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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