American music producer, composer, and YouTube educator whose channel What Makes This Song Great and music theory content has built a massive following among musicians and music fans — bridging professional music production with accessible music theory education.
Created the dominant YouTube music theory and production education channel — making professional-level harmonic analysis and production insight accessible to self-taught musicians — and produces some of the most substantive commentary on what distinguishes great popular music.
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