Jake Lizzio

Link for Tonight's Live Lesson (Begins in 1 hour)

https://youtu.be/NQPEoTjRUAk

Join if you can, hope to see you there!

Post Questions HERE for Tomorrow's Live Lesson @ 8PM CST

You know the drill - ask away!

[Early Release For Patreon] THE DRONE ZONE

Hey Folks! This might be my favorite lesson ever. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do! It has already been copyright claimed by bots, but I don't want to remove the examples, I think they're important. In case you didn't see it earlier, the intro music to this video was composed live in a stream you can catch from a few posts back. I ended up keeping the original VO and adding in some Moog_Lee ...

Link For Today's Live Lesson (Begins in 1 Hour)

Got some fun questions to answer, thank you everyone! 

Link is here for current and future viewing:

https://youtu.be/bdL-B2DkE94

Ask Your Questions HERE for tomorrow's Live Lesson

Tomorrow morning at 11:00 AM CST I'll be doing a Live Lesson / Q+A. It's a weird time, I know, but I'm aware that many people can't make my Monday evening streams, so maybe this helps reach some folks overseas :)

Here's something else for yall- I was invited on to Brian Funk's Music Production Podcast and had a great discussion with him on a wide variety of topics. If you're interested in...

Producing Live - NOW!

Warning- this might be a TOTAL FLOP, but it's worth a shot! I have an interesting project to complete and I figured it might be fun to see how I tackle it. 

https://youtu.be/bvIuP0nJAbk

I'll (hopefully) be composing/producing some ambient audio + voice over. It relies a lot on timing since it will be for my ne...

Can Phrygian Sound Happy? (Adam Neely Collab)

Hey everyone! Adam Neely asked me last month to take part in this scale challenge, and I was eager to accept! It was a huge honor, and also a challenging task as you shall see...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxQWbyaMzfg

I've attached my song submission to this post- you have full permission to use...

Link for tonight's livestream [Starts in 1 hour]

Here's the link:

https://youtu.be/84wpPpoiYU8

And a fresh invite to the community Discord server to all new-comers:

https://discord.gg/tzc3Fw6c

Post Questions HERE - Livestream tomorrow @ 7PM CST

Tomorrow I'll post a link before the stream starts at around 6PM - get your questions in early as possible so I have ample time to prepare an answer! 

MEGA LESSON: Harmonic Minor Modes

Hello again! I’m really excited to share with you this GIANT  lesson I’ve prepared. To begin, click this DropBox link to access the free resources that I’ll be posting for folks on YouTube.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1wkt2zlwq6w7ajr/AAD8Ey9spV_gbrHFq-ppKjU1a?dl=0 2021-05-06 02:31:20 +0000 UTC View Post

Live Lesson Begins in 1 Hour - Link Below

Hope to see you there!

https://youtu.be/ahAljCnL-rE

Post Your Questions! AND a request for help!

Hey everyone! I realized as I was working on my Harmonic Minor mega lesson that I should probably make some nice pretty charts for you all, and that spiraled in to a brand new Ultimate Modal Poster (Harmonic Minor Edition). My last poster took me 3 months to finish, but fortunately I'm able to reuse many of the resources I created to make this one quicker. 

I also learned ...

Link for today's live Q+A (Begins in 45 Minutes)

Great questions, once again. A few have me stumped :P

Hope to see you there!

https://youtu.be/l5TYKFY7KuQ

Post your questions here for TOMORROW's Live Q+A

Schedule got all mixed up so we'll be doing our live Q+A tomorrow at NOON CST. As before, post your questions here and the link will be up before the livestream!

