When we foreshadow a melody, we're making it feel inevitable – like it was always meant to happen. This feeling of inevitability is really not all that hard to achieve. In ...
When we write a melody, sometimes we need a harmony to go long with it. Today I'm sharing a powerful tip rooted in voice leading to ensure your harmony sounds amazing, ever...
What does Mozart, The Lord of The Rings, and Tears for Fears have in common? A powerful melodic technique to make your music sound great. Today, I’m sharing their secret fo...
Have you ever wondered where the music you write, or anyone writes, actually comes from? Isn’t it weird we can just take brainwaves and turn them into physical soundwaves o...
Today I'm showing you how to write music like Black Sabbath's song Paranoid. This is an iconic guitar melody that a ton of musicians are more than familiar with, but may no...
Telling whether or not our melody is actually good can be a huge pain point all us songwriters and composers have to weather at some point. But fret not – I’ve come up with...
We can’t all be amazing singers, and I’m certainly not one. Thankfully, if you’ve had pitch issues like me, we can go in and tune our vocals so they actually sound in key! ...
Periphery is one of my favorite bands at the moment, so today we're learning the intro riff/melody for "The Way the News Goes" off the album Periphery III: Select Difficult...
I was recently asked by a student whether it’s a good or a bad thing to record, mix, and master, your own music. So today, we’re diving into the pros and cons, while keepin...
 Today we're learning to write music like Black Dog by Led Zeppelin. This is an exceedingly popular and classic riff on guitar, and we're going to pick it apart and reengin...
Talking about scales can get a little tricky if you’re not on the up and up. In this installment of Musical Fundamentals, we’re talking scale degrees, what they are, and ho...
Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne features one of the most iconic riffs of all time, performed by the amazing writer and virtuoso guitarist, Randy Rhoads. Today, we're going to ...
