Here are 3 things to jumpstart your music-making!

1 - At Home Songwriting with Chad Shank

Chad Shank is a songwriting teacher and music producer. Chad teaches songwriting at Berklee Online and runs At Home Songwriting, where he helps students learn how to write songs in their own authentic style and voice. Chad’s YouTube channel, At Home Songwriting, is filled with songwriting tips and exercises.

Chad and I spoke in-depth about songwriting, lyric writing, and overcoming creative blocks. Chad shared techniques and strategies he uses in his music and teaches his students.

Chad Shank on the Music Production Podcast

2 - April Monthly Music Mission

The new Monthly Music Mission has been released to the my Music Production Club!

Every month I give members a prompt and tools to create music with. It's a great way to work out of creative blocks and give yourself a deadline to complete music.

This month, I'm building a set of instruments made from my Kalimba. I've already released an instrument that features a clean kalimba and one with the samples all recorded to cassette tape. Those have already been released to the Music Production Club.

I'm working on additional instruments that involve processing the samples with all kinds of FX to create some out of this world instruments. Once they are finished, they will be released to the Music Production Club as well!

Also, our next Live Zoom Meeting will be held Monday April 10th at 7PM EST. Join us as we make music and share our work together!

Join the MPC, get the instruments, the Monthly Music Mission, and share your work with a vibrant community of enthusiastic music-makers!

Join the Music Production Club!

3 - King of VHS iOS App and VHS Ableton Bundle Sale

AudioKit has just released the King of VHS iOS synth! It contains 160 presets of synth sounds sampled directly from VHS. I recorded the samples for this project!

To celebrate, I'm offering $10 off my VHS Ableton Live Bundle! Get all of my VHS-themed Ableton Live Packs to spice up your next track!

Learn More About King of VHS and the VHS Ableton Live Bundle

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Thanks for reading and make some great music!

Best,

Brian Funk

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