How to Get a Rough Mix on Your Vocals with Volume and Panning
Here’s how to get a great start on your mixing session by running through your song with fingers on the volume faders and panning knobs.
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The Fall of Milli Vanilli and 5 More Lip Sync Disasters
+ 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. Lip-syncing has been a time-honored… well not honored… tradition in the music industry for decades. If you don’t believe me, watch any Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade or episode […]
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Chartmania!! I Broke Down Every Song That Reached the Billboard Top 5 in 2017
Alright songwriters and song-guzzlers alike, strap on your boots for a knowledge voyage with more divergent rectangles than the NYC skyline: that’s right, the top pop charters have now become 2017’s top pop graphed. The Top 40 song charters that is, but why 40? Well, besides this number’s significance in pop music as a result of […]
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Famous Musicians Fighting with Their Pretend Families over Thanksgiving Dinner
For the past two years, I’ve celebrated my favorite holiday by photoshopping turkey legs in place of microphones. The conceit being — naturally — that singing looks like eating. But no more! Because you know what else singing looks like? Yelling. And what do we inevitably spend this holiday doing (or wishing we were doing)? Yelling […]
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Defining & Deconstructing the Characteristics of a Billboard #1 Hit Song
What is it that makes a Billboard #1 song? Why do some songs make it to the top while others flop? The answer seems to be a difficult cocktail made up of formulaic songwriting mixed with a few unique ingredients that set a song apart; when blended correctly, it’s capable of hooking millions of listeners. Let’s […]
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Who Needs Triads? The Magic of Intervals in Justin Bieber’s “Love Yourself”
+ 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. “Less is more! Einstein proved it! Less is more! Einstein proved it!” my old boss, Dave, used to say on repeat. This was at the pizzeria I […]
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Pop Music Theory Analysis: Why Justin Bieber’s “Sorry” Is Surprisingly Hip
+ 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. Top 40 charts typically aren’t where I go to find new music. When I was a younger musician, I’ll admit I saw that as a sort of […]
