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Fun with Metronomes (Part 4) Nov 04, 2019

Today's talk is about metronomes -- playing with them and making them fun!

Welcome Back!

We're going to do something that's one of the more challenging things to do -- set your metronome to beat one.

Before we get there -- we're going to work our...

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Fun with Metronomes (Part 3) Oct 28, 2019

     This is part 3 of a 4 part video series on building your rhythmic confidence
                         by using a metronome in unconventional ways


All right! We're back for week three of our series on metronomes!

This time we're going to build o...

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Fun with Metronomes (Part 2) Oct 18, 2019

  "Playing along to a metronome with 1 bar of click
and then 1 bar of silence"

Part 2 of a 4 part video series

Hey everybody!

All right! In the second part of this series we're going to start by referencing a quote by Miles Davis,

‘it's not the...

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Fun with Metronomes (Part 1) Oct 15, 2019

 This is part 1 of a 4 part video series

IDEAS FOR PRACTICING WITH 'CLICK' IN FUN AND CREATIVE WAYS

Hey everybody - it’s Josh here!

This is gonna be the beginning of a series on playing with a metronome!

Most the time when I talk to somebody about ...

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Get Creative with Your Signal Chain! ⛓ Oct 07, 2019

Let's talk a little about the order of plug-ins and effects that we use.

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A question that I got recently was, what order should I put my EQ and compression in? And that's one of the early questions that you get when you ...

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Do You Know the Three Basic Controls of Delay? 👨‍👦‍👦 Sep 30, 2019

All right. Today we're going to talk about delay.

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We're going to talk about one feature of delay that kind of gets overlooked when people break down the elements of what a typical delay does.

But first let's just start with...

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STAY IN THE FLOW. 🏊🏻‍♀️ Sep 23, 2019

Like a lot of people right now in 2019, I am obsessed with Billie Eilish and her productions.

Her productions are done mainly by her brother Finneas. I've been listening obsessively to interviews with him. One of the things that surprised me the m...

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How I Get Those Nasty, Dirty Drum Sounds 💩🥁 Sep 16, 2019

So yesterday, I was talking to a friend of mine about what I do to get drums to sound a little bit more nasty, a little bit more gritty. That's what we're going to be talking about today.

As I was preparing for this video, I was going through a coup...

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Don't Rush for Feedback on Your Music 🧘🏽‍♀️ Sep 10, 2019


I was recently reading this book from Stephen King called "On Writing". And in the book he talks about the importance of waiting for feedback on anything that you've created.

He talks about the value of getting feedback, all that that entails, who...

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The Most Overlooked Vocal Production Tool Sep 03, 2019

 

Do you ever wish that you could change the timbre of a voice, make it sound a little bit younger or maybe a little bit older?

Or make it sound like maybe the singer is smoked too many cigarettes, maybe inhaled a little bit of helium?

There's a...

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How I Took a Car Horn and Made It Into An Instrument (using Ableton Live Simpler) 🚙 → 🎹 Aug 16, 2019

What's going on guys!

Today I want to show you how to make an instrument with a sample.

And this is a monophonic sample. I'll get into what that means, but today I did it with a car horn and it's pretty cool. It's a lot of fun.

I'm working at an...

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Choosing the Right Beat for Your Song 🥁 Aug 11, 2019

Hey guys!
 
I want to do a video just talking about drums today. This is something that I'm really passionate about. Drums are my main instrument. I've studied them for more years than I care to mention. And I want to talk about choosing the righ...
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