All content archive

March 2020

Filter

Year
Month

284 articles

March 31st
- 5 songs guitarists need to hear by… Brian May
March 30th
- Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi interviewed by Judas Priest's Richie Faulkner
- Listen to 13 isolated drum tracks from some of the biggest drumming names in rock
- Rig tour: The Amity Affliction's Dan Brown shows us his stealth metal Strats
- Guitar skills: 30 chords acoustic guitarists need to know
- Where can you buy music gear online during the Coronavirus lockdown?
- Check out all our guitar skills lessons so far for beginner and intermediate players
- How to 'upcycle' a drum loop in your DAW and turn it into something new
- Audiokit launches limited edition Bass 808 synth app for iPad
- Fantastic Voyage is like ‘an updated 4-track PortaStudio’ for your Mac
- Arturia’s iSpark iPad drum machine is free for a limited time
- Coronavirus giveaways: the best free software and services for musicians
- Use Apple Logic Pro X free for 90 days!
- Is Logic Pro X set to get live loop triggering and recording?
- 10 best laptops for music production 2020: top choice computers for musicians, DJs and producers
- Tracktion Waveform Free is the fully-featured DAW you don’t need to pay for
- Guitar skills: Strengthen your fretting fingers with these slick legato workouts
March 29th
- Guitar skills: A beginner lesson on how to play percussive acoustic guitar
March 28th
- Guitar skills: Learn hard rock and heavy metal guitar essentials
March 27th
- The best gigs live streaming online featuring Metallica, Neil Young and more
- How to build a basic square wave bass sound in NI's Massive X synth
- Heaven 17's Martyn Ware: "Kraftwerk were only brilliant because they were rich!"
- 11 best bass drum pedals 2020: single and double bass drum pedals for all budgets
- The free AS-16 Analog Sequencer Rack Extension might make Reason users happy to stay in their studios
- 5 songs guitarists need to hear by… Pearl Jam
- Guitar Skills: Improve your acoustic fingerpicking in 20 minutes
- Tracktion launches Waveform Free: is this the world’s best free DAW?
- Audiomodern’s free Filterstep plugin can ‘shape any sound into a groove’
- Support your local music shop, urges UK's MIA
March 26th
- How to use MIDI files for easy remote collaboration in different DAWs
- Five song intros you’re probably counting wrong, and how to count them correctly
- Teach your child to play the drums and understand rhythm with Drumeo Kids
- Best website builders for musicians and bands 2020: sell your merch and get your music heard
- Nine Inch Nails surprise release two new albums – and they're free
- Guitar skills: Improve your guitar solo improvisations
- Harley Benton's new DSP flat response guitar cab could be the ideal solution for your modelling rig
- Free Baby Taylor acoustic when you buy another Taylor guitar
- offGrid puts a wireless MIDI pad controller in the palm of your hand
- MAKE FREE MUSIC NOW - CM 281 Out Now
- 8 online guitar lessons sites and apps to help you improve – see what JustinGuitar, Fender Play and more have to offer
- UK charity launches £5m fund to help musicians
- Sony CSL launches Flow Machines, an AI-assisted music production plugin
March 25th
- Classic guest lesson: Joe Satriani shows you two exotic scale practice licks
- Gibson's HomeMade Music campaign offers support to musicians
- 8 ways to improve your home studio monitoring setup
- Get the Positive Grid Bias FX Mobile guitar amp and FX app free for 90 days
- How to record in Logic Pro using the Novation SL MkIII's onboard sequencer
- Get 4 months of TIDAL HiFi for just £/$4 per month – usually £/$19.99 per month
- Interview: Brian Fallon goes in-depth on the making of new album Local Honey
- Trevor Horn: “I’m just an old muso who likes playing and programming”
- How to beat writer's block and start a new track
- Arturia MicroLab
- How to clean a microphone: keep your mics germ-free
- Universal Audio Apollo x4
- Ministry, R.E.M. and King Crimson drummer, Bill Rieflin, dies aged 59
