Posted by NewSkills on Dec 23rd, 2009 | 0 comments

Rock band promotion is one of the most difficult parts of succeeding in music. Learning how to promote your band is, in some genres of music, more important than playing your instrument well.
Selling the image
In rock music in particular, you need to be fresh and a tiny bit outside the box for people to listen to what you have to say. You need to be accessible, yet you need to promote this...
Posted by NewSkills on Dec 23rd, 2009 | 0 comments

Although I was able to learn French fast, it took me considerably longer to master speaking a foreign language. A lot of people think it is hard to learn how to speak French, but I’ve always had a sort of natural facility for languages. I grew up speaking German and English in my household, so I was already bilingual before I even tried speaking French. I actually started off pretty...
Posted by NewSkills on Dec 18th, 2009 | 2 comments

For the knowledge hungry out there, the Internet is a two-sided sword in some ways. On the one hand, it gives you access to a sea of knowledge, just a search away. I am sometimes amazed at what kind of information I am able to find. On topics I wouldn’t ever have been able to research before, I can now find several sites explaining the ins and outs, and almost always for free. On the flip...
Posted by NewSkills on Dec 14th, 2009 | 2 comments

The human race has always been preoccupied with the night sky, and since ancient been studied in great detail through the use of modern technology. For beginners astronomy can be a rewarding hobby indeed. You can find a lot of advice and information on what to observe, and what equipment to buy, just by searching the Internet. Here is some advice that will get you started.
Choosing between all...
Posted by NewSkills on Dec 12th, 2009 | 4 comments

“Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm.” Wikipedia.org
Everybody can learn to sing
Reading the lines above you might be thinking that often singing is rather “the act of producing awful sounds” and that the person exalting this noise would never be able to sing a clear tone....