Tip of the Day: How to get out of the Loop - 3 practical Tips For most producers, musicians or beat makers creativity or coming up with ideas is no problem – but putting them in the right order in the right proportions can be sometimes. Here are 3 easy and very practical tips: Tip 1: create change Duplicate the initial idea a number of times, so that you have lets say 4 identical copies. Edit the first duplicate until you have made one meaningful change, like modifying the lead sound. Now go to the next loop and change something...

Tip of the Day: Learn the Pop Form - 3 Tips No matter if you are a Techno DJ, an DnB Junkie or a Rock Musician, the Pop Form influences all your lives and even more so your compositions – because this arrangement structure is proven to work. So many hits are and were composed with it, that we can say it is probably the most successful song structure in the world – from the Beatles over Madonna to Zedd. It´s important to know why the sequence of Verse, Pre-Chorus, Chorus with different repetitions catches everyones attantion. Here are some...

Tip of the Day: How to make your Drop hit Hard - 4 essential Tips! Unarguably, the drop (also known as chorus) is the most important part of the song. It contains the main hook, probably the biggest instrumentation and and is usually mixed louder then the rest of the song. That´s why it is so essential to let all previous parts build up to the main section of the song. But sometimes we get caught up in sound design or lose focus while composing idea after idea, that the arrangement suffers and we wonder, why the drop just does...

Tip of the Day: Learn Shortcuts - 3 easy Tricks! There are only few things that are more time consuming, than navigating and clicking with your mouse or track pad for every action that you do. Every DAW has amazing short cuts already built in and they actually save you time and improve your workflow by a huge amount. Do you have these rainy Sunday afternoons sometimes where you are? Great, then use one of them in the next weeks to sit down and learn short cuts - it will have a bigger impact on your productivity than you can...

Tip of the Day: Use send effects - 3 basic tips! How often do you find yourself using numerous instances of VST plugin to achieve basically the same effect? It does not only pollute your CPU or clutter your tracks, but it might also have a negative effect on your sound! Using different delay or reverb plugins for creative reasons does definitely make sense - if you know exactly what you do. If you just load a new plugin to every track in your arrangement, you might end up with different room sizes, that don´t match or fit and just...

In this tutorial series, we are going to professionally mix and process vocals that have been recorded in amateur/bedroom producer style - an approach most of us should be guilty of. We will go through cleaning the vocals, pitch correction, compression and more. This is part 2: Using Melodyne to correct pitches. If you don't know Guido, he's giving our Masterclass in Mixing and Mastering where you can learn how to mix your own production from A to Z.   YOUR ULTIMATE VOCALSAMPLE COLLECTION Professional Vocals Have Never Been So Easy! Get Here About Vocals Vol. 1 The pack contains female and...

Tip of the Day: Finish your Tracks - 3 simple tricks You dream of a career in music? You want to make it in the business? Then stop playing around and start finishing tracks! No one on earth will hear “all those cool ideas” that are stored on some hard drive or whistled into your phone. Your song will always only be as good as you can make it in the moment - it is called evolution. You will get better with every song and will look back at all the stuff, you would do differently now, but if you...

Tip of the Day: Start with your Hook - 4 simple tricks It is from a rather recent musical era, that songs start with the hook, that most older tracks only reveal after a huge build up of verse and pre chorus. Probably this is rooted in the way many of us consume music these days - it is the golden age of singles, Spotify and YouTube. We need to be hooked a lot faster than some years ago, when artists used to have a 5 minute Intro to a 9 minute track. The competition for your attention is just...

Tuesday Special: One Sample Challenge - 3 Tips Ever faced a creative block, because the options seem to be infinite? There is just too much stuff out there, that your song might need? A new synth you want to check or a sample pack that boils your productive juices - we have all been there and it is exciting! But is it making you a better producer? ***CHALLENGE: send in your tracks created with the following method and win a free production course of your choice! Just PM us on Facebook!*** Sometimes we need to limit ourselves to evolve. Try...

Tip of the Day: Add Melody notes to your Chords Sometimes melody notes do not completely fit their underlying chords - which can sound very interesting or just amateur and bad. A perfect example for that can be, that you are in A minor (natural) and your melody plays a G. If your bass note is A and your chords play the standard A minor chord triad A-C-E, this G can feel out of place (poor thing). You can easily make that G more welcome, by adding it to the chord already. So instead of playing A-C-E over your bass...