For aspiring monster jazz musicians, the best learning resources are not books, videos, the latest technology, or fancy new equipment. These can all be powerful tools, but your fastest and most effective growth will come from associating with accompl...

If you’re like me, you find it much easier to start projects than to finish them. Coming up with goals, brain-storming the individual steps of an action plan, and working out a schedule are all activities that seem to flow pretty naturally from my head,...

When many young (and not-so-young) musicians first gain some facility on their instruments, they often want to play all the time. The sheer joy of making their own music and sounding good on their ax is irresistible. They noodle constantly—before the so...

As an aspiring monster jazz musician, you’ve spent countless hours in the shed, working on various topics over the years. How do you measure your progress? How do you know when you’ve mastered your current topic and are ready to move on to the next? T...

A childhood fantasy many of us may recall is our desire to be famous. Shows like American Idol gives young people today the opportunity to make dreams possible. This article explains the three qualities you must have or develop to become an idol. You n...

Acoustic guitar is a passion that can be enjoyed by beginners, pros and enthusiasts no matter what your experience or skill level. If you want to learn how to play acoustic guitar there are some things that you need to know. Almost every beginner should ...

One word describes the CD Unplugged from Maxwell... AWESOME! It's a rare day indeed that I get a CD from an artist that I can truthfully say does not have a bad track in the bunch. I'm more than happy to announce that’s exactly what I must say about ...

Super talented Jazz artist Marc Antoine has released him latest CD on the GRP Records recording label, entitled Universal Language. Refreshingly, this was one of those CDs I was able to just pop in and comfortably listen to from beginning to end. Every...

Horace Silver, very talented Pop artist has released him latest CD titled United States Of Mind and Wow! It's good. I wish it weren’t the case but, it’s not everyday that I get a CD from an artist that I can just pop in and comfortably listen to fr...

Hey, In this article I will be basically showing you the different types of guitars. This article is based at first time beginners. There are two types of guitars and then two different styles of those two type of guitars. So we will start with th...

Music can simply be labeled as a blend of various ordered sounds that unite to form a soothing effect, but the realm of music is very comprehensive. In a broader sense music is termed as a magic that flows through your veins and hits both your body and th...

Practicing guitar can sometimes get boring and it just seems like you don't have the motivation to practice anymore. Here are some tips to get the motivation back into playing guitar. To start off set your self REALISTIC GOALS, such as this week i am goin...

Powerful Strategy for MySpace Fame. MySpace has become one of the most powerful social networking sites online. It has millions of members, or should I say, hundreds of millions of members; it also reportedly gets around 230,000 registrations a day. Memb...

Get Signed Up by Recording Companies. It’s hard to get started in the music industry. To get signed up by a recording company, you need to have pretty powerful connections. Although talent definitely matters, you have to get heard first before you get ...

The Internet has changed our lives a lot. Now, we can click a couple of times with the mouse and perform all sorts of things � from shopping online, to paying our bills, to downloading the latest hits. Downloading music has become an extremely popular a...