Custom Made Guitars
[December 03, 2006]
Every musician is particular about instrument set up. Guitarists like to have their guitars custom-made to reflect their unique identity. Custom-made guitars are a unique combination of order, expertise, dreamy innovations and intuition clubbed together to make a fine piece of art. Studio owners and professional players all swear by custom-made guitars, and they are very popular...
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Create Your Own Audio Studio for Under $100!
[December 03, 2006]
Creating your own audio studio has never been easier. There are so many great products around today that will allow you to produce high quality audio for a fraction of the price it used to cost...
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Do You Make This Mistake Every Time You Learn a New Guitar Chord?
[December 03, 2006]
Have you ever tried to play a new guitar chord but your fingers just wouldn't cooperate?No matter what you do, you just can't seem to get your fingers to learn that new chord.In most cases, the reason you are having problems is due to how you have been learning the chord...
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Electric Guitar Packages - The All In One Solution
[December 03, 2006]
Electric guitar packages are typically an all in one answer to the problem of getting someone started with an electric guitar...
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Establishing Your Mix.
[December 03, 2006]
Now that you've spent hours and days and weeks and months recording your musical masterpieces (and you've also read my article "Tips for a Great Recording Session"), you have arrived at my favorite time in the studio; The Mixdown. But don't think your job is done yet! The mixdown is just as important as recording...
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Hints And Tips For Those Learning To Sing
[December 03, 2006]
Whether you are training your voice to join the ranks of professional singers or wish to cultivate your amateur talent, there are numerous aspects of singing to take into consideration...
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Hip Hop And Its Elements
[December 03, 2006]
According to the standard definition, hip hop is a style of popular music which came into existence in roughly the mid '70s but became a large part of modern day pop culture in the late '80s and consists of two main components: rapping (MCing) and DJing (audio mixing and scratching)...
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Hip Hop History
[December 03, 2006]
Rap music originated as a cross-cultural product. Most of its important early practitioners-including Kool Herc, D.J. Hollywood, and Afrika Bambaataa-were either first- or second-generation Americans of Caribbean ancestry...
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How Does A Compressor Make An Audio Track Louder?
[December 03, 2006]
So you want to learn how to use a compressor? Well good luck. It takes years to get even a decent feel for a compressor. I'm just now getting where I feel that a compressor will tolerate me playing with it's settings. In the past, it was just laughing and mocking me because I just didn't understand how to use it to improve my recordings...
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How I Started My Studio Business
[December 03, 2006]
I remember back when I decided I was ready to start recording bands. I went to a local “metalfest”, setup a table, told everyone I charged $20 an hour, and nothing happened. I mean NOTHING happened. It was a total waste of time...
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How To Build A Home Recording Studio
[December 03, 2006]
If you are reading this article, you are probably looking for information on how to put together your own home recording studio...
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How To Choose Your First Microphone For Your Recording Studio
[December 03, 2006]
So you have decided to buy a studio microphone? The first notion I'd like to shoot down is the “studio microphone myth”. There is no such thing as a studio microphone. A microphone will pickup sound anywhere you put it. It doesn't have to be a recording studio. It can be a kitchen. Granted, some mics are less durable than others and these mics tend to be used more in the studio than on stage simply because everything is abused live...
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How to Create Your Own Podcast
[December 03, 2006]
Podcasting is a relatively new kind of technology so here is a bit of background for those who haven't come across this term yet. The definition on wikipedia is pretty good:"Podcasting" is making audio files (most commonly in MP3 format) available online in a way that allows software to automatically download the files for listening at the user's convenience...
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How To Make It In The Music Business (Not!)
[December 03, 2006]
Where to begin? How can I put you off this awful profession? Many ignorant people think that any kind of placement in the Top Ten is a guarantee of easy money, easy sex and hard drugs...
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How To Tune Your Guitar By Ear
[December 03, 2006]
1. The very first thing you need to know is that learning to tune your guitar takes time.
Some things on guitar can be learned in minutes, some in days, and others in weeks, but tuning will sometimes take even longer, because you have to train your ears. If results come slowly or don't seem to be making any progress, don't be discouraged, just keep working at it...
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Jazz Shrinks Complex World - Jazz History
[December 03, 2006]
When I've had a belly full of the complexities of current events I find a jazz band in some out of the way place and retreat for awhile into melody with a big beat.
For those of you who are turned on by horns, I recommend a small watering place in Cleveland called the Lake Shore Club...
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Jazz Guitars - 5 Guitars for a great Jazz Tone
[December 03, 2006]
As a musical genre traditional Jazz requires a fairly specific Guitar sound – generally this has involved a very clean dry tone – with little to no effects (perhaps only a hint of reverb) – usually the neck pickup is used with the resultant sound required to be clear enough to pickup the subtle nuances and articulation of the playing...
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Learn a Musical Instrument, Prepare for a Career
[December 03, 2006]
For a skilled musician, there is an additional career path that is invisible to the non-musician. This is an additional benefit beyond the pleasure of playing music, the attention it brings, and the better academic performance than students who do not learn to play a musical instrument...
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Learning Styles Of Music
[December 03, 2006]
Learning styles of music can help you get work, don’t get me wrong; but you need to consider the time and expense involved in knowing a lot of music genre’s, having the goods to do them, and if your locality really wants the specific genre...
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Lyric Writing 101: Part 4
[December 03, 2006]
This is Part four of my Lyric Writing guide. Here you will find general writing tips to apply to your lyric. Includes information on drafts, hooks and re-writing.As I have stated in other parts of this guide, I cannot tell you word for word how to write lyrics. Everyone has their own writing style and methods that work for them...
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Live Music - Musicians Fascinate UK Youngsters
[December 03, 2006]
In the UK for the last 18 years at least, a whole generation has been virtually starved of live musicians for a variety of reasons...
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Mixing Techniques and Tips - Just Hit Mute
Mixing everything The most common noises you’ll get rid of are things like some one breathing, a note book page of rhymes being turned or better yet the under lying tone of the room that starts build up as your track count increases...
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Micing a Kick Drum
[December 03, 2006]
This months tip deals with micing kick drums.
You wouldn't believe how many people ask me about micing their kick drums. It leads me to believe people really don't know how to...
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Music Schools Offer Career Advancement
[December 03, 2006]
Are you looking for a career as a musician, singer, choral director, or music teacher? Music Schools can provide you with opportunities to prepare for a professional career in music by offering knowledge and experience that can result in certificates and/or college degrees. Performers, scholars, and music educators alike can benefit from training received from Music School...
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Music in Our Lives
[December 03, 2006]
We woke up one day and we were in this world. Innocent to everything around us, we search to classify the things that are inevitably part of our lives. With the books, the internet and all of the other resources that can help us in our every query, we seek to define music...
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Musical Instrument Dealers
[December 03, 2006]
Musical instruments are of many kinds, the main categories being chordophones (strings), aerophones (woodwinds and brasses), idiophones (percussion), and membranophones (drums)...
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Off The Record - Tips For Picking Recording Software
[December 03, 2006]
Need software to record your voice, streaming audio or musical instruments? There are dozens of great products on the market. Some cost up to five hundred dollars, but here are some of the low cost alternatives you might want to consider...
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