If you are looking for a resolution that will last in 2015, you should consider starting a new hobby and there’s nothing better than music. Music as a hobby is much more than just learning to play a new instrument and so you can truly develop yourself as a person with this resolution.

Here are tips on how to make music your new hobby this year!

Why Music?

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The great thing about learning to play the guitar is the simplicity of the hobby. You won’t need to fill your home with different little gadgets – it is enough to just buy a guitar and get playing.

Even though the hobby is relatively gadget-free, you should learn how to use one little machine: a metronome. This gadget used to look like a pendulum that went tick-tick-tick,...

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...

Speak to some people about ‘electro’ music and they’ll tell you it’s a recent phenomenon that should be consigned to history quicker than it emerged.  However, the real history of electronic music begins in the early 20th century.

Early Days Electro

While various examples of recording equipment were produced in the late 1800s, the Theremin...

Like hip-hop, salsa music emerged from New York City during the mid-to-late 1970s. However, the genre was actually popular for 30 years prior to that, just without the term salsa being applied to it. The Cuban community in the city, particularly Afro-Cubans, were mainly responsible for its popularity, with mambo bands playing regularly at venues across the city in the 1940s and 1950s.