Tag: mainstage

  • 6 Music Crowdfunding Campaigns That We’re Totally Rooting for Right Now

    6 Music Crowdfunding Campaigns That We’re Totally Rooting for Right Now

    It doesn’t take much to inspire us here at Soundfly. In general, we’re pretty excited about most things that our friends, partners, and students send our way when it comes to new music or new projects involving music and sound. But what really gets us amped is watching awesome crowdfunding projects come to life. Why? Simple.…

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  • Quick Tracks Nº 3: Write in a Style You’ve Never Used Before

    Quick Tracks Nº 3: Write in a Style You’ve Never Used Before

    Welcome back to the dance floor, Quick Trackers! Once a month, we hook you up with a short production or songwriting challenge, aimed at helping to up your musicianship. To respond to the challenge, just email us, leave a comment, or post to social media with the hashtag #quicktracks and tag us @learntosoundfly. It’s so easy, as a…

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  • Mainstage Starts Tomorrow: You Don’t Have to Learn Alone

    Mainstage Starts Tomorrow: You Don’t Have to Learn Alone

    We’re launching the next round of Mainstage courses on July 19, and we’d love to have you onboard! (Don’t worry, you can enroll up to one week after the start date.) Soundfly’s multi-week Mainstage courses include hands-on support from a Mainstage Mentor, an expert musician in the field who will do whatever it takes to help…

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  • Hear 9 Inspiring String Quartet Arrangements Written by Soundfly Students

    Hear 9 Inspiring String Quartet Arrangements Written by Soundfly Students

    Last fall, we debuted the first-ever session of our course Orchestration for Strings that included personalized support for students from a Mainstage Mentor — a handpicked expert in his or her field who offered feedback on the student’s work. The course itself was a big success, garnering a 100% completion rate and a ton of validating feedback from our students,…

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  • 3 Ways Learning an Instrument Can Help Your Songwriting

    3 Ways Learning an Instrument Can Help Your Songwriting

    Although a lot of songwriters have at least a basic sense of either the guitar or piano, there are still quite a few who rely solely on their voices when writing melodies and lyrics. While that’s a perfectly fine place to start, songwriters could gain a lot by expanding their instrumental horizons, especially when they…

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  • How to Add Bittersweet Emotion to Your Chords with 7ths

    How to Add Bittersweet Emotion to Your Chords with 7ths

    You might understand the construction of a chord or triad, but here’s how to make your music express the heartbreaking lilt of a seventh chord.

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  • Meet Your Course Advisors for January 18

    Meet Your Course Advisors for January 18

    On Wednesday, January 18, we’re running the next session of our Mainstage courses. Mainstage courses are premium courses on Soundfly that offer you the chance to work with a personal advisor for the duration of the course. These “Course Advisors” as we call them are there to serve as facilitators, mentors, accountability partners, and teaching…

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  • Soundfly Mainstage: Our New One Month Intensive Courses for Deeper Learning

    Soundfly Mainstage: Our New One Month Intensive Courses for Deeper Learning

    We’re really excited to announce that we’ve just published three entirely new courses on Soundfly.com! But perhaps more importantly, these courses are part of a new learning product that is entirely different than anything we’ve done so far and will help you better achieve your goals. Our new courses are part of a program we’re…

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Elijah Fox at the piano