Music Instruments, Gears & Audio Equipment

The Beatles in India

By May 20, 2016 | Category_News Category_Tips & Guides>Musicians Arena

Whenever you feel like cribbing over the dead music scene in India. Or whenever you feel that the real sense of spirituality that India is known for doesn’t exist. Consider this. One of your favourite bands, The Beatles, came to India in search of enlightenment to attend an advanced Transcendental...

10 Recording Session Commandments

By January 23, 2016 | Category_Tips & Guides>Musicians Arena Recording Tips Tech Tips

1. Be prepared when you enter the studio. Do not assume that the studio has better amps and effects than you do. It is not their responsibility to supply you with the equipment that you play through. It is your responsibility to find out what the studio offers and what...

Guide for Violin Care & Maintenance

By November 16, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Musicians Arena Maintenance. Tech Tips Violin

Instrument Care and Maintenance by the Player Temperature & Humidity In most parts of North America, temperature and humidity levels vary dramatically from summer to winter. Stringed instruments are made principally of wood, which expands in the humid summer months and contracts in the winter. Expansion and contraction can cause...

Stay In The Flow When Recording

By November 13, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Musicians Arena Recording Tech Tips

When you’re recording — especially if you’re recording alone — it can be tempting to stop as soon as you’ve made a mistake, undo the record pass or delete the offending performance, and start again. That takes time, kills the flow, and can diminish inspiration. These days, all DAWs have...

How to Make Beats in Reason

By November 09, 2015 | Beats Category_Tips & Guides>Musicians Arena Music Tech Tips

Propellerhead Software has a cool video series going on how to make beats using Reason; the tutorial series is called “Super Neat Beat Cheat Sheet” and currently consists of three videos covering different styles: Electro Pop, Deep House, and Trap Drum. Whether you’re new to making beats or you’re an...

12 Famous Times Musicians Were Moved To Tears In Public

By October 21, 2015 | Adele Category_Tips & Guides>Musicians Arena Courtney Love DMX Jennifer Lopez John Mayer Justin Bieber Kanye West Katy Perry Miley Cyrus Perrie Edwards Pharrell Williams

Sometimes you just have to let it all out. Whether on stage, on reality shows or sitting opposite Piers Morgan (the latter a state of affairs that would make the hardiest of us blubber), here are some of the famous musicians who threw caution to the wind and shed tears...

Video: The incredible skill of hand making a guitar out of wood

By October 20, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Musicians Arena Category_Videos>Guitars

Eitan's Bartel absolute love for the instrument he makes, the perfect measurements needed to craft one of his guitars, the unbelievable skill and precision required in each step, the shots of woodworking, the imagination of smell. It goes on. Check out Acoustic Guitars at BAJAAO.com Handcrafted from Alteroy on Vimeo....

10 things your band is doing wrong online

By October 19, 2015 | Band Tips Category_Tips & Guides>Musicians Arena Social Media Tech Tips

How to build your band using social media and more There was a time when all bands had to do was make music and the suits would take care of the rest. Now, thanks to the internet, that's all gone. Boo, hiss, etc. But hang on, the internet is great,...

How to use serial compression

By October 19, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Musicians Arena Serial Compression Studio Tech Tips

Learn how to use multiple compressors in series and capitalise on their combined strengths. Serial compression means using multiple compressors in series (ie, one after the other), and it's a great way to combine the most desirable attributes and/or capabilities of two or more plugins. A practical example would be...

Turnarounds Part 1 - With Jens Larsen [Lessons]

By July 13, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Musicians Arena

In this lesson I want to talk about the I VI II V turnaround and what you can play over it and how you can practice it. The lesson will give you some exercises and suggestions to make strong melodic lines using diatonic arpeggios and target notes. Turnarounds are progressions...

Learn All About Heartbeat, Pulse, Rhythm

By July 09, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Musicians Arena

"Modern" and "Rhythmic" Music of the 20th Century One of the most distinctive features of "modern," "popular" music styles that have emerged with the 20th century (including, but not limited to everything that is usually termed as jazz, pop, rock, metal, hip-hop) is the repeated emphasis on the special "rhythmic...

Handling Criticism, Part 2 - With Kevin Goetz [Lessons]

By June 11, 2015 | Artists Category_Tips & Guides>Musicians Arena Criticism Music

Hey, guys! In my last article, we discussed how to handle a type of criticism that is not in any way constructive, offered not with the intent of improving your music, but purely to tear you down. In a nutshell, the idea is to realize that the non-constructive variety of...