Lesson 4 – Moving the Blues Scale Learning scales is always imparitive no matter what instrument you are playing, and that remains true for the guitar as well. Once you mastered the blues scale, you can work on moving the blues scale up and down the guitar. A great exercise any musician should learn. Don’t miss […]
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Making Music MIDI Style
MIDI stands for musical instrument digital interface. MIDI gives you the ability to record a variety of different instruments onto your computer without having to buy (or learn) the actual instrument
Just Play Guitar: Blues Guitar Riffs
In this lesson, Todd Hobin shows you how to play a few blues guitar riffs by stringing together the techniques you have learned.
What Defines Success as a Musician
We asked our readers what defines success as a musician and we received some pretty inspiring answers. Check them out.
Community Video: Arden Park Roots – Under The Sun
Arden Parks Roots, based in Sacramento, California, is made up of Tyler Campberll (Vocals), Nick Ledoux (Lead Guitar), Spencer Murphy (Bass), and Jason Duvall (Drums) have entered the Sacramento Music Hall of Fame
Community Video: DeDe Wedekind – The Fairy Tale Song
DeDe Wedekind is an award-winning singer songwriter from Texas. She just won Adult Contemporary Album of the Year for Love & Fairy Tales
Community Video: Spaceship Days – December
Spaceship Days, hailing from Durham, NC, is a pop alternative quartet featuring America’s Got Talent / American Idol alum Adam Lee Decker on Vocals.
Get Featured In Making Music
You can get your band featured In Making Music by filling out this quick form. Not everyone will be featured, but you could be the lucky one.
House Concerts
House concerts are musical performances generally held in private homes and hosted by fans, friends, or relatives of the performing musician(s). Audiences are usually 25 to 35 people, but can sometimes be as large as 60 or more, and a donation of $15 to $25 is generally requested, but not required. Oftentimes, there is a potluck dinner involved, but wine and cheese events are most common, with guests encouraged to bring a drink to share. Hosts will even sometimes put performers up for a night.
Digital Issue: Making Music in the iTunes Newsstand and Beyond
With this iPad subscription, you’ll get the same high-quality, engaging content as in the print edition plus features unique to an online format including: watching video presentations, following hot links, conveniently accessing archived issues, and the ability to easily share features with far-away friends.