Tag: recording
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Ghost Artists – The Enshittification of the Music Business
This article in Harper’s Magazine about the phenomena of “ghost artists” capturing real attention (and taking real money) from already-underpaid artists is both fascinating and disheartening. The general idea of ghost artists is both depressing and fairly simple to understand: Spotify, the rumor had it, was filling its most popular playlists with stock music attributed…
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Is Audacity Spyware or Is It Safe?
Some open-source software sites have claimed that Audacity is now spyware. Here’s why they say that, and if you should be looking for other options.
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Recording the Horn – Mics and Techniques
Over the past 8 months, musicians have been forced to become recording engineers. If you want to improve your setup, this video can help.
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You’re Only As Good As Your Ears
While practicing is necessary to improve, you can only improve what you hear!
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Teaching Musical Interpretation: Learn, Listen, Count
In years of working with students on the horn, one of the most difficult concepts to teach (at least for me), has been the idea of musical phrasing. I imagine that this is (at least in part) because getting a strong set of fundamentals took me so long. I don’t know if this is true…
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Practice Strategy: Use Ship Dates to Optimize Practice Time
It’s getting pretty close to All-District and All-State auditions here in Kentucky. That means that lots of students are starting to feel the pressure to get their audition music finalized. Of course, these students that are stressing most about the audition are the same students that have been practicing in an unorganized way (or not…
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Can A Model Performance Improve Your Practice?
One questions that comes up a fair amount in lessons – especially lessons with younger students faced with new or difficult repertoire – is “can you play this so I can hear how it goes”? Most of the time, my answer is something along the lines of “yes, but everything you need to know is…