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Something Advanced Musicians Don't Understand

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This post will be best understood by people who have been learning a stringed instrument for at least a year. I recently started my 11th grade in college (the system is a little different where I live, so just accept it). There's different clubs in college, and I've signed up for a club as a performer. Today I had to go for an audition for one of the inter-collegiate events coming up. I was looking forward to this audition, because I knew I would nail it, but things didn't go exactly the way I thought they would. The person who took my audition (let's name him A) was a part of the club, and a fellow organiser and performer. For the audition, I carried my acoustic guitar. They didn't have an amplifier, so I couldn't use their electric guitar or bring my own (I didn't carry my amplifier because I was traveling in a train, very inconvenient). He asked me to play something. I told him I had just started working on 'Rain' by Vinnie Moore. I took

Why Vintage Bands Were Legendary

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There are tons of people who say that the musicians back in the day were legends, and I don't disagree. Today I'm going to share my views on this topic about vintage bands. What does Vintage mean? Vintage simply means something of high quality from the past, the best of it's kind.  What's the difference between their time and ours? Everyone's aware of the rapid technological developments happening in the world today.  In the earlier days, the recordings had a decent quality, but we're talking about a time when computers weren't that advanced, there was no electronic music, or auto-tune, or any of that. The problem with today's music is, you never know whether a musician is really as good as he looks. You never know if a singer is really as good as he is. If you aren't aware of it, auto-tune can also be used in live performances. Your favourite singer might be using auto-tune, and you might not even be aware of it...unless yo