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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...

We musicians take our music examinations and tests very seriously, because even though the test results may not define you as a musician, we judge ourselves based on how much we score in these tests. Last morning, I gave my Trinity Rock and Pop Grade 6 Guitar examination...let me tell you this: I've given Grade 3, Grade 5, and now Grade 6, and I can very well say that these examinations are in no way good enough to judge any musician. So, you're reading this post for three possible reasons: 1)You just came across my blog through some kind of google search. 2)You follow my blog. 3)Your friend, relative showed you this post. Either way, you're reading this because you have an exam to prepare for, and you need to know how you can best prepare for such an exam. Here are a few tips I feel can help you prepare for your exam better: PRINT: Plan Redo Inconsistency Negligence Try Here's what each of these terms mean: 1)Plan: Almost everything requires s...

This post will be best understood by people who have been learning a stringed instrument for at least a year. I recently started my 11th grade in college (the system is a little different where I live, so just accept it). There's different clubs in college, and I've signed up for a club as a performer. Today I had to go for an audition for one of the inter-collegiate events coming up. I was looking forward to this audition, because I knew I would nail it, but things didn't go exactly the way I thought they would. The person who took my audition (let's name him A) was a part of the club, and a fellow organiser and performer. For the audition, I carried my acoustic guitar. They didn't have an amplifier, so I couldn't use their electric guitar or bring my own (I didn't carry my amplifier because I was traveling in a train, very inconvenient). He asked me to play something. I told him I had just started working on 'Rain' by Vinnie Moore. I took ...