July 8th, 2007
“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
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.
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By Arjun Muralidharan -- 4 comments
July 7th, 2007
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
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
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
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.
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By Arjun Muralidharan -- 1 comment
June 25th, 2007
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 […]
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