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How to avoid letting technical problems with the music-making process slow you down
It’s easy for us to hang around one particular arrangement or mix for months, pouring over the fine details. It's advisable to keep the bigger flow going
Producer Danny L Harle enlists “dream collaborator” PinkPantheress for new song Starlight
“Starlight reaches for a kind of euphoric melancholy - a guiding light in all of my music,” says Harle
Why you should care about music theory - and 5 reasons you maybe shouldn't
From half diminished chords to phrygian modes; music theory can be both a help and a hindrance to many, but do you really need it in order to be a great musician?
Shinedown’s Brent Smith on finding inspiration in a hurricane and why you don’t need to be play guitar to write a great song
The Shinedown frontman checks in to talk about the beauty of songwriting, the power of a song like Three Six Five, and to share his "most profound" advice for aspiring writers
“An extremely well-thought-out and all-encompassing piece of drum education”: Millenium Drums Legendary Drumbook review
Get ready, you've got a lot to learn
How to emulate a classic analogue recording system entirely with plugins
It’s entirely likely that you could recreate many legacy analogue set-ups with just a few chained plugins. Here, we’ll show you how to get started
How to use reverb to build impressive-sounding filters, reverses, risers and pads
Create your own reverb effects with our step-by-step tutorial
Want to learn to play Wonderwall on the guitar? You’re not the only one…
By now, you should’ve somehow realised that it’s in F# minor
How modulation effects work and how to use them
Phasing and flanging are often confused. We ask why - and demystify!
"It’s simple enough to create the perfect hard-tuned and harmonised effects within our DAW, providing you have the right software": How to harness hard-tuned vocals
That hard-tuned, robot-like sound, first popularised by Cher, has now become something of a staple in modern pop