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Today in our LOFI DIY we are going to make a nostalgic, lush reverb using only ableton audio effects. Improve your Lofi Sound Design in 4 easy steps :)

What do you have to do in order to improve your music skills when it's so darn hard? Here are my top 2 tips that have helped me to continually keep growing as a musician.

In this post you’ll learn how to add nostalgic warmth to your music using only 2 Ableton devices. And trust me, it sounds dank af! (Sound examples included).

My fellow Beatmakers! If you are trying to grow an online audience for your music via YouTube, this one’s for you… “You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.” – Samuel Levenson Today I am exposing my biggest YouTube mistakes in the hopes that you can use YouTube better than I did to grow your audience for your beats online.

I recently had a question from a subscriber:   ”Do you have any tips for arranging? I'm starting to get tired of the "sample -> sample+drums -&g...

I get asked a lot: "Is knowing music theory a prerequisite to making great music?" Fantastic question. I happen to have a very strong opinion about...

Today I’m exposing a thief.
This thief loves to steal from beat makers.
And this thief regularly knocks me out cold.
So today, I'ma expose her.

I love Elizabeth Gilbert’s belief about ideas. She describes them in her book ‘Big Magic’ as little celestial beings that scrounge the earth lookin...

When Self-Doubt comes knocking, what do you do? Self-Doubt, like Fear, is a regular part of my daily routine. Even this second as I’m writing this...

Some people are frustrated to be beginners. Yet some are excited. Everything is new. Everything is a fresh. Everything is a discovery.   Thinking...

We will always have good ideas and bad ideas. I’ve learned over time that I’m more afraid of the good ideas, because I have more to lose by messing...

I’m not saying don’t finish beats. DO finish beats.
But I propose being a little more intentional about when to fold on an idea, and when to double down on it. In this blog post I reveal why you shouldn't follow through with every musical idea you have, and my golden key to determining when to scrap and a beat and when to finish making that beat.