Homeward Bound: A Look Back at Paul Simon’s Songwriting Journey
As Paul Simon said farewell to performing music in September in his childhood home of Queens, NY, we revisit the ups and downs of the songwriter’s career.
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5 Familiar Chord Progressions to Start Any Song
The first chords of your song will set the emotional precedent that your lyrics should ultimately follow. Here’s a few suggestions for starting strong!
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3 Tips for Getting Out of a Lyric Rhyming Rut
Stuck in “rhymer’s block?” We enlisted a professional songwriting coach to show us three creative schemes for helping to write song lyrics that rhyme.
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3 Atonal Techniques for Adventurous Songwriters
Inspired by Arnold Schoenberg and the Second Viennese School, here are three ways to use atonal composition techniques in your pop music-making!
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6 Useful Models for Organizing Your Setlists
+ 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. How much time does your band spend arguing over setlists, or who gets to write them? Back up… how much time do you even spend…
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Student Spotlight, Volume 8: Listen to New Works by Student Artists
This latest Mainstage session proved to me once and for all that, yes, we can have it all: beautiful weather and outdoor summer fun and making progress and advancing in our music careers. Once again, it’s time for some of our top tracks by student artists from the last session! All of the following tracks came out…
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What Is the Nashville Number System?
+ 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. By Soundfly Mentor Andre Madatian If you ask almost any Broadway Street musician in downtown Nashville, they will tell you that the Nashville number system has gotten them through…
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Chorus Writing Strategy 101
+ Improve your songwriting with Soundfly! Explore our range of courses on emotional chord progressions, basic songwriting technique, songwriting for producers, and many more. Subscribe for unlimited access here. If ever you needed proof that there is joy in repetition, the contemporary pop music chorus is the smoking gun. The chorus gives the listener the entire point of the song summed up…
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How to Get the Most Out of Someone’s Criticism of Your Music
+ Pursue your dreams faster with a Soundfly Mentor! Share your musical goals with us and we’ll pair you up with a professional musician, engineer, educator, or music industry veteran who will help you achieve them in a customized four-week session. Unless you’re one of those rare human beings who somehow manages to not let criticism penetrate your…
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Student Spotlight, Volume 7: Listen to New Works by Student Artists
I grew up on the coast, so I’m all too familiar with “June gloom.” Still, there’s something eerie about the gray skies that start showing up right when you least expect them every year. Lucky for me, our Mainstage students have been hard at work, and at least metaphorically parting the clouds long enough for…
