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Sabrina Carpenter offers her songwriting advice as she accepts Variety’s Hitmaker of the Year award
“The easiest way to write a bad song is to try to write a hit,” she noted
How unquantizing your tracks can make them stand out from the AI-dominated crowd
If your music is sounding a little mechanical, maybe it deserves a sprinkle of organic nurturing. We invite you to un-click the quantize!
How Tom Morello used his guitar to drill into the off-limits domain of the turntablist
The Rage Against the Machine axe-man’s most memorable moment saw him emulate a DJ scratch breakdown using a trick that few have fully mastered
"Humans will be doing all the serious music transcription for the foreseeable future": Songscription review
This AI-powered transcription tool promises to convert any audio file into sheet music, tab or MIDI. But can it really match the skills of a professional?
Unpacking the technical genius behind one of the most iconic rock songs of the 1980s
Take an old 4-track demo, add a splash of expensive 80s tech, and the results might be a good enough reason for a band of prog legends to reform!
Dan Nigro says that he always knew that Chappell Roan’s Pink Pony Club was something special
Recorded in 2019, it took five years for it to become a hit
Greg Lester on how he crafted the classic nylon-string guitar solo in the Spice Girls’ 2 Become 1
“It was actually very well conceived but it didn't sound guitaristic at all,” he says of the original demo
The fascinating music theory behind the kicked-around track that Prince shaped into a hit
What happens when you write a hit for another band, but you want it back? We find out as we trace the complicated history and intriguing theory behind an iconic Prince classic
