Being a great guitarist isn’t just about playing the right chords at the right time, it is about looking after your guitar and caring for it properly. Guitars are delicately balanced tools, and like all other wooden instruments need to be properly cared for if you want them to stay looking and sounding their best.

Read More

Learning to play a musical instrument as a child is thought to make you better at math, according to many music teachers. A strange concept at first, but considering the fact that scales and rhythms are fundamentally based on fractions makes it a little clearer. In fact, it al...

Everyone knows practice makes perfect. But is becoming a great musician really just a matter of rehearsing more? The truth is a great musical mind requires a lot more than just hours of music practice. Becoming a great musician is not just about cramming in theory and playing your instrument until your fingers bleed. Indeed, some strategies can help you improve your music skills in rather uncon...

The drum set—or drum kit—is one of the most difficult instruments to mic up for a live performance. The principal reason for this difficulty is that a drum set is a multi-faceted piece of equipment, with each piece delivering its own distinctive sound.  As such, it is crucial you use the correct microphone for every part of the drum set, and position them in a way that ensures...

Playing an instrument is tons of fun and every one of us loves our instruments and we enjoy playing them. Whether we practice or just jam and improvise it is always a fun thing to do.

What’s more important, while we have fun with our instruments, we also improve our skills, which is a very rewarding experience. Now, we all know that the key to a successful improvement is practic...

When you’re first starting out learning how to play the guitar, it can be quite frustrating to stay motivated. It’s practicing the same chords, the same strumming and fingerpicking patterns, the same scales and songs over and over. It’s also pretty hard to impress your friends or girls with your noob skills, so ultimately you end up playing by your lonesome.

To help...