Saturday, 1 December 2012

Home Music Recording Is Essential And A Must Do For All Musicians



Home Music Recording is indispensable for every musician who wants to make improvement in his career as a musician. It must be added constantly as part of their daily practice schedule. Any music aspirant that is not doing so is failing to use one of the best instruments available for success in his career.
Having been a music fan for several decades, it has always amazed me to see various musicians playing with different standards among in comparison to their colleagues in the field. Why there is so much difference in the ability to play and why some musicians rarely make improvement notwithstanding that they practice a lot have been a baffle also to me.

As a person privileged to work with lots and lots of great musicians, with some of the best world’s music players as well, I have often shared my concerns with them. In this short piece I have summed up the answers I got coupled with some research I made on the topic at hand. Being able to get the best teacher you can comfortably afford, practicing in an effective manner and home music recording to experiment for yourself, your musical ability and your weaknesses is a must if one is really eager to make a progress with his career as a player. The points are explained below:

Getting the best teacher you can easily afford.

Being able to hire a very good teacher is truly applicable to almost every activity one can engage in but many people neglect it amazingly. It is really of optimum importance that one gets the basic playing fundamentals right from the beginning as it will be very hard to make corrections when one have already got accustomed and used bad music habits and poor techniques eventually.

Practicing always and not just practicing alone but with maximum efficiency.

The teacher’s great necessity comes in here when practicing for a music career. The teacher cannot impart on the student knowledge or technique he does not know. So your success will depend also on the quality of teacher you have. The techniques for a particular instrument you are playing should be learnt as you practice. You must not only concentrate on the fun, sweetness and enjoyment of just playing the instrument. For an example, If  you are playing brass instruments you suppose to include a warm-up, long notes ( to develop sound and tone), tonguing (to articulate),range, breath control, fingering, mixed intervals, sight reading and etc every  time you  learn, practice and also  as your performance pieces. It is only after this that you can now play for the fun it gives and the more you can play better the better fun you will have.



I can guarantee you that if you haven’t done home music recording for the 1st time; you will be marveled at what you hear after when you play what you have recorded. You will hear parts of your playing that you hadn’t taken notice of because you were very busy paying attention on the music to, really listening with close attention as you plays. It may leave you stupefied at 1st but it is a very good learning experience as you will discern your strength and weakness and when you hear it, it is just an added step towards improving yourself and making maximum success. When you are finished, compare your music recordings to those of professionals playing the same piece as yours. This is a very good way to make an improvement and as you record often you can also track your progress.

Thankfully, there are now plenty very high qualities, cheap portable digital audio recorders available .It is a result not difficult to record yourself and hear the simple and minute details of your playing. The recording quality supersedes CD quality and also it is easy to upload the files to a computer so as to edit it after. You can also readily produce CDs or e-mail mp3 files to your teacher and also friends. In conclusion, these are just some of the reasons why all musicians can benefit from home music recording. High quality portable digital audio recorders are easily available at affordable prices. So what are you waiting for, give a try, start recording your music now and see your quick improvement!!!

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