MusicMyLife

This blog is full of technical and more serious aspects of music. It's about music alright, and you might find all your answers here, but today's post is going to be a little different. Today, we are going to take the technical aspects of music and throw it out of the window. Today, we are going to talk about expressing ourselves in terms of music.  To be honest here, I have been posting on this blog for years now. We have regular readers, some who've been there since the beginning. Some of you send me nice emails. My point is, in case I'm repeating something I already posted a few years ago, don't mind it. It'll be refreshing your knowledge. Here's the thing: you go for your music classes, you go on YouTube and search for song lessons, and that's good. You learn good songs, you can play some nice things. Here's the catch though: What you're learning, it's not you. You are not what you learn from YouTube, or the technical things you le...

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....

Let's say you're a musician. Let's say one fine day, you go to your music school/instrument class and you're given the opportunity to perform at a gig with a few other students. Would you? Let's say you would. Since you go to that school/class, and they set up the gig for some students, they will decide how to go about the gig. So they will decide the instruments, placement, practice, microphones...basically the whole set-up. You are given two songs to play. Now for your own interest, you have been learning how to play a song which you like, and they are performing that song at the gig. You tell them that you are prepared for it. They agree, and test you. You play it perfectly, you hit the notes, you keep up with the beat, and its wonderful! Clap clap. However, they may not feel the same. They will tell you something is missing. I have nothing particular that I am talking about here, it could be anything. In this post, I am going to tell you about a trick. Th...