us to his preferred software, Kontakt, and walks us through some other sampling options.
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Ryan Lott: Discovering Hidden Sounds in Prepared Piano (Video)
In this course lesson video Ryan Lott takes us deep into his process to show how he balances chance and control in working with source audio.
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Son Lux’s “Live Another Life” — Breaking Down the Design of a Unique Sound (Video)
In this new video from Ryan’s course, we watch along as he breaks down the unique custom instrument design behind one of Son Lux’s hit songs.
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Ryan Lott: The Creative Potential of Sound (Video)
In this video from Ryan’s course, he shares his history and thoughts on starting with a “sound” to open up new possibilities for songwriting.
