Loading ...If you’re anything like me, you’ve always wondered what the differences are between the various wood species offered in drum manufacturing today. In years past the industry standard was always Maple, and still is for the most part. Eventually other wood types such as Birch and Mahogany began showing up. And now you can get anything from African Bubinga and [...]
Ever wonder what it takes to be an endorsing artist for a company? You know, someone who goes around getting paid gobs of money to play a certain brand’s instruments? Well, many up and coming musicians may think that an endorsing artist is rolling in money from their respective company, but I thought it might be a good idea to [...]
A little over a year ago Elixir said, “We’re gonna make the best bass string ever!” Please note this is not a direct quote. Seriously though, Elixir hit the streets, sent out surveys along with prototypes of strings to truly learn what bass players wanted in a bass string. The result was their new Stainless Steel set in the Nanoweb [...]
Spring has sprung and training has begun! Just because we use our fine motor skills and not the gross ones does not mean we don’t work as hard as any of the ball players out there. They run laps and throw balls, we drill scales! In this weeks lesson I am tying in some old and introducing some new scale [...]
In last months issue I mentioned the words “sum of all your parts” and it got me thinking about the importance of being diverse. As a music and drumming educator for the past 18 years, I’ve noticed many students who only wish to focus on one style – usually rock & roll. And given rock’s propensity for stardom, and a [...]
A wedding reception doesn’t truly become a party until that one guy maybe hit the open bar a bit too hard, loosens the rental tuxedo up a bit and starts getting loud on the dance floor. That’s exactly what the Class A Boost by Pigtronix is. Its sole purpose is to make your signal louder and more exciting without coloring [...]
I’ve been thinking quite a bit lately about jobs in the music world, especially for those who may just be starting out. I hear the voices of my younger siblings, both of whom are musicians in their twenties. They were very nervous and anxious after finishing school (both completed masters degrees in music recently). They said, “All of the job [...]
In this weeks lesson, I want to cover one of the most commonly used scales, the Pentatonic Minor. This scale comes from the natural minor scale. If you have never heard of the natural minor scale, that is the scale formed when you start any major scale on its’ 6th degree. For example, take the notes of your Bb major [...]
Many rock songs, soul tunes, funk classics, and anything that is at all blues based, which is almost all of the music we hear today makes use of certain melodic and harmonic devices that are used so regularly that they’re considered clichés, which isn’t necessarily considered bad. A collection of guitarists as diverse as Steve Vai, Joe Walsh, Jimmy Page, [...]
As guitar players we’ve all been stung by the joke “How do you get a guitar player to shut up? Put some sheet music in front of him!” So when it comes time to sit down and learn or perform a piece of music written out in the form with all the lines and tiny dots, we need all the [...]
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