Merry Christmas to all our readers, commenters and contributors. Thanks to you all for a wonderful 2007 and here’s to a great 2008. We have a few new, exciting projects that will be unveiled over the early part of 2008. Stay tuned!
Nothing beats the experience of playing with other musicians. No matter if it’s performing with a band, jamming with a friend or writing a song with someone. The act of sharing is a big part of music for a lot of people. However today’s busy lifestyles make it hard to spend as much time as [...]
Here is a great excercise using paradiddles that was left in the comments by reader Pete Privitere. This paradiddle is brilliant for developing 4 way independence as you are playing diagonally across your body.In other words, your left foot and right hand play together and vice-versa. It’s not as simple as it looks. Try it [...]
Hi Folks, I just want to give you all a heads up on a brand new website that I’ve launched this week. It’s called www.AVHints.com and aims to provide helpful hints and tips for anyone from the novice through to the Audio-Visual Pro. Initially I was going to start adding some A/V related articles to [...]
So far in my series on Selling Your Music Online we’ve looked at moving physical CD’s with CD Baby and selling digital downloads using Tunecore to get you into iTunes & others. In both of these cases we have been looking at selling our music to fans. Those people who listen to our music for [...]
We’ve just published our first ever survey to find out what our readers like and don’t like about this site and to research some new features we are planning. It’s only quite short and doesn’t hurt a bit so please take a moment to visit our survey and help us to continually improve this site [...]
Here is a great instructional video on the art of snare drum tuning by Bob Gatzen. [flash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxm3QunDjUs]
One of my all time favourite drummers has to be Steve Gadd. He is famous for his use of rudiments in his grooves and solos. One of his signature pieces is Paul Simon’s “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover”. This groove, roughly based on a paradiddle feel, sets the tone for the whole song. (Click [...]
In part 1 of this series we looked at using a service such as Airplay Direct to help get your music played on a radio station. Our station AllAustralianMusic.com hunts for music on Airplay Direct and many other similar sites. While these sites have been an absolute goldmine of great music I’ve found that many [...]
Over the past few months of running an online radio station I’ve had the chance to listen to a large amount of independently produced music and I must say that the standard has been amazingly high. A competent musician with a basic home recording setup can turn out results that small studios could only dream [...]