by Tan Yew Wei on November 24, 2009
I’m going to be blunt in this short article. It is about appreciation for music. Some people may say that beauty is in the eye (or ears in this case) of the beholder. I wish to refute that, at least in this context of music. I contend that there are criteria by which music can [...]
by Tan Yew Wei on September 25, 2009
You really don’t know what you sound/look like until you have recorded a video of yourself and then watched it. This is a short post, because it only has one message: Every set interval (I do it once a week), record a video of your practice sessions and then watch it. You will probably be [...]
by Tan Yew Wei on September 17, 2009
Admittedly, some people truly want to simply play music in the way that it is presented in scores or other means. However, there are some people who really want to write their own songs. Somehow, there is a creative knack in some people and they really want to write something that they can call their [...]
by Tan Yew Wei on September 7, 2009
This is the second part of “Guitar Harmonics – A Short Introduction“. In the post about Natural Harmonics, I mentioned that a harmonic is basically a sounding of the natural overtones of the string in the OPEN position. That is where we can subject our own modifications to the string and effectively change the position [...]
by Tan Yew Wei on September 1, 2009
This is the first section of “Guitar Harmonics – A Short Introduction” Natural Harmonics are called ‘natural’ mainly because they utilize the natural nodes of an open string. This means that you can do natural harmonics just by picking and touching the string at certain areas on the string with the fretting hand (usually the [...]