Hobbiest Let’s talk about being a hobbyist first. Making music for fun is awesome. In this scenario, purchases should be based solely on means and immediate needs. If you sing and play and acoustic ...
1. Check The Files Triple check the files you are submitting to your mastering engineer. Be sure that the mastering engineer is receiving the actual final approved mix files. I know this sounds silly, but I ...
1. Ambience One of the reasons most guitarists disapprove of amp simulators is a lack of real air. Even if you close mic an amp in a room, you still hear some of the sound around ...
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 ...
Propellerhead Software has a cool video series going on how to make beats using Reason; the tutorial series is called “Super Neat Beat Cheat Sheet” and currently consists of three videos covering different styles: Electro ...
The drummer for Goodbye to Gravity, Bogdan Enache, who was playing in the Colectiv club in Bucharest on Oct. 30, died tonight, according to Billboard. This now brings the death toll to 45 from tragedy, which ...
Considering how this project has been so endlessly dissected, it might seem difficult to compile a list of 10 things you didn’t know about Led Zeppelin IV. But that’s just what we asked from George ...
When the Police‘s debut album came out on Nov. 2, 1978, it sounded like little else on the music landscape. The band was lumped in with punk and burgeoning New Wave groups at the time, ...
Revolutionary touchscreen DAW controller comes to India. Slate Media Technology has announced a partnership with ProMusicals, establishing them as India’s official distributor of the Raven line of Multitouch Recording Consoles. After debuting the Raven MTi 27’’ ...
Billy Gibbons has postponed the first 12 dates on his tour in support of his upcoming album, Perfectamundo. The news was announced in a press release today, and the new dates can be found below. ...
Songwriter, producer and DJ Matthew Koma is the man they all want to work with, following a phenomenally successful stream of co-writes that have resulted in eight No. 1s on Beatport and four Billboard Top ...
The jazz fingerstyle champion of the world confesses to an embarrassing past project and that he almost quit in the 80s as he takes on the 10 questions we ask everyone… 1. What was your ...
Aanchal Arora, 23, had come to Gurgaon’s Sector 29 on Sunday evening to watch American electronic music star Skrillex (real name Sonny Moore) perform live. During the concert, however, the Delhi resident collapsed while dancing ...
Khalifa’s is the tenth music video to hit the elite mark Wiz Khalifa’s ‘See You Again’ video has become the tenth YouTube video to top one billion views. ‘See You Again’ featured on the Soundtrack ...
Taylor Swift has achieved more in her relatively short career so far than most artists do in a lifetime. Of course, you’ve heard about the massive sales and the awards. Put into perspective her massive ...
image: http://nme.assets.ipccdn.co.uk/images/2014Bowie_Press_311014.article_x4.jpg David Bowie will never tour again, according to one of the UK’s biggest festival organisers. Although the iconic singer hasn’t toured since a medical emergency in 2004, his 2013 album ‘The Next Day’ ...
1. As a nine-year-old, Eminem was beaten so badly by a school bully that he spent over a week in a coma. His music has since been credited with helping to bring more than one ...
Florence and the Machine’s brand new album ‘How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful’ debuted at the Billboard 200 at number 1 position, knocking off the reigning two weel champion A$AP Rocky. This is the first ...
Hey, guys! In my last article, we discussed how to handle a type of criticism that is not in any way constructive, offered not with the intent of improving your music, but purely to tear ...
What Are the Blues? The twelve bar blues is a very common chord progression found in a lot of songs. The progression, whilst less popular now, is very common in early blues music around the ...
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 ...
Examples of each topic are given below. All of the examples are meant to inspire you to learn more. There is not really an order or one of more importance. Your goals are up to ...
It has become more and more popular over the years to create unplugged acoustic versions of electric songs. Sometimes these acoustic versions you hear sound great, and other times they can kind of miss the ...