Music Guy Online is an online destination for discovering and creating better music.

Started over 10 years ago by me, “The Music Guy”, Music Guy Online began as a resource for teaching musicians how to write better songs.

Since then it has grown to encompass every aspect of music creation. The Music Creation section of this site is dedicated to educating anyone (regardless of experience level) on how to write, produce, and market their own music from the ground up on the tightest of budgets, plus providing services in getting your music sounding its best and ready for release.This includes:

Songwriting

Every song begins with a simple melody, chord, or lyric. After writing songs for a number of artists, I’ve concentrated everything I know about the process into one all encompassing on how to write a song:

At roughly 100 pages, I cover everything there is to know about songwriting from coming up to ideas from scratch, overcoming writer’s block, and even recording those ideas with studio quality results.

Audio Mixing

Audio mixing is the process of taking the many instruments and tracks you’ve recorded which make up your song and getting them to make sense together by setting their levels, panning positions, and adding processing to enhance each one and the collective sum via EQ, compression, and more.

I’ve been providing audio mixing services for artists of all genres for over a decade and even taken that expertise to write regular tutorials on all things audio mixing through Music Guy Mixing.

Visit MusicGuyMixing.com if you want your music professionally mixed by me or simply want to learn how to do it yourself through my hundreds of tutorials.

Audio Mastering

Audio mastering is the somewhat cryptic final step of audio production which involves taking a mixed down song and providing the final enhancements to make it sound its best and ensure it’s ready for release on any and all formats whether that’s digital, vinyl, CD, even cassette!

I actually began my audio production career in audio mastering just out of college 15 years ago at Music Guy Mastering.

You can check out my latest audio mastering rates and even submit a track for a free mastering sample at MusicGuyMastering.com.

Music Marketing

Unfortunately, today’s independent artists (which is 99% of us) are required to ALSO be their own marketing department.

Fortunately I’ve boiled down all of the latest tips and tricks for promoting your music on a shoestring or non-existent budget in my aptly titled “How to Market Your Music“.

Check out that resource for ensuring all of the work of writing, recording, and producing your music doesn’t go to waste by locating and unlocking your music’s own unique audience!

If you have any questions about this website or anything covered on it, please contact tony@musicguyonline.com.

Thank you for visiting MusicGuyOnline.com and best of luck to you in your musical endeavors!