Music Students: Free Online Metronome
April 27th, 2008
If you play a musical instrument of any type then I am sure you already know the value a good metronome can bring to your playing. Not only does it help your practice but it also helps to internalize the beat and improve your ability to keep good time when playing live or in a studio environment.
Well, yesterday I […]
Improve Your Guitar Sound By Using Effects
March 4th, 2008
Let’s get into effects!
This is one of my favorite areas of guitar playing as I religiously plug my effects pedal in whenever I play my guitar!
Now for those of you who don’t know — effects pedals manipulate the sound of your guitar (in a good way!)
So for example if you place the effect “REVERB” on […]
How To Read Guitar Tabs Quickly & Easily
March 4th, 2008
Many e-mails come into my office asking how to read & write tabs.
I’ve written about this before — but I’m going to cover it again to make sure we’re all singing from the same song book!
I’ll also include a few advanced symbols and meanings as it’s important you know what they mean in case you […]
Guitar: How To Reduce Feedback When You Play
March 3rd, 2008
If you’ve performed live on stage or even a casual jam with your friends at band practice — one of the most annoying things guitarists have is a thing called FEEDBACK!
If you don’t know what feedback is — it’s that terrible high pitched sound that comes from speakers.
It usually happens when you place your microphone […]
Scuba Diving Evolving?
January 3rd, 2008
Scuba as a recreational sport is really still in its early stages. Since the Aqualung first came available in the ’50’s, diving did not really catch on until the 60’s; it reached its heyday in the 80’s, and experienced a technological boom in the 90’s. Much has changed since the early days, mostly for the […]
Advantages of Attending Fashion Schools
January 3rd, 2008
Fashion is where money is. The public has grown so obsessed with Hollywood that encourages the fashion industry to evolve on its lucrative growth. Instant popularity is at hand if you have the right combination of everything (say right choice of endorser, right choice of fashion ideas, innovative and creative sense of fashion and the […]
Fashion Schools: Does Online Work?
January 3rd, 2008
The internet has certainly changed the way we do things. It has completely revolutionized our way of living. It has changed the way we shop, the way we converse, and even the way we earn degrees. What was that again? Ye, the internet today is used to earn various types of degrees. One of the […]
Fashion Designer Schools: What To Look For?
January 3rd, 2008
There are lots of people who can tell you a thing or two about fashion designer schools. They may be right- fashion schools may not add up to your talent at the end of the day but you see, the other face of the coin might also be true. That is, fashion schools would not […]
Tennis: Grip, Strokes and Footwork
January 3rd, 2008
Footwork is weight control. It is correct body position for strokes, and out of it all strokes should grow. In explaining the various forms of stroke and footwork I am writing as a right-hand player. Left-handers should simply reverse the feet.
Racquet grip is a very essential part of stroke, because a faulty grip will ruin […]
General Tennis Psychology
January 3rd, 2008
Tennis psychology is nothing more than understanding the workings of your opponent’s mind, and gauging the effect of your own game on his mental viewpoint, and understanding the mental effects resulting from the various external causes on your own mind. You cannot be a successful psychologist of others without first understanding your own mental processes, […]