Category: Articles
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Home Studio on a Budget
You’re a musician and you’re creative. You want to get your ideas recorded but don’t know where to begin. I get it. All the choices of gear can be overwhelming. Let me help by sharing some of my knowledge and experience.
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The Elusive Art of Songwriting
Good songwriters are few and far between and good ones should be celebrated. Some great pops songs may be simple but writing them is anything but easy.
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Guitar Maintenance – Changing Your Strings
Learning to change the strings and cleaning your guitar are relatively simple tasks to keep your guitar sounding good. While there is some skill involved and you do have to know what you are doing, it’s not that hard to learn.
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Images through words
The songs that stand out for me the most are those that tell a story and paint mental pictures of the story the singer is trying to tell. It’s easy to say or to write the phrase, “show don’t tell,” but actually writing a song that touches listeners emotionally, tells a story, and paints mental…
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Patience, practice, and perseverance – Essential elements of being in a band
You will be dealing with different personality types, different worldviews, and different levels of experience and knowledge. You must recognize that we’re not all the same and that everyone has something to contribute – otherwise, why are you on the same team? You may argue, disagree or even fight from time to time. Don’t make…
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Moving pictures, Part 2 of My Take on the Basics of Videography
Making videos, especially making good videos, is not easy. I’ve tried for years and still struggle with a lot of this stuff. The more I study and the more I think about it, the better I get at videography.
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Moving pictures: A brief overview of my take on videography – Part 1
I love video. I love planning, shooting, and editing my videos. You have to love editing because it can get pretty tedious and if you don’t love it, you will have a hard time completing your project
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The Importance of a Regular Practice Routine
Music brings people together and makes them feel. Makes them feel happy. Makes them feel sad. Makes them feel hopeful, fearful, or bold. Music makes you think. Think about life. Think about love. Think about issues; about people; about your soul. And sometimes music just makes you want to cut loose and crank it up…
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The Blessing and Curse of Modern Technology
Like many things, tech can bring people together but can also drive them apart. It takes time, money, effort and resources to learn and keep up with tech. It also takes the desire to invest all of this effort into it as well. Society in general needs to be more understanding that not everybody has…
