Keyboard Skills Elective
This is the simplest of riffs, but if you put it under your fingers on a little teeny tiny keyboard, it will be more useful than you can possibly …
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Whether you call it a bus or whether you call it a send and a return, the utility of running effects like reverbs and delays in parallel rather than in series is more than just a matter of resource management.
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Workhorse: suspended chord shape
You’ll get unexpected mileage out of this suspended chord shape.
Too Subtle?
It’s all too easy to fall into a trap of thinking your favorite engineers hear everything in brilliant color while you hear everything in black and …
Writer's Kitchen
Writers. Music is also about narrative. And if you’re curious about how those two things intersect, so are we. Beat Kitchen is opening our doors to …
Keboard Skills: thirds and sixths
This may sound boring, but this sounds a lot more exciting.
Simple Chords: critical progression
This shape... It’s really handy. You’ve heard it in countless songs. It’s a 6 to a 2 to a 5 to a 1. Look at it in C. It’s an…
Red Right Ring
Right ring, red. How do we get signal from here to here? These are both TRS cables. This one is carrying a stereo signal. Tip, ring, sleeve. And if …
Who Needs Synthesis?
Who needs synthesis, right?
The trouble with earbuds
Before you mix in earbuds, I want you to try this.
That's What Facebook is For
I made a mistake in a video.
Minor Seven
Stuff that confuses new producers.
Ouroborus: four chord progression
You may have heard of the four chord progression, but think of it more like a family of chord conversions, one of which you may actually know really, …
