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If you want a revolution, become a revolutionary, not a musician. | Photo: Pixabay
10 Tips for Musicians Who Are Missing the Boat
Many especially five-piece bands can't resist the temptation to form a V behind their frontman. The Foo Fighters are no exception, and the brick wall in the background is of course not to be missed. | Photo: Live Nation
TOP 8 Greatest Clichés in Band Photography
How do you deal with time pressure? What if you only had 30 minutes a day to practice your guitar? And can you practice without an instrument in your hand? | Photo: Soundtrap (Unsplash)
TOP 5 Practice Methods without an Instrument
The inner critic is like a parent, a teacher, a sound engineer and a bartender, all in one – it knows exactly when your intonation has been out, when you’ve failed to build a solo, when your timing has fallen apart and when your inventiveness in song lyrics has reached an artistic low. | Photo: Dolo Iglesias (Unsplash)
Top 5 Strict Music Critics or Are Mummy and Sound Engineer Always Right?
The male falsetto is often ridiculed as "effeminate", "soft" or even "gay", especially in the context of pop music. When it comes to rockers who use a high head register, we don't hear those kinds of comments much – rock has always been seen as a "masculine" genre, disregarding the falsetto. | Photo: Steven Erixon (Unsplash)
TOP 5 Rock Singers who Sing in Falsetto
A beautiful vinyl record will definitely please many musicians. Just find out beforehand if the person in question has a gramophone. | Photo: Jamakassi
TOP 5 Tips for Gifts for Musicians
When women no longer have to fight prejudice, endlessly defend their competence and endure a stream of more or less astonished or questioning comments, there will be many more female guitarists, brass players, conductors, composers and sound engineers. | Photo: Unsplash
3 Ways to Promote Equal Opportunities for Women in Music
The human factor still has the greatest influence. I know many colleagues who use mediocre equipment for recording and their results often excel those with the most expensive and best equipped studios. | Photo: Unsplash
13 Cases When You Can(not) Save Money on a Recording Studio
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Notes of a Frontwoman #8: People Listen with Their Eyes or How to Make Promo Photos
A good producer is half the battle. | Photo: Peakpx.com, by CC0
12 Skills Your Music Producer Should Have
No punk singing in the rain is worth ruined instruments or an electric shock to the body. | Photo: Magnus Lunay (Unsplash)
3 Tips on How (Not) To Play a Gig When It’s Raining Cats and Dogs
The unwritten laws of the music world can be absurd and relentless. | Photo: Vasiko Gorkovoy (Unsplash)
TOP 5 Absurd Laws of the Music World
Get an idea of the kind of people who might like your music. Your promotional campaigns will have a much better impact. | Photo: Melanie Deziel (Unsplash)
TOP 5 Recurring Mistakes in Music Self-Promotion
Have you ever tried really wild guitar tuning? A combination that totally shatters your learned fingering and opens the door to unexplored sound universes? | Photo: Vitalii Khodzinskyi (Unsplash)
TOP 5 Unique Guitar Tunings
Do you believe in fate or do you take matters into your own hands? Events don't happen as fate would have it and they can lead to different results that we may not see yet. | Photo: Priscilla du Preez
TOP 15 Music Tips from Forecasters
Wolverhampton, The Robin. Girlschool playing with a different frontwoman for the first time – with me. | Photo: Gary Carter
Notes of a Frontwoman #7: Gig of a Lifetime – Touring with Girlschool