If you’re a music lover, you’ve probably experienced this scenario lots of times: you wake up early in the morning to see if tickets are on sale to see your favourite musician, but after searching for tickets, you find that they’re all sold out. The reason? Ticket touts. They have been around for decades, and […]
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Back at the Wenceslas Square / Na Příkopě crossroads was only one remaining direction, toward The Old Town Square. Four directions, all with contrasting characters. The in-your-face, still-raw modern history of Narodni, the regal splendour of Wenceslas Square, to the skin-deep chic of Na Příkopě. My remaining route was instantly odle worlde, homely even. I was
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It finally happened! My debut publication, Goa : A Lesson is Life now sits at the top of Amazon.co.uk for “Goa”, ahead of big names including Lonely Planet and Marco Polo. Thank you to everyone who took their time to purchase it and rate it, but most of all thank you for letting me share
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Stef Ramin is the webmaster and eBook’s author on jazz-guitar-licks.com, online resource for beginner and advanced guitarists. Passionate about jazz and blues music, he is an expert musician, composer and guitar teacher with over 20 years experience. Let’s all welcome Stef to the community! Stef @ The Blogging Musician: How to develop scales on the guitar
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As a guitarist, I’m always on the prowl for what’s new in the guitar world. New guitars. New amps. New effects. New gizmos and gadgets. After the birth of powerful digital companies like Line 6, we now see more and more digital technology. Amps are showing up on the market one after another with built-in
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Adam Harkus wrote a great blog recently: Is the Human Race going backwards? This exact thought has shot through my head countless times over recent years. There was a film in 2006 by Mike Judge called Idiocracy. 400 years into the future, people turned into lazy, sloth-like nitwits. They threw garbage out of their windows
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Sometimes, despite your best intentions and plans, you’ve just got to roll with it. I was nearing the end of a 15-week ‘fit-club’ , my attempt at shedding 3-stone to give me a fighting chance for the challenges to come… moving house, the regular family events, and finishing off with the daddy of them all
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Meet Thompson Crowley: A fellow Blogging Musician, songwriter, author, traveller. A true inspiration to my own efforts. I was blessed as a child with a big garden and a mum that worked in a bookshop. That, along with many trips up to Scotland, fed my creativity. I started writing at a young age: poems,
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Whether you’re a solo singer-songwriter or a musician in a band, writing and playing good original songs is unfortunately not enough. Clearly the primary aspect of a musician’s work is making good music, but what follows the writing phase, such as recording your demos and promoting your music, is just as essential. Globally, there are millions of
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