New course announcement! Your website is more than just a place for fans to listen to your music. It’s where you establish your brand as an artist, gather email addresses from people who actually want to hear from you, and sell directly to your fans without going through any middlemen. The good news is that it’s…
“Buy this course to get 56 hours of content!” If you’ve ever considered taking an online course, you’ve probably seen that line before, or something like it. The problem is that too many online courses and learning experiences mistake quantity for quality. The best way to learn things is not to passively watch endless hours…
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…
In the above video (courtesy of our free course The West Side Story Companion created in partnership with Carnegie Hall), we dive deep into the score of the greatest American musical of all time. This video features insights from Grammy-winning conductor Marin Alsop about the harmonic, melodic, and rhythmic backbone of the piece’s musical score. In West Side Story, composer…
In the above video, a companion to our Mentored course, Beat Making in Ableton Live, electronic artist and educator Dan Freeman shares his somewhat polemical argument that a preset drum beat on the Maestro Rhythm King MRK-2 is the “most influential drum machine beat of all time.” Now, a statement like this is highly subjective and open to debate,…
Get personal support on your music with one of our newest Soundfly Mentors! We’re excited to announce some new additions to our team of expert Soundfly Mentors. Their areas of expertise range from mix engineering to orchestral arranging to business and marketing, but they all have one thing in common: a passion for helping musicians like…
In the above video, a companion to our Mentored course, Faders Up I: Modern Mix Techniques, sound engineer and course instructor, Joe Lambert, explains why it’s important to keep a minimally limited (or compressed) version of your mixes on hand, and to make a second compressed version for listening purposes. Compression is a versatile tool that…
+ 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. In the above video, courtesy of Soundfly’s very popular online course, Unlocking the Emotional Power of Chords, NYU and Montclair State University adjunct professor of music technology, Ethan…
In this quirky video, courtesy of our popular Mainstage course, Orchestration for Strings, composer and arranger Ian Davis demystifies some of the historical context behind the modern day orchestra’s bowed string section, as well as its attributes and compositional strengths. Davis composed all of the compelling score music to this course himself, and you’ll hear and…
Another month, another round up of some of the best student work here on Soundfly! This month, we have a budding producer pushing himself to create full tracks, a field recordist mixing works for a museum piece, a couple songwriters crafting new tracks, an orchestral artist transforming his sound, and some artists looking for a…
