How to Produce and Market Your DIY Music Composition

I am in the Top 20 of Audiojungle Composition Challenge

October 5, 2008

I am lucky enough that my entry made it to the top 20 which are shortlisted by a team judge panel. But in order to win, where there will only be one winner, the music entry will need to be the most voted by public.

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Mixing music in the box

August 22, 2008

A few years ago, software effects plug-ins never sound as good as the hardware outboard effects. But in recent years, when CPU power gets a lot better and faster than before, many mixing engineers do mix entirely in the box. This means all mixing are done virtually, all using computers. For someone like me who [...]

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Studio Project C1 Condensor Microphone for Vocal Recording

August 20, 2008

Studio Project C1 sounds more crispy and clear treble. It is a decent condenser microphone for vocal recording with an affordable price.

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Tritone Substitution & Chromatic Chord Progression

July 30, 2008

This video shows how I replace the usual perfect cadence with a tritone substitution. use a descending chromatic bass movement to construct a special chord progression. Click the picture below for full size music score. This post is a part of Understand 明白 Series Part 1: Songwriting – Fill up the melody Part 2: Music [...]

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How to Promote Your Music at IMEEM

July 23, 2008

In my quest to promote my music entirely online, I came across another social networking platform – IMEEM. How did I stumble upon it? via 2v1g – the Malaysians latest chinese pop music group – 2 vocal 1 guitar. In this post, I will discuss how I made use of IMEEM to promote my music. [...]

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Great Comment from Be An Idol

July 15, 2008

I posted my latest song Understand 明白 at BeAnIdol, a composer gathering site. So far I’ve got 6 votes. 听了也想跳起舞来！唱得也很轻松！加油! (Elley ) 7/12/2008 11:27:58 AM 好喜欢这种带有一点慵懒feel的jazz。。。但歌手好像唱得不够jazz。。。哈哈！歌词写得很好噢！加油！ (rimo ) 7/11/2008 11:15:02 PM This song i tell u, very good.very relax melody. i love it man (jef ) 7/11/2008 12:59:39 PM 一个字，好！同样和我那首歌名，却是全然不同的感觉， [...]

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Understand [Part 1]: Fill up the melody (明白 1:谱曲)

July 8, 2008

This is the part 1 of Understand series. I started out writing songs since 14 years old. That is a long time ago. I started counting the songs I’ve written since about 10 years ago, it has come up to 254 songs. Some are properly recorded. Some are just rough demo. This new song – [...]

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