Just a guy on a mission to share what little bit he’s learned (and continuing to learn) in the areas of:
Writing & Recording Music
Some Recent Articles:
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Should I Use My Name or A Persona on YouTube
— Daily Journal 043 — One nice aspect of YouTube, or any other social media platform, is that you can pick whatever channel name you want for your public-facing account page. In most cases, your channel name can be different than your handle, and you can have the same channel name as another account. I…
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So Many Options: How Do You Choose
— Daily Journal Entry 042 — There really are countless virtual software instruments out there. So much software, so many different instruments to choose from. How does one even get started? I mean, you have Logic Pro itself (if you use Logic Pro as your DAW), Native Instruments, Toontrack, Arturia, Spitfire Audio, Spectrasonics, Vienna Symphonic…
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Is YouTube a Social Media Platform
— Daily Journal Entry 041 — I would say yes, that it most definitely, certainly is; however……….. I understand why some put it in another category, and that’s because it works as a search engine as well. Better so than the other social platforms, meaning you can find answers to just about anything you want…
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How to Eliminate Studio Monitor Hum
There’s almost nothing more aggravating than preparing for a few hours of recording time, only to find out that when you power up your computer and monitors, your monitors have this low hum creeping out of them. You’re fired up, motivated, ready-to-go!…. But this hum is driving you crazy!… “Why can’t I get rid of…
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Just a Couple of Things About Guitar Strings
After all, that’s ultimately what’s going to create your sound. Well… OK, that, and the wood of the guitar, its overall shape… but the strings are just as important… NEVER TAKE YOUR GUITAR STRINGS “LIGHTLY”… There are many things to take into account when deciding what guitar strings to buy and how to take care…
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Attempting A Salvation Army Guitar Rescue
You know, just because a guitar was purchased at a pawn shop, Goodwill Center, or in this case, the Salvation Army, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s not capable of producing halfway decent music. Especially, once you give it a little bit of love in the form of giving it a good cleaning, polishing, providing it with a…
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Benefits of Listening to or Playing Music
Have you ever imagined what the world would be like without music?… To say that life would be pretty dull would be putting it lightly, don’t you think?… I mean, most of us get a decent dose of music every day of our lives. Now, sometimes we are exposed to music we would rather not…
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I Hope We Will Always Have Our Public Libraries
I’m not sure what it is exactly about libraries that I love, but I do love them. I’m certainly no scholar by any means. I barely finished an online bachelor’s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies while I was still in the military in my forties (I just spelled forties as “fourties”…on purpose, thinking I was right…);…
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School Band Expereinces Help Shape Your Future
First off, let me say this to all aspiring musicians out there who didn’t start learning a particular instrument until later in life: “It’s NOT a requirement to have learned anything about music when you’re young (in your teens, or earlier).” It’s definitely a plus, but not a “show-stopper” at all. Plenty of people learned…
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Growing Through Regrets
Life moves far more quickly as we get older. Events pass us by like “there’s no tomorrow”… Events we wish we could just stay inside of for eternity sometimes, and other times we wish the day would end. And then there are other times that we don’t realize until later that we should’ve appreciated that…
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Dad’s International Library of Music
A wealth of knowledge at your fingertips… A person could literally earn a bachelor’s, if not a master’s or doctorate, with the knowledge inside these books. There’s just one obstacle standing in that person’s way… You actually have to read and apply the knowledge… To be clear, I’m referring to The International Library of Music,…
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Lessons Learned From Local Jam Nights
If you’ve played music in some sort of garage band or as a solo act, then you’ve probably experienced the weekly jam nights at one of your local musician watering holes. Those times when you didn’t have to pitch your music to the establishment owner for him/her to allow you to play. Of course, you…
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