Music Theory Hacks: Easy Hooks and Melodies with Broken Chords and Arpeggios

In this tutorial, Point Blank’s Course Content Developer, Chris Martin, demonstrates how you can use broken chords and arpeggios to write affective hooks and basslines. This technique can be used across a range of genres from trap to techno when writing catchy melodic hooks or basslines. Taking inspiration from Maya Jane Coles’ 2011 track, ‘What They Say‘, […]

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Track Deconstruction: LFO – ‘LFO’ w/ Chris Martin

We’re back with another deconstruction, this time with our Course Content Developer, Chris Martin, breaking down LFO’s classic techno track, ‘LFO’. If you’re new here and not familiar with what a deconstruction entails, it’s where we take a well-known track, break it down to its core elements and recreate it before your very eyes. Released via Warp […]

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