Serve The Song

A blog about songwriting, production, and promotion

Collaborate, Record, and Mix in Your Browser with Indaba Music

Posted by Brian Casel  |  June 15, 2009  |  1 COMMENT

Still scrolling through craigslist in search of potential bandmates in your area?  Can’t find anyone who shares your musical influences?  Thanks to Indaba Music, now you can branch out and connect with other musicians in ways never before seen.
Indaba Music is an online community of musicians all connected to a highly advanced browser-based music production [...]

Collaboration Tips for Successful Bands

Posted by Brian Casel  |  June 4, 2009  |  ADD COMMENTS

A few weeks back, I wrote a guest post on the Indaba Music Blog titled 8 Tips for Successful Collaboration With Your Bandmates. To achieve success as a band, you must engage in meaningful and creative collaboration with your bandmates.
Here’s a quote from that article:
In sports, they say the Most Valuable Player is one [...]

Fusing Two Instruments in a Composition

Posted by Brian Casel  |  December 13, 2008  |  ADD COMMENTS

Sometimes a great song can surround and swallow you up in all of its sounds and colors. Using creative instrumentation and serving your song with melodies that fit right into place with one another are a great way to achieve this effect on your listeners. We often hear a complete melody or phrase without realizing the sound is composed with more than one instrument or voice. The instruments are similar in tone, and their parts blend nicely into one another.

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