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Cheap Advice On Music

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Tips from the trenches on Songwriting, Home Recording, and Live Sound

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  • It’s a Recorder! It’s an Interface! It’s the Zoom R16!

    Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 04:00 in equipment, home recording, computer audio

    I got into computerized recording fairly recently, finally scrapping my trusty (or more accurately, dying) Yamaha MD8 (an 8-track MiniDisc recorder) and substituting a MacBook laptop running GarageBand, Logic Express, and Cubase. A quick rainy weeken...

  • Use Sound Effects In Your Live Shows!

    Posted on Friday October 23rd, 2009 at 05:00 in effects, live sound, live mixing

    Here’s an easy way to put some “zing” into your live shows and to make your band stand out from the crowd.  Liven things up and create a cool mood with sound effects! All you need is a spare mixer input, a portable mp3 player loade...

  • Try Writing the Lyrics First

    Posted on Friday September 25th, 2009 at 05:00 in Lyrics, songwriting, chords

    I’ve written hundreds of songs during my career as an amateur songwriter, some good, some bad, some really good, some really bad, but there is one thing that almost all of these songs have in common: I wrote the chords first, then I came up wit...

  • Give Your Sound Man A Proper Set List!

    Posted on Friday August 28th, 2009 at 05:00 in live sound, live mixing, stage practice

    In the band I run sound for, Rusty Strings, there are three singers and two lead instruments, namely guitar and keyboard (the keyboard player also plays flute on some songs). Each different combination of lead vocalist, harmony vocalist, backup singe...

  • Give Your Sound Man A Proper Set List!

    Posted on Friday August 28th, 2009 at 05:00 in live sound, live mixing, stage practice

    In the band I run sound for, Rusty Strings, there are three singers and two lead instruments, namely guitar and keyboard (the keyboard player also plays flute on some songs). Each different combination of lead vocalist, harmony vocalist, backup singe...

  • Stuck For Lyrics? Use A Poem!

    Posted on Friday August 14th, 2009 at 05:00 in Lyrics, songwriting, song ideas

    If you’d really like to record a shiny new song but you just don’t have any decent lyrics on hand, I say don’t let that stop you. Try borrowing ready-made lyrics from a poem, the more obscure the better. You don’t want people ...

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acousticguitarist

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I like this guys blog. There's some good info on there that a lot of young players would probably really benefit from. I've played for 39 years and I highly recommend it

Tony

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