Music Calculator

Sometimes while playing onstage, your guitar just seem to dissapear in a mud puddle of sound and it’s not due to your fingers, the room, … Read more

So you changed the pickups, retuned the strings, inspected your amp’s tubes. Still, something isnt right. The tone sounds off, either too muffled or not … Read more

If you’re like most of us, you’ve probably heard someone say an amplifier sounds half as loud when turned down to half power. Most folks … Read more

Wait for the note to develop while holding it in tune. Then there is point of stability, when the pitch solidifies and starts to vary. … Read more

How a whammy bar works. Unless you know the tension, scale length, and leverage on your dive, it’s going to be muddy. Not only that … Read more

First, you need a good idea in your head about what will happen before you pluck the string to get started. Your target is not … Read more

Instead of just sitting there as a static midi sample, vibrato breathes and swells a long note to give it life. It’s the difference between … Read more

Sweep picking seems tricky to begin with. You watch as some guitarist picks from string to string in a continuous gesture and it sounds like … Read more

In professional mixes, you’ll commonly listen for palm mutes that sound tight and percussive. Trying to do the same thing with your own gear tend … Read more

Basically, it converts what you intend to play into real measures of string movement and beat span. So there is no second guessing if something … Read more

How many hours have you spent looking for just the right tone instead of thinking about the geometry between your pickup(s) and strings? This is … Read more

As a developing jazz pianist, you will eventualy reach a point where voicing chords in the closed position sound unprofessional. This isn’t necessarily because your … Read more

The odd sort of frustration you encounter when you have played this thing at speed and then you fall off a cliff with a shift. … Read more

Let’s begin with a straightforward test: You stretch your hand from thumb to pinky on a flat surface and measure distance. How long is it? … Read more

In your mind’s eye you’ve conjured up some kind of dissonance. It’s a heavy, thick metallic cloud that adds tension but never turn into noise. … Read more