Hear the effect of Double Tracking

There were a lot of questions last week on something I said in my video on studio preparation, so I figured I'd do a brief overview of the concept and hopefully "teach a person to fish" so they know when and why they should double track. It's certainly not a must for every genre, but you should be able to hear with your own ears where it might work better.
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Link for Tonight's Q+A (Begins in 1 hr)

Hope to see you there!

https://youtu.be/wEMuiRovVZg

Post your questions HERE for tomorrow's live Q+A at 7PM CST

Ask away! If your question involves a piece of music, make sure to either include a link to audio or sheet music. You can email any music to me directly, jake@signalsmusicstudio.com

15 Mistakes To Avoid In A Recording Session

Happy Music Theory Wednesday (Formerly Known As Music Theory Monday). This is, truthfully, one of the easier videos I've had to complete in recent memory, and I was still somehow two days late on it! It contains a lot of advice for anyone who is planning on ever getting themselves recorded, and I honestly suggest you share it with any bandmates you intend to record with. 

This Monday...

Link for today's live lesson (Begins in 1 hr)

Today was supposed to include a YouTube video post today but I didn't get things done in time - sorry! The video should post tomorrow instead, but today we'll still be doing our live lesson. Hope to see you there! 

https://youtu.be/u5GQB9nH4lQ

Post Questions HERE for TOMORROW'S Live Lesson @ NOON CST

Ask away! I'll post another link tomorrow before the stream starts 

Producing and Writing Jazzy Lo-Fi Hip Hop

Well as you probably have all noticed by now, I'm very very bad at keeping to a schedule. I was aiming for a video every Monday of March and today's video was supposed to be on studio musicianship, but I got distracted midweek on this project and couldn't let it go.

This is the result! Now I know not everyone is in love with LoFi but I really suggest you stick around for the first half of...

Live lesson starts in 10 min- link here!

https://youtu.be/d8LBuDuuA4o

Hope to see you there!

Live Lesson Tomorrow @ 2PM CST - Post Questions HERE!

Tomorrow I'll be releasing a new YouTube video on 9/8 that I'm very excited for people to see, I feel it'll be very helpful for many of you! I'll be happy to answer any questions on the video then, but ask any other questions here so I can prepare some answers for you tomorrow :)

March = Music Theory Mondays

Hey everyone! I'm trying something big for March. I've got so many ideas for videos but picking and choosing one has been hard, so I'm going to just put the schedule down in stone here to stay on track. The goal is to have a new Youtube video up every Monday in March!

1st-MUSIC THEORY MADNESS - the 9/8 Debate

8th-Essential skills for studio musicians

15th-Harmonic Minor Modes<...

Post Your Questions! Stream is TONIGHT at 6PM CST

I was wondering where all your questions were, then I realized my scheduled post was scheduled for the wrong day- oops!

Still have time to collect questions though, and of course take some live, so please ask away!

Link is here: https://youtu.be/3gYdxeik7eE

Composing a... Thunderstorm? [Patreon Only]

Come along with me as I tackle a music making challenge: Compose a one minute track that embodies a thunderstorm, and employs polyrhythms. The challenge was posted by Eric Stark in the music games channel of the Signals Music Discord and I decided to give it a shot.

Click the song below first to hear the track to see if it's the kind of thing you'd be interested in learning how to make. T...

[PATREON ONLY] Using ambience layers and space in your music

As requested, here's a walk through of some of the extra layers I used in my Locrian song. Hopefully you see that there is no right or wrong way to make these layers, and their power is subtle but very useful!

Thanks for participating in the poll also! Tomorrow morning I'll be on Discord to begin organizing the next steps of the song. Our next step is to discover what our song should be a...

Link for today's livestream PLUS a request!

Here's the link for the lesson that starts at NOON CST 

https://youtu.be/Ge1yTR7xHcg

I've decided that I'd like to produce a song with you all. If it works out we can do it again in the future. To begin, I'd like to ask you all what sort of song should we make? From there, we will organize the details in Disco...

Post your questions HERE for Tomorrow's Live Lesson at NOON CST!

I'm changing times around to hopefully make it easier for new people to catch the stream-next week will be later in the evening probably at 6PM. 

See you tomorrow night!

Post your questions HERE for TONIGHT's livestream!

I'm late with this post, but there's still time to collect questions and of course I'm happy to answer them live as well. I will not make another post tonight with the link so make sure you save this link!

https://youtu.be/A0tVa3eiiYs

The stream begins at 6:00PM CST. Hope to see you there!