Setting limitations—like writing a song with just three chords—can actually push you to think outside the box. 5. Take Breaks and Absorb Life Step away from your guitar to gain fresh perspectives. Let nature, books, movies, or personal experiences inspire you. When you return, you’ll ...
Writing online guitar lessons can be a form of passive income, help you play guitar better, and help others hear you play. This article will distill 25 years of my personal experience writing online guitar lessons into actionable steps to creating an epic online guitar lesson and monetizing it....
Free Online Collaborative Music Composer to Write, Play Guitar Chords Composing Studio is a free web application that allows you to create the music in various music instrumental sounds such as Guitar, Piano, and Violin using the ABC notations. For those who don’t know about the A...
So you have these moments where you spring up in the middle of the night and you write down some lyrics or you patter down to the studio area – which is on a gallery, because I live in a barn – and I pick up an acoustic guitar and hopefully record it on the phone before it go...
‘When Saturday Comes’, the O’Neill brothers on top form with those searing guitar lines, Billy keeping up on drums and sometimes powering ahead, Mickey’s bass lines continuing to leave me sent, and the ever-theatrical Paul in his element among it all, his banter with Mickey always a ...
Try asking this question on an online forum or on (gasp) a FaceBook group (*)… and you will get a lot of contradicting answers… … including the classic answer: “you need experience, so go play your guitar for 20 years, and you will know how to write an emotional melody.” ...
From the production to mixing and engineering, there is so much to think about. But have you ever really given any thought to how you write down the music you’re working on? I mean actually writing it and keeping track of the notes and chords. Recording your thoughts and snippets of so...
Gwen: “At the start we were too scared to make much noise. We were much more folky. No pedals or anything. I was playing a mandolin and for ages I had an acoustic guitar that had a pick-up sellotaped and that was falling off it. It was a hodgepodge.” ...
If you play guitar or keyboard and you’re going to be writing your own melody and chords, check out this post—Finding the Chords for Your Song— for some ideas on how to find chord progressions that work well in contemporary songs. ...
In modern film, TV and games, it’s common to use a heavily distorted guitar during high-energy moments to give the viewing/playing experience a gritty edge. Re-use short melodies (called leitmotifs) and even entire sections of a song, making only slight tweaks. And don’t worry, this...