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WHEN TO CHANGE GUITAR STRINGS
If your guitar strings are rusty, discolored, your fingers don't slide well on them, or they generally don't feel good, it's time to change your strings.
Austin, Crestview, Florida, USA
(1) Contributions from this contributor since (2008-01-20)
Current Rating: 5.1 out of 10 based on 17 reviews
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DOUG'S DUET THEORY
If two superstars team up to do a duet, both their productive careers are almost over.
Douglas H. Hanbury, retired, East Peoria, IL, USA
(30) Contributions from this contributor since (2008-01-18)
Current Rating: 5.2 out of 10 based on 17 reviews
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FIXING A MISTAKE WHILE SOLOING
If you're playing improvised music and flub a note or phrase in a scale, repeat the mistake and there is none.
John Hornor Jacobs, Creative Director, Musician, Little Rock, Ar, 72205
(1) Contributions from this contributor since (2008-01-09)
Current Rating: 7.2 out of 10 based on 21 reviews
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PLAY MUSIC YOU LIKE
You will get farther and be happier playing music the way you like it than by changing your sound to please others.
Archibald Clumpy
(1) Contributions from this contributor since (2008-01-08)
Current Rating: 7.8 out of 10 based on 22 reviews
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FINDING WHERE TO PUT YOUR MOUTH ON A CLARINET
To find the correct place to put your mouth on a clarinet reed, put a piece of paper between the reed and the mouthpiece. Where the paper stops is the correct place for your mouth.
Mandy Reinert, Student, LaCrosse, WI, USA
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Current Rating: 6.5 out of 10 based on 14 reviews
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YO-YOING
The yo-yo makes music. A very good yo-yo thrower can actually make the string hum so loud that it is audible in a quiet environment. The rim of the yo-yo is probably traveling over 40 MPH if it makes any audible note. If the note it makes is low C the rim is traveling at nearly 60 MPH.
Bill Alton, Yoyo Newsletter Editor, Portsmouth, NH, USA
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Current Rating: 6.7 out of 10 based on 15 reviews
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FALLING ASLEEP TO MUSIC
If you want to fall asleep with the stereo on, turn the volume down to a level that would be too quiet when you are awake. In less than five minutes, that level will feel comfortable, but if you're still awake in 15 minutes you may have to turn it down again.
Rusty Cartmill, Athens, Georgia
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Current Rating: 5.5 out of 10 based on 24 reviews
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PLAYING A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
Music played on a high-quality musical instrument sounds better no matter who's playing.
Mark McMullen, accountant, Alexandria, Virginia
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Current Rating: 5.0 out of 10 based on 26 reviews
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TUNING A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
A stringed instrument is less apt to slip out of pitch if the strings are tuned up from flat than it is if the strings are tuned down from sharp.
Robbie Aceto, musician
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Current Rating: 6.5 out of 10 based on 27 reviews
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PERFORMING BLUEGRASS
In bluegrass music, the most tasteless licks, especially on the banjo, get the best response.
Ellen Klaver, musician, Boulder, Colorado
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Current Rating: 5.7 out of 10 based on 18 reviews
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TIMING A GIG
If your musical engagement is less than two hours long, you will spend as much time setting up and taking down equipment as you will playing music.
Ellen Klaver, musician, Boulder, Colorado
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Current Rating: 5.2 out of 10 based on 19 reviews
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