What makes a relatable track?
kjkmusic Since I joined the moderating team at Fresh On The Net, a few people have asked me what makes us choose one song over another when the overall standard of…
2018
Demystifying Staff Notation Part One: Pitch
kerryjk To the uninitiated, classical music notation looks beautiful and terrifying, filled with bizarre looping symbols, black dots scattered around lines like footprints and numbers and fragments of text in strange…
Notes From The Total Perspective Vortex – Finding Your Way In The Big, Big World Of Music
”For when you are put into the Vortex you are given just one momentary glimpse of the entire unimaginable infinity of creation, and somewhere in it a tiny little marker,…
Among Musicians There Are No Divisions
This story concerns Roddy, a fantastic fiddler and folk musician hailing from Glasgow, Scotland, who I met on the Leeds music scene. To give a little backstory for those who…
Music’s Worst Motivational Techniques (that worked)
Musicians can be an unruly bunch, so producers, bandleaders and managers need some way of knocking them into a high performing unit. But what to do when an employee of…
The Colour Of Music – Finding Your Mood Niche
In the last article I looked into the finer points of finding genre niche as part of defining your identity as an artist (also why you should even bother when…
The Perfect Jeans Fit – Finding Your Genre Niche
Quick – what, in a nutshell, is the genre category of your music? If you can’t answer that succinctly, you’re not alone. Every artist goes through a period of exploration…