Category Archives: Music

Independent, impecunious and heading for the recording studio: An exhortation to prepare excellently

By Ruben Kenig | Published: 2 September, 2010
A lovely coincidence of information occurred today that give me a chance to beat a drum for using good studios to record your music, if at all possible, and to do this sensibly by preparing thoroughly for the recording sessions. The first element is a great blogpost from warriorgirl announcing the release of the She Makes War album Disarm. [...]
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It’s not about the tools

By Ruben Kenig | Published: 19 August, 2010
There is an easy tendency in most disciplines to fetishise the state of the art tools, endowing them with the magical power to make your work (whatever it is) wonderful. Tools are important. If you create things with them and spend a lot of time using them the minutiae of their good and bad points magnify [...]
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Become a better musician: No substitute for practice

By Ruben Kenig | Published: 13 August, 2010
Practice is a means to an end, playing well, and it is a vital component to reach that end. I don’t think I have ever met a musician who I thought was a great player who didn’t practice and practice effectively. When I first went to conservatory I would stumble around in awe of all the amazingly talented people I was surrounded by. They seemed [...]
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