Why Keeping Mistakes on Your Album Can Work in Your Favor
Musicians fear the mistake. Whether it’s on stage or in studio, we’re afraid of being defined by them, but they can also turn a good song into a great one!
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An Introduction to the Prepared Piano and How to Notate It
+ 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. American composer John Cage was arguably the most prolific composer of prepared-piano music and is often credited as having invented the prepared piano, so to speak. While […]
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20 Creative Songwriting and Composing Prompts Courtesy of ‘Every Song Ever’
+ 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. Ben Ratliff’s Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty is my favorite book I’ve read in the past year. In each chapter, Ratliff details a […]
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Amazing Drummers Who Were Still Green at Eighteen
By Rebecca Redman Scientists often claim that kids are like sponges and can pick up new skills with very little effort. Once you reach adulthood, though, it’s over. No more learning. Too hard. Not enough time. Gotta go to work. Everything feels out of reach — finishing that bachelor’s degree, opening that restaurant, finally running a […]
