If you use orchestral sample libraries in your music and wish you could make them sound more realistic, here are some tested-and-proven methods you can try in your next production.
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Your Honor,
After reading in the news about your opinion on the United States of America v. Dove case, I just felt I had to react.
Imagine for a moment that I broke into a jewellery store, disabled the security cameras, switched off the alarms, broke the security glasses, maybe took a couple of jewels and then [...]
Check out this funny little picture I made using “The Simpsomaker“:
Although the character in the foreground is the same in every panel, the backgrounds change, evoking different stories in our minds.
We can do the same thing in music through a process called reharmonization. We leave our melody intact (like the dude in the above picture) and [...]
Dissonance is the spice of music. Like most spices, it tastes bad just by itself, but can be used to add zest and flavor to a recipe.
Simply, dissonance is two or more notes that sound wrong when played together. Play any two adjacent keys on a piano simultaneously and you’ll know what I mean. Here [...]
There is a great deal of similarity between romantic love and a career (which is why many people find it hard to be good at both- but that’s a different topic). Take me for example: although music was a childhood love, I dated several other careers before finally getting married to music. Those dates helped [...]
One of my brightest students, a very promising singer/songwriter, told me that he has decided to quit his day job to pursue a career in music.
“Why?” I asked.
He was surprised. He expected me to be the ever-supporting teacher that I normally am. He expected me to pat his back and tell him that he had [...]
