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Drum Lessons & Tutorials
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Best online drum lessons 2025: Our pick of tuition platforms for beginner to advanced players By Stuart Williams Last updated 5 February 25 -
“I’m sorry I ruined your song!”: Mike Portnoy hears Taylor Swift's Shake It Off for the first time and plays along... with surprising results By Daniel Griffiths Published 15 January 25 -
The music theory behind laying down the perfect groove explained By Roland Schmidt Published 15 January 25 -
“At certain points in music history it became fashionable to place accents on certain beats”: How to score a drum part By Roland Schmidt Published 13 January 25 -
10 common electronic drum set issues and how to troubleshoot them By Stuart Williams Published 6 November 24 -
How to recreate classic recorded drum sounds from The Beatles, Metallica, Nirvana and more By Stuart Williams Published 30 October 24 -
Melodics launches Acoustic Drums program By Stuart Williams Published 15 December 23 -
How to create drumless jam tracks or isolated drum tracks of your favourite songs for free By Stuart Williams Published 1 December 23 -
A year of Drumeo’s highly-rated drum lessons is currently down to 150forCyberMonday–inafewhoursitwillcostyou150 for Cyber Monday – in a few hours it will cost you 150forCyberMonday–inafewhoursitwillcostyou240 By Daryl Robertson Published 27 November 23
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Guitar Lessons & Tutorials
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"You owe your guitar the chance to be its best": How to clean and polish your guitar frets a better way By Rob Laing Published 2 March 25 -
Play like Jimmy Page! Exclusive video lesson By Leigh Fuge Last updated 24 February 25 -
How learning and understanding chord symbols can prove a major benefit for sharing your musical ideas By Roland Schmidt Published 18 February 25 -
What are the best online guitar lessons in 2025? I review guitar gear for a living and these are my favourite lessons platforms By Jonathan Horsley Last updated 20 January 25 -
Fingerboard care basics: 6 things you need you need know about how to clean and condition your guitar fretboard By Rob Laing Published 14 January 25 -
Proggy pentatonic! How to use the good ol’ pentatonic scale in cool new ways By Advertorial feature Published 13 January 25 -
Get strumming: The 22 essential beginner, blues and folk guitar chords every guitarist should learn first By MusicRadar Published 3 January 25 -
30 essential acoustic guitar chords, with charts By MusicRadar Published 2 January 25 -
"You can learn hundreds of songs with a few easy chords and some basic rhythm playing chops" By Leigh Fuge Published 27 December 24
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Music Production Tutorials
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“It’s tougher and faster than ever”: Jump aboard the modern hardgroove train and learn to build a club-ready beat By Jon Musgrave Published 26 February 25 -
Don't know where to start with virtual instruments? We're here to help By Andy Jones Published 19 February 25 -
UA is giving away its 1176 plugin as a Valentine's gift – here's how to get it and use it! By Andy Jones Published 14 February 25 -
We tested the best and worst AI love song generators for the 'perfect gift' this Valentine's day By Andy Jones Published 13 February 25 -
How futurepop brought the sound of tomorrow to the dawn of a new century By Andy Price Published 7 February 25 -
A new scientific study confirms what we all knew: that music was much better back in the day By Andy Jones Published 6 February 25 -
New set of chance composing cards could be the 2025 update to Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies By Andy Jones Published 6 February 25 -
“If you're listening to amazing gear through terrible monitors, you've wasted your cash”: Why monitors are the most important part of your studio By Andy Jones Published 29 January 25 -
An engineer creates his own mix of one of the biggest hits of the '80s and reveals its hidden audio treasures By Daniel Griffiths Published 26 January 25
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Music Recording Tutorials
- UA is giving away its 1176 plugin as a Valentine's gift – here's how to get it and use it! By Andy Jones Published 14 February 25
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“A magical part is this sidechain with the bass”: Lady Gaga breaks down Disease in new studio video By Daniel Griffiths Published 13 December 24 -
