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All you need is a lot of practice to become a virtuoso – or do you need talent, too? Genetic predisposition plays a much bigger role than popular theories offering instant guides for achieving any goal admit. | Photo: Valentina Bacherer (Unsplash)
Music is Not Rocket Science #10: Absolute Talent
Music and sport have many things in common. Playing a two-hour concert at full physical capacity is sometimes a feat worthy of an Olympic medal. | Photo: Amin Hasani (Unsplash)
5 Types of Musicians Who Need To Be in Shape
Few things motivate a person to compulsively play a musical instrument like procrastination from another, absolutely necessary but all the more unpleasant activity. | Photo: Yabee Eusebio (Pexels)
5 Tips on how to Make Yourself Practice a Musical Instrument Even if You Don't Feel Like it
Recording studio, long hours in a van or backstage. You don't want to be trapped there with annoying types of musicians. | Photo: Maelle Ramsay (Unsplash)
Top 5 Types of Musicians that are Difficult to Work With
Your goal is to dream the same dream... | Photo: Anton Ponomarev on Unsplash
TOP 5 Things You Should Not Say to Your Mixing Engineer
You may be searching your heart if you really had to tell your bandmates where to get off after your last messed up concert in one-horse town, pack up your case and leave to find the nearest civilization. | Photo: Anika Huizinga (Unsplash)
TOP 5 Reasons to (not) Re-join a Band
All guitarists love their instruments, boxes, amps and other gadgets that help them create crazy sound experiments. When can you say enough is enough? | Photo: Anton Shuvalov (Unsplash)
TOP 5 Most Expensive Guitar Rigs
Is it really that hard to be unique nowadays? Where do all those catchy melodies and harmonic progressions come from? | Photo: Justin Higuchi (Wikipedia)
TOP 3 Questionable Hits by Dua Lipa
Block everyone's view with your mobile phone (on which you won't be able to see or hear anything anyway).| Photo: Max Pixel
5 Tips on How (Not) to Be a Jerk at a Concert
Alcohol is an established element in the world of musicians, inspiring, creating crazy stories, but also destroying talent and careers. | Photo: Andrey Zvyagintsev (Unsplash)
TOP 5 Drunken Escapades of Musicians
Musicians are communicative and open creatures. They will be happy to talk to you about their favourite topics. | Photo: Vinicius Amano (Unsplash)
TOP 5 Questions That Will Please Any Musician
The campfire is a sort of relic from prehistoric times when the whole tribe gathered around the fire. | Photo: Mike Erskine on Unsplash
TOP 5 Ways to Embarrass Yourself at the Campfire
Did you know that they recently Chechnyan authorities banned music that is not within the legal range of 80 to 116 BPM? DJs of the world, beware! | Photo: Eric Ward (Unsplash)
Music is Not Rocket Science #7: Banned BPM
It is still kind of bizarre that an emotion as strong as grief over the loss of loved ones can produce music that brings people together in completely different, life-celebrating situations. | Photo: Omar Lopez (Unsplash)
TOP 5 Inappropriate Wedding Songs
We all probably know that the most popular topic musicians deal with is love in all its wondrous forms. | Photo: Vidar Nordli-Mathisen (Unsplash)
Top 5 Most Common Song Themes
Not everyone is able to learn to read music. Even in music, there is dyslexia, where you simply can't translate a symbol on paper into the notes you play. | Photo: Mike Castro Demaria (Unsplash)
Music Is Not Rocket Science #6: Neurological Digression