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Learn how to make great music that stands out, so you can get discovered! Taught by award-winning music lecturer Ray Harmony, and his protégé wife Kate Harmony. Ray has been teaching music t...
Forget Meditation, Listen to Music . Meditating isn’t effective enough anymore. As people become more addicted to their phones, society’s ob...
Writers & Readers Against AI . If you’re pro-human, join Paul Kingsnorth’s campaign. The brilliant English writer Paul Kingsnorth recently l...
AI Human vs Human AI . A brief history of transhuman music. Most AI-generated songs now sound more human than most human-made songs. How did...
Musical Heroes in the AI Age . Nø Førmat! You need to know about this record label. Nø Førmat! is an independent record label based in Paris...
We Are the Orchid Children . A call to highly sensitive musicians. “Dandelion” children are those resilient and healthy kids who can survive...
The Music Theory of Fun . These two things make songs feel good… In my previous essay Who Killed the Fun, Fun, Fun? I told the story of how...
Who Killed the Fun, Fun, Fun ? Music used to be our greatest joy, then this happened… 1964. Fun, Fun, Fun. That was a song on the album “Shu...
Musical Memoirs & Sonic Scrapbooks . How to find purpose, passion, and meaning in your life. Okay so what’s a musical memoir? Well, the Oxfo...
An Effortless New Year’s Resolution . One simple question that will change your future. New year’s resolutions don’t work. All the studies o...
The Best Music Is Behind Us . But that’s a good thing! Here’s why… This essay began as a “Best Album of 2025” post, where I was going to sha...
The Geography of Musical Scales . Finding peace in pentatonic places. It’s thought that pentatonic scales are the most ancient of all the mu...
Music is Mind Control . Lyrics are little Derren Brown’s in your brain. Do we have free will? That ancient question actually misses the poin...
This Is The Only Pure Music . A celebration of non-classical absolute music. Music has united people for millennia, but nowadays it’s been w...
Don’t Lie! You Listen to AI Songs . There’s no way to avoid them, unless you do this… I’ve been speaking out against AI-generated music for...
Music Is Dead . Good Riddance! AI killed the recording star. Now what? Have you heard AI-generated music? It’s better than most of the music...
You vs Phone . Who Will Win? A musical method to take your attention back! How many seconds can you sit still and focus on your breathing, w...
The Uglification of Music . Can a return to beauty save music? Okay I know you’ve just started reading this, but please stop (temporarily),...
Don’t Trust Me, I’m an Expert . Confessions of an INFJ. I’m a multi award-winning music lecturer with over 30 years of teaching experience,...
You Can’t Make Music without Using Theory . “I don’t use music theory, because rules limit my creativity.” If I had a dollar for every time...
Hearing Music from the Future . Materialist science tells us that we hear with our ears, and see with our eyes. But if that’s true, then how...
You’re Listening to Music Wrong . You’re Listening to Music Wrong. I am, too. We all are. It’s tragic, but we can fix it. Over the last 20 y...
The 4 Types of Artist . Which Are You ? Every song is born from an idea. So where do ideas come from? In other words: What or who is the cau...
AI Is Not a Tool . Stop Calling It That . I’ve tattooed myself. Three times! You know what? It hurts a whole lot more when you do it to your...
AI Is Killing Music ! This Is How We Save It . Hardly anything is real anymore! And that includes most people. They walk around staring at t...
AI Saves Us Time . That’s Bad ! Time is our only non-renewable resource. People talk about “spending” time and “spending” money, but these t...
AI Can't Make Music . AI can’t make music. Let me explain… The reason almost everyone thinks AI can make music, is because the definition of...
Making Music is Hard . Why Bother ? I never thought this day would come. But here it is. After 30 years of teaching music to thousands of st...
Every song is a musical story. When we read a story, we don't want a timeline of events. We want an unfolding narrative with scene setting,...
If your chord changes sound disjointed, you probably need to use inversions. That's just the fancy word for re-ordering the notes of a chord...
If your melody is sounding boring, it probably lacks a motif. A motif is a short idea that's repeated to give the melody structure. So, play...
Got a boring melody? It may be due to a small range, i.e. the distance between its lowest and highest note. This should be around a 7th or a...
If your beats all sound kinda similar, here's a hack to spice 'em up. Copy & paste your bass line into your drum track. Then divide those no...
An epic bass line needs 2 things: root notes to make it solid, and non-root notes to make it interesting. So, start by playing the root of e...
To write an epic chord progression, you need common notes. For example, Am and Em both contain the note E, so E is a common note. It creates...
To write an epic melody, start with a phrase of small intervals (i.e. 2nds and 3rds). Then, jump straight to a high note using a big interva...
It's rare to hear toms in drum beats. They're usually only in fills. That's a shame, because toms can add variety to your beats in a way tha...
Every chord progression tells a musical story. So regardless of the key, think about how many major chords you want compared to minor chords...
Most new songs are in the same key from start to finish, which is one of the main reasons why they get boring after a few listens. Musically...
Most bass lines consist of only roots, or roots and 5ths. Boring! Remember, bass lines are melodies. They need contour, too. So, if your bas...
The 3rd note in a chord holds its emotion. So, to emphasize the happiness of a major chord, play its 3rd in the melody above (e.g. over Cmaj...
Modes are easy. They're just scales with different moods. For example, if you wanna make dark music, use Phrygian. That's all the white note...
Most drum fills end on beat 1. This usually makes them predictable and boring. Try this instead: End your fill on a snare hit – normally aro...
Drum beats get boring after a few loops. The main reason is 1-bar kick patterns. So, try this: Repeat your snare and cymbal patterns every b...
Harmonic notes are in the chord, so they feel resolved. Non-harmonic notes are not in the chord, so they feel tense. Balance these two types...
How to Write a Catchy Melody . Free PDF Tutorial includes multitrack MIDI file If the link above does not work, paste this into your browser...
How to Write Sweeping Arpeggios . Free PDF Tutorial includes multitrack MIDI file If the link above does not work, paste this into your brow...
How to Write Heavy BASS Lines Step 1. Syncopated Octaves Set up one bar of 4|4 with your grid on 1/16 notes, and your tempo at 110 BPM. You’...
How to Write Advanced DRUMS Step 1. Pattern Set up two bars of 4|4 with your grid set to 1/16 notes, and your tempo at 136 BPM. Now, instead...
How to Write Locrian BASS Lines Step 1. Basic Set up four bars with an 1/8 note grid, and your tempo at 97 BPM. You’re gonna start by writin...
How to Write a Beautiful CHORD Progression Step 1. Beauty Set your grid to 1/16 notes and your tempo to 113 BPM. We’re in the key of A minor...