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Future Music 412: Samples and downloads
Grab the bonus content to accompany the September 2024 issue of FM
Try these 4 ways to power up your guitar power chords
Simple tricks for new inspiration from popular music's most common type of chord
How to set up an electronic drum set
Our step-by-step guide to unboxing, building and optimising your electronic drum kit
"VCA groups are simply controllers rather than group channels, with no audio going through them": How to make use of VCA grouping in your mixdowns
This clever feature can be indispensable when you’re mixing, and a great companion to submixing
Music theory you can use: pep up your progressions by borrowing chords from parallel keys
Dig yourself out of a diatonic hole
"If you want to write a classic pop song, use these chords: Ab, Bb, G minor 7th, C minor. You can’t go wrong with that": How to make a track that sounds like The Pet Shop Boys
The Pet Shop Boys have just released a new album, Nonetheless, so it’s a great time to show you how to create some of their signature sounds for free
"As a result of his rapid evolution as a guitarist, Johnny Marr's chord choices from his five years with The Smiths reveal some inspirational examples": here are 4 of them to start with
The Cmaj9 ritual
Understanding the fundamentals of EQ
Getting to grips with EQ is key to getting a perfect, well-balanced mix. Here we study the fundamentals of the process
