Think about it… Your speaking voice is smooth and connected, never requiring strain, and always seeming natural. That’s how it should be even when belting out vocals. You need a balanced vocal mechanism. That means having: Proper Vocal Cord Closure – no air leaking out when making a sou...
Undoubtedly, “94 Hours” is the sound of early 2000s metalcore. Structurally simple, the As I Lay Dying track was pivotal for the burgeoning subgenre, using heavily distorted pull-off guitar, breakdowns, double kick drum parts and guttural vocals just left of death metal. The influence of A...
In some music genres, vocals are treated like just another instrument in the mix. Take Electric Wizard, a Doom Metal Band, for example. Their vocals sound like the singer's battling to be heard over a wall of ear-splitting guitar cabinets. ...
Howdoyou write an earworm? If we could pinpoint exactly how to write an earworm, a lot of pop songwriters would be out of work. But a 2016 study by the American Psychological Association attempted to do just that, figuring out what triggers “involuntary musical imagery” – a fancy term...
Bypassing the urge to write new material on their rocking Christmas album, 2006's A Twisted Christmas, Twister Sister instead took the most recognizable holiday classics in the book and made them faster, louder and more aggressive. The result — which, to date, equate to the group's seventh...
You'd be hard-pressed to find a more heartbreaking Christmas story than thisTom Waits' masterpiece from 1978'sBlue Valentine. "Charlie, I'm pregnant and living on 9th Street," begins the Christmas card narrative in which a woman writes to an old flame, reporting how much better t...
If you need to fill in your remix with a bit of atmospheric FX, one technique is to take a stem from the remix pack and chuck a ton of reverb on it to wash it out, and then place it in the background.You can do this with vocals, synths, almost anything.In FL Studio, you can...
PATCH:On MIDI [WRITE] Press [WRITE] button TWICE !! This will now display 001:--- --- --- The 001 indicates this is the first MIDI command that will be sent. Right now it is empty. Press the right [PARAMETER] button once. This will now display: 001:PC CH...
Bypassing the urge to write new material on their rocking Christmas album, 2006'sA Twisted Christmas, Twister Sister instead took the most recognizable holiday classics in the book and made them faster, louder and more aggressive. The result — which, to date, equate to the group's seventh ...
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