Should You Clap on the 1 and 3 Beat or the 2 and 4?
Photo: dwphotos (Shutterstock) Listen to this clip of blues legend Taj Mahal playing a concert in Germany in the 1990s. The crowd is clapping along happily to “Blues with Feeling,”…
Can You Actually Learn to Play Music From a Video Game?
Photo: Chan2545 (Shutterstock) I’ve been playing music games for the past 10 years and playing music-music for longer than that, and I’m fascinated with how much musicianship you can learn…
The First Thing You Should Do When You Get a New Guitar
Photo: Svetlana Romantsova (Shutterstock) If you unwrapped a new guitar this Christmas season, or your dad handed you down his old axe, you probably need to get it professionally set…
So You Want to Learn to Play the Drums
Photo: Vershinin89 (Shutterstock) So you want to learn to play the drums. Thrash the skins. Hit some wooden circles with sticks in the pursuit of that sweet, sweet rhythm. In…