Music is undoubtedly a form of communication and/or expression. Coincidently, the skills of improvisation are certainly related to the dexterity and formalities that are imperative to accomplishing your role as a communicator. Therefore, as you are preparing to become a musician, improvising will firmly assists with your development of the overall perception and understanding of [...]
Music is undoubtedly a form of communication and/or expression. Coincidently, the skills of improvisation are certainly related to the dexterity and formalities that are imperative to accomplishing your role as a communicator. Therefore, as you are preparing to become a musician, improvising will firmly assists with your development of the overall perception and understanding of [...]
Did you know that there are many people who can naturally play by ear? Often they sing by ear as well. Sure, they may be able to follow along as the music moves up and down the scale of the page they are looking at while performing. However, in reality, they never learned the difference [...]
Here is a great article I found recently on a subject very dear to my heart. Call it feel, timing, groove, the beat, it doesn’t matter. Whatever you call it, you need to have it. It doesn’t matter what instrument you play, you are probably going to have to play with other muso’s at some [...]
Although it is quite possible to teach yourself how to play an instrument, the advances that you can make with a good music teacher and following a course of structured lessons can not be overvalued. Don’t be afraid to make that call to a teacher and discuss your needs. As adults it can be hard [...]
I recently found this great article by Kevin Sinclair about effective musical practice. It details some very useful tips for all musicians, no matter what your instrument and ties in nicely with my previous article Practice Makes Perfect, Right? Please enjoy Kevins article and remember to visit his site if you do.
The quality of your [...]
So you’ve made the decision to have music lessons. Great. Now how do you make sure that you get the absolute best value and the most progress from your lessons? here are a few tips to help.
First and foremost, ask yourself the question “What do I want out of this?” “Why am I coming to [...]
One of the best tips I can give you on being a great musician is to vary what you practice to include stuff you wouldn’t normally play. Lets face it, we all have our favourite music style or [tag]band[/tag to listen too and a lot of us tend to drag the same old stuff out [...]
Squidoo is a new site that is aiming at being an on line reference similar to a wiki I suppose except that many pages can exist on the same topic. It is composed of many user contrubuted pages which are called “lenses”. The basic idea is that everyone is an expert on something.
Anyone can start [...]
M.G. beat me to the punchline on this one, but here’s my tilt on it.
Having just Launched a new band myself, the audition process is still very fresh in my mind. The biggest single area that let alot of the candidates down was preparation. Especially the auditions for lead vocalist.
The first point of contact [...]