August 5, 2019 | Blog, Tips and Tricks
As musicians, in today’s commercially grueling and competitive world, we tend to lose perspective. We cease to see the larger picture and are always stuck in our petty issues. Day’s pass in self-doubt, and we are never satisfied. Here are five things one should know...
May 21, 2022 | Blog, Music Composition
Good melodies are the building blocks of great-sounding music that sticks in people’s heads. You don’t hum the groove, you hum the melody. We will show you a few quick tips for crafting better melodies in the following tutorial. As usual, we prepared a...
January 24, 2022 | Instruments, Resources
The melodica, like the pump organ and harmonica, is a free-reed instrument. Performers blow air through a mouthpiece that fits into a hole on the side of the instrument. A musical keyboard lies on top. Pressing a key opens a hole, and enables air to flow through the...
February 3, 2022 | Instruments, Resources
The steelpan, a fairly newly developed instrument sticks out for its simplicity. This instrument, produced entirely of industrial refuse, has become a cultural symbol in Trinidad and Tobago. It consists of a gleaming metal surface with a hammered pattern of dents...
November 16, 2021 | Instruments, Resources
A set of chimes is a pitched percussion idiophone instrument consisting of 22 or fewer cast bronze bells, similar to a carillon (from medieval Latin Cymbala, meaning “bells”). They range from two to twenty bells. Although the Voorslag (automatic clock...