5 pro recording setup ideas: from recording bands to mixing and mastering, these recommended rigs will get the job done By James Grimshaw Published 31 October 24 -
"There are few producers who haven’t employed or lusted after it": Why does everyone love the UREI/UA 1176 compressor? By Andy Jones Published 31 October 24 -
“Understand your genre and use some suitable references”: Cleaning up muddy recordings By Daniel Griffiths Published 30 October 24 -
Watch Jared James Nichols unleash Blues Power magic on Lester Williams’ “Texas Troubador” 1954 Strat By Jonathan Horsley Published 11 October 24 -
"There are few producers who haven’t employed – or lusted after – it at some point or another, such is its legendary status": Why does everyone love the UREI/UA 1176 compressor? By Andy Jones Published 3 October 24 -
How Logic 11's ChromaGlow can bring analogue-inspired drive and warmth to your Logic projects By Roland Schmidt Published 22 July 24 -
Here’s your set-and-forget master bus chain By Jon Musgrave Published 16 July 24
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Music Theory And Songwriting
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A music professor breaks down the theory behind Roy Ayers' Everybody Loves the Sunshine By Ethan Hein Published 10 March 25 -
Psst - do you want to learn the essential theory shortcuts that rock and pop musicians actually need? These two books will give you the knowledge you’ve been missing By Ben Rogerson Published 6 March 25 -
Is it time to ditch your 'deep focus' playlists? You might need something 'groovier', says study By Ben Rogerson Published 5 March 25 -
Cracking open Max Martin’s über-succesful songwriting formula By Andy Price Published 4 March 25 -
The music supervisor on The White Lotus reckons that viewers will “adjust” to the new main title theme By Ben Rogerson Published 3 March 25 -
How Taylor Swift’s songwriting skilfully makes the personal universal By Andy Price Published 1 March 25 -
Producer Danny L Harle and Olly Alexander on their "extraordinary" collab with a synth-pop legend By Ben Rogerson Published 28 February 25 -
"The more fair you can be, the better”: Megadeth bassist on the problem with songwriting credits By Will Simpson Published 28 February 25 -
“If you don’t have an idea, go mow the lawn": Follow Neil Young’s lead to demolish those frustrating songwriting barriers By Andy Price Published 27 February 25
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Vocal Techniques
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Transform your voice in just 12 months - score a year’s worth of vocal lessons for just $99 with 30 Day Singer By Matt McCracken Published 21 February 25 -
“I want to shout from a mountain top about this incredible technology”: Is Dreamtronic's Synthesizer V Studio 2 Pro really the first artificial vocalist to finally nail the fake factor? By Daniel Griffiths Published 20 February 25 -
What are the best online singing lessons in 2025? Our expert pick of remote tuition platforms for aspiring vocalists By Imogen Storey Last updated 21 January 25 -
How Chappell Roan’s Good Luck, Babe! went from album cast-off to global smash By Daniel Griffiths Published 16 January 25 -
"Here's one: finish an album!”: Paul McCartney’s New Year’s resolution for 2025 By Will Simpson Published 24 December 24 - “A magical part is this sidechain with the bass”: Lady Gaga breaks down Disease in new studio video By Daniel Griffiths Published 13 December 24
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“The quest for clarity and loudness can only go so far”: Bibio on his career-long fascination with tape recording, budget samplers and vintage pedals By Matt Mullen Published 11 December 24 -
“I was totally floored!”: Myles Kennedy hails the “genius” of his touring buddy Devin Townsend By Amit Sharma Published 13 November 24 -
New to recording vocals? Start here… By Daniel Griffiths Published 31 October 24
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More about Tutorials
- How Taylor Swift’s songwriting skilfully makes the personal universal By Andy Price Published 1 March 25
- Producer Danny L Harle and Olly Alexander on their "extraordinary" collab with a synth-pop legend By Ben Rogerson Published 28 February 25
- "The more fair you can be, the better”: Megadeth bassist on the problem with songwriting credits By Will Simpson Published 28 February 25
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