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Writing and recording a homemade song with your band is a great way to express yourself musically. Write and record a homemade song with your band with help from a writer, producer and editor in this free video clip.
Knowing when to cue a song in Dubstep is just as important as knowing what song to cue in the first place. Find out when you should cue a song in Dubstep with help from a writer, producer and editor in this free video clip.
Splicing songs is a pretty modern way to work with music. Learn how to splice songs with help from a writer, producer and editor in this free video clip.
Miming a song is one of the most fundamental things you can do, musically speaking. Get miming song ideas with help from a writer, producer and editor in this free video clip.
Knowing which chord comes next in a song is a key part of playing that song, either live or in a studio. Learn how to know which chord comes next in a song with help from a music professional in this free video clip.
If you listen carefully to any song you can actually single out all of the various instruments in use. Identify instruments that you hear in a song with help from a music professional in this free video clip.
Getting your song used for commercials requires you to follow a few basic, easy to manage steps. Get your song used for commercials with help from a music professional in this free video clip.
"Tracking" a song typically means a very specific thing in the recording industry. Find out about the meaning of "tracking" a song with help from a music professional in this free video clip.
Sony Ericsson Walkman MP3 players allow you to listen to digital music files on the go and view the metadata associated with your digital music files. While you can view a song's metadata, such as its title, artist and genre, you cannot edit the metadata using the Sony Ericsson Media Manager. Since a song's genre is often left out of its metadata, this means you will not be able to view a song's genre on your Walkman. If you want to view a song's genre on your Walkman, you must first add the genre using the Windows Media Player application.
Determining the mood of a song requires you to pay very close attention to a few different things. Learn about determining a song's mood with help from an experienced music teacher and mentor in this free video clip.
Constructing a song requires you to bring a wide variety of different elements together into one whole. Construct a song with help from an experienced music teacher and mentor in this free video clip.
Building a song repertoire requires you to find out exactly what your range is. Build a song repertoire for singers with help from a singer, actress and performer in this free video clip.
Improvising a song on the ukulele really depends on a few distinct things. Learn how to improvise a song on the ukulele with help from a critically acclaimed musician in this free video clip.
Categorizing your songs will allow you to find them easier during sessions. Learn how to categorize songs with help from a longtime DJ in this free video clip.
Making a toast song requires you to keep a few very important things in mind. Make a toast song with help from a longtime DJ in this free video clip.
Arranging a song for a voice is challenging but ultimately rewarding. Learn how to arrange a song for voice with help from a professional singer and musician in this free video clip.
Encrypting a song into your Tumblr makes sure that only the people you want to hear the song can do so. Encrypt a song into your Tumblr with help from a graphics and web specialist in this free video clip.
An instrumental track is one in which the vocals -- both lead and backup -- have been removed. If you have Adobe Soundbooth, you can make your own instrumental track by modifying an existing multitrack file and removing the vocals. You can then use these instrumental tracks for whatever you want -- as background sound for your own vocals, in a potential remix, or even as a karaoke song for you and your friends to sing to.
Your iPad is a multifunctional entertainment system that allows you to upload and listen to music through the built-in speakers or with your headphones. The computer support iTunes, the default music service for several Apple products, including the iPod and iPhone. It can be intimidating when you read through the myriad of instructions for your new tablet computer. Use your existing iTunes account, or create a new one, to upload your favorite songs, artists and albums to your iPad.
The creative processes within music continue to evolve, which give reason to why music lovers enjoy mashing up songs. Song mash-ups include taking two different songs and combining the vocals of both songs to make a new track. While many expensive music editing programs allow you to mash up a song, you can complete the same process in Audacity. Learning how to mash up a song requires following the general processes needed to change the pitch, adjust the tempo and combine vocals.
UTAU is a free, Japanese vocal synthesizer program. It takes voice files and transforms them into synthesized sounds. The result is a digitized version of the original song file. You can use the keyboard on the synthesizer to play the song back in different keys and arrangements. Once you're ready, importing songs into UTAU is easy.
Catchy songs typically have one or more of a few key elements. Compose a catchy song with help from a keyboard player and music director in this free video clip.
