I have absolutely fallen in love with the iPad as a practicing tool and all around music making facilitator. After 5 years on the market, app developers are finally catching up with the amazing potential of this unique computer, and for musicians, there’s no better app out there than ForScore. Here are my 20 best music hacks for the iPad, using this powerful app:
Read MoreIf you’re using an arpeggiator or a drum beat in a mainstage patch, it won’t do you a lot of good if you can’t adjust the tempo of the playback. Here’s how to do it:
Read MoreI see them heading out of the coffeeshop at 10 AM as I’m stumbling in after a long night playing music. They’re smiling, adjusting their crisply folded white shirt collars, heading out to the second half of their work day. I haven’t figured out that I’m wearing my shirt inside out yet.
Read MoreThis week I received this email from a subscriber on my new youtube channel:
Hi Eric,
I'm planning on using it live with my band to play back tracks.
Read MoreAs musicians, we’re all swinging for one gig to another, catching the next career opportunity in our hands as the other slips from our fingers into the past. We feel fairly in control. We sometimes choose, sometimes are forced into the next stage of our lives. At least get to choose if we go peacefully, or kicking and screaming.
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