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Here's Why You Should Write Your Own Music

Since you're reading this post, I believe you are a musician or you've had a lot of experience with music. I know for a fact that most of the avid readers on this blog are musicians themselves. Many of you have tried to have a band at some point in your life. Many of you have tried to compose your own music at some point, and yet there are many others, and here I'm talking about the majority of people, who haven't ever tried composing anything. This post tells you why it's important to compose and write your own music. But I'm not good at composing! That, right there, is most common response I've received when I've told people that they should compose their own music. So, before we begin talking about writing your own pieces, let me clarify that I'm asking you to write, not publish your own music. I'm not asking you to compose music for the purpose of spreading it across your friends and family and to the general public. You need

Fitness and Guitar

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Apart from being a musician, I'm also a fitness enthusiast. I have been for the last 10 years. Only a few would've thought of whether the gym is going to affect your abilities on the guitar. Truth be told, yes it does affect your guitar abilities.  How? Well, we all know that the guitar is an instrument that you can use to shred on, play really cool riffs, solos, legatos, and the list just goes on. A lot of the things that one plays on the guitar involves fast finger and hand movements.  For me, I'm more of a calisthenics guy, I train in calisthenics six times a week, but I also go to the gym three to four times a week, so I don't have THAT much of a problem. Today we're talking about people who go to the gym six times a week and that's all that their fitness training involves...weights and cardio. For you guys, your gym training might just be hampering your abilities to play the guitar. The reason for this is, the workouts that you do in the