Posts

A few tips on making good songs

Image
I have already discussed the topic of song-making before, but now I have come up with certain things that the audience would expect of a song. This is essential to know because once you know this, you can probably rock the stage. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Activity: Knowing what your audience will want is necessary to know. Before reading further, close your eyes and imagine you are a totally different person who is coming for your show tonight. Think of what kind of music you will expect. Keep your mind open to thoughts or else you will only expect what you want . Note down these points you will expect in this concert. This kind of a thing helps in organization of the stage, and a lot of other things also. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In business studies, they say under communication skills th...

Setting up a home studio

Image
This is something I am currently working on, and I have almost completed it. Setting up a home studio is a tough job for some and a piece of cake for others, due to their studio structure. Anyways, to set up a home studio for recording, here are the main steps that I followed: 1) Find some acoustic:  Your studio is going to be in your house in a particular room, so choose a room which has good acoustics. To know more about acoustics of a room,  click here . 2) Lighting:  You need to record it, and if you are video recording it, then set up the lighting in the way you want. If you aren't video recording or if you are just voice recording, then keep it the way you feel comfortable. 3) Camera:  This is only if you are recording a video of yourself sing. Purchase a good camera, with good display, and make sure you find a spot which does not disturb the acoustics of your room. 4) Mics:  This is very very important guys. Its not a joke or not a waste of money,...

How does music affect your study life?

Okay, so I know a lot of people say that music affects your study life greatly, in a good way, of course. Are you by chance having doubts about that? Read on. So people say music makes up an important part of our lives. Some believe it, some don't. Some think rationally, some go out of their way to prove their point. Now let me tell you guys one thing, we live in a world which is dominated entirely by scientific thinking. Is there anything beyond science? Yes there is. Science is based on what we see, touch, feel, and everything related to the earth. However, has science really defined EVERY SINGLE THING IN OUR DAILY LIVES? Absolutely not. I have an example which will prove my point. Electricity. We can't live without it. If it weren't for science, we would not have it. Science has used this resource, but has it really defined electricity? You ask a scientist this question, and he will at the most say electricity is a form of energy. But what form of energy? He may say...

The circle of music

Heylo! I am so sorry for not posting for a while. However, now I am thinking of doing so, based on your choice. Do you know what the circle of fifths is? Well, if not, I will explain it to you. It is too long, however, to be explained properly in one blogpost. So what I was thinking was that if you really want me to explain what the circle of fifths in music is, I will, and maybe it will have to be through videos, but I will. The circle of fifths in music is applicable to all instruments and it helps in understanding how to find out the scales. In the circle, we will be playing around with majors, sharps, flats, etc. to understand how they all are related. This may answer the following questions: -why are scales different? -are scales related? -how to derive a scale -and many other things. It is a vast thing to explain so I will really need you guys to reply in the comments if you actually want me to explain this interesting and helpful-for-life topic. Thanks a lot. Please c...

Best form for playing guitar

Image
Heylo people. This is my new style of saying "hello" and "yo" at the same time, for those of you who do not know. Okay, so its time to roll.  Have you ever thought, that your exercise can effect the way you play your guitar? I bet not. So it actually does affect your picking speed and things like that, for all you fast pickers out there.  Theory: Okay, so there is one thing you need to understand. Your wrists are sensitive, or rather lets say weak in a way. So if you do certain exercises, which I will be mentioning in a minute, your wrists will become stiff, or will pain. With a stiff wrist, you really cannot pick that fast, let me tell you that. So ifw you try to pick with a stiff wrist, it will not be fluent. Yes, it loosens up after some time, but doing such workouts every day may affect your guitar playing a lot. So here are some exercises you shouldn't do: -push ups/dips -pull ups -weights However, you may do free hand wrist exercises. Look, it really sound...

At an initial stage: manually tune guitars or use a tuner?

Image
Hey! Im back after a long time....I guess, and I am weirdly using pink right now, which is my least favorite color. Anyways. So I saw this guy (don't wanna  mention the place) and he was insisting on using a tuner. He did not have one, and he could not tune his untuned guitar. As usual, I thought about posting this. Actually, this post title is kept as a draft for a long time. But anyway, now I am typing this out and then posting it. So enjoy! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Okay, now this is more of a narrative thing to post so I cannot do it in points. However, I will try to make it easier.                                                  Basic Problem The basic problem usually faced by people is that when they start learning, many of the teachers say,"get yourself a tuner. Y...

Job options in music

Image
Hello guys! I know I had to make this post yesterday but I am making it  now because yesterday I really did not get time.anyways so now I am going to talk about the professions in music. So I hope you get  fair idea of what I am talking about here.  1) Booking agent:  Schedules or books venues in which artists or bands will perform.                   Salary: $20,000 to $1,000,000+ 2) Concert Promoter:  They act as a host to bands or artists, whether they are performing in a club,                                       concert or any other venue. They also coordinate to any other details related                                      with promoting the artist or band.               ...