Here’s a quick tip for musicians using iTunes.
Often, especially among guitarists, play-along CDs are included with many of the books you can buy nowadays. Organize these using iTunes, following a few simple tips to keep them from mingling too much with the rest of your music.
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This is Part 4 in the Competencies Series. See also Part 1 (Personal Comeptence), Part 2 (Social Comeptence) and Part 3 (Scientific Competence).
Finally, you’ve mastered the skills covered in this series so far, but now comes the critical point: Putting it all to practice. Practical Competence defines your ability to take your personality, your relationships […]
“I’ll take a pound of passion over an ounce of
technique.”
Billy Atwell is a musician - which makes him a good fit for being interviewed on this blog, because he’s really good. I had the honor of asking him a few questions and in the next few posts I’ll try to profile him as a musician. […]
I’m sure most of you have exploding, huge iTunes libraries or CD-catalogues. You probably brag about it now and then.
You’d expect “someone like me” to have something close to 100GB of music, or thousands of songs. Well, wrong, and most of my friends are startled, because I should be swimming in music all the time.
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This is Part 3 in the Competencies Series. See also Part 1 (Personal Comeptence), Part 2 (Social Competence) and Part 4 (Practical Competence).
What sets Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits apart from you? Well, he was lucky.
Most famous musicians were lucky somewhere down the road. But so was Britney, and I will not begin calling […]
In a previous post, it was commented that ethics may have nothing to do with competence.
Let’s recall my definition of competence:
Knowledge + Ability + Ethical Stand-Point = Competence
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This is Part 2 in the Competencies Series. See also Part 1 (Personal Comeptence), Part 3 (Scientific Competence) and Part 4 (Practical Competence).
Playing alone is something I like doing a lot. I like it because it makes me free, self-responsible for my doing, my musical creative process.
Unfortunately, it’s also the “easy way”. If musicians […]
This is Part 1 in the Competencies Series. See also Part 2 (Social Comeptence), Part 3 (Scientific Competence) and Part 4 (Practical Competence).
A good musician has a great personality. Unless you can convince your crowd of your competence, you won’t convince at all.
Also, you have to be at total peace and happiness with your […]
Be a successful musician, one note at a time.
Written by Claudia Snowden [email] for b5media.
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