Great Philosopher Jean Paul Sartre, plays the piano.
Important Music Tutorial
Please visit Learning Music at Ableton, and take their music composition tutorial.
The Masters of the Stereo
A sample of sound, is the same as a sample of cake, it is just a little bit of something larger. In the world of music, that little bit, would often be a defining sound in a song that captured your attention.
Amiga Samplers : Budget dance music in 1990
Amen, Break: The Most Sampled Loop in Music History
How sampling transformed music by Mark Ronson
Art of Sampling
Creating sounds with a synthesizer can be tiring, not every sound you synthesize will be ground breaking. Back in the old days, listeners were not too happy with synthesized songs, people would actually call them UFO Sounds.
Some choose to skip sound synthesis and create/download samples. Samples can be replayed at different frequencies, depending on which piano key you hit. In fact if you record a single piano key, you can almost recreate the piano entirely by replaying that one piano key at different frequencies/notes (A note like _middle C_, is just a named frequency, in this case 261.63 Hz.)
Sampling is the art of borrowing a sound, or even a little bit of a song (as in Lofi Hip Hop) and frequently replaying it at a different frequency. You can also sample sounds around you to create unique drums, hats, even piano or some lo-tech violin out of flinging a doorstop. You can give beatboxing a try and build a song out of sampling/splicing the instruments you imitated with your own voice.
Downloadable Drumkits, are collections of short samples of instruments taken from various places, including other songs. Visit r/Drumkits for some free downloads.
Additionally, freesound has a huge library, and Splice has a well organized one aimed at musicians for $7.99/mo (the free trial is worth it).
LoFi Synth-Hop
RZA - Flying Birds / Sample Rich Track
RZA'a Samurai Showdown (Lofi Hiphop)
Beatboxers
The Science of Dubstep by James Humberstone
How to translate the feeling into sound by Claudio
Become a Rockstar!
Please remember what Claudio teaches us. A song is a story, it is not the back-beat, not the piano, not the twelve inch drum, or the bass head. A song is a story told with voice and music.
Grab a pencil, draw a line. Mark all the important events along the line. That's where the lyrics start or end, that's where the back-beat slows or picks up, that's where your listeners will start to laugh or start to cry.
We compose music, because the greatest of stories cannot be expressed in words.
LMMS
LMMS is a free, cross-platform tool for music composition.
Take a look at the showcase, albums of songs made with LMMS.
LMMS 1.2
LMMS Tutorial 1: Piano Roll, Beat/Bass Line Editor
LMMS Tutorial 2: Sidebar
LMMS Tutorial 3: TripleOscillator Basics
How to Sing Any Song - Modified Lyrics - Felicia Ricci
How To Sing Any Song - Voice Lessons - Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy
How To Sing With Your Own Voice - Roger Burnley Voice Studio - Singing Vocal Lesson
Anne Reburn
How Am I Feeling Today?
I'm A Believer
Studio Acapellas
Search YouTube for Studio Acapellas to discover vocal-only tracks of popular songs. It is much easier to understand what singing is about when you can hear the voice without music. You can search the web for "download youtube audio" and then load them into LMMS and create your own backbeat and remixes.
P!nk - Fuckin' Perfect (Official Acapella) [EXPLICIT]
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Mad World Gary Jules Real Official Acapella
Izzie Naylor
You don't need a strong beat to make a song work. Izzie Naylor is proof that minimalist songs are often very beautiful.
Smile, Ukulele Cover by Izzie Naylor
Gary Jules - Mad World (live)
Community Links
Business Practice: Bandcamp Music Sales
Sell your music on Bandcamp (free).
Business Practice: Splice Sample Sales
Sell your quality music samples on Splice.
Consider creating less restrictive music/sample sharing platforms (see The Founder)
How to Share
Upload your music to Soundcloud you get 180 minues of music space for free (per account).