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Yeah, I took that from Eminem...and twisted it. Today's post will be about pre-performance jitters. Everyone...almost everyone gets pre-performance jitters...and it's okay. It's not a bad sign. It doesn't mean your performance is going to go bad... Some people believe that pre-performance jitters can affect your performance, but that won't be applicable to you...if you take the right steps pre-performance. Why do people believe that the jitters affect your performance? I always tell everyone that pre-performance jitters are a good sign. Sometimes people sweat. Their palms sweat. In instruments like the guitar, your sweaty hands may not  be a good thing.  Some people shake with nervousness or fear. That's okay too...stage performances can be scary.  As far as I know, shaking of hands, sweating of palms, and other such physical effects are the only contributors to a stage performance going bad.  Usually, the nervousness helps people perform BETT

Bonjour! This world includes all types of people, and it includes, but is not limited to successful people, egoistic people, heartbroken people, people who believe they have no future, and the list goes on. Success has many definitions, and it means a lot of things to a lot of people, and it exists in every field, every game, every single activity that exists in this world. Everyone wants to be successful, and everyone has a different idea of success...the best part is, you can achieve it! A lot of people set the bar of success so high, and they try to reach that bar in one go, and they take a fall and consider themselves failures. Little do they know, that's not how one should go about it. When someone's a baby, they learn to stand before they learn to walk, and they learn to walk before they learn to run. This is the easiest way to achieve your goals. This method is important, because to reach the ultimate success, one needs to have some kind of self motivation, and feeli

A lot of amateur musicians with hope to create music or just jam for that matter, face this problem quite often. Why don't the two instruments sound good together? What am I doing wrong? I don't understand. Well, here I am to answer this simple question. The solution to it is simpler than you can think. You don't have to buy any books, or for that matter, even think much about this problem. For 80% of you, this post should solve your problem. The solution is, you just have to get a few things clear in your mind, and then you're good to go. Read on. Here's what you need to keep in mind: Is the octave right? Sometimes, some people simply play on the wrong octave. Usually, this doesn't even matter. However, more often than not, this could be the problem. Usually octaves don't give that much of a problem. Is the tuning right? Sometimes the solution could simply be that your instrument is not in tune... Is the music synchronized? Well, yo

Hey, STORY TIME! Now, I don't think I'm the greatest, neither am I an inspiration to anyone in the music industry, I'm simply a student learning music. However, there are some things that I have done in my life that I think will benefit you readers...one of them, is the live performance I am discussing in this post.  Crowd was good, Les Paul and a track, but the music stopped for a frac It was a good night for me. I was performing in a prestigious lounge bar. I love Les Pauls, AND I HAD ONE IN MY HAND! There was a good cheerful audience that night, and I was performing alone on stage, with a backing track. I was hyped. This would be the best performance I'd ever done. What more could I want, being a student and all that! I went up on stage, took the guitar in hand, I was ready.  The track comes on, the crowd cheers, and I start playing. It's going beautifully. All that practice was finally paying off! I was killin' it. The guitar sounded so perfect.

Well, it's pretty common to see people nowadays saying they "self studied" or "self learnt" an instrument...and it sounds pretty cool...is it, though? Well, to be very honest, I've never tried self learning any instrument per se, but I have friends and acquaintances who have done so, and I myself tried self-learning a lot of other things. So, you can reckon that with my experience, and what I've seen, one could possibly analyze whether self-learning will be a stupid decision for them , or a wise decision for them . Notice how I put emphasis on "for them". That's because Self Study is very subjective. It works well with some people, and it just doesn't work for others...This doesn't mean some are smart and some are dumb, it just means that self study naturally suits some people, while others have to really struggle with it, and in the end still not get results they may desire. Let me tell you my personal experiences with Self S

I had uploaded an article long, long ago about the jobs that one can get in the music industry. I will add a link to that article after this article ends... There are job opportunities in music, for sure, and up until a while ago, I myself was keen on entering the music industry, but I'll tell you why I changed my mind. My parents have always been very supportive of my choices, whether it be career-wise or otherwise. If they feel that my choices are not wrong, they fully support me in every way possible.  When they heard that I wanted to pursue music, they were fully supportive of my decision at first. However, when I didn't change my mind about music after 5 years, they started looking into my opportunities seriously. Their main concern was how much money I'd make... Now I'm sure a lot of you will say " When you love something and you want to do it, money doesn't matter." uhhh yes it does!   Money matters a lot. If you want to live a comforta

There are a lot of us who want to learn a lot of things in music because it "looks cool" or you just can't wait to learn it because it sounds so good...well, here I am with another article, rather some advice on how to go about learning arpeggios. We all know what arpeggios is...most of you will say "yeah...uh...it's that cool thing which people do on the guitar so smoothly.." and other variations of that. Personally, I think it's very important to know what you're getting into by explanation before you learn it. Don't worry, I'll cover everything in the simplest language possible. What is Arpeggios? You have a chord. You know the notes of the chord. String by string on the guitar, you play the notes of the chord in continuity in one direction: either ascending or descending.  For example, if you take the notes of the 'C' chord an play the notes up to down in succession, downwards, you have played an arpeggios pattern.

The circle of fifths is quite complicated to some people. Well, for those of you who don't know what the circle of fifth is, it's basically a way of writing down the notes in a scale which tells you the sharpened notes of a scale. Here's how the circle of fifth works: Let's write down the C scale. C D E F G A B C Now, we take the fifth note, in this case, G , and write it down starting from G : G A B C D E F G Now, we sharpen the last note before G , which is F  in this case. Therefore, we get: G A B C D E F# G And that's your G scale. Now, we take the fifth note from G and write down the scale with the sharps from that note. D E F# G A B C D Notice how I've sharpened the F,  because it was previously sharpened. Now we will sharpen the last note from D, which is C, so we get: D E F# G A B C# D Following this routine, we keep going till all the notes are sharpened. Our final result will be something like this:  

Since I'm a guitarist, let's just discuss this in terms of guitar, although it applies to every instrument. So, there's broadly two types of musicians: 1. Basic 2. Advanced Now majority of the population that tries to get into music quits in the first few years. Thus, we categorise them as basic. I know a lot of musicians, many of them are close friends, who are stuck on the basics even while learning from a teacher. The thing is, not all teachers are capable of teaching advanced techniques and styles. Here's something I've learnt over the past few years of being with advanced as well as basic musicians: Many people learn the basics, and perfect the basics, but they stop there. They don't go further. They don't have the willingness to learn more than what they know. This, according to me, isn't right. In case of guitar, the people who I term as basic, learn chord progressions for popular songs and are quite satisfied with it. The general pub