General
KVR Forums – (Getting Started)
Gearspace Forums – (Career / Work)
Sound on Sound – (Music Business)
PG Music – (Songwriting)
Music Banter – (General)
Guitar Tricks – (General)
r/Bitwig (cross-platform DAW)
r/dnbproduction (drum n’ bass)
r/MusicProductionTuts – Music production tutorials
r/MakeMinimalAbleton – Minimal House Producers
r/buildapcforme – help with building a PC
Hardware
GearSlutz Forums – So Much Gear, So Little Time
r/livesound – for those who work in live sound
r/AudioProductionDeals – Sales regarding anything music related, be is hardware, software, services, etc
r/OSX– everything Apple OSX related
r/hardwareswap – a place to trade hardware with other Reddit users
GearSlutz Secondhand Gear Classifieds
GearSlutz Deal Zone – hot deals
Tech Questions / Computer Hardware
Production
r/filtersweep– hardware synth enthusiasts
r/MusicintheMaking– musicians who want to collaborate
Sound Design
r/synthrecipes – Resources for sound designers, by sound designers
DAWs
Ableton
r/MakeMinimalAbleton – Minimal House Producers
Logic
Reason
FL Studio
Cubase
ProTools
Reaper
Songwriting
GearSlutz Songwriting Forum (Now known as Gearspace)
Sound on Sound Music Theory, Songwriting & Composition
NSAI – Nashville Songwriters Association
PG Music – Discussions, Tips-n-Tricks, Resources and Questions about Songwriting
MusicBanter.com > Song Writing, Lyrics and Poetry
Dinosaur Rock Guitar Forum > Songwriting
GuitarTricks.com Songwriting Forums
Promotion
Muse Songwriters > Artist’s Showcase
Discovering New Music
r/Monstercat – electronic music label out of Vancouver (56k subs as of July 2020)
r/DnB – drum and bass
Drums
MPC
Education
Suzan Koç – Vision Boards for Songwriters / Artists
Courses
8020 Music Business Crash Course (Indie Music Academy)
SongTown ($240 / yr as of 2023)
Copyright for Fun and Profit by Devin Stone (LegalEagle)
Books
The Music Powers That Be… To Succeed In The Music Industry – Cirocco
Mentoring
Songwriter.com – Nashville-based professionals helping singer/songwriters take it to the next level
Legal / Music Business
Muse Songwriters > The Music Business
SongwriterForum.co.uk > Resources and Marketing
MusicLibraryReport > Copyright Questions
Public Domain > Songs in the Public Domain
- law.duke.edu Public Domain Day 2022
- law.duke.edu Public Domain Day 2023
- (source: Bye Bye Blackbird Is Now in the Public Domain! – saxontheweb)