If you want to customize your mobile phone, you can create your own ringtones for incoming calls and alerts. As a Mixpod user, you can't directly create ringtones from the songs on the site; however, there's a workaround for making ringtones from your playlist.
The Pandora application for Android devices is useful for listening to streaming music on the go, but the app does have a few glitches that can make it frustrating to use. Most notably, the app can skip songs entirely or only play a few seconds of each song before moving to the next. After troubleshooting the headphones and data connection for starters, you can fix the problem.
The MPEG layer-4 file type is a media wrapper format that can include independently compressed audio and video tracks. The compression capacity, sampling capacity and storage capacity of your MP4 song files vary depending on the amount of space that you have to store your files and the recording quality that you wish to achieve.
Recording a song is simply the beginning process of producing high-quality music. After you record a song, mixing and mastering it gives it the clarity it needs to appeal to listeners. The mix down process involves adjusting sound levels and adding effects to individual tracks. The mastering process involves polishing up the mixed down tracks. Many techniques exist to mix and master a complete song. Some people consider the process more of an art than a science. Although mixing and mastering depend greatly on your sound preferences, understanding the basics of the process can help you achieve a high-quality sound.
Mastering is a form of audio post-production in which recorded audio is processed to increase its clarity and volume level. It is the final stage in the recording process and most songs that you hear on the radio have been put through this process. Mastering can give your songs a polished and professional sound. Even though professional services can be costly, it is possible for you to master your own songs and mixes using commercial mastering software.
The LightScribe technology allows you to create laser-etched labels consisting of images and text using a LightScribe CD or DVD. If you have burned a song play list to a CD, you can have the list of songs etched into the CD using your LightScribe optical disc drive. The optical drive comes with the LightScribe Simple Labeler software that allows you to create custom labels with your songs and burn the labels to your disc.
You can listen to a multitude of online songs in the music genre of your choice. On some websites, such as MOG, you are able to download music from directories to your personal computer. To capture and stream those songs on other audio devices, such as portable music players, you will need to convert the MOG audio file to a compatible audio format.
IMVU is an online virtual world where users can interact with friends as digital avatars. These users can purchase 3D environments, clothing and other objects. IMVU released a music feature in late 2008 that allowed users to buy songs, create playlists and share music with other avatars. Users have access to both independent music produced by users and the four major record companies. If the friends don’t feel like listening to a particular song in the playlist, they can go to the next song.
Adobe Premiere is a powerful and flexible timeline-based video-editing software package. Although its mainly used to edit video clips, users also can edit their songs and add interesting new effects. Perhaps one of the most common effects is the fadeout, where the volume gradually decreases to zero during the last few seconds of the song.
LRC files are associated with karaoke programs. As anyone who has been to karaoke night knows, it is imperative that the lyrics to each song are projected to a screen at the correct time. LRC files hold the actual lyrics, and are also responsible making sure the lyrics are projected when they should be.
Vocals that are panned in the center may be removed from a recording with an audio editing program. Panning refers to the spatial location from which the vocals emanate. When mastering, vocals can be panned from left to right, or in such a way that they sound centered. When you wear earphones, there is a left and right earphone. This is intentional, because the recording engineer intends for sounds to come from either the right or left earphone. Center panned vocals sound split between the two headphones.
Once a song has been mixed, the only way to cancel out the vocals and leave only the background music is to use an audio editing technique called “phase inversion.” When a song is mixed, the vocal track is traditionally panned to the center, so that the vocals sound exactly the same on both the left and right stereo channels. By inverting one of the channels, everything that is equal on both -- in this case, the vocal track -- is canceled out. Many audio editing applications come with a built-in vocal removal tool that performs this edit effect automatically.
Remixing your song's vocals onto a new instrumental track or mashing them up with other songs can breathe new life into your music. You can cross genres or mix a song's vocals with a revision of the song's instrumental track. Whether you want to mix two tracks of separate or matching tempos, you can mix your vocals to new tracks with free software on your computer.
Trance songs remain one of the most popular music styles on the dance floor. These songs play at a tempo of between 125 and 150 beats per minute and feature melodic synthesizers over repetitive bass lines. Trance songwriters have developed a structure for this type of music that appeals to dancers because the songs build to a climax.
