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The Beatles in India
Whenever you feel like cribbing over the dead music scene in India. Or whenever you feel that the real sense of spirituality that India is known for doesn’t exist. Consider this. One of your favourite bands, The Beatles, came to India in search of enlightenment to attend an advanced Transcendental...
10 Recording Session Commandments
1. Be prepared when you enter the studio. Do not assume that the studio has better amps and effects than you do. It is not their responsibility to supply you with the equipment that you play through. It is your responsibility to find out what the studio offers and what...
Guide for Violin Care & Maintenance
Instrument Care and Maintenance by the Player Temperature & Humidity In most parts of North America, temperature and humidity levels vary dramatically from summer to winter. Stringed instruments are made principally of wood, which expands in the humid summer months and contracts in the winter. Expansion and contraction can cause...
Stay In The Flow When Recording
When you’re recording — especially if you’re recording alone — it can be tempting to stop as soon as you’ve made a mistake, undo the record pass or delete the offending performance, and start again. That takes time, kills the flow, and can diminish inspiration. These days, all DAWs have...
How to Make Beats in Reason
Propellerhead Software has a cool video series going on how to make beats using Reason; the tutorial series is called “Super Neat Beat Cheat Sheet” and currently consists of three videos covering different styles: Electro Pop, Deep House, and Trap Drum. Whether you’re new to making beats or you’re an...
12 Famous Times Musicians Were Moved To Tears In Public
Sometimes you just have to let it all out. Whether on stage, on reality shows or sitting opposite Piers Morgan (the latter a state of affairs that would make the hardiest of us blubber), here are some of the famous musicians who threw caution to the wind and shed tears...
Video: The incredible skill of hand making a guitar out of wood
Eitan's Bartel absolute love for the instrument he makes, the perfect measurements needed to craft one of his guitars, the unbelievable skill and precision required in each step, the shots of woodworking, the imagination of smell. It goes on.Check out Acoustic Guitars at BAJAAO.com
10 things your band is doing wrong online
How to build your band using social media and more There was a time when all bands had to do was make music and the suits would take care of the rest. Now, thanks to the internet, that's all gone. Boo, hiss, etc. But hang on, the internet is great,...
How to use serial compression
Learn how to use multiple compressors in series and capitalise on their combined strengths.Serial compression means using multiple compressors in series (ie, one after the other), and it's a great way to combine the most desirable attributes and/or capabilities of two or more plugins.A practical example would be using a...
Learn All About Heartbeat, Pulse, Rhythm
"Modern" and "Rhythmic" Music of the 20th Century One of the most distinctive features of "modern," "popular" music styles that have emerged with the 20th century (including, but not limited to everything that is usually termed as jazz, pop, rock, metal, hip-hop) is the repeated emphasis on the special "rhythmic...
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Handling Criticism, Part 2 - With Kevin Goetz [Lessons]
Hey, guys!In my last article, we discussed how to handle a type of criticism that is not in any way constructive, offered not with the intent of improving your music, but purely to tear you down. In a nutshell, the idea is to realize that the non-constructive variety of criticism...
A Guide To The Simple Twelve Bar Blues
What Are the Blues? The twelve bar blues is a very common chord progression found in a lot of songs. The progression, whilst less popular now, is very common in early blues music around the '60s era, with it being common in many Elvis singles. Even today, many songs sample...
