I’ve been taking an online course about writing music for licensing – Cathy Heller’s “Six Figure Songwriting”. My intention is to find a rhythm writing and producing songs (my songs) that really hit the mark and are what music directors and licensing agents need. Honestly the class (which consists of a easily managed set of […]
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Your music isn’t special! Oh no! I always hated that saying. People will say it all the time, either when they’re trying to get you to have less ego, or they’re trying to convince you to give up the pipe dream, or whatever. But MOST of the time when you hear that is when you’re
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OMG! A Moog! Is…a synthesizer. You see one pictured here. Moog is actually pronounced “Mohg” – hey MOE-g! But many people say “mooooog” – like a cow with a g. Incorrectly. Just so you know 🙂 Third Option isn’t Moog-centric per se, but it’s a key component in the history of electronic music. The Moog
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Hi! I promised I’d talk about the TR808 and TR909 drum machines…oh – yes what the hell is a tr-808 (and tr-909)? They are drum machines. They are old school drums machines by Roland. Above is the TR-808 and here is a TR-909: I love to quote Wikipedia, so here’s paragraph 1 on the TR-808:
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HI! Aaron here again, still investigating genres. This time I thought we’d check out trance music. Here’s an example of a pretty typical (although creative for the genre) trance song: First thing I notice – a spiritual transcendent energy. Sawtooth synths that are more melodic than techno or house. You’re in the same ballpark, with
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Aaron again – I’m back researching genres. Today I thought I’d look into House music. One thing to note is that all genres that are considered “electronic”, and also hip-hop for the most part, come out of limitation. What I mean is, electronic genres generally developed as responses to NOT having the resources (financial, equipment
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Aaron here. We’ve been researching genres lately. It may be obvious, but it helps to be able to “pigeonhole” your music as much as possible so you can find the people who will really be into you. With us it’s not easy! Everything we come across sounds nothing like us, even though if we look
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Hi! Ok so we’re mirroring some stuff that was on Third Option’s site here – because if it’s relevant both places, why not have it both places? 🙂 I probably should have started this “series” with this question – what the hell is electronic music? It seems like an obvious answer – it’s – uhm
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This post is a step by step to get Autoresponders working in your PHPList installation. PHPList is a mailing list software that gets installed on your web server. If you don’t know what PHPList is, you don’t need this article 🙂 As you probably know, autoresponders, aka “drip marketing” are a very powerful tool in
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Basic Setup: Initial Recording Format: 16 and 24 Track ADAT Mix Destination Format: DAT Final Format: Duplicated CD’s Mixer: Mackie 24×8 Outboard Processing: Ensoniq DP4 effects, BBE Sonic Maximizer, Dual Tube Pre-Amp, DBX Compressor, Furman Compressors. Synths: Alesis S4, Yamaha TG100, Boss DR660, Ensoniq Mirage Mics: AKG D1000E, AKG 414 Editing: Sound Designer 2, Masterlist
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