Future Music Lessons

Addition to yesterday's post: video analysis of Tame Impala's "Music to Walk Home By"

Song Structure: Tame Impala's "Music to Walk Home By" A walkthrough of the song sections in Tame Impala's "Music to Walk Home By." Notice how it keeps changing, but transitions so well that you barely notice. Re...

Write better songs by studying Tame Impala:
a mini-analysis of "Music to Walk Home By"

Song Structure: Tame Impala - Music to Walk Home By I’ve been really into the Australian psych-rock band Tame Impala lately. Kevin Parker’s songwriting keeps getting better, and seeing them live last week made me notice how crazy and effective his song...

Kind of a good melody. A Major - original tempo is an insane 168 BPM

Noteflight - Take On Me (synth melody) Interactive sheet music for Take On Me.

These are good to have around..

EQ Frequency Chart for Instruments & Electronic Sounds

Beatmaker 2 can finally record audio! putting this and garageband on your iphone would be a good move.

Overview | BeatMaker 2 Home of BeatMaker, the mobile music creation studio for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Intua develops mobile music creation software. Our flagship product is BeatMaker, the complete music studio that fits in your pocket.

this is amazing. beck releases his next album only on sheet music, with no official recording. the only way you can hear the songs is to play them yourself or hear other (non-beck) people play them. or go to a beck show. back to the way things worked in the 1800s, via youtube, or something.

Beck 'Produces' A Genius Innovation That Appeals To The User-Generated Generation - Forbes Beck has an invitation for you (Photo credit: Matt Biddulph) There are times when I see an idea that is so good, so fresh, so amazing that I: Become immediately proud to be human. Stand up to let the energy of the idea fill my body. Tell everyone I know about it. Now is one [...]

Interesting method for making a bank of your favorite sounds/instruments in your tracks. He explains this using a drum kit, but you could really do it for anything - synths, or even FX presets.

Creating an Instant Drums Setup - Using Racks in Live - Part 1 of 3 How to make fat drums and save heaps of time when making music... This movie is the first episode of a three part mini tutorial, showing how to build a drum ...