Home recording, plainly explained
The Home Rec Blog
Capture, composition, and technique for people making music at home. Some articles you read, some you play with.
- Beat Breakdown: A Bedroom-Pop Groove That Answers Itself Build a two-bar bedroom-pop beat: four on the floor, a clap doubling the snare, and a second bar that breaks the pattern the first one sets up.
- Beat Breakdown: A Lo-Fi Hip-Hop Beat from Scratch Build a dusty lo-fi groove one layer at a time: kick and snare, swung hats, ghost notes. Every stage is playable, so you hear each decision as it happens.
- Chord Progressions Every Home Songwriter Should Know Five progressions that power half the songs you love. Play each one in any key right here, hear what makes it work, and learn how to make it yours.