Blog – Table of Contents

Links to all blog posts grouped by category, sorted from newest to oldest within each category.

Composing

Video - Counter Melody in 2 Steps
Video - Composing With CINESAMPLES
Video - Making Easy Motif Based Melody
Transcribing
Video - Epic Orchestration in 5 minutes
Video - Critiques and Composing Tips
Video - Composition Screen Cast (Michael Patti)
Video - Let's Write Music (JJay Berthume)

Mixing

Video - Gain Staging
Interactive Frequency Chart
Video - High Pass Filter
Video - Setting Your Compressor
Video - Intro to Compressors

Music Theory

Video - Smooth Chord Transitions
Video - Finding Harmony (The Easy Way)
Video - Chord Progression Tips
Video - Counterpoint P1,P2
Video - Cheater's Guide to Counterpoint

Orchestration

Video - Doubling Orchestral Instruments
Video - Basic Orchestration Concepts
Video - Intro To String Arranging
Video - Making Realistic MIDI Brass
Video - What Is Good Orchestration
Daily Film Scoring Bits
Principles of Orchestration

Resources

Song Critique
Scoring Central Forum

Sampling

Sample Looping Tool - Polyphone
Sample Looping Tool - Endless Wave
Sfz Sample Library Building Resources

Tools

Video Editor - Shotcut
Chord Detector - Chordata
Meta Tag Editor - Kid3 Audio Tagger
Digital Audio Workstation - Reaper

VST Plugins

Multiband compressor - Xfer OTT
Vocal Harmonizer - Pitchproof
Volume Monitor - rmsPlus
Sfz player - Sforzando
Spectrum Analyzer
Compressor - GComp2