A Guide to Reviewing Music
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A Guide to Reviewing Music

How to offer constructive feedback and bring someone’s music to the next level? In our times of information overflow, more and more opinion makers are trying to convince us reviewing music is becoming a forgotten art. With basically every release available for full digital stream the second it’s released, people can make their own mind without having to rely on somebody else’s expertise. So why should you learn how to give feedback to somebody else’s music? It’s a simple answer.…

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The 5 Stages of Music Production

In today’s world of music making, there are no rules in particular. You can record according to your wish and can also use it as an example or sample. People also use auto-tuning, and other automated systems to produce high-quality music which was unimaginable in the past. Genres and mixed rhythms are also used nowadays to create melodies and beats. Irrespective of the type of music you make, the main goal is to produce the best music every time. At…

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YouTube Featured Video – My Favorite Musical Instrument

In June we introduced our new YouTube Featured Video contest and asked you to make a video of a song you wrote and are really proud of. We are really happy with the response we got – 43 of you submitted their videos and while they were all great we chose these 3 videos by Mathew Joseph, Elkapath, and Gideon Doolaard as winners for the month: Now it’s time to announce our new topic for July! In this month’s YouTube…

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How what was ugly bloomed some pretty petals

Today we publish a guest piece by one our Drooble users from Edmonton, Canada Devyn Anthony – it’s a confession and a very personal story about the power of music. For whatever reason, a sizable portion of my life, I have been overly aware and ashamed at the ugliness much of humanity is intentionally entangled in. I have never been quite able to fathom the absurdities and they certainly have been on an exponentially outrageous rise. A case of recent…