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How to Play Guitar - The Truth About Forming a Band
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We learn by doing and the best way to learn guitar is to play in a band. There is only so much you can learn from a teacher or a book; the trick is to thoroughly apply and test your knowledge and skills before adding new information.
What better way to accelerate your guitar playing than forming your own group or joining an existing one?
Since most players frequently end up in a group without too much thought about how they got there or where they are going I thought it might be a good idea to present some of the musical 'facts of life' about forming or participating in a band.
Problem #1 - The band practices endlessly but never seems to be going anywhere
Solution - Start with clear expectations. Before you commit to a musical group ask questions: find out (a) what style of music the band plays or intends to play, (b) what are the band's goals, i.e., to perform live, record a demo, go on tour (c) what are the time frames for each goal?
Don't be afraid to ask questions it will ultimately save you a lot of wasted time and money and aggravation?
Problem #2 - Certain band members are always missing band practice
Solution - Be brutally honest, because the group is only as good as it's weakest member ask yourself... is player 'X' in this group because they are a dedicated musician committed to the group's goals or are they in the band by default because the group needed a bass player and 'X' was the only person they knew; so the group members convinced 'X' to learn to play bass?
I mentioned earlier that a band is only as good as it's weakest member; the trick is to make certain the weakest member is never you; keep your eye out for the weakest member and notice if there is any sign of improvement over a four week period, if not... move on!
By constantly working on your musical skills you keep your options open and pull opportunities towards you.
Problem #3 - Personality clashes
Solution - No band can function when the members are not working in harmony. Regardless of how talented a player is, if you cannot get along with them on a personal level, musically you won't work either. You have to be friends first before the music will work; top musicians care about and support each other... if that's not happening... leave!
Problem #4 - Disputes over who owns equipment etc.
Quite often a player is in the group for non-musical reasons most of the time these people have little or no talent but because they own the P.A or have a van to move the equipment or their brother has a recording studio; all of a sudden these musical light weights are directing or influencing the band's future.
Solution - Always make sure you own your equipment... when it comes to community owned equipment, forget it. It's every man or women for themselves.
This problem is compounded and more obvious when a group splits up (and they do, often) who owns what; who is liable for the equipment payments, who has the responsibility of paying the recording studio account for past recording session, CD mastering?
Once the group has disbanded no one wants anything to do with it or it's financial commitments... but someone has to pay; make sure it's not you!
Problem #5 - Buying equipment for other band members.
This is a trap, many times group members rally together to buy some piece of equipment for a band member who appears to be financially disadvantaged or who is at least lagging behind in the equipment quality department.
Solution - Never do this! If they aren't committed enough to upgrade their equipment they aren't committed enough to be in your group.
I remember back in when I was starting out how my brother and I were so keen to have our group sound good not only did we foot the bill for our own equipment and the group's PA system we also started to by good quality cymbals for our 'lame duck' drummer.
Long story short, once we finally woke up to senses and disbanded the group the drummer sold his entire drum kit (expensive cymbals and all) he quit playing music all together... it's a pity he didn't quit earlier, it would have saved us a pile of money!
Comments: There's heaps of positive musical experiences you can have in a band, it's an absolutely invaluable learning curve, there's nothing like it.
I've focused on the not so obvious traps involved in forming your own band... the common theme is "knowing when to leave".
Keep your energies focused on improving your musical abilities, after all you only have control over one person... YOU.
Look for the musical stagnation signs and head for the door. It's unrealistic to expect other people to be as dedicated or devoted to their craft as you, it's important to not sit around treading water waiting for them to catch up... it won't happen.
Now it's time to head back to the practice room and more guitar playing.
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วันอังคารที่ 30 มีนาคม พ.ศ. 2553
The Demise Of Rock Music - Why Did This Happen?
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To everyone who believes that there has been a demise of rock music, where have you been looking? Corporate owned mainstream radio? Cardboard cutouts at dying music stores? You probably don't want to hear this, but here goes...
There are a couple of things to consider: By the time music has hit the mainstream, it has already begun it's decline. Bands that were once creative and raw and real have been polished and watered down by the troubled record companies and old school producers. How often have you seen a rock band in concert with a string ensemble behind it? Even mainstream "punk" has had huge elements of rawness and meaning torn from it to make it more marketable. The artists have no input. The music rights are now owned by the record company who think they know best. I've been there. If the record company's producer has control over the recording, your music won't be the same as you had originally wrote it. And I don't mean better.
