Music is much more than the background melody that accompanies our lives. It can make you feel happy or sad, energized or depressed, motivated or lazy, nostalgic or joyful. But there is also another question to explore in regard to the music you listen to: can it actually increase the probability that you will engage […]
Can Listening to Music Increase Your Tendency to Take Risks? Read Post »
Audio platform Slooply has released a dedicated desktop application alongside its Bridge VST plugin, introducing a more integrated way for producers to work with samples inside their DAW. The system is designed to remove common workflow friction, allowing users to browse, preview, and use sounds without interrupting their creative process.By combining fast desktop browsing with
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Music is known as the universal language, but it’s so much more than that. For some, it’s their favorite form of entertainment. For others, music can feel like it completes their whole life. When it comes to childhood development, music is even more important. Multiple studies and various forms of research have shown the positive
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As The Blogging Musician reaches its 400th blog post, here are 5 lessons I learned since the 200th and 100th milestones. Lesson 1: Don’t mess about with WordPress themes (too much) I should listen to my own advice on this, but I just can’t help tinkering with WordPress themes, particularly when a new, lightning-fast, all-singing-all-dancing
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Every musician knows the feeling. You are sitting in your carefully treated home studio, staring blankly at the glowing screen of your digital audio workstation. Your fingers rest on the MIDI keyboard, but no ideas come. You loop the same eight-bar section over and over, hoping inspiration will magically appear. Instead of feeling the joy
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Rock Island Bar is the longest-running live music venue in Corralejo, Fuerteventura, featuring the best live acoustic music you’ll ever hear. It also changed my life. I first read about Rock Island Bar on my first (and only) holiday to the popular canary island. It must’ve been around 2005. A flyer left by the travel
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A detailed analysis of my top 5 Queen Guitar solos by Brian May, in no particular order, and most of them sadly forgotten. The Hero Flash Gordon – 1980 The Hero is unique for a Queen song in that it serves as a sort of epilogue at the end of the Flash Gordon album, revisiting
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Vocal warm-ups are something only professional singers need to worry about, right? Wrong! They can and do help us all. Why bother with vocal warm-ups? Vocal warm-ups are something I’ve never bothered with before until I found myself struggling with one of my own songs. First off, there were some quite lengthy phrases where I
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Neck relief on an acoustic guitar is crucial for not just great tone, but for great playability too, much more so than on an electric guitar. Here’s all you need to know. I’ve already covered the mechanics of truss rod adjustment for electric guitar, and why extra neck relief can help you achieve a lower
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