- Ableton’s free online learning courses can teach your stuck-at-home kids how to make music and use a synth
- PreSonus Eris E8XT
- Teenage Engineering PO Modular 400
- Teachers can get the Soundation online music studio free for their students until the end of June
- Guitar skills: Expand your mind with these ingenious prog chords
March 24th
- Moog Matriarch
- 10 tips for musicians working remotely from home by Anthony Kaoteon
- The 8 best ukuleles 2020: top choice acoustic and electric ukes for all ages
- How to collaborate remotely on the same project in different DAWs
- How to livestream your music
- Korg and Roland accused of “preventing online discounting” illegally in the UK: “Customers lose out”
- Use Reaper 6 for free until the end of June: temporary DAW licences for those stuck at home
- Guitar skills: Speed up your guitar solos with the fearsome 'spider' lick
March 23rd
- See a Blackstar Sonnet acoustic amp demo from UK songwriter Katie Nicholas
- Classic guest lesson: John Petrucci's ultimate guitar warm-ups
- Guns N' Roses, Radiohead and Tom Waits covered in Live From Home performances
- Learn the Bohemian Rhapsody guitar solo from Brian May
- Best vocal mics 2020: recommended vocal microphones for the studio and stage
- The 12 best films for guitarists to stream right now
- Guitar skills: Break out of pentatonic solo ruts with these handy melodic tricks
- How to get started with Ableton Push 2 and Live 10.1
- Mayones Federico Malaman Jabba Mala 5
- Get 3 months of FREE online guitar lessons and learn to play guitar at home with this epic Fender Play deal
- Fender American Ultra Precision and Jazz Bass
- Auddict PercX Pro
- Accusonus Rhythmiq
- Avid offers free Pro Tools licences to those who need to work from home
- "This will end many bands’ careers" – four members of the music industry speak out on the COVID-19 fallout
March 22nd
- 14 best acoustic guitars 2020: top acoustic guitars for beginners and pros
- Save up to 93% on Waves plugin bundles – prices dropped by as much as $3,700
- Guitar skills: Expand your repertoire with these unusual chords
March 21st
- Guitar skills: Improve your timing with this quick and easy lesson
- Classic interview: Soundgarden's Chris Cornell and Kim Thayil talk guitar
- Kenny Rogers, 81, dies "of natural causes"
March 20th
- How to start teaching musical instrument lessons online
- Native Instruments gives you the Analog Dreams soft synth for free: “stay safe and keep creating”
- Me in my studio - Skalpel: "Virtual instruments aren’t always a faster way to compose"
- Make music on your iPad and iPhone: 11 keyboards, audio interfaces and mics for your iOS device
- Meet Cyber Bass, the latest addition to the Marble Machine X
- Cordoba and Elite Guitarist team up to offer 30 days of free guitar lessons
- See 15-year-old blues sensation Toby Lee demo the Blackstar HT-20RH MkII
- Learn to play guitar and keyboards at home: easy free lessons for beginners
- Free online piano lessons for beginners: Skoove wants to make your time at home more productive
- Enter the new era of amp modelling with Mercuriall Audio Euphoria
- The best MIDI keyboards 2020: Mac, PC, iPhone and iPad MIDI controller keyboards for beginner and pro musicians
- Guitar skills: Learn blues and classic-rock lead guitar basics
- Cherry Audio is giving away Voltage Modular Nucleus for free: “stay at home and learn to master modular synthesis”
- How to record remote sessions as a musician
- Turn your effects pedals into musical instruments with Step Audio's Pilot Wave
- Spotify will soon stop working with third-party DJ apps, says Algoriddim, as djay loses support
- The best of Bandcamp: support your favourite artists today (20 March)
March 19th
- The good and the bad news about Fender's new Heritage Series guitars
- Kemper's Kabinet is finally here
- The 13 best microphones 2020: our pick of the best mics for recording instruments, vocals and podcasts
- 5 songs guitarists need to hear by… Tom Morello
