Acoustic Guitar Pickup Primer: Part 1, Introduction
If you’re going to play your songs live, you’ll have to make the decision on how you are going to...
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The Solo Artist Adapts – Part 3
Eight days on the road with a group and of course, the inevitable occurs. Sickness. While some...
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The Solo Artist Adapts – Part 2
As I continue my discussion about the solo artist and the never-ending need to adapt and...
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The Solo Artist Adapts
A quick look at my profession over the past 30 years tells me I will continue to be handed...
Read MoreDo What You Love and Brace Yourself
I’m behind in my blogs, but I have a really good reason. Music work is going great. No really…I know what you’re thinking. But it’s been crazy lately. The bands are working. There’s tons of great stuff happening here at the Live...
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The Student, the Teacher, the Tunes and the Toys – Part 2
When deciding how to specifically go about creating and maintaining a repertoire as a student or...
Read MoreThe Wow Factor
We’ve all witnessed performers whose mesmerizing effect sometimes outweigh their musical abilities. What is that special something that reaches out and grabs the audience by the neck and won’t let go? We could call it the ‘wow...
Read MoreComing Up: The Savannah Music Festival
Savannah Music Festival (SMF) announces the lineup for its 2011 season, an expansive city-wide, multi-venue program showcasing a wide array of internationally acclaimed artists in over one hundred productions from March 24 to...
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The Student, the Teacher, the Tunes and the Toys – Part 1
Having the opportunity to travel the world with a guitar in one hand and a camera in the other, I...
Read MoreNew Platform For Underground Artists
TheTapMusic.com team has been licensing music for the past 15 years, being the masterminds behind connecting Jaguar with Sting, Dirty Vegas with Mitsubishi and Clinique with Rihanna… With such a strong background in music,...
Read MoreYou Got Talent
A friend of mine forwarded me a video of her daughter singing a couple of songs in what looks like her high school auditorium, followed by a request asking if I could do anything to help her: vocal coaching, guitar lessons,...
Read MoreThe Performing Songwriter: What to Expect
You have done everything right. You put together and tested your gear, making sure your batteries are fresh and your cables are in fine working order. Your strings are fresh and your guitar is relatively in...
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- Behind The ScenesIn December of last year, singer/songwriter David Wilcox enterted the studio to record his 16th album. Over the next 7 days Open Hand was recorded from start to finish the ‘old school’ way: on 2 inch 16 track analog tape. All songs were recorded live. Minimal overdubbing was used and there were no "computer tricks." […]