To edit instrumentals and the vocals on a recorded piece of music, you should have them on separate files. Then you can record the sounds separately and edit them before splicing them together with an audio editing program. For already recorded songs, deleting vocals from an instrumental is much easier than deleting instrumentals from vocals. When you cannot separate the vocals, any attempt to raise the vocal volume also raises the instrumental volume. There is one technique that may or may not work and can potentially ruin the quality of the vocals.
YouTube has become one of the Internet's most popular ways for musicians and bands to promote their work. If you've got a killer cover song that you want to upload to your YouTube channel, you're going to have to jump through some legal hoops first.
Most BlackBerry devices are able to play music files, turning a typical phone into a multimedia device. Before you can play music, you need to transfer music from your computer to your cell phone. FrostWire is a small and legal application to download music and videos. It easily syncs with iTunes and claims to offer faster downloading speeds than alternates. Once you finish downloading your files on to your computer in FrostWire, drag and drop files to your BlackBerry device to begin listening to your music wherever you go.
In the history of hip-hop, debates over authenticity and the "real" abound. When writing a rap song about Dallas, aim for specificity. Research the city, unify your lyric with a single perspective, hone the rhymes and use slang and expletives sparingly. Though this article describes how to write a rap song about Dallas, you can take this technique and apply it to any geographical location.
The term vocal phrasing in music has multiple meanings. Vocal phrasing starts with the composer of a song. The performance vocalist herself will execute this composer-designated vocal phrasing to greater or lesser degree. A performance vocalist may also, however, add an additional layer of vocal phrasing to obtain specific effects in the execution of a song.
Starting with Apple's iTunes 10, users are able to edit a specific song's playback length using the program's "Start" and "Stop" feature. Since this feature does not actually trim the length of the file selected, you will need to copy and convert the affected songs to iTunes' standard AAC format for the changes to take effect. You may then create a new mix or playlist and add the edited tracks as needed. The trimming and converting processes only copy and convert your tracks; they do not delete or replace the original files.
The Apple iPad not only allows you to surf the Internet, watch movies and play games, but it can be a powerful tool to use when creating music as well. If you want to create mashups, which are blends of two or more songs, and make your own mixes, the iPad provides a number of different options for this process. With its touch-screen interface and ability to interact with other devices, the iPad is a solution for DJ's and casual mixers alike.
If you have an audio file on your computer that you convert to a different format with Noteburner, you can then edit that converted audio file with Audacity. Noteburner works with audio applications such as Microsoft’s Windows Media Player and Apple’s iTunes. You can convert songs in your music library, which Noteburner saves to a virtual CD-RW disc instead of actually burning the converted songs. You can then open these converted songs with Audacity to start editing them.
Unlike analog music formats, you can instantly copy and manipulate digital song files with a variety of programs on your computer. If a song is too long for a ringtone, or if the file is too large, you can use audio-editing software to shorten the track and reduce the song's file size.
Google's Blogspot blogging platform is capable of playing music automatically in your blog with the help of the HTML/JavaScript gadget, one of Blogspot's most useful and flexible widgets. Embedding music requires only a small amount of code with a link to the source file.
Adobe Audition allows you to professionally edit soundtracks, including removing vocals. Removing vocals is often beneficial if you want a music track to play only the instrumentals. Extract vocals from a song using the editing and effects features of Adobe Audition.
Streampad is a music playback application for Tumblr and other blogging sites. Once you add Streampad to your blog, it automatically creates a playlist of all the songs uploaded to your Tumblr log. Anybody who visits your blog can play any or all of the songs without scrolling back through old blog posts. If you want to change the song that Streampad plays, you have to upload the new song to your Tumblr log and delete the old song.
When writing a paper or essay, sometimes you may find yourself needing to cite materials from online sources, such as a song found on YouTube. Citing from these sources using the format suggested by the Modern Language Association requires you to collect information about the work you are citing and arrange it in a specific order.
The Audacity sound editing program can be used to clip segments from existing songs, such as when you want to create a small snippet from a full length song to be used as a song sample. The editing tools in Audacity make it possible for you to specify every aspect of your song sample, including the length of the song and the point in the song from which the sample is clipped. When you are finished selecting the audio for the sample, you can then save it as a new audio file that you can distribute as needed.
