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The Good Musician

July 8th, 2007

Increase your Practice Efficiency Tenfold with a Diary

“I used to be quite haphazard with my practice routines, until I tried using a diary.”

How does your practice routine look? You get down with your instrument when you feel like it, open up the page of some piece you want to play and start playing? Do you just grab that guitar and start jamming […]

By Arjun Muralidharan -- 2 comments

July 8th, 2007

How to Listen to a Song

1. Press the button
2. Listen
Sure, that sounds easy enough. Unfortunately, most people get Step 2 wrong. And god forbid I’ve met people who get Step 1 wrong as well, but that’s a different story.
Tags: Analyze, Aural, Exercise, Hearing, Listening Lessons, Music, SongShare This

By Arjun Muralidharan -- 4 comments

July 7th, 2007

The Ultimate Guide to Making Your Child a Musician

Don’t deprive your children of the so-called “Mozart-Effect“. Engaging in music activates your brain like almost no other activity, studies say. Harness this power and encourage your children to learn music.
But many parents go about in a very wrong way. After 10 years of playing experience, I can tell what should’ve been better in […]

By Arjun Muralidharan -- 0 comments

July 6th, 2007

What is Music?

Why does the slamming of a door sound different than the pluck of a guitar string?
Before we dive into things lie music notation, chords, scale systems and the likes, we should understand the basic nature of music. When does a tone become a musical tone? The answer: When we perceive a sound as a regular, […]

By Arjun Muralidharan -- 0 comments

June 27th, 2007

Discover Your Musical Identity

Catch a pen and paper. Jot down 5 musical bands or artists, from any genre, in no specific order, however they come to your mind.
Let me show you mine:
The Red Hot Chili Peppers
Louis Armstrong
Britney Spears
John Lennon
Mark Knopfler
Pretty strange mix there. I don’t even listen to all of them, and yet they populate some part of […]

By Arjun Muralidharan -- 2 comments

June 25th, 2007

What Instrument Do You Play?

That question isn’t answered as simply as you think. A music instrument amazes me everytime I hear it. Someone actually had the time to discover a way to create physical sound. And all of it in a system that works together with others.
Tags: history, Music, technique, Your Instrument & YouShare This

By Arjun Muralidharan -- 1 comment

June 25th, 2007

The 5 Pillars of a Good Musician

Music. It moves us all, and some of us enjoy creating and recreating it. Many of us are young, and dream of storming the stages like on American Idol, others are thinking f digging out that old dusty saxophone or western guitar and give it a spin again. Worlds separate amateurs and professionals. What makes […]

By Arjun Muralidharan -- 0 comments