Posts Tagged ‘music’

8 Good Reasons to Be a Lousy Musician

I’m a crappy guitarist. In the 20 years that I’ve been playing, I can’t once remember playing scales, and I’ve never sat down to "practice". I still have trouble with F-chords, I have awful right-hand technique, and my tempo has been known to swing from too fast to too slow without ever hitting "just right".

I wouldn’t give it up for the world.

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June 30 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: connection, individual, leisure, mindfulness, music, relaxation, social, stress | 35 comments»

How Your iPod Can Make You More Productive

The iPod is an incredible organizing device! It takes many shelves worth of CDs and condenses them into one tiny gadget, thereby reducing clutter. The iPod (and iTunes) also took away the classic dilemma highlighted in the movie High Fidelity: Should you organize your music collection alphabetically by artist? Or by genre first? Now you can organize it any way you want with a couple of clicks.

Looking at the… » Continue

April 22 2008 | By Lorie | Tagged: collection, distractions, ipod, music, organizing, Productivity | 20 comments»

How to Become a Pop Star

I was 16, good looking, and with a great voice: I could see myself walking on the red carpet, and success was just around the corner. Or so I thought…

With my little band made up of two people and one very expensive laptop, I decided to find venues that would pay me to entertain their customers: “I’ll make lots of money, and a big… » Continue

January 15 2008 | By Marco | Tagged: career, howto, justin, music, popstar, self-improvement | 21 comments»

Where To Get Free And Legal Music Online

Many of us enjoy discovering new music, particularly while working, without having to purchase tracks outright and battling lawsuits. Thankfully there are a plethora of great resources available that can scratch that itch without breaking any laws.

Digital Alchemy has put together this list of free online music providers. Also, keep a lookout for a new one in the vein of Pandora called Jango.

Let’s keep adding to the… » Continue

October 11 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: music, web | 18 comments»

Keyword Google Music Search

Here’s a quick browser keyword to add to the list. This one will make it mega easy to find MP3s hidden amongst open internet directories.

Create a bookmark in Firefox

Use the URLs in this text file as the bookmark location in your Firefox bookmarks

Assign a keyword to it - eg. music

Type the keyword (eg. music) followed by the search term (eg. beatles) directly into the address

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July 18 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: google, music, search | 40 comments»

Find great music at Unsigned.com

Unsigned.com is a website that matches unsigned bands with listeners. Unsigned.com allows registered users to listen to music for free while artists can use the websites to promote and sell their own music. Unisgned.com lets you search for music based on topic. If you hate paying $.99 per song at iTunes (or $.88 per song at Wal-mart) to support “the man,” give Unsigned.com a… » Continue

April 2 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: Lifehack, Money, music | 2 comments»

What’s Your Theme Song?

We’ve discussed how music can support your productivity, get you in that working mode. The right song can help you get through trouble.
When you hear your favorite song you become a different person almost. That song that will boost your energy and lift your spirits is valuable.

Author, Gail Blanke recalls a trip to an important publisher. This was a big deal and she wasn’t feeling quite up to… » Continue

February 23 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: motivation, music, stress | 3 comments»

Music Vs Workflow

First of all, my disclaimer. Music is quite a personal thing. Everyone has their own favorites, what music helps them get through their workload. This article aims to contribute to your choices to possibly improve productivity through your music choices.

iTunes has loaded and we’re going to start work. What album do you play? Does it really affect your performance in front of the computer? I think it does. Let’s… » Continue

February 20 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: music | 22 comments»

Your Goals As Waveform

Graham English is THINKING. There must be smoke coming from between his ears, because he’s really nailed a homerun with this piece about comparing one’s goals to musical waves. This isn’t a browse-and-run article. Set aside some time. Stick it in del.icio.us under followup and reading. But really, give this a view.

A wave is a disturbance. It is an interruption of space. So everything is just perfect until you… » Continue

June 1 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: development, goals, Lifehack, music, self-improvement, waveform | 5 comments»

Jazz Up Your Interpersonal Skills

Presentation Zen has a great piece discussing how jazz handles the experience of connecting with other people. It’s really a great fusion of the concepts behind being a musician and also being a great communicator and social being.

Most students of jazz will not go on to be professional players. And few students turned on by the creative arts in school will go on to be professional artists. And that’s… » Continue

April 28 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: Communication, conversation, Lifehack, lifehacks, music, presentation | no comments»

Roll Your Own Ringtones, MMS, and More

Motorola has announced StudioMoto, a site where a user can mix up text, video, sound effects, graphics, and download it to their phone.

Studio Moto connects you to some of today and tomorrow’s biggest music artists- through their music, Motorola technology, and your own imagination.

Or so says the promotional quote. I checked it out and the concept is interesting. Why? Because it’s a hack that lets you mix content… » Continue

April 27 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: music, personal, phone | no comments»

iTunes Remote on Palm

Controlling iTunes remotely is pretty useful and sexy, especially you play music on your stereo through Apple AirPort Express. You may use to bring along your laptop around in the house for just controlling the AirPort Express’s music feed - but that may not be the case anymore for some of you if you have a Palm with WiFi. Jeff Reifman over Idealog has come up with a good… » Continue

October 16 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: music, palm, software | no comments»