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The Good Musician

Archive for November 2007

November 30th, 2007

19 Great Music Recommendation Sources

Photography by Daveybot.

Do you like to discover new music? Sure you do, we all do. Nobody knows how long you can still go on with the same old playlists, and there’s new exciting stuff out there every day.
The internet has had some significant development in the area of music reccomendation services - with the advent […]

By Arjun Muralidharan -- 28 comments

November 27th, 2007

Dan Ferrari’s Jam Session

In case you missed out on yesterday’s live stream of Dan Ferrari’s concert, here’s a place you can listen to a live in-studio session by him.
Fans and critics got a sneak peek of new songs from the forthcoming Don’t Let It Fall on November 9th when FERRARI performed a live, in-studio session for JamNow.com. […]

By Arjun Muralidharan -- 0 comments

November 26th, 2007

Watch a Live Concert on The Good Musician Tonight

Just a quick note to loyal subscribers - tonight, New Jersey-based singer-songwriter DAN FERRARI and his band will perform a live acoustic performance right on your computer screen. The event takes place tonight, November 26th at 7pm EST as part of BlogTV’s New Artist Showcase “Music Monday.”
You can watch the webcast right here […]

By Arjun Muralidharan -- 0 comments

November 26th, 2007

Why Changing Your Teacher May Save You

How many music teachers have you had so far? I’ve had two guitar teachers, a piano teacher, and about four other instructors who thought us basic music theory in school.
From all of them, I could learn a bit. Some had more to tell me, others less - with some I fought, others became good friends.
I […]

By Arjun Muralidharan -- 0 comments

November 23rd, 2007

The Secret Ingredient That Would Make Us All Rock Stars

You are truly great.
We all are, but you’re special. You’ve got talent. You’ve got passion. You even have the necessary business-savvy to impress the manager of your local club. Getting a small gig is no big deal.
Ah, us musicians. We love to make music, and yet we want to be noticed and appreciated in every […]

By Arjun Muralidharan -- 0 comments

November 21st, 2007

How to Harness the Power of Social Music Marketing

This is a guest post by Bruce Houghton of HypeBot - a blog about music, technology and the new music business.
Music Marketing 2.0 has not quite arrived, but it’s clearly just around the corner.  Traditional media are being replaced as music promotion and discovery engines by a multitude of online media and person to person […]

By Arjun Muralidharan -- 1 comment

November 19th, 2007

Guilty Pleasures: Confessions of The Good Musician

Today, many of my fellow b5media music bloggers are sharing their “Guilty Pleasures” - songs they usually won’t tell you about, but love to hear!
This is a unique occasion for all of you to take a look into what some of your favourite bloggers actually listen to, when no-one’s watching. Of course, I have some […]

By Arjun Muralidharan -- 7 comments

November 17th, 2007

Video Classroom: John Williams

No, not the John Williams you think I’m referring to, but John Williams the guitarist. Today I want to share a video with you concerning a performance of his I found over at YouTube, and I’d like you to tell me anything that strikes your mind - anything really, a critique, a love-letter to Williams, […]

By Arjun Muralidharan -- 2 comments

November 15th, 2007

The Importance of Musical Education

This short essay was handed to me by Billy Atwell.
This is a notion that can and should be argued for ages. I have always said that I’ll take a pound of passion over an ounce of
technique.
But in reality it’s that tension of the two extremes that make for the most explosive music and art. […]

By Arjun Muralidharan -- 0 comments

November 13th, 2007

Gig Lessons for Ambitious Musicians

This is a post by associate editor Geoff Young.
Hi, my name is Geoff and I usually blog knucklecurve.com blog about baseball because it is one of the great passions in my life. Music is another. I mainly consume these days, but through most of the ’90s and up until mid-2005, I played in working […]

By Arjun Muralidharan -- 0 comments

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