We analyze 11 sad chord progressions and some songs they’re used in to identify what makes them so effective at tugging at our heartstrings.
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We’ve compiled seven top-notch public Collections from expert artists and sound designers that can get your creative juices flowing in 2024.
Hear Nikitaa, Ikky, Chitra, and Leo Kalyan share their stories and sounds that celebrate their South Asian roots.
Learn about the history, anatomy, and sounds of South Asian percussion instruments spanning the mridangam, ghatam, chenda, and more.
Discover nine songwriting and music production techniques that embody the horror genre, and then check out our collection of 50 Halloween samples on Splice.
Hear Eydrey, Luny Tunes, Ali Stone, and many other leading producers share their stories and sounds that celebrate their Hispanic and Latin roots.
Leading producers and beatmakers Dave James, Noxz, Gwen Bunn, and Don Cannon crafted beats and shared insights around their favorite eras of hip hop.
From polyrhythms to tertiary harmony, we explore ten rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic musical patterns that every music creator should know.
From MPCs and vinyl shopping to FL grids and sample chopping, today we celebrate the sounds, styles, and creators of hip hop.
From convolution to multi-band effects processing, here are ten timeless sound design techniques that will help you reimagine your samples.
To commemorate AAPI Month, we asked Asian, Asian-American, and Pacific Islander creators to craft a track that exudes the spirit of “celebration.”
In this production tutorial, we try to guess the sources of some of the world’s most innovative and unexpected samples, and then flip them into a beat.