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Without silence there is no music, so it is perfectly legitimate to say that silence is music. | Photo: David Kristianto (Unsplash)
Music is Not Rocket Science #8: Silent Musical Compositions
I am not good enough, I'm too old, everybody plays better and what about my talent? Every musician sometimes asks themselves these questions when they find themselves at a crossroads. | Photo: Peyman Shojaei (Unsplash)
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The melody of the national anthem, played at the right moment or experienced during the final of an important sports match, can bring tears to the eyes of more than just patriots. | Photo: Debby Hudson (Unsplash)
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The guitar pickup is the "magical" place where the vibrations of the strings are transformed into an electrical signal, which is then sent to your amp: Dominik Scythe on Unsplash
(Un)usual Guitar Techniques #5: Pickups and the Sound They Make
Steve Vai enjoys using the whammy bar to create surreal screams and bizarre sounds to enhance his technically perfect playing. | Photo: Talyn Sherer
(Un)usual Guitar Techniques #4: Vibrato Bar
Music is not creative chaos, but a carefully organized hierarchy of tones and sounds. | Photo: Etienne Girardet (Unsplash)
Music is Not Rocket Science #5: Organized Sound
The undeniable advantage of the fingerstyle technique is the direct contact between fingers and strings, which allows you to get much more timbre, emotions and nuance into your playing. | Photo: Patti Black (Unsplash)
(Un)usual Guitar Techniques #3: Fingers and Picks
Steve Morse skilfully controls the volume of each note with his right pinky finger during his solos. | Photo: Mark Ellis
(Un)usual Guitar Techniques #2: Volume knob
B. B. King je known for his melodic vibrato. | Photo: Foto: Heinrich Klaffs, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
(Un)usual Guitar Techniques #1: Vibrato
It's probably time to say that major chords are not "cheerful" and that minor keys can work well even in very positive compositions. | Photo: Bailey Zindel (Unsplash)
Music is Not Rocket Science #3: The Myth of Happy Major and Sad Minor
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
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