SONGWRITING IN REASON TUTORiAL

Team kEiSO | May 29 2015 | 2.22 GB

Get your song ideas down before they disappear‚ with Reason. In this short course, musician Matt Piper demonstrates two types of workflows for writing, recording, and mixing a song: one to get your demo ideas recorded fast, and another to polish your songs for presentation to partners, publishers, and record labels. He starts from an empty Reason project, recording a scratch track and finding the best tempo for the new song idea. Then he creates a beat, lays down additional tracks, and adds effects. Next Matt shows techniques for editing the tracks and mixing the tracks using effects like EQ, compression, reverb and delay. Finally, he shows how to bounce down the track and share it with the world.

Songwriting With Butter The Children TUTORiAL

SYNTHiC4TE | April 12 2015 | 743 MB

The SongCraft adventure series continues! They’re back at SxSW to attempt to compose and produce a song in a single day with indie band “Butter the Children”. Will they succeed? Watch and see! Guerrilla recording brings with it many challenges: Odd mic setups and less than optimal recording environments. Add on top of that the extreme pressure of actually composing a song in front of the cameras and you have all the ingredients for a major musical breakdown! That is, unless you have a room full of talented musicians, engineers and songwriters! And that’s the magic of this incredibly fun and informative SongCraft Series. It’s all about skill, passion and technique fusing together -like musical molecules- to generate something big… derived from a simple inspiration. And, all along the way, we learn all about songwriting, audio engineering and production. Everybody wins!

The Dos and Don’ts of Songwriting Collaboration TUTORiAL

P2P | 10 APRIL 2015 | 203 MB

Writing songs with a collaborator can be fulfilling—or potentially frustrating. Using these dos and don’ts from a professional songwriter, Cliff Goldmacher, you can reap all of the advantages of co-writing songs, while minimizing the pitfalls. Cliff explains the best practices for collaborating, such as discussing everything from the song’s eventual promotion to ownership percentages with your collaborator, as well as advice about delivering feedback without alienating your partner. Watch and find out how you can improve your chances of successful collaboration.

Guitar Sessions Pop Songwriting Guitars MULTiFORMAT

AUDIOSTRiKE 09/12/2014 | MULTiFORMAT: 5.75 GB | KONTAKT: 2.18 GB

This massive 7.9 GB (3.2 GB of 24-bit WAV files) collection of Pop songwriting guitar styles is a celebration of songwriters and groups like Ingrid Michaelson, Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, Ray Lamontagne, Mumford and Sons, Jason Mraz, Maroon 5, The Script, One Republic, Echosmith, Train, The Fray, Coldplay, and many more. Guitar Sessions: Pop Songwriting Guitars contains 25 construction kits with each and every kit containing three to four different and unique guitars. Styles of guitars include ukuleles, banjos, clean electric, acoustic strumming, acoustic picking, distorted electric, power and heavy guitars, ambient guitars, effected guitars, muted guitars, hi-strung acoustics, and many more. As part of the Xtended Series, each and every kit also contains multiple song sections (verse, chorus, bridge/breakdown, turnaround, and outro) allowing for virtually unlimited options, and giving you everything you need to tweak to your heart’s content.  Explore your inner musician; create tracks never before realized and make music that stands out!

Songwriting With Sean Rowe TUTORiAL

SYNTHiC4TE | Nov 15 2013 | 709.27 MB

Songwriting under the gun! Sean Rowe enters the ad hoc SXSW studio of the SongCraft/Dubway team to compose and record a song in a day! Can he do it? Let’s see what Sean and guys come up with…
Singer-songwriter, producer Ben Arthur is at it again. This time he’s with the incredibly talented songwriter Sean Rowe. Sean and Ben are joined by the award-winning production duo of Al Houghton and Mike Crehore as they gallantly attempt to capture the ephemeral songwriting process. Watch as Sean picks up his guitar gets down to business diving deep into his pool of creativity. See the songwriting process revealed as Ben and Sean struggle to find the song’s essence. Then witness how a simple idea comes to life as the song is coaxed lovingly to life.

Getting Started in the Business of

Songwriting TUTORiAL

P2P | Oct 17 2014 | 658.3 MB

When it comes to making money in songwriting, writing great songs is only part of the equation. In this course, author G.Chow introduces you to all of the major organizations, rights, and procedures that songwriters have to deal with in the music business. First, he’ll start with understanding performance and mechanical rights, covering topics such as split letters, copyright, performance rights organizations (PROs) like ASCAP and SESAC, SoundExchange, Harry Fox, master recording licenses, and synch licenses.

Songwriting with T.Brakes TUTORiAL

SYNTHiC4TE | Oct 09 2014 | 748.6 MB

Indie band, Turin Brakes, showed up at our SxSW studios in Austin to subject themselves to our patented, “song-in-a-day” stress test! See how this awesome band and “Team Dubway” capture the musical magic in this marathon songwriting and production course! You never know what’s going to happen when you book a top indie band like Turin Brakes to compose and produce a song –in-front of the cameras– in a single day! It’s a daunting challenge. However, like all the other courses in our entertaining “SongCraft Presents” Series, Ben Arthur and the band, along with the whole Dubway team, really came up with the musical goods! So yet again we filled our guerrilla, SxSW recording studio with all kinds of high-end mics, audio interfaces, instruments and cool software to get ready to rock. The band arrives… Cameras roll… Introductions are made and everybody gets down to the songwriting business at hand!