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Five Easy Songs to Play on a Ukulele
Ukuleles are getting popular each day and children are more likely to pick up a uke at school than a keyboard or recorder; probably because they sound better, non-threatening in terms of size and they’re even easier to learn. Taylor Swift plays one, as so does Meghan Trainor, with her...
How to Find Your Own Sound
Artists often talk about their “sound.” That Skrillex sound. That Deadmau5 sound. That Armin sound. Etc. More specifically, though, there’s a lot of talk about “finding your sound” within production circles. The idea that it’s super important to discover a unique way in which you present music to the world....
72 Music Production Tips I Wish I Knew When I Started
1. Trust your taste. In other words, don’t second guess yourself. Who are you doing this for anyway? 2. Stop crapping on popular music for your ego. You can learn from anything. In fact, it’s wise to learn from music that millions listen to. 3. Using loops doesn’t make you...
How to Increase Your Stick Speed & Control on the Drums
One of the more important aspects of playing the drums is to increase your hand speed and your control. And as with a lot of topics, there’s so many ways you could do this, with anything from studying rudiments, which basically are your what would be scales to piano rudiments...
These 5 Tips Will Change The Way You Practice Drums
I’ve been teaching online drum lessons over the past 10 years, and I’ve always been adamant that I will answer my own emails. To this day, that is still the same (I’m not lying, try me: jared@drumeo.com). I love connecting with my online students and helping their drumming in any...
14 Powerful Quick Tips That Can Help You Instantly Improve Your Guitar Tone
If you are like most guitarists out there, you will have at some point found it frustrating getting the "perfect tone." Try the following tips to help improve your guitar sound. Crank Up The Mids! A great live tone starts with the EQ. Crank those mids. It's as simple...
How To Improvise Blues Guitar Solos That Move Your Audience
Would you like to be able to touch the hearts of the people that hear you playing? When most blues players train improvising, they just arbitrarily keep playing lick after lick and think that the moment will come that they suddenly sound like the great blues players. Well, that is...