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Eric San Juan
December 6, 2020
If you’re someone who loves music but hasn’t really spent much time interacting with the local music scene, you should change that. As we come out of the pandemic, the live music industry is in need of support more than ever before. If you want to get more out of the local music scene in your area in 2021, we’re going to talk about the best way to do that. Keep reading to learn more. Image Source – CC0 License Get Involved Via Social Media The best way to start interacting with your local music scene is by engaging on social media. You’ll more than likely find that the local scene has a virtual presence in the form of bands, local music fans and the…
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Eric San Juan
July 1, 2020
Image Credit: Pexels, Free to Use Licence Keyboards have been making music since the third century BC when the Ancient Greeks invented the hydraulis, a primitive pipe organ. Since then, keyboard-like instruments have taken many forms, eventually becoming the electronic instruments that we know and love today. The modern Casio keyboards and their equivalents that we play nowadays are essentially miniature computers and are capable of making a variety of sounds, but this wasn’t always the case. In the sixties, seventies, eighties, and even the early nighties, keyboard manufacturers were known for their signature sounds – here are four historic keyboards and the mark that they made on musical history. The Mellotron Listen to the opening flute quartet at the start of The Beatles’ ‘Strawberry…
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Eric San Juan
June 4, 2020
Miles Davis has been one of my favorite artists for close to 25 years. If I started going on about how his work has touched me, the scope of his influence, and the importance of his creative legacy, I’d be here all night. The act of expression through creation is sacred to me, and few exemplify this more powerfully than Miles Davis. Yet Youtuber Adam Neely makes an excellent point in the video below: A now infamous police brutality incident in 1959, just after the release of Davis’ masterful Kind of Blue album, almost robbed the world of 30 more years of groundbreaking music. It’s an unfortunate story all on its own, but it’s just one thread in a much larger tapestry. Miles was just…
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Eric San Juan
May 8, 2020
Unlike writing, I’ve still kept music “pure.” By that I mean it’s still something I go to when I just want to freely express myself, pushing out what’s in my head and heart and soul in an abstract way without worrying about whether or not it’s “right.” So when throughout 2019 I was working on an album I knew would end up being called “Empty Nest,” it wasn’t a formal project I was working towards — dear lord I do too much of that — it was just something I gravitated to when I wanted to escape my thoughts, cares, and worries of the day. Plug in the guitar, put on the headphones, and hope for the best, right? The following is the result, culled…
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Eric San Juan
February 14, 2020
Image by Pexels from Pixabay Growing up, many people idolize singers and bands. Some people have big dreams of becoming a very talented musician and making it big in the music industry. Others may have a love for music, but don’t want the fame. If you are thinking about what career you want to have or you feel as though it is time for a change in your career, but you are not sure what to do, then here is a list of jobs that may help you with picking a career related to music. Musician/Performer One of the main careers in the music industry that you probably think about right away when you think about the subject is to be a musician/performer. This…
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