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Author of “1,2,1,2: A Step By Step Guide To The SA Music Industry,” Dave Chislett offers Music industry tips for aspiring bands and musicians Most artists’ plan for their careers can easily be summed up as follows: Become famous, sell lots of records. While this is a great end objective to have in mind, a… Read More
We have all run across guitars with tuning problems, which continually slip out of tune while playing or are difficult to get into tune. Often players just accept them as being “difficult” instruments. Sometimes they might try changing the tuning machines and, when this is unsuccessful, either sell the guitar or decide to live with… Read More
Choosing the right bass is not always as easy as one would think, but with some research, and if you have a good idea of what you are looking for in a bass, you will probably find an instrument that satisfies your needs. Some very important questions to ask yourself are the following: 1. What… Read More
Welcome to play better guitar. I have decided to choose a topic that many beginners battle with and to be honest I have seen experienced guitarist also struggle with this; I am talking about bending and vibrato and the combination of the two together. Let’s start with vibrato. What is Vibrato? Vibrato is a musical… Read More
A few years ago in a previous article (Drum recording techniques for the home studio Part 1) I spoke briefly about some basic room treatment ideas for the home studio. In this article I want to take another look at some cheap and effective ways of controlling the response of your recording space in your… Read More
Author of “1,2,1,2: A Step By Step Guide To The SA Music Industry,” Dave Chislett offers Music industry tips for aspiring bands and musicians After 30 years of listening to and making South African music I think I know the answer to why we consistently fail to break out into an international market. I have… Read More
Every guitar effect junkie knows that stomp boxes multiply when you’re not looking (or at least, that’s what we tell our partners). You start out with a simple overdrive and maybe a stomp tuner. Then before you know it, you need a power supply unit to feed your plethora of pedals and are making up… Read More
The type of strings we use on our instruments play an enormous role in how it both sounds and feels.We should never under estimate the role strings play in the overall tone we get out of our basses. Understanding the various aspects of bass strings will help us know which ones to use for our… Read More
In this latest installment of the Play Better Guitar series we’ve decided to look into the lives of a couple of seasoned professional guitarists to see how they got to where they are as working musicians today. In this article we spend some time with Michael Bester who plays for Mango Groove and Loyiso Bala,… Read More
Techniques for the home studio The number of ways that you could record a drum kit are almost infinite and with the demands of modern music often requiring a less than conventional drum sound, recording engineers are once again turning to unconventional recording techniques. Over the years, some legendary techniques have been developed that can… Read More
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