Step 1:  Do not, I repeat do NOT tell any of your friends and fellow band members that you are leaving the band.  This can only cause problems, and any confrontation must be avoided. This all must be done with as little actually conversation or contact as possible.  You duty is to leave this band [...]

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by J.B.

I thought a while ago about a great ear training exercise,useful for absolutely any musician, even those playing transposing instruments.
The aim of it is to create easily a bass line from a melody, and a melody from a bass line.  It also really opens one’s mind to new harmonic perspectives.
It is a must-have songwriting [...]

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Guitar Player Magazine has announced its top ten finalists in the Guitar Player Superstar Competition for 2009.
Guitarists from all over applied, and the editors of the magazine whittled them down to these ten finalists:

Steve Langemo

A jazz guitarist from Dayton, Ohio

http://www.sonicbids.com/stevelangemo

Senes

A hard rock guitarist from Surfside Beach, South Carolina

http://www.sonicbids.com/senes

Danny Jones

A Rock guitarist from Pinole, California

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Doug Towle

A [...]

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by Tom Hess

Do you need some immediate help on how to start a successful music career? Here are 4 key things you can begin to focus on right now to begin.
Practice to become a professional musician – Continuously work on improving your musical skills, but before you think, “That’s obvious. Tell me something I don’t [...]

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The wealth of options we have to choose from today has extended personal freedom to an extent that would have been inconceiveable even a hundred years ago.
Life-styles and religions are choices that are easily interchangeable.  In the past a hunter was a hunter untile he died, a blacksmith spent his whole life working on his [...]

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