February 11th, 2008
Here’s a fun round of lists we at b5music have been sharing the past week: Name the ten musicians you would not want to switch places with!
The Good Musician is hosting this group project and here’s my personal list:
1. Billy Joe Armstrong
Seriously, the kid has to play the same 4 chords in over 30 sngs […]
By Arjun Muralidharan -- 1 comment
January 4th, 2008
CNN reports on Friday that pop-singer Britney Spears has been taken into medical custody for drug and psychological tests.
Frankly speaking, I’m elated. The woman has messed up her life, and it’s time higher forces took care of the poor girl.
Loyal readers of TGM will know how much I despise this “Good Musician”, and here’s why. […]
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December 26th, 2007
It’s the end of a turbulent year, a year in which I had to choose not to study music, and where I had to begin a life of practicing alone, and giving up concerts sponsored by my school.
In the new year, I have a few goals I want to achieve, to keep my musician-being going […]
By Arjun Muralidharan -- 3 comments
November 5th, 2007
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 […]
By Arjun Muralidharan -- 5 comments
November 1st, 2007
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 […]
By Arjun Muralidharan -- 4 comments
July 10th, 2007
Picture this: You walk out in front of an audience, everyone’s got that expectant glare on their face and your inner conscience says ‘Hello’ with a screaming “Oh my god, lord, mother mary, buddha, I didn’t practice enough!”
Michelle Bennett over at “A Singer’s Life” shares a thought and an anecdote on rehearsing, and when it […]
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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 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 […]
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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
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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