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How to set up an electronic drum set
Our step-by-step guide to unboxing, building and optimising your electronic drum kit
Online music tuition, lessons, tips and tricks
Our step-by-step guide to unboxing, building and optimising your electronic drum kit
This clever feature can be indispensable when you’re mixing, and a great companion to submixing
Dig yourself out of a diatonic hole
The Pet Shop Boys have just released a new album, Nonetheless, so it’s a great time to show you how to create some of their signature sounds for free
The Cmaj9 ritual
Getting to grips with EQ is key to getting a perfect, well-balanced mix. Here we study the fundamentals of the process
Cherrypicking voicings from the catalogue of one of the most influential songwriters in recent years
We look at what you’re not doing with your audio interface, and how you can expand its usability
Dissecting the hits songs of the biggest artist on the planet right now
Live's new generative MIDI tools are a great way to add musical parts that we might not come up with on our own
Creating organ and piano sounds – two staples of the deep house genre – for our tracks
This year marks an incredible 50 years since Kraftwerk released Autobahn, the track that brought electronic music to the masses, and even the charts
Warning: contains a very funky F
Four riffs for ramping-up your rhythm playing
Continuing our deep-dive into the standout tools in our CM Plugin Suite, we shed some light on drone-making using BazilleCM’s sequencer section
Try these '70s rock-inspired chord shapes for size and then use them to play along to our backing track
Use music theory and programming tricks to take your low-end up a notch
The best of Foo