Then there are the manufactured singers and bands conceived and created by entities such as Disney and American Idol. As I've said before, many the singers of the most influential bands throughout rock history would never have made it past the American Idol audition stage. Imagine John (Rotten) Lydon, Kurt Cobain or Black Frances of the Pixies in front of the judging panel.
I would especially like to see John's intellectual verbal abuse of the talent experts.
The singers in today's music sound pretty good, don't they? Did you know that there is software and hardware that processes the human voice so that every not coming out of the singer is actually synthesized? Every note is spot on. No more slightly sharp or flat notes or rawness which I feel gives music a human element. Sure, singers still need a good voice, and by that I mean a voice that is suited to the music, but the vocal processing equipment takes care of any imperfection, even in live performances.
Okay, okay, on to the main subject. The demise of rock. What happened? Aside from what I've described above, not much. Again I'll ask, where have you been looking? Real rock music does not exist where it used to anymore. It exists on the Internet. In the original music clubs of major cities. On the mp3 players of high school and college students. It's called independent or indie music. Music that is independent of all that is not corporate, mass produced, or manufactured.
Go to your computer, type indie rock radio or something similar into your web browser, and spend some time checking out something new. Get out and go to an original music club. One that doesn't have bands playing cover music or a DJ. Go to coffeehouses, art-spots that have music. Rock is alive and well and where it belongs. In the trenches, in the dark, dingy clubs, in your face, and in hearts and minds of listeners.
I'm not suggesting you to go there, but if you're looking for it there it is. There is no demise of rock music after all, it just doesn't live where it used to. If you don't agree, okay. If don't like it, that's fine. Pull out your vinyl, put on your giant 70's headphones and stop complaining!
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วันพฤหัสบดีที่ 25 มีนาคม พ.ศ. 2553
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Running From Shadows Or Why Where You Go There You Are
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It is difficult to imagine anyone living in all the Arizona space and sun having any problems at all. Still, in Scottsdale therapists are flourishing and in Phoenix counseling is required no less than in the darker colder regions of the country. Perhaps it is the large number of retired persons who move to these warmer climates to live out their final days in golfing bliss, only to find that even though the weather is nice, and the air is dry, they are still who they were before, except now lacking in purpose and lost from their families and friends.
Perhaps it is all that sunshine that keeps a person always on the go, never able to take a quiet rainy day to be depressed on their own. Instead they have to golf and swim and play tennis and strong and tan and healthy. Where do all the darker feelings go in such obnoxiously happy weather? One could never imagine the brilliance or deep sensitivity of an artist such as Kurt Cobain living in Arizona or Florida or Hawaii. His feelings probably would have been channeled into surfing or fishing and while he may not have been as tender and musical, it's possible that instead of ending up the way he did, he might have just ended up old, with a tan.
Places like Arizona, Florida, Hawaii and most vacation spots are places where people go to forget, to start over. These are the places of dreams and our dreams do not include sadness or loss. Therapists are all about sadness and loss. Therapists are about going deep inside and who wants to go inside when it's so nice outside. Certainly, some spots in Arizona, such as Sedona are touted as spiritually uplifting, but once again, the key word here is up. This area is filled with vortexes that increase your energy, awareness and overall consciousness. Nowhere is it ever proclaimed that there is a vortex that causes you to look deeply inside at the pain you have caused yourself and others. The vortexes are just beautiful, places where you can magically heal without having to do any of that nasty internal self-examination that therapists so frequently facilitate.
The Grand Canyon is majestic and inspiring. All smallness disappears in the face of such grandeur, until we get back in our cars and have to drive in one lane of puttering traffic, and get pulled over by the Flagstaff police for going fifty-five in a thirty-five miles per hour zone and then get stuck in an ice-storm the next morning where the car spins off the side of the road because you didn't think to put snow tires on, because you were going to Arizona, where it's always sunny and you were just in Phoenix tubing down the river a few days before. The point is, that no matter where we go or what we do, in the end the journey leads us back to ourselves and sometimes, if we are lost, it's okay to get a little help, even if you do live in Arizona.
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