Freebies Hunt

Music

Includes a bunch of resources that can aid you in studying music with free resources.

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  • 8-bit Music Theory

    A YouTube channel that focuses on video game music from dynamic music similar to Banjo Kazooie's (or A Hat in Time, if you want a modern example) varying version of the stage theme to video game music with odd time signatures.

  • Ardour

    A free and open source digital audio workstation (DAW) with an emphasis on audio recording. It is also a cross-platform tool being able to run on the three major OS (Windows, Mac OS, and Linux). If you want to see the source code of this tool, you can visit the remote repo.

  • Awesome Music

    An awesome list that lists out free music libraries and tools.

  • Bandlab

    A free web-based digital audio workstation (DAW) by Cakewalk, known for their premium DAW by the same name. It's also a social platform for musicians to share their work.

  • Chrome Music Lab

    A compilation of experimental musical tools built by Google. It could be a fun way of fiddling around with music.

  • Fundamentals of Music Theory

    A Coursera course offered by Edinburgh University to get you started on learning the rudimentary information on music theory.

  • LMMS

    A free and open source digital audio workstation that lets you composes beats and music. It can run on the major desktop operating systems: Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. If you want to visit the source code, you can go right here.

    Personal comment:

    Also comes with a community of musicians with their sharing platform.

  • MuseScore

    A free and open source composition and notation software. It also has cross-platform support for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. You can see the source code itself on their remote Git repo.

    Personal comment:

    I recommend this one a lot if you want to aid with studying music theory, they've done good last year ever since they've been acquired by the Ultimate Guitar company.

  • musictheory.net

    A website that mainly features lessons, exercises, and tools for you to learn and practice on music theory topics.

  • Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People (by Toby W. Rush)

    A free collection of one-page PDFs created by Toby Rush discussing the basics of music theory. (Also, you could just download all of the pages in one PDF if you look at the bottom.)

  • Native Instruments Komplete Start Production Suite

    A free music production suite provided by Native Instruments, famous for their sampler program, Kontakt.

  • Open Music Theory

    A open textbook on college-level music theories and lessons.

  • SampleSwap

    It's a website that contains free professional-level high-quality samples and loops that is free to use for commercial purposes (still, read the license before using it).

  • Sonic Pi

    A programming language that lets you create music.

    Personal comment:

    This is why programming is fantastic.

  • teoria

    A website that dedicates to list music theory resources and tutorials.

  • Virtual Piano

    A virtual piano that can be interacted with the computer keyboard.

    Personal comment:

    If you don't have any physical instrument to interact with at the moment, you could always take a virtual instrument. Like this virtual piano, for instance.

  • VSCO2 Community Edition

    An open source sample set of orchestral instruments. You can see the samples themselves in their GitHub repo.

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