Hanging In There #CreativeProcess
If you want your art to be in the center of your life, keep hanging in there. Stan Stewart explores how eventually, life will get the idea.
Musician Tips
Tips and reviews for musicians from Stan Stewart (aka muz4now)
7 Home Recording Studio Tips & Steps to Master Your Music
Curtis Dean provides 7 pointers for the beginner home studio recordist and producer.
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Unmixing – separating logistics and creation
Unmixing – sort of the reverse of a mixing/recording session where the technology gets untangled from the creativity.
Your Guide to Making Music That Sounds Like You
When making music, there’s nothing that compares with sounding like yourself.
How to Pick the Best Digital Piano for Any Pianist
How to Pick the Best Digital Piano for Different Levels Are you are looking for a digital piano for yourself or a loved one, but don’t know what to buy? Well, you’ve come to the right place. This article will shed some light on how to choose the best one for your level. Digital pianos
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Collaboration: two heads are better
My music act is currently a duo. The collaboration is with Zane Seubert. He’s a singer-songwriter and a percussionist. We are preparing for our first gigs. (Contact me if you’d like to book us.) Multiplied by more than 2 Zane and I started our collaboration very organically. When I first asked him if he wanted
Gone Recording and Gigging – Back Next Week
Yes, I’m off practicing and recording for upcoming gigs and commissions. Thanks for checking in. Oh, and remember that I have a special going for my VIP club! You get everything I record, behind the scenes videos, and more for only a few dollars/year now. Once my birthday is past, the prices will go (way!)
Begin – 3 Ideas for Actually Starting Creative Projects
You must begin. Until you start, your creative (or any) projects won’t finish themselves. (Don’t you hate that?) Here are some tips that might be starting points for taking your creativity beyond a concept or imaginative idea. (It will probably come as no surprise that these are exactly what I need now, too.) Do you
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Festival Fun, Inspiration, and Music Discovery
Finger Lakes Grassroots Festival of Music and Dance For the first time in a few years, I attended an entire music festival. Grassroots takes place just down the road from our farmhouse, so it’s an easy choice of events. I can ride my bicycle there. Plus, there was a lineup that included a great mix
Piano Library Comparison – 4 worthy contenders
Music geek alert… Until “Interdependence Suite” I used only one piano sound per release. But this time, I changed that up completely. For this release, I used four different piano libraries. I tested each of the four sound sets against each of my improvisations and tried to choose the one that sounded best. As you