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Tips on Improving Your Drumming Skills

Whilst it seems that just about everyone can play guitar, the same cannot be said about drumming. In fact the reality is that getting started in drumming is not easy. To get the kit, which isn’t cheap, then to try and find a space to practice in without annoying others, these are challenges to those who wish to play drums. If however you are in the lucky group of people who are in a position to play, getting better is of course going to be at the top of your mind. Blue Man Group drummer Randy Wooten has been speaking about…

Menos Hiras – Reasons to Fall in Love With Vinyl

It was my college roommate Menos Hiras who first got me interested in collecting old vinyl records, this was around 2006 before collecting got really popular. Also around this time we had the breakthrough of digital music and I must be honest at first I didn’t really understand why anyone would want to collect these old records, much less play them. Because I loved with Menos I would always hear the records being played and soon enough I started to get a little but interested myself. Menos and I now have sizable collections and love going record shopping together. This is…

How Music Can Help Children with Disabilities

Something that very few realize is how much music helps children with learning disabilities, ADHD, and other disorders. It has been scientifically proven that music assists with increasing attention spans and the ability to learn. It can strengthen weak areas of the brain and improve fine motor skills as well. Different Hemispheres The brain consists of two hemispheres, or sometimes referred to as sides. There is the right hemisphere and the left hemisphere. The right hemisphere is responsible for controlling the left side of the body. It is also referred to as the artistic or creative side of the brain.…