Minor chords are one of the most essential chord types in music.
They’re part of the basic music theory vocabulary you’ll have to write songs or produce tracks.
However, what are minor chords really? How do people create minor chords and when do people use them?
In this article, we’ll go over a complete guide you should know about minor chords.
The music industry has been in a state of speedy change for the past few decades.
What began as a move from analog to digital media has to turn out to be a total paradigm shift in how listeners interact with music.
However, the systems that assist artists and industry pros and help them get credit for their work have been slow to catch up.
That’s the reason why the US government has implemented new legislation called the Music Modernization Act (MMA) to help the industry.
It sounds promising, however, what is the MMA? Why was it essential and how does it affect your music?
In this article, we’ll break down everything you should know in regards to the Music Modernization Act.
In this next part, let’s explore how to advertise on Spotify to gain more listeners and earn revenue.
Once you think of spending your advertising and marketing dollars, Spotify probably doesn’t come foremost in your mind. And yet, you may need considered radio, a very traditional marketing medium. You might even think about spending a few of your online marketing dollars on YouTube. Here in this post, we show you a complete guide to advertise on Spotify.
A while ago an article about a website promising a free money scheme popped into my inbox.
The point of the scheme was to get an AI to make an album with royalty-free samples that you could upload to Spotify in your name.
The website pointed out that you may distribute your album to Spotify and play it in the background 24/7 to collect streaming payments.
Sounds great, right?
Questionable makes use of Spotify like this take away from the already small pool of money available to artists that distribute their music on Spotify.
Now, using an AI to write an album for you with royalty-free samples so you’ll be able to distribute it and personally stream it to earn money is definitely a grey area—and it’s pretty silly.
But similar schemes that promise to improve your stream counts on Spotify are much more dangerous—and they hurt developing artists more than you might think.
To keep your tracks safe on Spotify and other streaming websites, here’s how you can protect yourself from fake streams.
Free plugins are one of the greatest things about being a music producer in 2021. High-quality music production tools have never been more accessible for the average musician. However, with more freeware plugins showing up on the scene daily, understanding which ones work for your music production isn’t easy. That’s why we’re introducing you to the most useful and creative free music plugins in this article.
Creative developers will never stop releasing amazing tools for music production.
Plugins like EQ, compression, reverb, and synths have been around forever, however, there’s always a fresh new take on the core concepts to discover.
This month we take a look at some extraordinary approaches to plugin design that you’ll need to download right away.
Vocal pitch correction is a controversial topic in music production.
It’s been an essential production technique for many years, however, skeptics still believe using it means you’re a bad singer.
For those who’ve never tried pitch plugins before, or you think vocal tuning is cheating, you’re missing out on the huge creative potential of this powerful software.
If you’re willing to experiment, plugins like Auto-Tune Access make it possible to bend and form the human voice to design a completely new instrument.
In this article, we’ll explain everything you need to know to start using pitch correction creatively in your workflow.
Every recording engineer has to work with the equipment available to them at the moment. Those recording tools and technologies put a distinctive stamp on the music they record. An album from 1955 sounds completely different than an album from 1985. The modern era of recording is no different. Developments like DAWs, compact audio interfaces, and plugins all contribute to the sound of modern music. What has changed is the pace of technology. Things that were impossible in the past are trivial for modern producers. One of those main breakthroughs is vocal pitch correction. This powerful technology may seem like cheating, but it’s just another tool modern engineers have at their disposal—it can be used well, or poorly. Here we have a hard truth for you: everyone uses vocal pitch correction, even the pros. We’ll explain why.
The proximity effect is important to understand if you record music with microphones.
It comes up anytime you place a mic close to your mouth or any other sound source. That can impact a lot of things, but it is especially critical when tracking vocals.
Just about 40 years ago, hip-hop was born. Ever since rap has expanded into tons of subgenres and styles. Today every hip-hop and rap subgenre has a completely different sound, even if they still follow the core tenants of rhyme and beat. From the early days of underground New York hip-hop to the twisted sound of UK Drill, the only thing that’s been constant in the genre is change, especially with the evolution of technology. In this article we’ll briefly explore each genre that matters, so you know what’s out there to explore in-depth. Here are 22 rap genres that stick out to us.
