I see this technology completely revolutionizing speaker systems for concerts and arenas... The team over at the École Polytechnique Fédérale Dé Lausanne, a research facility in Lausanne, Switzerland, has invented what's being called an Acoustic Prism. We all played with optical prisms in school growing up. These were those transparent pyramidal triangles that refracted light, … Continue reading Acoustic Prism Invented – Breaking Sound Into Frequencies
Justin Johnson has not only mastered the guitar but mastered making them as well. That just seems to be the natural progression guitarists take. I've known several that became just as passionate about woodworking all in the name of learning to make their own guitars. If you can pull it off and get a reputation … Continue reading Shovel Blues on the Fretless 3-String Shovel Guitar!
I don't know what it is with musicians and this game. I've never played it but I know a ton of dudes who miss rehearsals and are late to gigs constantly over this Super Smash Bros nonsense. I can't say I'm surprised since many musician types are desperately doing everything they can to stave off … Continue reading Super Smash Bros Musical Melee – Jazz Drum Improv
Having been to (and graduated from!) the 4th grade, I know a thing or two about what it's like. I also was a teacher for a few years that included young people in elementary school. It's pretty much a nightmare if you can't capture their attention nonstop. This is that age where you either have … Continue reading Welcome to the 4th Grade! Mr. Reed Raps to His Class
No song could be better suited for such a display of insanity than Ozzy's Iron Man. If you ever wanted to watch a guy play the guitar while simultaneously being electrocuted by huge arcs of flashing lightning beams, then you're in the right place. ArcAttack is a group of eight madmen and one robot pushing the … Continue reading Spotlight: ArcAttack’s Tesla Coil Music – They Are Iron Man!
The last time we visited Jeremy Bell & his ScrubBoard he was working on demoing the added rocker to his DJ scratching device from the retro-future. But of course, nothing this revolutionary can stand still for too long. The ScrubBoard's Evolution Now, not only has he put together a more refined product, but he's stepped … Continue reading The ScrubBoard Returns with Guitar Loops & Scratching!
At the risk of sounding like an old man screaming at the kids to get off his lawn, I'm going to bring up something I've noticed in the past few years... Back in my day, we had things like Rap and Hip-Hop. Those were two legit labels because one was talking about the newer, aggressive … Continue reading What’s With the All the Sub-Genre Labels?
There are so many points in the process of writing a song and recording it where you can bog down and throw your hands in the air and give up. One in particular is the arrangement of the song. For some odd reason, bands and songwriters tend to suck at arranging. They'll get the orchestration … Continue reading How to Arrange a Song After You’ve Recorded!
This is geared to newcomers to our hobby and love of making music. As we start learning about music and begin actually paying close, deliberate attention to what we're hearing, it's easy to start psyching ourselves out... I remember overthinking everything in my early days, especially as I was introduced to music theory and harmonization. … Continue reading Are You Tone Deaf? Take This Quiz & Find Out!
I'm considering this a lesson... a lesson in motivation, inspiration, and creativity. So many times us songwriters will come with something we feel is extremely catchy or meaningful, but it's only five or six notes. We'd love to incorporate it into one of our songs but it doesn't fit. We can't hear an entire new … Continue reading Short Recognizable Ringtones Arranged Into Full Songs
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