It's great being a busker. You just pack your instrument and move to the next big town or city. The more tourists the better. If you don't find much business you can just move again. Sometimes you'll find the perfect place and stay there the whole summer. If you follow these tips, the world is truly your oyster.Take Note of The Local Busking LawsIt's tempting to view busking as … [Read more...]
How To Find Time To Practice Music When You Have A Day Job
Practice is vital if you want to be successful at anything in life and nothing more so can be said of life as a musican. Music is continually moving on different directions meaning that you continually need to learn different ways to make music. You also need to make sure that you're totally confident with your instrument. When that opportunity comes up, and … [Read more...]
How Much Should You Practice If You Want To Be A Successful Musician
The quick answer to this question should be as much as possible, but like anything it's not that simple. Or should I say that complicated. Practice should be long enough to improve your playing and short enough to stop you from losing all enthusiasm for your instrument. It should be routine enough to become a habit, but progressive enough to become the most interesting part of … [Read more...]
5 Reasons Why So Many Talented Musicians Will Never Be Successful
If you speak to any successful musician they will always tell you a story about a childhood friend who was more talented themselves, but somehow didn't turn that talent into a career. The problem with a career as a muscian, it generally doesn't come quickly and can take years pounding the street before you get your big break. Take Ed Sheeran who has recently … [Read more...]
Learning Music: Five Tips to Becoming A Better Musician
If you want to become a better musician you need practice and practice. Sound simple? In theory it is simple. In practice, it's a little bit more complicated. You can't just turn up and go over and over what you already know. This simply means you'll be very good an one piece of music and not really improve your overall music knowledge and will certainly not give you … [Read more...]
What is a Headphone Amp?
If you’re worried that the music coming out of your headphones is not a good as it could be, then maybe it’s turn that you get yourself a headphone amplifier which will have been designed specifically for your headphones and drastically improve the sound quality of your headphone. Headphone Amplifiers work by adding further power to a standard set of speakers and improves the … [Read more...]
Should You Compress or Not Compress Your Saved Music
This is a questions that we get asked the whole time and whilst is a pain having to buy bigger and bigger hard-drives, compressing your music can really damage the sound quality and effect the sound output of your music. For this reason we generally don’t recommend that you compress your music and instead buy larger hard-drives to store music on given that these days they are … [Read more...]
What’s The Best Digital File Formats to Save Your Music
We have all saved music on our computer in the past whether it be from downloaded music to uploading old CD’s that we have bought in the past, however one question that always comes up, what’s the best file format to save music onto your computer? Remember transferring music from CD's to your computer hard-drive will always take away some of the music quality. Of all the … [Read more...]
What IS A DAC?
Music is produced by a musician playing their music and recording in onto a computers hard rive. Your computer’s hard drive will then use software to turn those files into Audio allowing you to plug in a pair of earphones and play your music in the best quality possible. There are many different types of files that music can be stored in each with their own benefits and … [Read more...]
How Not To Damage Your Ear’s Whilst Listening To Music
Headphones are fantastic as they allow you to listen to music in your own personal space without the rest of the world listening in. The problem with using headphones or ear plugs is that users tend to listen to music at louder levels when there’re using headphones, than when they are at home listening to music on a home theatre or set speakers at home. This is because … [Read more...]