- The best VST plugins 2020: the finest synth, drum machine, sampler and effect plugins you can buy right now
- 9 ways to get better at finishing tracks in your DAW
- Guitar skills: Stretch your fingers with these wide chord shapes
- The 9 best electronic drum sets for kids 2020: top child-friendly electric drum kits
- Sign up to Loopcloud and download 1.5GB of Waves samples and the OneKnob Wetter plugin for free
- The best electric guitar strings 2020: recommended guitar string sets for all budgets and playing styles
- Musician starts CoFundMe campaign to support out of work tour crews
- Polyend Tracker is a standalone audio workstation inspired by classic music software
March 18th
- Tony Iommi talks through his Gibson SG Special 'Monkey' signature model
- Stone Deaf gets tough on hiss and hum with the Noise Reaper pedal
- See the best Italian balcony musicians so far during the country's COVID-19 lockdown
- How you can help support musicians in the wake of Coronavirus
- 9 ways to be a productive electronic music producer in self-isolation
- Apple says that its new iPad Pro is “more powerful than most Windows PC laptops”
- Produce your own music for less with these budget home studio setups
- Studio Sessions with Cubase: Tinlicker
- Bandcamp waiving all artist fees this friday in Covid-19 response
- Apple’s new MacBook Air has “up to 2 times faster CPU performance”, which is good news for your DAW
- Classic interview: Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard on Brad, Bigsbys, Chris Cornell and being "the luckiest man in rock"
- Glastonbury Festival postponed until 2021 due to coronavirus
- Is Akai working on an MPC Live II with CV outputs and an armrest?
- Baby Audio says that Comeback Kid is a “warmer-sounding, more inspiring delay plugin”
- Can't get to the shops? Get instant digital subs to the world's best music making mags for just £1/€1/$1 per issue!
- Bono writes and performs song inspired by Italians caught in COVID-19 lockdown
- Polyend Tracker is a different kind of portable music production device
- Guitar skills: Use chords and arpeggios to improve your solos
March 17th
- The 10 best cheap acoustic guitars for under $/£500: top budget acoustic guitars
- UK venue owners call for compulsory coronavirus closure order
- 11 practical ways to improve your song arrangements
- Next level grooves part 5: hi-hat embellishments
- Next level grooves part 4: anticipated crashes
- Next level grooves part 2: hi-hat 'barks'
- Next level grooves part 3: linear drumming
- Next level grooves part 1: hi-hat variations
- Spitfire Audio and Ólafur Arnalds’ Stratus could be unlike any piano instrument you’ve played before
- 10 ways to turn musical ideas into whole tracks or sections
- Guitar basics: how to practise and improve your chord fretting
- Best online piano lessons 2020: recommended piano lesson apps, software and websites
- Coldplay’s Chris Martin plays impromptu gig from his house as Neil Young announces fireside live streams
March 16th
- Godin Guitars launches brand new model: the three-pickup Radium
- Code Orange stream gig for free online as music performances head to the web
- The best podcasting microphones 2020: record your first podcast today
- How to make your guitar practice more effective
- Apple WWDC 2020 to be an online-only event, with new Mac and iOS operating systems set to launch
- Guns N' Roses's Mexico City festival show goes ahead – but fans' temperatures are taken on the door
March 14th
- Superbooth 2020 cancelled as organisers bow to the inevitable
- Get Minimoog Model D for free on iPhone and iPad: “a gift to spread positivity”
March 13th
- Fender goes back to the beginning with 70th Anniversary Broadcaster
- Audiaire Zenith
- Watch Tool drummer Danny Carey perform Pneuma live from drum cam footage
- V-Moda M-200 headphones
- Korg makes iKaossilator free for iOS and Android to give you a “musical way to occupy your mind”
- Sex Pistols drummer Paul Cook talks potential reunion
- 10 types of guitar YouTuber and how to spot them
- Coronavirus: which music-making events are affected?
