To make music these days, you need to make your breaks super phat, else you’ll never be able to compete for your listeners attention. Here is how to make a phat sounding break: 1. Find The Following Breaks: An Aggressive sounding break –> High Pass A snare heavy break –> Compress A bass drum heavy [...]

There is an abundance of free music recording software on the internet. Some good, some not so good. Here are the top 5 that I recommend: 1. Audacity The king of free digital audio editors and recording. Its not the best peice of audio software I have ever used, but it is the best peice [...]

Could you imagine making your own music and grooving to the beats you personally made? Before, you might think that a turntable would be the only way you could produce amazing beats, right? Not only that, you also need to know how to use it. Whew! That’s very inconvenient. Well worry no more. Technological advancements [...]

Factors that make a song successful: A Good Melody Marketing A Catchy Chorus Dynamics (variety) A Good Length (Not too short or long) Catchy Memorable Lyrics Keep It Simple Stupid (Keep It Simple Stupid) High Production Repetition (not too much) of the chorus and verses.

Here is an interesting documentary on the history of the most sampled drum loop in existance.

There are various programs and methods out there to rip mp3 from YouTube. If you do a Google search then you can easily find a paid package that can do this for you – but paying isn’t necessary! Here are a list of some free alternatives to extract audio from YouTube videos:   Rip YouTube [...]