Tag: songwriting challenge

  • Quick Tracks Nº 6: Write a Melody That’s a Palindrome

    Quick Tracks Nº 6: Write a Melody That’s a Palindrome

    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. Draw, o coward! In words,…

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  • Quick Tracks Nº 5: Write a Song for an Artist You Don’t Like

    Quick Tracks Nº 5: Write a Song for an Artist You Don’t Like

    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. This week, we’ve got another…

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  • Quick Tracks Nº 4: Write a Groove Using the Lydian Mode

    Quick Tracks Nº 4: Write a Groove Using the Lydian Mode

    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. …And we’re back! This week, we challenge you…

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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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  • Quick Tracks Nº 1: Write a Short Canon

    Quick Tracks Nº 1: Write a Short Canon

    Welcome to our new series, Quick Tracks! Every other week, we’ll send you another short composition, performance, or production challenge to help you up your musicianship. We’d love to hear your responses! You can email us, leave a comment, or post to social media with the hashtag #quicktracks and tag us @learntosoundfly. Good luck!  Here at Soundfly,…

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  • Motivation: What I Learned from Writing a Song a Day for 120 Days

    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 Peculiar Sonic Possibilities of a Strange Japanese Toy Instrument

    The Peculiar Sonic Possibilities of a Strange Japanese Toy Instrument

    What do you do when a bizarre, anthropomorphic plastic music note shows up at your door? See what kind of music you can make with it, duh.

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  • Andrew Huang’s Top 5 Song Challenges

    Andrew Huang’s Top 5 Song Challenges

    Toronto wunderkind Andrew Huang has about a thousand tricks up his sleeve. Every time you think he couldn’t possibly one-up himself, he pulls out yet another rabbit wearing a top hat. Most of us first found out about his spectacular ability to turn mundane household sounds into captivating beats and complicated tracks with his video covering “99 Red Balloons”…

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Elijah Fox at the piano