- Coronavirus: practical advice for musicians - hygiene, contracts and more
- 5 tracks producers need to hear by… Four Tet
- "It’s the new style of heavy!" – Code Orange break down their landmark new album Underneath
- 12 tips for musicians who want to work remotely and collaborate online
- Legendary producer Larry Klein: my 12 career-defining records
- IK Multimedia’s SampleTank 4 CS gives you 50 instruments and 4GB of sounds for free
- Hit’n’Mix Infinity 4.5: music production, sound design and remixing has never been so easy
March 12th
- This Fender Custom Shop Marauder could be the coolest guitar comeback of 2020
- Hands-on demo: Is the Fender Acoustasonic Stratocaster the only guitar you'll ever need?
- Watch: Chon's Mario Camarena and Erick Hansel on their signature Ibanez AZs
- Guitarist plays 50 Avenged Sevenfold songs in under six minutes
- Infinity 4.5 promises to take you beyond other audio editors with MIDI-like levels of tweaking
- Best studio desks 2020: organise your recording studio gear
- Native Instruments backtracks on its decision to discontinue ‘legacy’ software
- This MIDI controller will make you feel like you’re using a real Prophet-5 synth
- Brian Setzer on rockabilly picking using barre chords
- Ableton’s Loop summit postponed until 2021; what now for Superbooth?
March 11th
- The 10 best reverb pedals 2020: our pick of the best guitar effects for your pedalboard
- Blast from the past: Elektron Machinedrum SPS-1
- How to use the Komplete Kontrol S MIDI keyboard's Scale mode
- Polyend Tracker exposed in new teaser video
- How to play guitar pinched harmonics
- Teen creates website that lets you choose your own song lyrics for hand-washing poster
- Improve your improvisation in 20 minutes with this easy guitar lesson
- Dell XPS 13 and 15 deals 2020: find the cheapest prices online right now
- Video lesson: don't practice alternate picking without this
- Danelectro gets Foxxy again with its new 3699 fuzz pedal
- Sampleson’s Suit73 Rhodes plugin is a “35MB suitcase electric piano that sounds like 8GB”
- Avid pulls out of all trade shows for at least 60 days and cancels Avid Connect due to coronavirus
- Fleetwood Mac, Santana, Whitesnake and Ozzy Osbourne producer Keith Olsen dies
March 10th
- 5 songs guitarists need to hear by… Jimi Hendrix
- Steinberg Cubasis 3
- Ninja Tune Zen Delay
- Aaron Spears releases the Aaron Spears Drum Notation Book
- Take a tour of Mike Mangini's Dream Theater drum kit
- Native Instruments to discontinue long list of products, meaning they can’t be reinstalled on new computers
- Francesca Lombardo: “I think my style of music has something to do with being a girl”
- SSL 2 and 2+
- 9 ways to add lo-fi processing to your sounds
- 9 essential rockabilly guitar chords
- Guitar setup 101: how to set up your tremolo
- Ukulele: chords, tuning and scales for beginners
- How to improvise a blues guitar solo
- Arejay Hale: 5 drum tips for hitting hard
- Easy music theory: play keyboard solos using the pentatonic scale
- How to play a guitar solo using chords
- Supro releases Blues King 10 combo amp
- Get an in-depth look at Universal Audio's LUNA recording system
- Image-Line partners with Alan Walker, K-391 and Ahrix for team remix contest for bedroom producers
- Led Zep's Stairway to Heaven chord sequence now NOT stolen, US court rules
March 9th
- Classic interview: Eric Clapton on Robert Johnson's blues legacy
- How to use the Novation SL MkIII MIDI controller with your DAW and a hardware synth
- It’s official: Behringer is making a free DAW with built-in VST plugins
- Classic album: DJ Yoda on The Amazing Adventures of DJ Yoda
- In your honour: Jared James Nichols pays tribute to his top five blues guitar heroes
- Coronavirus threat to venues: UK towns and cities could be "like a scene from the Walking Dead" says one owner
- Daisy is the $29 audio board that can be turned into a synth, guitar pedal and a whole lot more
- Dynamo's new Flight Rig amp brings heavyweight tones to a light package
March 7th
- Megadeth guitarist to sell guitars, amps and pedals from his collection
March 6th
- Journey fire Steve Smith and Ross Valory, while launching $10,000,000 lawsuit
- McCoy Tyner, legendary jazz pianist, dies aged 81
- How Genesis’s Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins stumbled upon the '80s gated-reverb drum sound
- High-gain heaven? Engl and Two Notes team up for guitar cab IR pack
- The Track: Lia Mice breaks down Which Memories Will Make It?
