Musicmakers' secrets

This site is based on independent research into chord progressions in tonal music and shows how chord progressions create musical phrase structures similar to sentence structures in natural language. Also included is a section on how harmony works in Pop and Rock Music!

Unique cource of musical theory for vibes/mallets in Jazz

Articles about musical production, time management for musicians, targets, tends etc.

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Unusual math sight to music theory

Hometracked serves the music world's indie engineers: Independent musicians who record, produce, and promote their own work. The web abounds in knowledge for recording hobbyists (and professionals,) from communities of sound production enthusiasts, like Homerecording.com to industry periodicals like Mix Magazine. But for many, the volume of free information is as much curse as blessing. Hometracked is a home recording weblog, filtering the mess of information for good stuff (check out the most popular pages,) with a focus on the techniques and tips you need to make and market great music. Even if you record in a bedroom.

Great big course of music theory with notes, examples! Fundamentals. Harmony. Part writing.Chromatic harmony. Online. Free.

Blog for beginner musicmakers

growing collection of FLV-video tutorials about musicmaking, using trackers, FruityLoops etc.

Collection of samples in MP3

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Musicmakers' forum

Cybermusic blog. Articles, resources, tutorials, reviews

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the site is a user-driven community with a focus on individual track recommendations. There are no restrictions on what can be recommended and there's deliberately no spot to enter a genre. Why? Because I think genres are stupid and just get in the way of people listening to music. Besides, the site is interlinked in such a way that genres are superflous (see below). One thing the site does have is keywords. When recommending a track, users can specify some words or phrases to describe the mood of the track. Clicking on that word in the recommendation launches a search for any mention of the same word

Blog for musicmakers with useful tips