Being a musician for many years now, all I ever wanted to do was to be able to make a good living by doing what I can’t do without, which is performing and writing music. Its a blessing to be on a stage looking out over a big room full of people to share your [...]

Last time I talked about looking the part with good equipment to come across professionally, and ways to get up to speed on your singing. This week, I’m going to share some simple but often ignored pieces of information that can really push the impression you make from just a guitar player, to a fully [...]

If you like country music and you consider you would like to receive some country guitar lessons, you might want to think about taking them online. As strange as it may seem, interactive guitar lessons are becoming more and more appealing, mainly because they are much more cost effective than spending time in a music [...]

I would like to tell you about a super piece of software called Sonic Producer. This is very reasonably priced and so easy to use. You will be able to start producing your own beats and loops within minutes of installing it onto your computer. The whole interface is very user friendly and intuitive. You [...]

Easy guitar lessons will help you understand music. You will learn the various symbols, notes and rests, in the music system. Knowing how to read notes will help you learn to play more songs in the future. The next thing that you will learn will be how to play the notes, then the chord patterns [...]

Does it feel like you’ve been trying to promote your music and get music contracts but you keep hitting your head against the wall? Have you been trying to get noticed by a record label for awhile but it never seems to happen? If all you want is to play music, it can be depressing [...]

A melody is a pleasing-to-the-ear arrangement of notes and durations (rhythmic values) which has a quality. The origin of the word is Greek and meant tune or song. A melody line consists of notes that travel up and down or remain at the same pitch. A contour refers to the distinctive form of the melody [...]

There are many people out there who love music and want to create their own beat using their own computer. Don’t turn your desire in creating music into disaster just because you don’t know where to start and what to buy, you’ve come to the right place here. Hopefully, I can give you some clues [...]

At first, producing beats was just meant for durmmers. Later on people developed synthesizers and electronic keyboards that helped produce uncomplicated beats to accompany tunes. But these synthesizers did not have much depth in the tone of their beats and so they were not ideal for making quality beats that we hear in records that [...]

Those who are into blues music extensively probably still remember a modest man who went by the name of John Lee Hooker. He was a great musician who played blues music; right after the world war took place. He soon became renowned, first all over the United States of America, and then slowly he took [...]