- SampleRadar: 149 free FM synth samples
- Dream Theater’s Jordan Rudess on his live keyboard rig and using 55 patches in a single song
- How to use modulation effects on drums
- Everything you need to know about: Liquid Drum & Bass
- Genesis are back after 13 years… but Phil Collins won't be playing drums
- Anatomy of a hit: The Beatles - Back In The USSR dissected
- 5 songs producers need to hear… by Moby
- NI says that it wants to make Maschine a “start to finish” music production platform
March 5th
- Watch Cory Wong’s top 3 funk tips for guitarists
- Issue 355 of Future Music is on sale now
- How to make beats with the Roland Cloud TR-909 drum machine plugin
- "If you are good at something, go big on it" – rising guitar star Manuel Gardner Fernandes talks tone, technique and controversy
- Get the Hetfield Justice-era vibe for less with Harley Benton's new EX-84 Modern
- Harley Benton SC-550
- 14.1-inch Mini-LED MacBook Pro one of several new Apple products on the way, says analyst
- How to play guitar like John Frusciante
- The best budget in-ear monitors 2020: recommended cheap in-ears for musicians
- IK Multimedia's iRig Pro Duo I/O audio/MIDI interface is now available
March 4th
- Joe Bonamassa plays tribute to Danny Gatton and Motörhead with surprise new instrumental project The Sleep Eazys
- Anatomy of a Roland TR-909: the classic drum machine's features explained
- The 7 types of electronic music producer: which are you?
- Hands-on demo: Fender Lead II and III could well be the '70s reissues you never knew you wanted
- Can you align vocals quicker than Synchro Arts’ VocALign can?
- Master the melodic solo techniques of guitar's masters
- Dream Theater's John Petrucci shows his guitar rig
- It turns out that Google Wear OS smartwatches contain a secret drum machine
- Behringer deletes ‘CorkSniffer’ apology as Peter Kirn tells people not to smash up their synths
- Musikmesse postponed due to coronavirus
- Public Enemy say that they “did not part ways with Flavor Flav over his political views”
March 3rd
- Matt Bellamy, Graham Coxon and Miles Kane supergroup unveils first single
- Fender's new Acoustasonic Strat dramatically remodels a classic
- Vox Cambridge50
- New Ernie Ball string sets are available now
- Cort KX500MS
- Abbey Road announces Equalise as it seeks to support women in music production and audio engineering
- Best PC for music production 2020: Apple Macs and desktop computers for your home studio
- Ernie Ball's new Flat Ribbon Patch Cables could save you vital pedalboard space
- Behringer forced to apologise after bullying row
March 2nd
- Larrivée announces signature acoustic guitar for Tommy Emmanuel
- Shawn James reveals his influences and guitar-playing roots in this gritty performance of Orpheus with Elixir Strings
- The best studio monitors 2020: affordable and high-end studio speakers for musicians and producers
- Beatles guitar valued at £400,000 on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow
- The best MIDI pad controllers 2020: the best beatmaking and sequencing hardware
- Easy guitar theory: the minor pentatonic scale explained
- Acoustic guitar body shapes explained
- David Morales: "Back at the start, all you needed was a melody and a groove. That’s the exact same s**t that you need today!”
- Keep it simple, stupid: 7 stripped-back minimal house and techno production tips
- Electro-Harmonix Ram’s Head Big Muff Pi
- Blackstar Silverline Deluxe 100-watt head
- Coronavirus: "There are no plans" to postpone Musikmesse show
- The Track: Boston Bun breaks down Don’t Wanna Dance
- Superbooth makes coronavirus statement: “relax and make music!”
- The 11 best DJ software applications in the world today
March 1st
- Free music samples: download loops, hits and multis from SampleRadar
- 18 best electric guitars 2020: our pick of the best guitars to suit all budgets