So you’ve got that degree in Music Production – but after months of scouring the want ads, you’re beginning to wonder if you shouldn’t have backed it up with a minor in Education. Don’t despair yet – you’re a creative person or you wouldn’t have chosen this business to begin with. The secret to finding [...]

Have you ever wanted to create your own unique piano songs? Just simple pieces that express how you feel? You can if you learn how to improvise first and then learn how to compose. Here’s why. Improvising allows you to express what you feel without constraint. In essence, it’s like freewriting because the goal here [...]

Have you ever marveled at how artists can quickly sketch out a beautiful landscape scene and convert it into a full-fledged painting? I have and I’ve always been jealous of their ability to do so. I’ve often wondered why music couldn’t be more like this. Of course composers know how to go about creating a [...]

As a DJ, don’t you **** it when you sell your own mixtape, but nobody buys it because of the ugly cover? Chances are that you probably designed the cover yourself. You did some research online, followed a couple articles and watch video tutorials on how to design – thinking that you will be an [...]

So, you want to create your own music. Something you can put your name on and show off to friends and family. Why not? It’s an amazing thing when you think about it. Where there was once nothing, now exists a piece of music authored by you. Let’s examine how we might go about creating [...]