Music Articles and Reviews

Music history is an important subject for any musician or composer who hopes to perfect their craft and produce the best music possible. Not only can it help you get a better historical understanding of music and its purpose, but it can also help you understand the structure of musical systems and how they can be used. This is very important information for anyone looking to make a living or hobby out of making music, so it stands that a long-term study of music history should be undertaken. With this in mind, how should one go about structuring and motivating their study of music history?

Most people who own an electric guitar will never think to modify or customize it in any way. It may not seem important to change an instrument that you buy, and with most instruments this is true. The electric guitar, however, can be a much different issue. Unless you are buying a top of the line model, you will most likely end up with a decent instrument that includes a few not so decent parts. Guitar mods can be a low cost and rewarding way to improve and maximize your instrument.

If you are planning on learning how to sight read, there are a few key techniques to remember. One of the hardest parts of learning to read music is staying interested in it and keeping to a normal practice routine. Although this may seem easy at first, it’s also easy to take a few days off and then not get back into it for a while, and when this happens, it is easy to forget what you have learned. The key to sight reading is to practice it consistently, and this means doing a few different things to stay on top of it.

The first question that comes to mind is, “What the hell is a moderndayfreak?” Recently I heard of chicano rap, but chicano rock? C’mon isn’t that kinda of pushing it a little on the whole broadened music genre? Even though these guys don’t categorize themselves as chicano rock, but if you see these guys they look more like thugsters instead of rockers…

But alas- theres more than meets the eye. Looks can be decieving.
These guys are literally talented and I had the chance to sit down in one of their recording sessions with a few other promoters/reviewers…

Evolution and natural selection are concepts that most people encounter in their learning of biology. Still debated and rejected mainly by religious circles, these theories about the development of life on this planet apply to much more than people first realize. It is easy to see how everything from the formation of planets to the spreading of ideas can be explained and better understood with evolution in mind, and even music in general is subject to it.