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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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Is Two-Track Recording The Best Method? Not Always But Sometimes

By Ruben Kenig | Published: 18 September, 2009
I’ve got myself embroiled in a discussion in the LinkedIn Music Producers group about whether Pro Tools (and digital multitrack recording in general) is a retrograde step in terms of record production. The seed of the discussion is a quote from Joe Boyd in the September issue of Mix magazine, You could say that 2-track recording is the purest [...]
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Two Fundamentals to Becoming the Guy Everyone Wants in Their Band

By Ruben Kenig | Published: 19 August, 2009
There is a tendency among musicians to value technical facility when discussing favourite players. Outrageous, difficult and esoteric passages often played at stupidly fast tempos and sometimes in unusual time signatures are fun to discuss, but it’s largely an intellectual exercise. The folks who are the most fun and the most valuable to have in your [...]
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