For good or ill, music by-passes the brain and speaks directly to the heart. Think of songs where you detest the lyric, but love the music. You've never downloaded a single song or bought an album because you thought "Man, that guy is accurate". "Wow, this group is so ...
People learn music 3 ways, by ear, by brain, and by muscle memory. Ear - it sounds good, feels right. Brain - I see it, Key of Ab, 3/4 time. Muscles - ...
The most awesome musicians in all the world have songs, licks, and solos they mess up on, that they can't play or sing well - that they're developing. ...
I know it sounds simplistic, but any serious musician needs to work to play equally well in all keys. And oddly enough, each instrument has keys they ...
As much as we want to progress, 90% of your songs (vocal and instrumental) need to be pieces you can already mostly do, with only a few problem areas, ...
Musicians tend to be focused on details, pieces of a song or the whole song. If they let themselves, detail people can work 4 weeks on 2 measures of a ...