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Today, I am going to give my opinion on  a very, very interesting topic. Have you ever heard anyone tell you 'Practise hard and success will follow'? Well, I do not believe in this theory at all, whereas most of you might be believers. I'm going to tell you why. Nobody can but agree that every individual in this world is different. If everyone had equal capabilities, and would think the same way, there would be no balance, no breakups, no sadness and so on. Similarly, everyone has different capacities and likings in music too. There may be people who love Coldplay, others Metallica, still others Nirvana.  Some people may love playing simple chords, some may love complicated solos. There is no good, bad or better here. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. Let's take my example. I love playing the basic chords every guitarist or pianist learns when they first start off, and frankly speaking, I am not even that good at music theory. If you go to see, all the songs I ...

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...

This is a question that many people have to ask is that when they use the exact same pedals/amplifiers/other such things, but different guitars (one Gibson), why does the Gibson sound different/heavier? This post will explain why.  The answer is simple: the guitar has more wood. You might have noticed Gibson guitars are quite fat, comparatively, and heavier weight-wise. This is because it has more quantity of wood. Wood makes the guitar sound much heavier. Let's go back in time and see how this happened. When Gibson guitars were introduced, they were really really heavy. However, the sound was what attracted guitarists. Gibson still thought it was necessary to reduce the weight, so they came up with a lighter one. However, that affected the sound and the sales reduced. In this case, Gibson wanted to make their guitars lighter, but still wanted to maintain the sound. Can you guess what they did? I bet you can't think of what they did. Even if you did, I doubt it wi...

This is a very common question asked by many of us. The actual reason is something so obvious that its capable of making you punch yourself for not thinking of this before.  There is not just one factor, but quite a lot of factors affecting your recording.  One reason may be the noise around you. If you're in a noisy, or even in a quiet environment, there is surprisingly a certain type of sound that affects your recording. I don't know in detail about this, but it is the main thing that a microphone mutes, which is what people use most of the time. Second, your own sound. If you don't play the correct notes, or if don't mute the strings properly, or if you hold a note for too long, your recording will be affected. This is one of the major causes Third, your effects may affect it. If you add certain effects to your music, like fade-in or fade-out, then it may affect your recording. If the effect you're using has any kind of unwanted sound in it, then you know...

Since you were a kid, you have been reading and writing and doing various things with your language. Similarly, even western notation is a language. It is indeed something you can read, write and speak. This post will make it easier for you to understand and come up with some new creative ways to improve your reading and writing skills in western notation. 1) Practice : People say practice makes a man perfect. Even though nobody is perfect, you have to practice, and work towards perfection. Only then will you really become good. So pick up random pieces and start reading them, and if you can, play them too.  2) Question : If you don't understand something, you can always seek help from a friend or anyone in the field of music. Questioning helps you understand western notation better and develops your mind in a way that cannot be done without clearing doubts. 3) Basic : If you construct a building with a weak base, and a heavy top, it will collapse. Therefore, you need t...

It's not very easy to rock the stage, specially if it's one of your first. Here are some small things which can make a great difference: 1)Involve the ones: This part of a concert is very very important. People have payed to come to your concert. The least you could do is involve them in your performance. Its not like you have to bring them up on stage or anything, but what I am trying to say is make them repeat what you're saying. In this way, they won't only enjoy your music, they will also have fun. If you don't involve the audience, a major part of the audience will get bored. 2)Get some effects on there: This is not important, but it will really really affect your music. There are various ways to improve your music, and this is one of them. You cannot really do any of this stuff with the drums, but on other instruments, for instance, the guitar or the keyboard, you can. For a guitar, you can get an effects foot-pedal which will give you a wide range of ef...

I know this post may be offensive to some people, but it is important to have your own judgement on things, even though you don't say it out loud. If you really don't have a judgement on this kind of a topic, you are a confused soul. I am against judgements made on things you're not clear about. However, in this case you've heard DJ music, (if not, which world are you living in?) you've probably tried to get a virtual DJ for your computer and stuff. So you are pretty familiar with DJ music.  I am going to help you make your judgement in this post. So here, the first thing we're looking at is whether a DJ uses instruments. No, he does not. He has an electronic system where he uses the songs played on instruments and adds his own effects to it. Hard to admit, but its a fact. Now this very clearly shows that the electronic musicians can't play the drum beats in real but have them stored in memory and then get them out of the speakers through a...