Music production is a long and tedious process. Writing a song can take anywhere between two weeks to two months. But while artists aren’t releasing music, keeping fans’ interest engaged can sometimes be difficult. However, as a music producer, your music isn’t the only content you can offer your fans. With the ability to create mashups, mixes and various other forms of media, it’s important that you use all your resources to give fans incentive to persistently keep up with all things, you.

Guest blogger Guy Burton asks us to worry less about the technical details or equipment specifications, and focus on finding gear that fits your workflow, your space, and your personality.

If you’ve spent the last couple of months practising to sing as perfectly as a real popstar, then I’ve got good news and bad news for you. The bad news is that you spent all that time honing ad-libs for nothing, but the good news is that you can actually buy pitch-perfect vocals! Granted, I’m overstating things a little here, but the question stands: is using pitch-correction software like Auto-Tune the invention of the century, or is it just cheating? Let’s dive into the matter and see what kind of exciting stuff you can do using pitch-correction software like Antares Auto-Tune, Celemony Melodyne and Zynaptiq Pitchmap.

Great, so you know how to tune your ukulele and maybe you’ve even learnt a handful of basic chords already – now it’s time to learn your first strumming patterns! In this blog, we’ll be teaching you how to play various rhythms by starting out with something simple and increasing the complexity as we go. Good luck and have fun!

The guitarlele is a great 6-string instrument for anyone who feels like a ukulele is too small and a guitar is too big. As you’d expect from the name, the size of a guitarlele sits somewhere between a guitar and a ukulele, and if you want to learn to play this smaller-than-average, but not-too-small instrument, then you you’re in the right place. Here, we’ll guide you through tuning up your guitarlele, how to strike the strings, and even how to play rhythms and chords. If you have any burning guitarlele-related questions at the end, feel free to leave a comment!

Ghost production is something that is often frowned upon within the general EDM community. But with artists in other genres considering it to be a routine part of the music business, Guest Blogger Jeroen Hillebrand from Moon Jelly Agency decided to take a look at how being a ghost producer can benefit your career in order to raise funds to achieve your ambitions. At the end of this article, the aim is to remove part of the stigma surrounding ghost production and to teach you methods of making money from it. And for those of you who are unaware, ghost production is essentially an agreement in which somebody pays a producer to create a track, and release under their own name. Typically, it’s done in the form of a flat fee.

Out of all the instruments that exist, the drum kit is arguably the most difficult to record. Then again, a drum kit actually isn’t a single instrument; it’s a collection of loud percussion instruments that cover the entire audible frequency spectrum. As such, it’s not uncommon to record a drum kit using multiple microphones. In this blog, you can find out which microphones are the best for the job and how you should set them up.

More and more people within the music industry are looking to turn their current endeavors into a full-time job. Whether it’s music production for vocalists, music licensing to TV and radio, or even live touring around the world, there are hundreds of ways that artists can make a full-time income from their career.

A common mistake that people make when posting on social media is that they believe it’s okay to upload the same content to each platform. However, this is simply not the case. After all, every social network has features which allow you to optimise a post specifically on that platform. In the same way that you’d act differently around your friends at the club than you would at home with your parents, the same goes for social media. Guest Blogger Remko from Moon Jelly Agency explains how to optimise your content!

So, you’ve just picked up your first guitar and are itching to play a little something. You may already be able to pick out a simple melody, but what you really want is to play that rich sound shaped by multiple notes at once – also referred to as chords. In this blog, I’d like to help beginners on their way to learning, reading and playing their first guitar chords.

At Bax Music, we’re well aware of just how many devoted music lovers there are out there. We’re also equally aware of just how much all of you lovely music lovers enjoy sharing their thoughts on the subject. As such, we want to open up our very own Bax Music Blog to any music-focused bloggers who want to share the love, and give them access to a wide audience, under their very own name!

We’ve already covered the most used scales – the major and minor scales, and found out that the major scales have been solidly ingrained in Western musical heads for centuries already. What you might not be so aware of, is the dominance of the pentatonic scales which have helped shaped pretty much any popular contemporary music ever made. Just like the natural major and minor scales, there are major pentatonic scales and minor pentatonic scales. These scales are also easy to learn and can be quickly used for improvising.