Category: Songwriting
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Electrum Review -The Mother of all Guitar Amps?
Electrum is the all-in-one single-screen guitar solution. The last amplifier and pedalboard your guitar will ever need. It matches any guitar style or technique. Rhythm guitar or solo. From jazz to modern metal. Achieve perfect sound for any electric guitar quickly and easily with all options available within a single window.
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Andrew Huang Monthly.com Review Complete Music Production Masterclass
Andrew Huang Monthly Review – Complete Music Production – Become a versatile music producer in 30 days. During this one-month class, learn the end-to-end techniques to produce music in any style. Finish the class with 3 tracks you’ll want to share.
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Tom Morello Teaches Electric Guitar Masterclass Review (2021)
In 26 lessons, Grammy-winning musician Tom Morello will teach you the guitar techniques, rhythms, and riffs that define his signature style.
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Timbaland Producing and Beatmaking Masterclass Review (2021) Masterclass.com
Step inside the production studio with Timbaland. In his first-ever online class, Tim teaches his process for creating infectious beats and making sonic magic.
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Logic Pro – Reversed Chords Effect (Sound Design Tutorial)
In this video I demonstrate a cool, but simple, reversed chords effect I like to use to make layered chord progressions a bit more original sounding, and give them a bit more ‘flavor’ than just using stock sounds as is. from Music Tech Help Guy
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8 Chill Lofi Chord Progressions (Lofi Piano Tutorial)
Lo-fi hip-hop is known for its lush chords and warm chord progressions. There’s something about lofi chords that give them a nostalgic feeling though. The pairing of jazz harmony with a lofi aesthetic will get you there most of the time, but there are specific chords and chord progressions that can really hook a listener…
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How To Make A K-POP Chorus Topline + Vocal Arrangement
From Anna Timgren: “In this video I’m showing you how to make a K-POP CHORUS TOPLINE and how I build the VOCAL ARRANGEMENT! Shoutout to AZODI for letting me use his track for this vid! I hope you like it and find it helpful! :)”
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CHEAP vs EXPENSIVE | Blind Test Strat Style Guitar Challenge | Can you ? the difference?
In this video we check out three Strat style guitars from cheap to expensive and you guys get to see if you can hear which guitar is which! Let me know in the comment section below how many you got right and were you surprised?!
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Why are Minor Chord Songs so rare?
It’s not unusual at all to find a song that only uses major chords. But songs that exclusively use minor chords are actually quite a rare find. Even when you do find a minor-only song they rarely offer much of a chord progression, generally sticking to just a couple of chords, if that! So why…
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Don’t play your Major chords this way (play them like this instead)
In this lesson, Antoine Michaud show’s you Major chord shapes that are way better than the typical barre shapes that we all learn. To understand why they are better, we are talking about ‘voice leading’ in this lesson. –
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How Pink Floyd made The Wall album, tour and film | Vinyl Rewind
The Wall by Pink Floyd is one of the most ambitions musical concepts ever recorded, producing a platinum double album, a phenomenal theatrical live show and a Hollywood film directed by Oscar nominated director Alan Parker.
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How The Beatles Wrote 27 #1 Songs
the Beatles have written the most all time #1 hit songs, and have held that title since the 60s. What is it about the Beatles songwriting that fuelled Beatlemania, and what can we learn from their approach to arranging a Hit Song?
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7 tips to write better lyrics for beginners (from the pros)
The craft of lyric writing can be a challenge. With these 7 tips, anyone can write better lyrics and the best part is they are easy to apply, even for beginners. When we have some techniques for how to write better lyrics we can easily overcome things like writer’s block. So even if you are…
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Charlie Puth Monthly.com Review Songwriting Secrets Exposed
Charlie Puth Monthly.Com Review. During This One-Month Class, Learn And Practice Charlie Puth’s Entire Creative Process. Finish The Class With 2 Release-Ready Songs You’ll Want To Share
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Louis Bell Monthly.com Review Hitmaking for Producers
Become a better producer in 30 days. During this one-month class, learn #1 producer Louis Bell’s entire process for crafting hit songs — the same process that has earned him more #1 songs than any other songwriter or producer in the past few years. Finish the class with 2 release-ready songs of your own.
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Songs that don’t have a chorus
It’s easy to assume that any given song will feature a chorus, and that we will hear that chorus three, four or maybe five times during the song’s duration. But a chorus is certainly not an essential element to a song and many songs do go without. So how do chorus-less songs manage without the…
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The Bizarre World of Augmented Chords
Augmented chords are awkward, weird, and can seem useless. It took me a while to eventually grasp on what aug chords are capable of- as well as aug7 (or +7) chords.
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MAX MARTIN SONGWRITING TIPS – melody writing
Max Martin has been writing and producing number one hits for some of the biggest names in music for the last twenty years. In this video, I share some of his songwriting tips and break down how he writes a vocal melody and hook.
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Songs That Changed Music: Blondie – Heart Of Glass
In 1979 Blondie, the New York band fronted by Debbie Harry, had their first US hit with “Heart of Glass”,a propulsive, glitter-smothered track about a love affair gone wrong, and a shoo-in for radio playlists. It was a bold new sound for the new-wavers whose first album had combined Sixties pop melodies with choppy guitars…
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ALL MAX MARTIN #1 Hit Songs have 5 Things in Common
All Max Martin #1 Hit Songs Have 5 Things In Common
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How to Make a Taylor Swift Song (1989 & Lover) [Free presets and samples] | Make Pop Music
Watch as Austin makes a song in the style of Taylor Swift’s albums 1989 & Lover from START TO FINISH! Download the free samples and presets to follow along, or use in your own productions! This video will cover how to compose, produce, arrange, and write a song like Taylor Swift. from Make Pop Music
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Songs That Use Augmented Chords
Augmented chords are certainly less common than your typical major, minor and seventh chords, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t useful! Despite their apparent dissonance when heard in isolation, when used tastefully, augmented chords can create ear-catching, highly cohesive chord progressions.
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U2: ‘Joshua Tree’ 30th Anniversary Interview | Apple Music
U2: ‘Joshua Tree’ 30th Anniversary Interview | Apple Music
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Paul McCartney in conversation with St. Vincent (Annie Clark) on Instagram – McCartney III imagined.
Paul McCartney in conversation with St. Vincent (Annie Clark) on about McCartney III imagined. Missed the first ‘hello’ conversation greetings due to poor signal but caught the main chat about St. Vincent’s reinterpretation of Women and wives, songwriting, recording with Andrew Watt and of course The Beatles!
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Writing Vocal Melodies & Topline Like Sia
If you have ever wondered how Sia goes about writing vocal melodies or topline for a song, then wonder no more. Toplining a song consists of creating a vocal melody and writing lyrics to fit it. There a few in the music business that are better at it than Sia
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18 Songs That ‘Rip Off’ Other Hits
Pop song lawsuits seem to be a weekly occurrence now, but since when was being inspired by another song an infringement of copyright?! Today I take a look at songs from One Direction, Green Day, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Portugal The Man and many more, that have definitely drawn from other classics but haven’t been…
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Demonstrating The Modes of Harmonic Minor [MUSIC THEORY / SCALES]
Demonstrating The Modes of Harmonic Minor [MUSIC THEORY / SCALES] from Signals Music Studio
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Pete Townshend & Roger Daltrey: ‘The Who Sell Out’ Released in 1967 and their Legacy | Apple Music
The legendary guitarist of The Who, Pete Townshend connects with Zane Lowe to reflect on the band’s third studio album ‘The Who Sell Out’ which propelled their career back in 1967