What Is Pitch-Shifting and How to Use It Creatively in Your Mix
A beginner’s discussion on pitch-shifting and how you can use this process subtly to add life and movement to your mixes.
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How to Warp Audio in Ableton Live
Courtesy of Soundfly’s new Ableton Live course, here’s a lesson on warping and time-shifting audio samples to fit your tempo.
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2 Ways of Creating Bass Lines in Hip-Hop Beats
In this post, an excerpt of one of the lessons in Soundfly’s Hip-Hop Production course, we go over two ways to use bass lines in hip-hop beats.
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How to Get More From Your Samples Using Transposition
+ Learn to create and arrange original, instrumental hip-hop music from sampling pioneer RJD2 himself in his new course on Soundfly, RJD2: From Samples to Songs. Here’s a step-by-step guide to pitch-shifting, finding the key, and warping. When you’re working with samples, the pitch is key! You found that perfect sample, but there’s one problem… It doesn’t fit with […]
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Why Keyboard Players Should Still Practice Hanon Exercises
+ Bridge the worlds of theory, improvisation, and jazzy hip-hop, and improve your piano chops with Grammy-winner Kiefer in his course, Kiefer: Keys, Chords, & Beats. Hanon exercises are the source of much debate in the keyboard community. Some teachers love them, and others think they’re useless. Students seem to universally dislike them, at least when […]
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What Is the Saddest Chord Progression in the World?
The next time you’re writing a heartbreaking, gut-wrenching tune, try using this handful of chords to drive your sadness home.
