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Beat combines competent hardware and software tests with dedicated reviews as well as reports and interviews from musicians and the music business. We will report on music production with the latest synthesizers and computers, introduce new trends in recording, and always have our finger on the pulse with up-to-date reports. Many well-known specialist report on the widespread music production solutions and experienced editors take care of the most important entertainment and scene topics. This magazine is a platform for musicians and contains a regular demo and MP3 section for readers as well as a download with high-quality sample and music files for creative musicians. Software licenses available while stock lasts. You can check the availability of each product here: www.plugins-samples.com/all-issues

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Hearty congratulations to the winners! • Dear Beat community, the Advent Calendar in our Christmas issue treated you to 24 doors packed with sensational giveaways and discounts – from innovative tools for your studio workflow to high-end hardware for your productions. Now the exciting draw is complete, and we are absolutely thrilled to announce the winners of the 13 exclusive prizes! Whether it was synths, mixers, headphones or acoustic upgrades: these goodies with a total value of over 2,000 Euro go to …

MELODY MASTERY FROM LOOP HELL TO CHART HOOK 15 PAGES OF SOLUTIONS & TUTORIALS • Melodies and hooks decide whether a loop becomes a song. Melody Mastery shows you how to develop chords, melodies and hooks in a targeted manner - with clear workflows, tried and tested methods and without note stress. Instead of theoretical ballast, this masterclass relies on decisions: What carries the song? When does an idea become a hook? From chord sequences with hit factor to reduced hook concepts to arrangement and dramaturgy, you will learn to combine musical building blocks in a meaningful way. Challenges, hands-ons and tool guides help you get exciting results faster.

6 tools to develop melodies & hooks faster

Harmonies without stress! • Chords determine how music feels. The following challenges will help you use harmonies in a targeted manner without getting lost in theory. The focus is on effect and emotion: chord sequences that create tension, create clarity and support melodies instead of overloading them.

Adios, writer‘s block! • If you want to write chords, hooks and melodies, you need a workflow that gets you to musical decisions quickly, without brooding, too much theory or uninspired loops. The Pilot Plugins 2.0 from Mixed In Key help you to develop harmonious ideas, test variants and make immediately audible, which of them works as a song core.

Your shortcut to stronger hooks • Hooks rarely emerge from elaboration – they come from reduction. These challenges deliberately set tight limits so you can make musical decisions faster. Each task specifically trains recognizability, tension, or immediacy. No perfectionism, just clear impact.

Easily create hit harmonies • Big pop moments are not created by many chords, but by the right ones. Build tension, direct expectations and dissolve in the chorus. Scaler 3 makes these decisions audible and tangible. In this workshop, you will use the circle of fifths to develop a progression from just a few chords that can carry a pop song with hit potential.

Your blueprint for chords, melodies & hooks • Many songs fail not because of a lack of ideas, but because musical building blocks exist side by side instead of working together. The chords are there, the bass line grooves, the melody sounds good and still lacks effect. This blueprint shows you the order and function of the central elements to create a viable...