Changelog
Follow up on the latest improvements and updates.
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new
July 2025
- Secured educational partnership with FL studio to bring their full DAW experience to our clients.
- Community Feed Sorting Options: Users can now sort community feeds by Oldest, Newest, Most Commented, Most Liked, and more.
- FL Studio Quick Start Guide course available now.
- Counterpoint course officially named "Counterpoint Conquest"
- New Noteflight templates created in preparation for "Counterpoint Conquest" https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XDw6y0w8pIKbUftERQyEOeoiwL0SLBhhsFB5VK5rvJc/edit?gid=1823826677#gid=1823826677
new
June 2025
- Created an educational partnership with Native Instruments to get you the best possible virtual instruments, loops, and audio software.
- Secured 30% students discount with Waves
- Secured educational partnership with Abby Road's Audiomovers to give Music Makers the ability to stream audio from their DAW.
- Improved project tracking for Gamer Music Creator Guild VIPs
- Improved 360 view accountability tracking accross courses, communications, and community.
- Added more promotion features for client releases
- Started the 'Scoring Success' course with an addition of game footage from differnt game genres for scoring practice.
new
April 2025
- New module added to Gamer Grooves all about video game motifs
- New module added to Gamer Grooves all about video game subphrase (mega unlock)
- New module added to Gamer Grooves all about video game forms
new
March 2025
We are super excited to let you know that your new course "Instrumental Inspiration" is now live and added to your courses profile.
This is the HUB for composers, arrangers/remixers, and producers on BestMusicCoach.com.
Included is
- A reworked Melody Machine specifically for composing, producing, arranging, and remixing.
- Complete guide to DAW basics
- 3 simple steps to arrange any music in any genre
- Mixing basics
- Mastering basics
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New module added to Gamer Grooves — Create Video Game Music In Any Genre and Style
Includes:
- Safety areas and themes
- Conflict areas and themes
- Biomes
All examples include an analysis and example of creating compositions based on the analysis.
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New layout improvement: Video scales to reach the size of your screen—up to 1600px wide!
- New course! Gamer Grooves featuring award-winning game composer Jeff Broadbent is now live! Learn how to export music for video games, loop tracks, create dynamic tracks, stingers, work with developers, work with audio engines, and live musicians.
new
January 2025
- Artist Success Course fully updated with indie release checklist so you can release your own music! Complete guide.
- 🚫 Ban Contacts: We can now protect our community by banning “bad actors” to maintain a safe and productive space.
- 📅 Timestamps for Community Notifications: Notifications now display timestamps for better context.
- 🔗 Clickable Links in Comments: Links in community comments now behave as proper links.
- https://www.bestmusiccoach.com/music-maker-hall-of-fame/ is now added to your "My Apps" in your My Books and Courses Profile
new
Nov 2024
- Resume button takes you straight back to the lesson you were working on.

New Courses
We added some more courses to help you with piano—which is a great instrument to use for creating music!
- Intro videos added to The Best Piano Book for Beginners from my dear friend Charles: https://www.bestmusiccoach.com/courses/the-best-modern-piano-book-for-beginners-1/
- New piano course on how to play your first 10 songs on piano, with Charles: https://www.bestmusiccoach.com/courses/charles-10-piano-songs/
- Songwriting Form 1-3 BETA is completed. Earn points, find easter eggs, win badges, and have fun as you grow your songwriting skills! https://www.bestmusiccoach.com/courses/songwriting-secrets-form-1/
- Artist success course is now live. Insider tips to picking an artist name, releasing music, and optimizing your life to get the most out of your music. https://www.bestmusiccoach.com/courses/artist-success/
new
October 2024
Community
- 🌐 Community Post Comments: Pasting content with external image links into community post comments now works seamlessly without causing errors.
- 🔍 Community Search: You can now search within the community to quickly find the information and discussions you need.
- 🏷️ Tag Members in Posts: Engage more effectively by tagging members in your community posts.
- 🎨 Community Icons and Text: Improved the look of icons and groups text in the community.
- 📜 Community Post Display: Resolved an issue where extremely long community posts did not display properly.
Courses
- Average time to complete courses added to course pages we are confident in average data.
- Removed courses that are covered in other courses from your Everything You Need Courses list.
- Started new course (rough draft available) Rhythm Setting (songwriting) https://www.bestmusiccoach.com/courses/rhythm-setting-rough-draft/
- Started new course (rough draft available) Arranging (songwriting, composing, producing) https://www.bestmusiccoach.com/courses/arrangement/ ||| This includes a quick start for BandLab
Books and Courses Profile
- New section added "My Apps" with links to
Noteflight
Community
Q&As
Sheet Music Library
BandLab
- Updates and corrections made to The Best Music Theory Workbook 2
- Monthly challenge started
- New community engagement features launched
- Admin support hired and trained so Dan can focus on building courses and writing books
- Customer support hired and trained so Dan can focus on building courses and writing books
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