Mastering Rhythm with Subdivisions

Subdivisions are a clever technique to stay right in the rhythm pocket. It’s all about counting, feeling, or humming those tiny beats that live within the bigger ones. This trick becomes your best friend, especially when you’re dealing with slower, mellower tempos. [big_quote] Subdivisions are like the building blocks of beats, the smaller pulses that make up ...

Advanced Metronome Tips

Metronome Online metronome app offers several advanced functionalities that you can incorporate into your practice. These include subdivisions, beat patterns, and various time signatures. [big_quote]Let’s explore some exercises you can use to enhance your practice and improve your musicality.[/big_quote] 1. “Set” the metronome to the offbeat This exercise doesn’t actually change the metronome setting but ...

Play Time to Improve Your Time

Just because you’re not a drummer, doesn’t mean that you don’t have to keep time. The famous quote by the legendary American pianist and composer Thelonious Monk sums it all up – any instrument in any ensemble is responsible for keeping time and not relying on other instruments to keep their place. While rhythmic instruments ...

5 Tips for Lifelong Music Learning

We all tend to fall into playing or singing what we know over and over again, regardless of skill level. Once we are comfortable playing a piece of music – either just strumming chords on a guitar, singing a song we learned the lyrics to, or playing a more complex composition on our instrument – ...

Mastering Rhythm with Subdivisions

Subdivisions are a clever technique to stay right in the rhythm pocket. It’s all about counting, feeling, or humming those tiny beats that live within the bigger ones. This trick becomes your best friend, especially when you’re dealing with slower, mellower tempos. [big_quote] Subdivisions are like the building blocks of beats, the smaller pulses that make up ...

Advanced Metronome Tips

Metronome Online metronome app offers several advanced functionalities that you can incorporate into your practice. These include subdivisions, beat patterns, and various time signatures. [big_quote]Let’s explore some exercises you can use to enhance your practice and improve your musicality.[/big_quote] 1. “Set” the metronome to the offbeat This exercise doesn’t actually change the metronome setting but ...

Play Time to Improve Your Time

Just because you’re not a drummer, doesn’t mean that you don’t have to keep time. The famous quote by the legendary American pianist and composer Thelonious Monk sums it all up – any instrument in any ensemble is responsible for keeping time and not relying on other instruments to keep their place. While rhythmic instruments ...

5 Tips for Lifelong Music Learning

We all tend to fall into playing or singing what we know over and over again, regardless of skill level. Once we are comfortable playing a piece of music – either just strumming chords on a guitar, singing a song we learned the lyrics to, or playing a more complex composition on our instrument – ...

Why Do Rock Guitarists Take Classical Guitar Lessons?

There are countless examples of electric guitar masters’ attempts to learn classical guitar, but have you ever wondered why? The classical guitar way of playing is one that involves intricate synchronization of all fingers involved, making it an encompassing approach to guitar playing in general. Right hand techniques ranging from arpeggios, to two-finger and three-finger ...

Guitar Nails: Shape and Length

A pick or plectrum is an essential part of any finger style guitarist’s toolkit for playing. There is something about the touch with the string, the push into it, and the release, which makes the plectrum really pluck. However, when we hold a pick we are typically limited to a single line formation, along with ...

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Right Hand Guitar Accuracy Exercises

Playing guitar is not easy. There are so many micro-mechanisms that need to sync up just right for the tone, the speed, and the overall performance to sound as it should. With the keyboard it is as easy as pressing a single key to make a decent sound, but with the guitar, so many things ...

Birth Of Music Societies

Music societies have historically been organizations that promoted music in various ways. The concept of categorizing music as one type versus another is a relatively contemporary perspective (e.g. classical, jazz, world, etc.), and so the diverse societies that support different types of music are a relatively modern setup. Music societies typically known as guilds of ...

Music and Social Impact

Music has long been deemed a social tool and since the dawn of mankind it has had an impact on our society. From communication to entertainment, from secret messaging to cozy backgrounds, music is everywhere, and has the power to build bridges between peoples. It is the single tool that can communicate across any border, ...

Temperaments in Music

Ever since the dawn of time and the birth of the first ever instrument, a 60,000-year-old Neanderthal flute, we have tried to understand sound. From production to communication, and from aesthetics to physics, we have been fascinated for centuries by what we call music. Music can be produced in many ways, and also organized in ...

Common Tempo Markings Used in Music

Ah, the age old question for any musician writing original music or interpreting existing music. What is tempo? Is tempo a feeling? Is it speed? Is it a consideration of how one measure links to the other? Or is it how much time we take in between phrases, and how much space we are able ...

How Tempo is Used in Music

Ah, the age old question for any musician writing original music or interpreting existing music. What is tempo? Is tempo a feeling? Is it speed? Is it a consideration of how one measure links to the other? Or is it how much time we take in between phrases, and how much space we are able ...